Hadron Collider hit by electrical hitch

The world's largest particle collider was stopped on Wednesday, a week after its startup, as a result of an electrical fault, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on Thursday.

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Fed Now Asking For $40 Billion From The U.S. Treasury

Do we have this much money in the Treasury? "The Federal Reserve has requested that the Treasury Department deposit $40 billion with the central bank in an effort to help the Fed continue to stabilize the financial markets and address concerns about whether it is overstretched."

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Life With PlayStation Begins Today.

After making a false start earlier today, Sony Computer Entertainment just announced the official, global launch of its free, Life with PlayStation PS3 service. Live Channel will deliver worldwide news and information such as weather and live camera images from 60 cities around the globe.

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Sony, David Jaffe Sued for God of War Copyright Infringement

Beyond the alleged similarity in the time line, the plaintiffs also claim that GoW shares elements of plot, character relationships, themes, settings, mood, pace and dialogue with their works. Bissoon-Dath and Barrette-Herzog list seven pages of what they allege are suspicious similarities between their work and God of War. By way of example. . .

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Why The 360 Didn't Ship w. a HDD (And Why The PS3 Did)

Two sides of the same story here. On the one side, ex-Xbox man Peter Moore, who explains how the decision to include a HDD in the original Xbox eventually led to its early demise (they even had a pre-determined kill figure!), and thus why they didn't bother making them standard in the 360. On the other hand there's why Sony included one in the PS3.

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Peter Moore Dropped 1st Xbox Because the HDD “killed us”

FTA - “So in the end we determined at around the 25 million unit mark that we just needed to slow this thing down and just not sell any more, and move to the 360 as quickly as we possibly could. And to this day people still believe we left the Xbox too early but it was purely for financial purposes.”

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10 Reasons Why A Bionic Arm Would Be the Best Thing Ever

It extends. It retracts. It spins. It grips. It pulls. Bionic Arm is without doubt a very cool appendage. The bionically enhanced commando uses it to deflect bullets, swing like a baboon and toss exploding barrels about. But if by some miracle of modern science a Bionic Arm could be grafted on to our own body, how would we utilize it?

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NFL Fines Pacman Jones For Not Tucking Gun Into Pants

NFL officials announced Wednesday that Dallas Cowboys cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones has committed a uniform weapons violation and will be fined $2,000 for keeping his nine-millimeter Beretta handgun in his game uniform's belt and not tucking the firearm into his uniform pants as rules stipulate during Monday night's game against the Eagles.

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Breaking: Microsoft to Announce Jerry Seinfeld Ads Canceled

Remember those awful Microsoft ads with Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates? Well, now you can forget them. Microsoft flacks are desperately dialing reporters to spin them about "phase two" of the ad campaign — a phase, due to be announced tomorrow, which will drop the aging comic altogether.

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Have you ever seen anything like this? (pic)

Kinda gross

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Hackers Claim To Break Into Palin's Yahoo Mail Account

Hackers say they have gained access to U.S. vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo account and published some of its contents on the Wikileaks Web site.Wikileaks today published several screenshots of Yahoo e-mail messages, e-mail addresses of Palin family members and associates, and other data that hackers claimed to have obtained.

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Palin's Email Account Hacked (PHOTOS)

The group known as Anonymous, which earlier took on Scientology, has published screenshots of e-mail messages and images that it says came from a private e-mail account belonging to Governor Sarah Palin at gov.palin@yahoo.com. The data has been published by WikiLeaks.

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Knight Rider’s KITT Stolen in Toronto

No PR stunt.

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Will Fix Computer for Sexual Favors SFW

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Hey Idiots! You Can't Get a Game Console for $35

More than 300 consumers have fallen victim to a group of websites claiming to offer refurbished Xbox 360s, PS3s and Wiis for less than $35. The scammers have made off with more than a reported $17,000.

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Digg Effect Decreases Game Prices. WTF?

We've seen the Digg Effect crash unprepared websites and bring tens of thousands of visitors to an article in a matter of hours. Those Digg users don't rush out to buy games after reading articles on the gaming front page.

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Professor Gets $100,000 Grant to Study World of Warcraft

Forget the infamous $600 toilet seat. When it comes to tax dollar expenditures that might raise an eyebrow, how does $100,000 to research how Americans play World of Warcraft sound? As reported by the Orange County Register, Prof. Bonnie Nardi (left) of the University of California Irvine, received the $100K grant from...

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Guitar Hero Publisher Confirms They're Working On 'DJ Hero'

Source says mash-up mechanics make for a 'really good' game but are proving to be a 'licensing nightmare.' "DJ Hero" is one of the few unannounced projects inherited from Activision's merger with corporate giant Vivendi. While Activision Blizzard trademarked the "DJ Hero" name back in February, it wasn't until recently we became aware of plans...

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Five reasons why the PS3 is the must-own this holiday season

The Playstation 3 was a victim of critic, bashing and hate when it first launched. Who can't remember those incredibly famous phrase that looked like a joke the first time we heard it : "$599 U.S. dollars". Two years later, Sony has gone a long way to improve the image of the PS3.

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Difficulty is Difficult: Designing for Hard Modes in Games

In this in-depth article, originally printed in Game Developer magazine, designer Boutros takes a close look at difficulty in games, asking how creators can add unique, high-end challenges which excite, but don't frustrate skilled players.

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EA To Loosen Spore Install Restrictions, Reveals Sales Data

To many PC gamers, Spore's most gruesome creation has been its digital rights management and copy protection implementation. EA's attempts to thwart piracy by limiting the number of concurrent installations hasn't sat well with users, a complaint they've expressed rather publicly. According to information obtained by MTV Multiplayer...

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Content cut from id Software's "Rage" Due to 360s Size Limit

During his Austin Game Developers Conference discussion on storytelling and technology, id Software lead designer Tim Willits the developer is cutting back on the amount of content they would have liked to include in their upcoming shooter Rage. The main reason for limiting the game's content is the Xbox 360's limited disc storage....

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Survey: 97 percent of American youth play video games

The survey found that while young Americans don't necessarily play the same thing, nearly all of them -- girls included -- play video games of one kind or another.

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Girl Gamer Asks: Video Games vs Guys - Which is better?

Recently, the reprobates at GamesRadar paired women and games in a head to head competition that somehow deemed games the more worthy of love from men. Time to turn the tables. Frankly speaking, games require a hell of a lot less effort than guys from a woman’s point of view. PlayStation doesn’t care if we shave our legs and/or wear makeup.

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Top 10 Motherfuckin' Movie Quotes

Obviously this is a Samuel L. Jackson quote list; and some pretty good ones at that!!!

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10 of the World's Weirdest Surgeries (with pics)

Pictures and Descriptions of strange cosmetic surgery treatments. Includes Human tail removal, leg lengthening, and pubic hair transplant.

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9 "WTF" Movie Moments Involving Flowers

Instead of "guy gives girl some flowers," we've got "the Joker melts a dude's face off with his acid corsage" from Batman. Talk about non-traditional...

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9 Pirate Myths Examined

Well, I enjoy Talk Like a Pirate Day as much as most other geeks, but I think it's important to add a dose of reality. So I'm here to dispel some of the more popular myths about pirates, and to confirm a few as well.

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10 Health Problems That Can Ruin Your Sex Life

Many health problems come with a tagalong: sexual dysfunction. Are the home fires burning less brightly lately? It might be time for a checkup. Here are a few medical conditions and situations whose impact can be felt in the bedroom:

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Barr files suit to remove Obama and McCain from Texas ballot

Libertarian presidential nominee Bob Barr’s campaign filed suit Tuesday seeking to remove Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama from the ballot in Texas, alleging that the two major candidates missed the deadline for officially filing to be on the ballot.

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Make Your Basement A Game Room & Host Some Parties

A basement is often an afterthought on a designer's to-do list. Unlike kitchens, bedrooms and bathrooms, basements often end up as occasional spaces that can be neglected or ignored by shutting a door. However, an extra level provides immense potential for extra space, storage and (in the case of an additional suite) income. Here's what you need.

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Two Guys Pretend To Make-Out Behind CNN Reporter

Anything that embarrasses and makes CNN look bad... I am all for laughing at.

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85,000,000,000$ Debt added. Congrats American! AIG bailout.

U.S. Fed has now provided 85 billions to AIG in another expensive bailout, adding to US debt, in hope to save the market from a global crash. Thanks taxpayers!!!

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I got this in the mail today from AIG ... seriously [PIC]

If you don’t think this is funny perhaps you need a blood test to check for an irony deficiency.

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Recover files from a dead Windows using just the Ubuntu CD

What do you do if your Windows installation suddenly just doesn't want to start up? All those important files and pictures, can be easily recovered using the Ubuntu Live CD without installing anything or damaging any of the files. Easy step-by-step instructions with screenshots.

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1,000 yard rushers that you do not (want to) remember

When a player played and despite the actual magnitude of the accomplishment a 1,000 yard rushing season is seen by many players and fans as a bit of a big deal. It puts you in an elite club of professional athletes. Well, sort of... Let's see how many of these guys you remember...

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Capcom: Don’t Worry About The Exclusives Comment

Alright. On Thursday, Capcom released a shareholder report, which stated that they will no longer be willing to make anymore platform exclusives for all three of the system that are right now out on the market. I know it was hard to believe at the time, but… Yeeah, you get the point

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Top Ten All-Time Best Nintendo Levels

Nintendo, as a developer, has a good grasp on the importance of setting. Here's a list of the ten greatest Nintendo levels (or areas).

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New Wii Backup Loader Opens Gateway to All-Out Piracy

It's the Holy Grail of Wii piracy—load DVD game backups without any sort of hardware modification. And it's just been demonstrated in a very legit-looking video. The Wii Backup Loader is a simple program that runs from the Wii Homebrew Channel and can load specially modified ISOs from the DVD drive.

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Solid Snake in Playstation Home

I enjoy seeing people’s creations. It will be great to see what people will do in Little Big Planet. But what struck me was how somebody was able to get the exact look of Old Snake from Metal Gear Solid 4.

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The Great PS3 Trophy Debate

The trophy system has now been out for 2 months yet very little games support this. Come join in the debate on this subject.

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How to use mkv2vob to convert MKV files to play on your PS3

Tutorial that shows users how to use MKV2VOB on their PC. Step-by-step guide with photos to show users what setting must be utilized to convert MKV video files to formats that are compatible with the Playstation3. Highly recommended for every PS3 owner who wants to stream movies to their Playstation3.

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If Space Invaders Was Real (Animated Image)

The old school classic game brought to life.

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Daredevil Teenager Dies After Trying To Scale 66,000 Volt

A daredevil teenage boy died in an horrific accident when he was electrocuted as he scaled a 100 ft electricity pylon carrying 66,000 volts.

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Rescuing Over 140,000 That Ignored the Ike Warning

Rescuing Those Who Ignored Ike Warnings: Can They Be Saved?

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Zambrano throws no-hitter for Cubs first in 36 years

Carlos Zambrano pitched the first no-hitter for the Chicago Cubs in 36 years, returning from a recent bout of rotator cuff soreness to shut down the Houston Astros 5-0 Sunday night in a game relocated because of Hurricane Ike.

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Meet Angelique. She only wanted to die with dignity.

Angelique Flowers had the debilitating Crohn's disease since she was 15. When her 31st birthday came, she was told that she only had months to live. She wanted her life to end peacefully on her own terms using euthanasia but was not allowed because it was banned in Australia. She died vomiting the content of her bowels.

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[video] Tina Fey as Sarah Palin on SNL

Hilarious and dead-on.

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Is Apple Playing Tricks with Battery and Wireless Indicators

The iPhone 2.1 firmware update is out! Two of the most talked about enhancements are the enhanced battery life and the enhanced signal boost. However some have cast doubts on the effectiveness and the credibility of Apple's latest claims. Did Apple really put an effort to improve these problems? Or did Apple just cosmetically tweak the indicators?

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Best Buy to acquire Napster for $121 million

In May, Napster openly challenged Apple's iTunes Store when it launched an a la carte download service filled with DRM-free tracks that are compatible with both the iPod and iPhone. The service offered 6 million songs and was billed as "more than 50 percent larger than any other MP3 store" and not only the "largest major label MP3 catalog in the in

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Wii ISO Loader demonstrated on video

Is this the day, is this the hack that frees the Wii console to finally run your legal "backup" games? Waninkoko, the latest name to emerge from the hacking underground, has developed a "work in progress" v0.1 Wii backup ISO loader for the Wii Homebrew Channel that will run backed-up game ISOs-- no modchip required!.

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First photo of planet around alien star

Astronomers believe they have taken the first amazing photo of a planet around another star like the Sun. The alien world shows up as a tiny orange disk in the image captured by Canadian scientists with a giant telescope in Hawaii.

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A software glitch prevented Buy.com from billing (Gift Card)

Seth was recently contacted by Buy.com and told that due to an error, an order he placed over a year ago had a balance due. They'll be debiting his credit card "on or about 09/22/08." Seth emailed them back to ask why they were just now settling up the billing issue—surely it hadn't taken them this long to notice it. Apparently, it had, and it's no

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Are men programmed to cheat?

A recent scientific study has shown that there is a particular gene, present in two out of every five men, that makes them less likely to form a lasting monogamous relationship. So, certain men are biologically predisposed to cheat. Infidelity is in their DNA.

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Firefox 3.1 to Enable Color Profile Support by Default

The Mozilla Links blog reports that Firefox's next release, version 3.1, will ship with color profile support turned on by default. Color profile support shows richer colors in certain images in your browser; if you can't wait for 3.1 to drop, here's how to enable it in your copy of Firefox 3 now.

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Could So Many UFO Witnesses Be Right?

Michio Kaku told ABC, "You simply cannot dismiss the possibility that some of these UFO sightings are actually sightings from some object created by an advanced civilization because … on the off chance that there is something there, that could literally change the course of human history."

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Rhythm Perfected: Ars Reviews Rock Band 2

Hundreds of gamers went to their local electronics stores Sunday to pick up their copy of Rock Band 2 and, I hope, invited a bunch of their friends over when they got the game home.

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Dark Matter 'Bridge To Nowhere' Found In Cosmic Void

More than a dozen galaxies seem to be lined up along a bridge of dark matter inside a region of nearly empty space. This 'bridge to nowhere' could shed light on how small galaxies formed in the early universe. Galaxies in the universe are arranged in a lacy structure that contains many holes, or voids, that are largely bereft of galaxies.

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NASA Photo of the Day: Supernova Ribbon From Hubble

What created this unusual space ribbon? Most assuredly, one of the most violent explosions ever witnessed by ancient humans. Back in the year 1006 AD, light reached Earth from a stellar explosion in the constellation of the Wolf (Lupus), creating a "guest star" in the sky that appeared brighter than Venus and lasted for over two years.

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Did 'Spore' copy protections backfire on EA?

After years of anticipation, the coming out party for Electronic Arts' new evolution game Spore seems to be getting rained out.

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MS Fired Robert Delaware for Speaking Out on 360 defects

Robert Delaware, was fired from his job at Microsoft this Wednesday for speaking to VentureBeat on defects associated with the Xbox 360.

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Spore's Piracy Problem

How do you measure the failure of the copy protections that software companies place on their media products? In the case of Electronic Arts' highly-anticipated game "Spore," just count the pirates.

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The Best in the Wonderful World of SNES RPGs

sit back, chill with a nice frosty potion, and prepare yourself to experience the world of SNES RPGs.

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EA drops bid to acquire Take-Two

Electronic Arts has abandoned its bid to acquire rival game maker Take-Two Interactive Software, ending a seven-month takeover effort that turned hostile before the two companies entered private talks last month.

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Full Character Roster for Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe

Who joins Batman, Superman, Scorpion, and Sub Zero?

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Guy Gets Tasered Live On Fox News

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