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Toyota iQ Wins Japanese Car of the Year Award
Thanks to Patrick Norton for the heads up on this: Just a year after it was unveiled, the Toyota iQ (super-compact) car won the Japanese Car of the Year award. The iQ is a super-compact car targetted directly at the Smart Car fortwo market, offering a similarly sized car that is designed to seat 4 people [...]
Continue reading...Barack Obama is a BlackBerry Mac User
Nov 13, 2008 
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Thanks to Laurence Hartje for sending this in, looks like Barack Obama is an iChat-loving, Mac-using, BlackBerry-addicted president elect. This puts my mind at rest a bit more knowing that our president-to-be understands and utilizes technology to get work done, as opposed to still being impressed with Fire and Water… not that they aren’t cool, I’m [...]
Continue reading...Phoenix Arizona Valley Metro Light Rail Pricing, Schedule and Destinations
Nov 6, 2008 (Click to Rate!)
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Just got this news sent in from Todd Swarthout… he lives in Atlanta, about Phoenix getting ready for the Grand Opening of the Valley Metro light rail this December… here in Arizona… where I live (I didn’t even know about this). Light Rail Pricing 1 ride $1.25 All day pass $2.50 3 day pass $7.50 7 day pass $17.50 31 day pass $45 Senior, youth, disabled – [...]
Continue reading...Selling Mislabelled Sushi is Common – Bait and Switch
Nov 6, 2008 (Click to Rate!)
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Kevin Mahaffey sent in a 1-off but damn interesting find by New York high school students Kate Stoeckle and Louisa Strauss: 25% of sushi you buy is not what you ordered (it’s usually something cheaper). The NYT covered the story in which the girls got 60 different samples of sushi from around New York, then using [...]
Continue reading...Pictures from Barack Obama Chicago Grant Park Election Rally
Nov 5, 2008 (Click to Rate!)
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Our muscles-in-the-know, Grant Gochanuer, made it down to the Grant Part rally for the Obama Election Rally last night and snapped off some excellent shots. His full Flickr set is here. Here are some highlights: For anyone that missed Obama’s acceptance speech, it was really a moving speech. A lot of nice things said… obviously action [...]
Continue reading...Xbox Live Poll Shows Support for Obama
Nov 4, 2008 (Click to Rate!)
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According to the data released by Microsoft’s gamerscore blog, Senator Barack Obama is the favorite among Xbox 360 owners in the race for the white house. The presidential hopeful and his running mate Joe Biden are leading the McCain/Palin camp by twenty percent. While this doesn’t reflect all of America, I do believe that this is [...]
Continue reading...BBC’s Secret “TV Detector” Vans Not So Secret… Sorta
Nov 3, 2008 (Click to Rate!)
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Did you know you have to pay a licensing fee when you buy a TV in the UK and that money is used to subsidize the cost of running the BBC? Yea… I didn’t either. Well your gut reaction might be “who cares, how can they possibly police that?” As fate would have it, Chris Hunkele [...]
Continue reading...John McCain President… According to the AOL.com Homepage Poll
Nov 3, 2008 (Click to Rate!)
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Tom Robinson sent in a link to an interesting “general sampling” of the population as far as the presidential election goes, in the form of the AOL.com’s homepage presidential pole. The results are in and it looks like John McCain dominated the poll oddly enough. Assuming that the Flash-based poll wasn’t hacked, I was initially surprised [...]
Continue reading...Politics Digging Hooks Into Gamers This Year… More to Come
Nov 1, 2008 (Click to Rate!)
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Something new this election, that I haven’t seen before, is the direct focus on gamers that politicians and advertising agencies are taking. A few days ago we got an email to post a new World of Warcraft machinima movie seeing who gets “Pwned” in Azeroth (here it is by the way): Then we saw over on G4TV [...]
Continue reading...Wii Music Reviews Poorly, May Sell Wildly… Why?
Nov 1, 2008 (Click to Rate!)
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“Sounding good while playing Wii Music is… practically impossible”, as the reviewers from GameTrailers state. Even with that level of criticism, horrible control schemes and terrible sounding MIDI-based instruments (none of the tracks are originals), will Wii Music fail this holiday season? Michael Pachter thinks not. The straight “kid/parent appeal” alone, Pachter estimates, is worth more [...]
Continue reading...$700 Billion Bailout Is Not For Loans, It’s to Encourage Bank Mergers
Oct 25, 2008 
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Remember that $700 billion bail-out that was forced down Congress’s throat with fear of military law being declared in the US if it wasn’t signed? Remember how we said that everything taking place during that time (and now) maps perfectly to the market crash of the 1930s? And how we mentioned that the long-term fallout from [...]
Continue reading...“Gamer” Stereotypes Slowly Changing
Oct 24, 2008 (Click to Rate!)
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Having been a gamer for over 20 years it was not until recently that I began to notice gaming become more popular and main stream. While it is not something I’ve really spent a lot of time thinking about it seems pretty obvious that casual games have found a way to get people into gaming [...]
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Nov 13, 2008
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