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  • Relax: President Obama will not flip an Internet kill switch

    Relax: President Obama will not flip an Internet kill switch

    Posted on June 23, 2010 | No Comments
    Part of me wishes President Obama would flip that so-called “Internet kill switch.” Imagine: a world without the Internet! That would be grand, indeed. But let's not indulge in fantasies: there is no such kill switch. Well, there is, but it's not as if the president is going to say, “I disagree with Nicholas' opinion of anti-virus protection, I'm going to shut down CrunchGear.”

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  • President Obama’s policies have pushed the Doomsday Clock back by one minute

    President Obama’s policies have pushed the Doomsday Clock back by one minute

    Posted on January 14, 2010 | No Comments
    Way to go, President Obama! Thanks to your bold and forward-thinking policies, the Doomsday Clock has been moved back by one minute! That means Planet Earth is “one minute” further away from utter destruction! Well, destruction brought about by man himself; an asteroid can still smash into the planet and we'd all be doomed. Or, as we've seen in Haiti this week, some other cataclysm can strike and we'd have zero control over it.

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  • Survey: Boys want to play video games with President Obama, girls with Miley Cyrus

    Survey: Boys want to play video games with President Obama, girls with Miley Cyrus

    Posted on December 10, 2009 | No Comments
    Right now, if I could play a round of Multiplayer Game 2: The Sequel with anyone in the whole world, it'd probably be either Manuel Zelaya or The Situation from Jersey Shore. Zelaya because I'd could ask, “So what's it like to be the first South American leader in a really long time to be illegally ousted in a coup?” Then I'd tell The Situation, “Hey, you're terrific. Let's do 800 sit-ups then pump our fists in the air to the latest episode of A State of Trance.”

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  • Bizarre trailer for Japanese erotic video game features Obama

    Bizarre trailer for Japanese erotic video game features Obama

    Posted on November 4, 2009 | No Comments
    The market for video and computer games featuring erotic content, the so-called eroge, is huge in Japan. As a lot of smaller and independent software companies are battling it out in a highly competitive field, you often come across a lot of bizarre stuff (I've heard). School girl- or tentacle-themed games, for example, are especially popular (although the bulk of the latter are being shipped to a person called Bohn Jiggs who lives in Brooklyn/New York, as my industry contacts told me recently). Another of those strange erotic games, called "My Boyfriend Is the President", hit Japanese stores on October 30. The plot: Aliens brainwash the entire human population into thinking their leaders are in fact cute girls. I'm not sure what the developers were smoking, but I'm sure this game will become as big as the next Final Fantasy.

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  • Ever hate a gadget so much that you destroy it?

    Ever hate a gadget so much that you destroy it?

    Posted on July 30, 2009 | No Comments
    You guys gotta hear this. There's a 78-year-old woman who, for whatever reason, hates the president so much that she has decided to sell her two TVs! (What's more impressive is that the woman even has a working TV post-digital transition.)

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