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China: 4 Million Youths Addicted to 'Unhealthy' Internet Games

Over 4 million of China's youth are addicted to what the state deems "unhealthy" online games, claims a Chinese lawmaker. The 4 million represent ten percent of Chinese internet users under 18, according to the AFP . The term "unhealthy games" could refer to any number online games including Blizzard's World of Warcraft , which boasts millions of subscribers in China. The same games were called " spiritual opium " by another Chinese lawmaker earlier this year.

Taking Stock: The Gibson-Goldstein Index

All are judged as the week comes to a close. PC Gaming Epic douses the hopes of PC gamers by denying them Gears of War 2 , while Crytek keeps harping that consoles are better for business .

Evening Reading

Having a bit of a connection issue this evening but you ladies need a new chat thread! Hopefully we will be seeing a bit of an active weekend around here as we shipped Breckon out to Seattle for PAX.

Jamie "Jimmy" Smith


Jamie “Jimmy” Smith is a British actor and musician best known for playing Damien Trotter in four episodes of Only Fools and Horses (1993 - 1996) as a child and later as the third and final drummer with Street Light Fortune shortly before the band split in 2007.

Although he wasn’t in the band at the time, he also featured in the film Street Light Fortune: Got No Time (2005) as an audience member. Because of his brief tenure in the band towards the end of it’s existence he never appeared on any of their released records.

Gareth Cain


Gareth born in Scotland, West Lothian Scotland.
Gareth Cain is the Owner of the most popular Free TeamSpeak Hosting Company on the internet.
Gareth first started using the internet when he was 7, He started with nothing and worked his way up. Gareth owns FreeTSHost.co.uk the most popular FreeTSHost on the internet.
Gareth is 16 still in School and works really hard for all the services for FreeTSHost.co.uk.

About FreeTSHost
FreeTSHost.co.uk is a Free TeamSpeak Hosting company been around since 2006 early 07. Provide Free TeamSpeak Servers for Business and Clans.

Finality

Wynnewood (Dallas, Texas)


Wynnewood is one of the main neighborhoods of Oak Cliff, the southern part of Dallas, Texas. Wynnewood covers 820 acres that are bordered, roughly, by the Dallas Area Rapid Transit railway line to the north, Zang Boulevard to the east, Kiest Avenue to the south, and Polk Street to the west.

History

PAX 08 Keynote: Ken Levine and His Nerd Tribes

BioShock creator Ken Levine began his 2008 PAX keynote address with his story of purchasing a Rome: Total War expansion. As he related it, Levine was sitting in his car with the Barbarian Invasion expansion in his hands, reading the back of the box, checking out new features. As he was admiring the game, a "pair of dudes" rolled up next to his car and indicated to roll down the window. Levine obliged, at which point one of the dudes said, "Hey loser, what are you looking at, gay porn?" "And I realize they got this Fabio-looking guy on the cover," said Levine, flashing the box art to crowd laughter.

Chronicling the Failures of DRM - Slashdot

Chronicling the Failures of DRM

Raven-Symoné filmography

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This is Raven-Symoné's filmography.

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Friday Night: Gary Busey Time

It's been a while, but THQ has blessed us with three more Saints Row 2 (PC, PS3, X360) videos featuring the one-and-only Gary Busey. He talks up the game's wieldable props, costumes and flying. [video]12821[/video] Shackvideo users can use the HD Stream .

Katrina, three years on: Clayton Cubitt

Photographer Clayton Cubitt updated his "Operation Eden" blog today to mark the third year since Hurricane Katrina. He grew up in and around New Orleans. That's his mom on the far left. Here was his first post on that blog. She lost their (very modest) family home in the storm, as did many thousands of other moms, many thousands of other families. Clayton's mother is doing okay, but in spite of -- not thanks to -- the systems we're supposed to rely on in America, the systems created to help the helpless in greatest time of need. New Orleans -- and all the other poor communities nearby, all hard hit by Katrina -- never mended. Snip from Clayton's post today: She recently received a creepy pre-recorded phone warning from Governor Haley Barbour telling her to evacuate in the path of Gustav, as if she wasn't planning on it already. That's her on the left in the above picture. Next to her is her childhood friend Russell. Next to him is her sister, my aunt Lorraine, who's self conscious about her down-turned smile since the stroke, but who I think is just as beautiful and beaming as she's always been. The three of them grew up together first on Piety Street, then on McKain Street, in New Orleans. Their dads worked together in the junkyard, chopping up cars for scrap using big hand axes. Russell had nineteen brothers and sisters, in a family poorer even than mine. Now he lives in a FEMA trailer on an abandoned lot with two dogs, a bunch of Katrina junk, a statue of the Virgin Mary he hand painted, and an old school bus backed up to a canal cruised by alligators, which he fishes out of for meals. His sister was murdered in New Orleans last week. The New York Times wrote a piece about the crime in New Orleans, the crime that took Russell's sister. Three Years On (Operation Eden)...

Flames, Freak Flags Fly at Burning Man

: Photo: Kat Wade/Wired.com BLACK ROCK CITY, Nevada -- It's hot in the desert, but not too hot to set something on fire.

News for nerds, stuff that matters - Slashdot

News for nerds, stuff that matters

Penny Arcade Adventures: Episode 2 Screenshots

In commemoration of this week's Penny Arcade Expo, developer Hothead Games has released the first batch of screenshots and a piece of artwork from Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode 2. Left, PC. Right, Xbox 360.

Big Green Island

islands of tasmania


Big Green Island is an island with an area of 122 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Big Green Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait west of Flinders in the Furneaux Group. It is composed of granite with limestone and dolerite outcrops. It is partly a nature reserve with the rest being used for farming.Brothers, Nigel; Pemberton, David; Pryor, Helen; & Halley, Vanessa. (2001). Tasmania’s Offshore Islands: seabirds and other natural features. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery: Hobart. ISBN 0-7246-4816-X

Fauna

Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are Little Penguin, Short-tailed Shearwater, Pacific Gull, Silver Gull, Sooty Oystercatcher, Pied Oystercatcher, Black-faced Cormorant and Caspian Tern. Cape Barren Geese also breed on the island. Reptiles present include the Metallic Skink and Bougainville's Skink. Rats are common.

Ivan Lyakhov


Ivan Lyakhov (Иван Ляхов), died around 1800, was a Russian merchant who explored large sections ot the New Siberian Islands in the 18th century.

Lyakhov began his explorations in the spring 1770 on dogsleds in order to explore the islands off the northern Siberian coast reported by Yakov Permyakov and Merkury Vagin in 1710. In this journey he visited the southern section of the New Siberian Islands. Lyakhov's intentions were mainly commercial, for he hoped to find mammoth ivory. His theory was that both the islands he explored, and which were later named after him Lyakhov Islands, and those he sighted in the distance but was not able to explore, were mainly formed by a substratum of bones and tusks of mammoths.D. Gath Whitley: The Ivory Islands in the Arctic Ocean, Journal of the Philosophical Society of Great Britain XII, 1910

Awesome Fallout 3 Propaganda: Vault Dweller's Survival Guide

Remember those old Fallout manuals? The ones with the taped-over hints and 50s-style dark humor ? The original Vault Dweller's Survival Guide? Bethesda has channeled all of that in the PAX 08 swag hand-out for Fallout 3: a thick, pulpy booklet full of illustrations and informative blurbs.