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Men’s Green Digg Tee: Our Suggestion For How To Use It In December

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:43:00 -0700

But seriously: does anybody like the
new bilious green Digg T-Shirt? Hardly!

Source: shop.digg.com

Don’t worry: it definitely has its uses! We have
an ultimate suggestion for December, how to
use the green DIGG T-Shirt in a sensible manner:

The DIGG tee Christmas tree!

Source: hfg-karlsruhe.de

OK, you have to add some sleeves, but after that it works.

7 Christmas Trees For Nerds

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:16:48 -0700

Christmas Tree #1

iTree
seen on hfg-karlsruhe.de

Christmas Tree #2

LED christmas tree
seen on thomaspfeifer.net

Christmas Tree #3

monitor tree
seen on hfg-karlsruhe.de

Christmas Tree #4

soldered tree
seen dj20000volt.de

Christmas Tree #5

linux tree
seen on flickr.com

Christmas Tree #6

USB tree
seen on trash.de

Christmas Tree #7

laser tree
seen on ehrensenf.de

Christmas 2008

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:22:00 -0700

No gifts, no new gaming stuff this year?

New Year’s Eve Party 2008/2009

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:39:00 -0700

"Very provoking in view of the general mood"

seen on barbarahenninger.de

10 Apt Cartoons About The Citibank Disaster

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:12:00 -0700

The Citibank bailout - a never ending game? The formerly largest bank in the world received the latest government infusion, which includes a USD 20 billion capital injection as well as state guarantees of over USD 306 billion. Here are 10 apt cartoons about this economic plight.

Cartoon #1

seen on The Korea Times

Cartoon/Pic #2

seen on bridgeandtunnelclub, modified

Cartoon #3

seen on gazthecartoonist

Cartoon #4

seen on the Tornoe Blog

Cartoon #5

seen on caglepost

Cartoon #6

Comment of the finder: 'Found this downtown at a First Union (now Wachovia, soon to be Citibank) ATM.' - seen on flickr

Cartoon/Pic #7

seen on bridgeandtunnelclub, modified

Cartoon #8

seen on ahoipolloi

Cartoon/Pic #9

The state is moving in: Park Avenue, New York
seen on the Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung

Cartoon #10

seen on static.seekingalpha

New Cartoon #11

seen on naturalnews.com

The 10 Most Remarkable Gaming Champions Of The World

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:34:00 -0700

You won’t find these gamers at any game championship - and still they are world champions on their own event! Game-Resources.com uses this blog to select the true gaming champions.

Champion #1

Winner in the category: ‘Multi-playing in the age group 50 to 60’

Champion #2

Here our champion who wins in two categories at once:

‘Gaming in the most fashionable outfit’ and
‘Subway Gaming Master of Tokyo’

Champion #3

OK, that is really rotten - but not with all the will in the world we could leave that out: our champion girl in the category ‘Best inbuilt body console drawer’

Champion #4

The cleverest gaming kid in the age group 6 to 10

Champion #5

Winner in the category: ‘Gaming and synergy extraction for the perfect partnership’

Champion #6

Winner in the category: ‘The best hand-made gaming outfit in the age group 0 to 4 months’

Champion #7

Winner in the gaming category: ‘The best authentic cops and robbers game’

Champion #8

Winner in two categories:
‘Best non-human player in the age group 0 to 4 months’ and
‘Only gaming cat with bunny ears’

Champion #9

Our winner in the category: ‘Toughest resistance against gaming withdrawal’

Champion #10

‘Best post-gamish finger gesture’

Pastors should only drive 75 mph max.

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:15:00 -0700

Game over for racing pastors - they should only drive 75 mph max.

In view of the dramatic climatic change, the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) demands consequent actions. The manifestation draft, which was discussed by the 120 ecclesiastical parliamentarians of the EKD Synod in Bremen, advocates Germany’s final withdrawal from nuclear energy use, because the issue of permanent disposal was not satisfactorily solved. They demand a speed limit and the promotion of public transport. Furthermore, the Evangelical Church should campaign for the fair distribution of water in the world's arid regions. The synod will ask Evangelical pastors to volunteer not drive more than 75 mph max. on motorways.

“The accelerated climate warming is man-made and represents a serious threat to all places in the world”, states the manifestation draft. Increasing distribution conflicts about land, water and food were all consequences of global warming. However, there was still the opportunity of alleviating the threat “by consequent actions”. Apart from that, the climate change required “a way of life”, the manifestation draft goes on. The target would be a “sustainable way of life” which the manifestation draft calls “4-D Way of Life”; it would orientate itself on the categories “Thanks, humility, thinking and service”.

11 Extremely Important Benefits That The Bank Crash Brings To You

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:54:00 -0700

The banking crisis has spoilt your appetite for gaming? Can't be!

Thousands of bankers are losing their jobs, hard-earned savings are going down the drain, rich people are becoming paupers and once prospering companies are going bust. Even if you find it hard to believe: this crisis has some genuine advantages in store for you, which you never knew you had.

We show you 11 real benefits, which arose from the current financial crisis! Don't miss out!

Benefit #1
Your favourite pub is no longer full of bankers, because they now avoid anything to do with "(black) Friday" as the plague.

Benefit #2
Took me a long time to find out the proper name of this monument: 'The Bankers of Calais'

Benefit #3
At last your ex-banker is working in a job, which is of some use to you: he shows you the right way to a shop where you find sexy underwear for your girl

Benefit #4
At last you have discovered some jokes, which even you find really funny: the advertising slogans of banks

Benefit #5
At last you can afford a good suit to go to a casino

Benefit #6
At last your bookshop round the corner has started to stock specialist literature about the subject "Cash investments and mortgage financing at the beginning of the 21st century".

Benefit #7
Even you can park your small runabout in Bond Street now

Benefit #8
There is definitely a good chance that up there an office will soon be vacant for you to move in.

Benefit #9
Or here

Benefit #10
Never mind that you can't pay the rent, as only now during this crisis your creativity has skyrocketed to dizzy heights.

Benefit #11
At last I know, how I can really please Uncle Alain at Christmas this year.

..hmm...would rather play roulette just now...

Top Cartoons About The Obama Victory

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:23:00 -0700

The Best Cartoons About The Obama Victory From All Over The World

Barack Obama, new President of the United States, dancing with Lady Liberty, shaking hands with Abraham Lincoln, repairing The Constitution, etc.

seen on flickr

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seen on Washington Post

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seen on The Arizona Republic

seen on Mail & Guardian

seen on The Montreal Gazette

seen on contabilidadefinanceira.blogspot.com

Press comments from all over the world about the Obama victory

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:22:00 -0700

Game Over For McCain and Bush, Obama Wins US Election

Press comments from all over the world about the Obama victory.

Even countries that are not well disposed towards America are mainly giving positive reactions.

Pravda, Russia

A change for the better
Only Satan would have been worse than the Bush regime. Therefore it could be argued that the new administration in the USA could never be worse than the one which divorced the hearts and minds of Americans from their brothers in the international community, which appalled the rest of the world with shock and awe tactics that included concentration camps, torture, mass murder and utter disrespect for international law. Yet in choosing Obama, the people of America have opted to come back into the international fold. Welcome back, friends!
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Al Jazeera, Qatar

Change sweeps Chicago city
"Yes we can." - When the news echoed across Chicago's Grant Park that Barack Obama had, indeed, become the first African-American president of the United States of America, a visible wave of emotion swept across the thousands who had gathered. One African-American woman, standing alone at the edge of the crowd, began sobbing silently and uncontrollably. Others were far more voluble, screaming with joy, chanting Obama's name and shouting "Yes we Can" as the results rolled across the giant television screens erected in the park. It is extraordinary to think that a nation has been wracked with racial turmoil for so much of its bloody history has now elected - and by a huge margin - its first president of colour. But it is also very American.
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Iran-va-Jahan, Iran

A Middle East Message to the New American Leader
Whether or not you choose a more multilateral foreign policy style, you will certainly have to contend with some pressing issues that have arisen or become exacerbated over the past eight years. Dear Mr. President, congratulations! Not only have you inherited a global economic crisis unmatched since the Great Depression but you have also inherited an increasingly tumultuous and more radicalized Middle East....Your challenge is to figure out how to convince Iran in the next year or two that it shouldn't go forward with developing a nuclear weapon. Sanctions have not worked due to a lack of cooperation by nations like China and Russia.
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Associated Press of Pakistan

PM greets Obama, Biden on election as US President, Vice President
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday congratulated Senator Barack Obama on his election as the 44th President of United States. In his letter sent to Obama, Prime Minister Gilani expressed the hope that under his dynamic leadership, United States would continue to be a source of global peace and new ideas for humanity.
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China Daily

We wish US president-elect Obama well
Like American people on the other side of the Pacific, we are elated, too, at the landslide win of Democrat Barack Obama, who will become the 44th President of the United States of America on January 20 next year. We wish him all the best in bringing America out of the present financial quagmire as soon as possible, and re-energize the world's largest economy with his brand-new ideas and vision. A strong US economy is in the interest of China and all other countries that trade with it.
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North Korean News

Obama becomes president in historic US elections
Barack Obama, the 47-year-old first-term senator from Illinois has won the historical election in the US, as the first African-American president. Obama swept to victory over Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona, whose running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, was seeking to become the nation’s first female vice president. As expected, Obama won overwhelmingly among African-American voters, but he also took a small majority of white voters.
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Japan Times

Obama scores historic victory
Democrat Barack Obama made history Tuesday, trouncing Republican John McCain and becoming the first African-American to be elevated to the pinnacle of U.S. politics. As president, Obama will have to tackle the daunting task of repairing the economy, damaged by the U.S. subprime mortgage meltdown, which has also sent global financial markets into a tailspin and taken a toll on some major financial institutions.
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Sydney Morning Herald, Australia

Experience not enough for McCain
John McCain's fight for the presidency comes to an end in Phoenix, surrounded by his family and friends. Despite McCain's strong fight, it wasn't enough to prove the polls wrong which had predicted his downfall.
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BBC, United Kingdom

What kind of president will Obama be?
History will remember Barack Obama for the change he personifies. As America's first black president he will write a new chapter in a long story that began in slavery and persecution and has not yet ended in equality. But he is determined that history will remember him as an agent of change, not just as a symbol of it, and that will not be easy. Mr Obama has made history by winning power. As he attempts to make history in the way he exercises it, he will be weighed down by high expectations. He is going to need all the many gifts - and all the luck - that got him here.
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The Times, United Kingdom

To the victor the spoils — a world full of problems
The problems that will confront Barack Obama beyond the United States make a nonsense of the metaphor of an in-tray. That suggests bureaucratic neatness, a stack of problems waiting for attention that can be dispatched one after the other. Instead, he will inherit a worldwide map of problems that demand more time, military commitment and money than America can possibly deploy..
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L'humanité, France

Barack Obama, The New World
"Change will come to America," says the newly elected president Obama.
By winning California, the Senator of Illinois made sure he would get the 270+ electors' votes needed to receive a majority in the Electoral College which will elect the next U.S. President. He also won the popular vote. The announcement of Obama's victory was followed by scenes of joy and happiness across the country, particularly in his stronghold Chicago where tens of thousands of people kept repeating the mixed race African American candiate's slogan "Yes, we can" with enthusiasm.
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Le Monde, France

Barack Obama elected president: "This is your victory"
The democratic candidate has been elected President of the United States. He promised all Americans that "change has arrived."
Barack Obama, 47, will be the 44th American President and has made national history on November 4th, 2008. A little after 5 o'clock, Parisian time, the American media announced the victory of the democratic candidate over John McCain. The senator of Illinois will thus become the first black president of the United States. Less than an hour later, he was on stage in Grant Park in Chicago, his stronghold, to celebrate his victory and to reassure Americans that "change has arrived."
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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany

President Obama
Barack Obama has won the election to become the next president of America with a clear and resounding majority. Even if the word historical has been used almost over-extensively to describe the significance of this election victory, it is justified without any restriction. For the first time in the history of the United States, an "African-American" is moving into the White House.
In triumph, but without any triumphalism.
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Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany

America - risen from the ashes
We shall overcome: 45 years after Martin Luther King's famous speech, the USA is demonstrating that the country has been able to grow up. Barack Obama can build bridges across the wide gaps his extremely unpopular predecessor has torn open.
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Neuer Zuericher Zeitung, Switzerland

A new era in America
The pendulum has swung far in the USA – much further than anybody could have predicted just a few months ago. The Democrat Barack Obama has not only won the election to become America's 44th President with an overwhelming majority, he will also be supported by a Congress with clearly strengthened Democratic majorities. The era, during which the Republicans held the presidential office in Washington, the majority in Congress or even both, has finally come to an end after 14 years. The political caesura, however, goes probably even deeper. Obama has redrawn the political map and triumphed in areas, which for decades were regarded as Republican strongholds. No other Democratic presidential candidate since the mid sixties has achieved such a high voter turnout as the Senator from Illinois.
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Magyar Nemzet, Hungary

Landslide victory for Barack Obama
All parties as well as the Foreign Office welcome the election of Obama and express their hopes for new perspectives not only with regard to European-American but also to Hungarian-American relations. This is a historic victory, because for the first time in the USA Democracy has won against prejudices.Obama is now faced with many tasks, of which the two important must be tackling the financial crisis and finding a solution to the Iraq-Afghanistan problem..
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16 Reasons That Tell You That You Definitely Playing Too Much...

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:16:00 -0600

#1
You play in all situations in your life - in absolutely ALL!!

#2
You seriously think that this is the ultimate mega city and you decide to live here forever:
Gaming - a boring town in Austria

#3
You are so much involved in your game that you don’t notice that a child is foisted off on you...

#4
In the wedding night, you have only eyes for this cake, not for the bride...

#5
You see this photo and you think: did my neighbour take another picture of me without my permission?

#6
You pick up two gorgeous girls per day, play PlayStation for a while, earn a packet and even become world famous.

#7
Playing alone is boring, that’s why you even taught your dog how to play!

#8
You don’t even get it that political activists have long misused you as an advertising pillar for McCain buttons?

#9
You have neither sex nor friends but you play tennis. With a machine.

#10
You exclusively use only ONE of the settings of this chair.

#11
You haven't realized that your species has died out, that you are the last survivor of its kind and are now exhibited in a zoo.

#12
You haven’t turned round on your couch for such a long time that you haven’t noticed that your girlfriend has changed into a man.

#13
Instead of a briefcase you are taken this bag monster into work.

#14
You only bake a cake when it is SuperMario’s birthday. And Saint’s Day.

#15
You seriously think that this is the ultimate blow job!

#16
Since having this chair, you feel like Captain Kirk and haven’t got up since.

Disgraceful: MTV forgot to award the best gamers at the Game Awards

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:09:00 -0600
Disgraceful: MTV forgot to award the best gamers in the category 'How to make a mess of my bank and become a multimillionaire nevertheless?' at its first-time Game Awards.

game-resources.com is now also closing this gap and awards the top 6 gamers with the highest takings and the best wisecracks.

1st place:

Stanley O'Neal, 56, Boss of Merrill Lynch
Loss: 52 billion US Dollar
Financial settlement: 161 million US Dollar
Slogan: "At Merrill Lynch we're bullish on the future"

2nd place:

James E. Cayne, 74, Boss of Bear Stearns
Loss in value: 19.8 billion US Dollar
Annual earnings: 68 million US Dollar
Slogan: "Providing a complete range of financial solutions to clients globally"

3rd place:

Richard Fuld, 62, Boss of Lehmann Brothers
Loss: 8.6 billion US Dollar
Annual salary: 41 million US Dollar
Slogan: "Where vision gets built"

4th place:

John J. Mack, 63, Boss of Morgan Stanley
Loss: 11 billion US Dollar
Annual earnings: 40 million US Dollar
Slogan: "World Wise"

5th place:

Robert Willumstad, 62, Boss of AIG
Loss: 80 billion US Dollar
Annual earnings: 1 million US Dollar plus options
Slogan: "The strength to be there"

6th place:

Georg Funke, Boss of Hypo Real Estate
Required rescue package: 50 billion Euros
Pension: 560,000 Euros per month
Slogan: "The architects of finance"

50 Years Computer Games

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:25:00 -0600
50 years computer games - It all started with a green dot

Two dashes and a smudged green dot - that were the tender beginning of computer games. In 1958, the physicist William Higinbotham crafted a tennis automat for visitors of the research centre Brookhaven. It did, however, not occur to him to have the billion-dollar idea patented.

The screen was just about the size of a CD and the graphics were no more than green luminous dashes on a black background - not what video games look like now. However, half a century ago, the black-green monitor was the attraction at the US Medical Research Centre Brookhaven near New York. The visitors on the Open Day in October 1958 were standing in long queues to get the chance of playing a game of computer tennis.

And that is how it went in 1958: the two players (one couldn’t play against the computer) stood in front of an oscilloscope (actually a measuring device that views signal voltages), whereby each held a control box the size of a bar of chocolate in his hand. One of the buttons delivered the ball on the screen, the other, by turning, determined the spin.

The tennis ball showed its movements on the screen (it really had a tail), it was possible to make out a net, but there was no racket. There was no points total - if a player failed to get the ball, it rolled out of the field at the back and appeared immediately with the opponent who could then deliver it again (see video below).

When he invented this game in 1958, it probably never occurred to William Higinbotham that this device would one day be regarded as the prototype of an industry worth billions and as the forebear of video game classics such as Pong. The physicist, who was born in 1910, was then head of the Instrumentation Division) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).

Among others, the scientists at the centre worked with three research reactors and the particle accelerator "Cosmotron". Higinbotham intention was to use his computer tennis (he christened the development Tennis for Two) for public relation purposes. The BNL quotes from Higinbotham’s notes this rather modest evaluation of his game: "It could make the place it bit more cheery if we had a game people could play and which would demonstrate who relevant our research is to society."

Thanks to screen and simple controls, William Higinbotham only needed a few weeks in 1958 to succeed in constructing an intuively easy to understand game. When the current Head of Instrumentation at the BNL, Peter Takacs, reconstructed Tennis for Two on the occasion of the 50th anniversary, he needed significantly longer, as he tells in a video of the Research Centre: "We had to succeed. It had been done once by someone, hence we must be able to construct this too."

In 2008, it took three months to reconstruct Tennis for Two. Higinbotham und Dvorvak only needed a few weeks for the original.

Gaming Notebooks: Die wichtigsten Tipps vor dem Kauf

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 08:35:00 -0600
Immer und überall: Weil viele Game-Fans auch Spaß haben wollen, wenn sie unterwegs sind, ist mobiles Gaming angesagt. Doch um tatsächlich auch Spaß beim mobilen Spielen zu haben, muss man vor dem Kauf eines Laptops einiges beachten.

Empfehlenswert ist ein Gaming Notebook, das mindestens über 2GB RAM und einen DualCore-CPU verfügt. Entscheidend ist natürlich auch die Grafikkarte, die einen Speicher von Minimum 256 MByte haben sollte. Außerdem sollte sie DirectX 10 unterstützen und ein Interface von 128 Bit oder mehr aufweisen. In puncto Geschwindigkeit der Festplatte ist ratsam, sich keine Geräte unter 5400 U/min anzuschaffen.

Ein weiteres Kriterium liegt in der Art des Bildschirms. Hier muss der Gamer entscheiden, in welcher Umgebung er hauptsächlich spielt. Die verspiegelten Notebooks sorgen für leuchtendere Farben und verstärken die Kontraste, sind bei allzu viel Sonneneinstrahlung jedoch unpraktisch. Hier empfiehlt sich eher ein Notebook mit mattem Display. Bezüglich des Bildschirms ist noch die Größe zu beachten, die je nach Geschmack gewählt werden sollte.

Wichtig ist auch, die Anschlüsse des Laptops zu prüfen und ganz gezielt die Akkulaufzeiten zu erkunden. Schließlich spielt auch die Verarbeitung des Geräts eine Rolle, um böse Überraschungen zu vermeiden. Abschließend kann es nicht schaden, sich auch in diversen Internetforen einmal Meinungen zu dem in Frage kommenden Notebook einzuholen.

Quelle: Giga.de

Neue Software für Handy-Games

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:08:03 -0600
Vermehrte Wirklichkeit. Was klingt wie eine Beschreibung der Wirkung bewusstseinserweiternder Mittel ist tatsächlich die neueste Technologie für Mobiltelefone.

Augmented Reality Technology (Technologie der vermehrten Wirklichkeit) wurde speziell für S60-Handys entwickelt. Sie kombiniert das Handy Game mir der realen Umgebung. Notwendig dafür ist eine Handy-Kamera, die in der Lage ist, Bewegungen wahrzunehmen. Die Website http://www.symbian-freak.com/ bietet nun eine kostenlose Demoversion für ein Handy-Spiel an, welches auf dieser Technologie basiert.

Mittlerweile machen sich auch andere Geräte die Technologie zunutze: Auf SymbianFreak.com findet man auch ein Programm mit dem Namen N-Gun. Für das Nokia N95 kann so die Anwendung einer Pistole simuliert werden. Dreht oder neigt man das Mobiltelefon, hört man typische Geräusche wie etwa den Abzug der Waffe.

Quelle: CHIP Online