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THQ's new game:

The stars of new SMACKDOWN! HERE COMES THE PAIN are taking a quick bout in the ring one step further.

This latest game from THQ features the popular "bra and panties" match, a favourite of WWE fans.

There's not much to the rules, basically the first to rip the other girls underwear off is declared the winner.

Note the directions at the top left corner of the screen.

* Ray, 11/08/2003 12:39:01 PM

How MapQuest works

TechTV has a story on how street names make it to MapQuest: two people drive around and write down what they see. Awesome.

* Ray, 11/07/2003 01:23:24 PM

Innovation Futures

MIT creates an ideas market like DARPA's Terrorism Futures market, except no one gets killed: Innovation Futures

And you can win a plasma TV.

* Ray, 11/07/2003 01:19:12 PM

Phone Miming

They stole my idea: "Japanese phone firm NTT DoCoMo has created a wristwatch phone that uses its owner's finger as an earpiece."

Granted, I don't know as much about conducting sound through flesh.

* Ray, 11/06/2003 12:21:18 PM

Shop-Wright

Preservation Online: Today's News Archives: Frank Lloyd Wright Gas Station For Sale

The only gas station ever designed and built by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, a 1958 building in Cloquet, Minn., is on the market.

The building's owners, the McKinney family of Cloquet, put the still-operating station up for sale in August. So far, no potential buyers have come forward. The McKinneys are asking $725,000 for the property, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

* Ray, 11/06/2003 09:27:52 AM

Even Micronesia can't get on board

U.N.'s Castro 'Propaganda Forum' Demands End to U.S. Embargo of Cuba: "By a lopsided 179-3 vote, the 2003 United Nations General Assembly demanded an end to the U.S. economic embargo of Cuba. Voting with the U.S. against the non-binding/non-enforceable resolution was Israel and the Marshall Islands. Micronesia and Morocco abstained."

Is there a list of all the UN votes that end with the world against the US (+Israel, Marshall Islands, Micronesia...)?

* Ray, 11/05/2003 05:08:15 PM

More on the CBS Reagan miniseries

MediaChannel.org | News Dissector Web Log

Congressman John Dingall from Michigan was unhappy with the series too, but for other reasons. He sent CBS a letter with some other ideas...
I share the concerns expressed by others that it may not present an accurate depiction of the Reagan administration and America during the 1980s. I trust that CBS will not be a party to a distorted presentation of American history, and that the mini-series will present a fair and balanced portrayal of the Reagans, the 1980s and their legacy.

As someone who served with President Reagan, and in the interest of historical accuracy, please allow me to share with you some of my recollections of the Reagan years that I hope will make it into the final cut of the mini-series: $640 Pentagon toilets seats; ketchup as a vegetable; union busting; firing striking air traffic controllers; Iran-Contra; selling arms to terrorist nations; trading arms for hostages; retreating from terrorists in Beirut; lying to Congress; financing an illegal war in Nicaragua; visiting Bitburg cemetery; a cozy relationship with Saddam Hussein; shredding documents; Ed Meese; Fawn Hall; Oliver North; James Watt; apartheid apologia; the savings and loan scandal; voodoo economics; record budget deficits; double digit unemployment; farm bankruptcies; trade deficits; astrologers in the White House; Star Wars; and influence peddling.

* Ray, 11/05/2003 05:01:38 PM

Scary fences make scary neighbors

On Lowell St, by the Mt Auburn Hospital. Could be a Herzog DeMeuron project at first glance.

* Ray, 11/04/2003 06:02:01 PM

Colors

* Ray, 11/04/2003 06:00:16 PM

Oh! Those French

Porn Yesterday: Recall and 'Mixed Opinions' for French Vogue's Latest

As it regularly does, French Vogue publisher Conde Nast collaborated with a major advertiser to sponsor a beauty supplement; this time, the honor fell to French beauty giant L'Oreal, which splashed out on 52 pages, including covers.

Aside from the multiplicity of L'Oreals ads -- featuring Claudia Schiffer, Laetitia Casta and Natalie Imbruglia (news), among others -- the supplement's pages came illustrated with images by 70s-era photographer David Hamilton of naked Lolitas, most of whom seem incredibly new to the whole puberty thing.
...
So L'Oreal had no problem with the imagery, some of which shows nude girls who cannot possibly be over 13 years of age? "Well, of course there were mixed opinions; some thought it was OK, some didn't. We'll know more after the survey."

The survey?

According to the spokesman L'Oreal will be conducting a survey, most likely by phone, of French Vogue subscribers to see what they thought of the supplement in order to assess the viability of launching a bigger issue next time.

* Ray, 11/04/2003 02:02:08 PM

GOPTV

Reagan TV drama axed after furore:

A controversial TV drama about the life of former US President Ronald Reagan has been pulled by TV network CBS.

The network has admitted the biopic did not present 'a balanced portrayal' of Mr Reagan and wife Nancy after coming under huge pressure from Republicans.

The two-part drama created a storm after the former president's supporters questioned its accuracy.

...of course, coming this Sunday, NBC's highly accurate documentary, Saving Jessica Lynch

* Ray, 11/04/2003 01:57:45 PM

Stupidity Bites DOJ

Praise be to The Memory Hole. "In what was apparently an incredible goof, it was posted in a PDF format called Image+Text. The folks at The Memory Hole simply removed the image, revealing the redacted text." [slashdot]

With no notice, the Justice Department recently posted to its Website a long-awaited report. Justice spent $2 million for a study on the racial and gender diversity of its attorney workforce. The report has been complete for almost two years, but the Department stalled its release, despite numerous Freedom of Information Act requests.

The report appeared on one of the FOIA sections of the Department's Website sometime in October. It's one of the most heavily-redacted government documents in recent memory. Even Congress' report on 9/11 had a smaller percentage of its contents blacked out. The Memory Hole has posted a version with no redactions; instead, those sections are highlighted in yellow, so you can easily zoom in on the parts originally deemed too embarassing for us to see.

To download the report as originally released--with all redactions intact--click here.

* Ray, 11/03/2003 02:10:05 PM

Terfenol-D

Last August, Etrema—an innovative technology firm nestled in the cornfields of Ames, Iowa—started selling those chrome discs for $1,500 a pair. Called Whispering Windows, they can turn any wall, window, or drab conference table into a speaker.
...
Then Conley tells me to stick my fingers in my ears. "Relax," he says as he places the cold disc on my forehead. "We're just turning your head into a speaker." A few seconds later, even though my ears are plugged, power chords blast through my skull. It feels like the loud crunch that fills my head when I bite into a tortilla chip, except the crunch is music. The stereo sound is inescapable. I can't say it's a pleasant experience—afterward I will down a bottle of Tylenol—but it's not every day that your head serves as a piece of stereo equipment.

* Ray, 11/03/2003 01:53:39 PM

Overclocking the body

Salon.com Technology | Hackers on Atkins

* Ray, 11/03/2003 01:45:32 PM

Clean hands

Israel to deploy robot bulldozers

* Ray, 11/03/2003 12:27:13 PM

What the free market looks like

New York City - Man stabbed to death in Chinatown bus transaction

* Ray, 11/03/2003 10:25:51 AM

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