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Rubik's Cube Comeback
aheath writes "Today's Boston Globe has an interesting article on the revived popularity of the Rubik's Cube. The article mentions that Winning Moves Games 'hopes to capitalize on the renaissance of the original Rubik's Cube in the next several months by rereleasing a version of the supersize 'Rubik's Revenge,' a 4-by-4 cube with 16 squares per side.' You can compare your best Rubik's Cube solution speed to the world champion's record. If the manual solution method doesn't appeal to you, you can always use the Lego Robotics automated method." I remember having a cube that had letters on each sticker instead of colors, so that the solved product spelled words across each face. That thing got me through a lot of childhood car rides.
Was the Dick Monalds cube that had...
Big Mac, Fillet O' Fish, Quarter Pounder, French Fries, Thick Shakes, and Apple Pies on the sides. I still have it in storage somewhere.
For every annoying gentoo user, are three even more annoying anti-gentoo crybabies. Take Yosh from #Gimp for example.
A: None. Capitalism only rewards inventors when they are forced into it by the law. So much for all of this 'we respect IP rights' crap.