Interesting Links October 15 to October 18
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Glowing animated shirt dynamically displays the current wi-fi signal strength
Korean Starcraft players match-fixing. Russians cheating. Norwegian Counter-Strike players urinating on the stairs. Chinese guys threatening Taiwanese kids. It’s just another Grand Finals at the World Cyber Games.
28 to 140 billion messages per day.
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Irish team “Na Fianna” easily beat +forward in the European Quake League.
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na Fianna easily defeat the Czech team Drastic Collision
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Unreal Tournament 3 first person shooter game to be released in November 2007. The system requirements are not very demanding.
A colourful, free, kart racing game that is big in South Korea, apparently.
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Chinese Internet Security Response Team (GMT +0800)
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24 reasons why GAA is better than soccer
Hopefully we can beat Martinique.
AS SOMEONE WHO RINGS up hundreds of euro each month in mobile data charges (see the extortionate effect of data roaming here), I have scratched out five ways to spot someone who does not know more than their default screen on a mobile data device.
Germany’s videogame review board, USK, is notorious for not allowing certain titles in the former Third Reich to be sold and it seems that it is time to add Clive Barker’s Jericho to that list. With games like Manhunt 2 and Gears of War banned, it’s actually no surprise that the gore fest that is Jericho was denied the right to see the light of day in Germany.
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Voting is now open for the Net Visionary Awards, by the Irish Internet Association.
TripIt - Free online trip planner and free travel itinerary website for organizing vacations, group trips or business travel
Windows error in Piccadilly Circus
Lordi of Eurovision fame on Jaiku
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The Invoice Machine is a free web 2.0 application that let’s you create free and beautiful PDF invoices in a snap.
Same old blog, brand new place
Some notes from Demo conference.
SUMMARY: I spent two years trying to make Rails do something it wasn’t meant to do, then realized my old abandoned language (PHP, in my case) would do just fine if approached with my new Rails-gained wisdom. INTRO / BACKGROUND:…
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I was reading an article about the little hobbit-like creatures discovered in Indonesia. I couldn’t help notice that the article uses the abbreviation “H. Erectus” instead of the full name Homo Erectus. This is presumably to prevent jokes about why we don’t see any of them around these days.
A surgeon is struck by lightning and becomes obsessed with Chopin. An eminent psychoanalyst is kept awake by hallucinations of a singing rabbi. An amnesiac musicologist incapable of remembering anything that happened more a few seconds ago finds refuge from his disoriented existence by performing Bach fugues.
Ken sez, “In China, the massively multiplayer online game King of the World has banned all accounts of men who play female characters, and is requiring players to validate their gender via webcam in order to play females