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| Aug. 21, 1986: Volcanic Lake Explodes, Killing Thousands 1986: A deadly cloud of carbon dioxide sweeps down the slopes of an African volcano, smothering more than 1,700 people.
Volcanoes can kill in many ways, but this one is pretty weird. A volcanic lake in the West African nation of Cameroon degassed violently (you could say it burped, or worse) in the middle of the [...] [..] |
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| Death by Volcano : Photo: Austin Post/USGS
Volcanoes inspire awe and terror because they can kill in so many ways — flowing lava, suffocating ash, flood from a released lake, landslides, mudslides, burning gas, shockwaves, earthquakes and tsunamis. A volcano can kill even when it’s not erupting, as happened at Lake Nyos in 1986.
We start here with three famous [...] [..] |
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| Gothic Team Reveals Risen - More Revealing To Come [Gc08] A violent storm leaves you shipwrecked on a mysterious volcanic island, filled with ancient temple ruins and swarming with bizarre creatures. What do you do? This is the question asked by developer Piranha Bytes in their upcoming RPG project, Risen. Formerly known only as Pro [..] |
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| (Super) Mario (Bros.) Paint [Art] Have you ever just looked at the Super Mario Bros. box art? I mean, really looked at it until it made some sort of sense? Why is Mario leaping over a lake of lava while tossing fireballs at a wall—the same wall, I [..] |
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| Guy Marsden: Electronic Artwork Guy worked on these pieces from 1986 - 2006. Over the course of 20 years he has moved from finding his parts at local shops, to scouring the Internet for interesting pieces. These are some of the most amazing electronic sculptures I have ever seen.
In each piece I attempt to design circuitry that creates nonsensical [...] [..] |
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| 20-year-old Memories of a Life Not Lived [Hot Flashes] Gamers of my generation may remember Activision's Alter Ego, released in 1986. It was a text-and-graphics, choice-based somewhat-precusor to later games like The Sims or Second Life. The game fascinated me, even as a 13-year-old, with the idea of living another life ? and hel [..] |
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| Surprise, Kids Want Games For Christmas [Research] In 1986, I got the original Pirates! for Christmas. It was smiles all round. In fact, I think 9 out of 10 things I asked for that year were C64 games. Twenty-two years on and little has changed, with a survey by Weekly Reader Research finding that 90% of kids aged b [..] |
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| Xbox 360 Goes Arcade, For Reals [Arcade] That's right, the Xbox 360 is going coin-op. Arcade industry newsletter The Stinger Report (via trade site Highwaygames) brings word of the Arcade Station T2. Arcade Station T2 is in the vein of Nintendo's PlayerChoice 10 arcade machine from 1986, by bringing the home exper [..] |
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Why is it so?  Great collection of clips from TV science teacher Julius Sumner Miller “Why is it so?”
Why is it so? - the ground-breaking TV series with the enigmatic Professor Julius Sumner Miller - ran on the ABC from 1963 to 1986. Professor Miller’s infectious enthusiasm for physics delighted, educated and entertained generations of Australians, most of whom [...] [..] |
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| July 23, 1956: Bell X-2 Sets Aircraft Speed Mark 1956: A Bell X-2 rocket plane sets the record for fastest speed by an aircraft, reaching Mach 2.87, or more than 1,900 mph, 60,000 feet above the dry lake bed at Edwards Air Force Base, California.
The X-2 Starbuster, an experimental plane built by Bell Aircraft to test stability and control at supersonic speeds, made its [...] [..] |
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UIQ is dead, so says Sony Ericsson  According to a post from All About Symbian who was blogging live, UIQ was declared dead by Sony Ericsson’s Patrick Olson at the Symbian Smartphone show in London on Tuesday. The blog post reads:
UIQ declared dead by Sony Ericsson’s Patrick Olson. Or rather it didn’t make it. Another oxbow lake in the mobile industry story. [...] [..] |
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