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  1. That'd be nice on Castlevania Coming to the Wii? · · Score: 1

    Modern console versions of the CV series have been decidedly weak. Let's see how this comes along.

  2. Interesting irony on Barack Obama Wins Democratic Nomination · · Score: 1

    So many people are interested in the election, and yet, so few [turnout always less than 50%] vote.

  3. In New Zealand on Time Warner Cable Tries Metering Internet Use · · Score: 1

    Limits on downloads are very common.

    My ISP, Woosh, caps it at about 5 Gigs per month on our plan. After you go over, no extra charge, but your speeds do go down to dialup level.

  4. Well, there's a downside to all this on Leaning Tower of Pisa Secure For 300 More Years · · Score: 5, Funny

    Another 300 years of putting up with Leaning Tower of Pizza jokes.

  5. Very interesting on goosh, the Unofficial Google Shell · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'll certainly give this a look.

    I suspect the majority of casual Google users really couldn't care less, though.

  6. Re:Sure sure.... on Stonehenge As a Royal Family's Burial Site · · Score: 1

    Yes, Stonehenge is up there when it comes to extraterrestrial believers.

    Personally though, I find the Nazca lines far more fascinating. The reason behind those drawings are still la

  7. Drums aren't new on New Guitar Hero Drumset Showcased · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure if US arcades ever saw it, but the various incarnations of the Konami series DrumMania have done an excellent job of drum simulations.

    There's a machine in my local arcades [I'm in NZ].

  8. Re:Electroadhesive robots on New Robots Developed To Climb Walls · · Score: 1

    Afraid that human labour will be far, far more cost effective, and will remain so for probably our entire lifetime.

    Robot technology doesn't really grow in leaps and bounds [unlike the internet].

  9. Re:next step on Authentic Viking DNA From 1,000-Year-Old Skeletons · · Score: 1

    Somehow, that sounds awfully familiar.

    Do dinosaurs and vikings have anything in common?

  10. Better idea on Consumer Reports Gets Its Game On · · Score: 1

    It'd be better to review the often bundled Wii Sports first, if they haven't already. Just to get the feel of Wii exercise based games.

  11. Re:No surprise... on UK Academics Arrested For Researching al-Qaida · · Score: 1

    Hard to believe with laws like this, that the UK is considered a 'free nation', isn't it?

  12. Re:Japanese not creative? on Shigeru Miyamoto, The Walt Disney of Our Time · · Score: 1

    That's how you get completely off the wall games like Katamari, Bishi Bashi, ICO [well that's more artistic than bizarre], and a whole host of others.

  13. As a DDR player on Video Games Can Make Us More Creative · · Score: 1

    I actually play, to a certain extent, for the exercise. Not for creativity or anything.

  14. Ah, this story on Teen Discovers Plastic-Decomposing Bacteria · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When I first came across it, I thought that it was an idea that needs some serious development. Plastics take up a huge amount of landfill space worldwide, and this is of use in the future.

    That and recycling plastics, obviously.

  15. Everyone!! on IT Workers Are Getting Fatter · · Score: 1

    No, certainly not just IT. Anyone who works a desk/office job [a good percent of the readers, for sure] is, in a sense, at risk.

  16. Fast industry on Greenpeace Complains Game Consoles Aren't Green Enough · · Score: 1

    Well the truth is that the gaming world is a fast moving industry, and that means a lot of production, and eventually a lot of waste.

    Moving up to the next console will certainly do that.

  17. Oh dear on UK Teen Cited For Calling Scientology a "Cult" · · Score: 1

    Anons aren't going to like this 1 bit.

    Why the word "cult"? It's not so far from the fruth.

  18. Goverment intervention on Total Phone and Email Database Proposed In UK · · Score: 1

    This is really, really taking it too far.

    Even the UK's whole univeral ID card system, I don't approve of.

  19. When I saw this on Digg on 20% of U.S. Population Has Never Used Email · · Score: 1

    I could hardly believe it myself. It's hard to imagine a modern, efficient society [businesses especially] not having email.

  20. Re:Screw Card Games! on Why Windows Solitaire Eats So Much Time · · Score: 1

    Darn right. That Space Cadet pinball game was so addictive.

  21. Success or not on Most Business-Launched Virtual Worlds Fail · · Score: 1

    MMOs [and other MM games] often get a huge amount of coverage, before they eventually disappear off the face of the web.

    A spectacular failure with promising starts is of course, The Sims Online.

  22. Bat bomb on The World's Spookiest Weapons · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I was just reading about this randomly on Wikipedia the other day. A US invention

    This sort of opposes the Japanese developed Balloon bomb.

    Of course both didn't exactly become conventional weaponary.

  23. Cost effective on $100 Laptop Platform Moves On · · Score: 1

    But will kids, or more importantly their parents, buy into it?

  24. Guitar Freaks - Konami on Details for Guitar Hero 4 Released · · Score: 1

    This game series did what GH did years before GH came out. Yet it gets next to no recognition, and few people have even ever heard of it.

    You saw it here, folks. Look it up for more details.

  25. I was impressed on Swiss Man Flies With Jet Powered Wing · · Score: 1

    I saw this at work today, on a news website. I was very impressed. And surprised this hasn't happened earlier.