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| China Brings Bullshots To The Olympics [Fake] "Bullshots" are nothing new for gamers. Penny Arcade coined the term a few years to describe game screenshots that looked too good to be true — and are. Photoshopping and CG graphics are nothing new to the game world — hence gamers general suspicion about pretty and shiny thing [..] |
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| Gifted Firestarter: High-Tech Pyrotechnics to Kick Off Olympics Because of Cai Guo-Qiang, the opening ceremonies for the 2008 Olympic Games is not going to be abstract, hard to decipher and boring. It’s actually going to be a blast. Literally.
The New York-based, Chinese-born Cai is an installation artist who revels in using explosives (primarily gunpowder) to create violent displays of pyrotechnics, or, as [...] [..] |
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NBC jumps ship and switches from Silverlight to Flash  In a move stirring up some debate, NBC announced last week that it will stream it’s NFL football games this season using Flash video instead of the much ballyhooed Silverlight it used for the Olympics. The streaming service, marking the first time full-length NFL football games have been available in the US over the Internet, [...]
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| ConnectU Twins End Olympic Run In 6th Place Olympic rowers and Facebook litigants Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have ended their Beijing trip with 6th-place finish. CNET:
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| Fatal1ty: Pro Gamers Are Like Rock N Roll Stars [World Cyber Games] In a breathless Christian Science Monitor article about pro-gaming (no doubt inspired by the proximity of the World Cyber Games to the Olympics), Gloria Goodale breaks the news to their readers that people actually get paid money to play video games competitively. She even warns [..] |
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| Fireworks, Kiddy Yukata And Tom Waits (Oh, And The Olympics Started) [Night Note] To: Crecente From: Ashcraft RE: Covering PAX, Now In Stealth Mode Headed over to the in-laws tonight for dinner. Mini-Bash wanted to wear his new summer yukata. Kinda odd, because he doesn't want to change out of it! (Typically kids find wearing yukatas uncomfortable as they're a tad tight around the wist.) From the in-laws place, we could see the huge fi [..] |
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| Beijing scales back RFID ticket plans Still embedding passport, address and email though
RFID technology won’t feature on every ticket for the forthcoming Beijing Olympics - but those that do have it will contain an embedded chip with the holder’s home address, passport details and email address.
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| Pirate Bay Renamed Beijing Bay Over Olympics Tracking The Pirate Bay, the world’s most notorious and illicit torrent-tracking service allowing millions of users to download copyrighted movies, software, games and other works for free, has tentatively renamed itself The Beijing Bay. The name change was in protest to the International Olympic Committee seeking Sweden’s assistance in stopping the site from tracking footage of [...] [..] |
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| China arrests dissident in pre-Olympics crackdown
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| China won't guarantee Web freedom over Olympics
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| China's Web users top 250m on back of disasters, Olympics
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