Category: technology / video games
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My Xbox 360, 2005 – 2007. RIP.
A dear friend of mine died on September 18th. I have had many good times with My Xbox 360, playing games, watching movies, and being called all sorts creative words for homosexuals and black people on Xbox Live. Other people said it wouldn’t work; they said that most Xbox 360s get sick and die within…
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Magnets: Beyond Holding Things to Fridges
Some random but fascinating tidbits that I’ve learned while writing my comps today: There are over fifty known sensory systems that have been identified in living things. Why, then, is a “sixth sense” seen as a far-out impossibility? The genome of bacteria that can sense magnetic fields is only about 4.3 megabytes. All the information…
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Rotten Apple
Is it just me, or are Apple’s new iPods sorta disappointing? The Shuffle hasn’t changed. The Nano does video and has a new interface, but looks fat and ugly (best comment I’ve seen about it: “does it do the truffle shuffle?”). What’s now called the “Classic” has the new interface and looks pretty good, and…
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