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  • Video: AMD explains the explosive growth of the Cloud (there’s no stopping it!)

    Video: AMD explains the explosive growth of the Cloud (there’s no stopping it!)

    Posted on June 22, 2010 | No Comments
    From the good folks at AMD comes this, a video explaining the wonders and joys of moving all of our computing… to the Cloud! The soundtrack makes me feel like I’m in the movie Hackers. What a simultaneously great and terrible movie. Call me a cynical old man, but I’ve never been totally “down” with keeping [...]

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  • Man shoots AT&T employee, is killed by off-duty cop

    Man shoots AT&T employee, is killed by off-duty cop

    Posted on May 27, 2010 | No Comments
    A 79-year-old man from Utica, NY entered an AT&T store with a hit list of names and a 357 Magnum. He opened fired, hitting one employee, before an off-duty police officer who was shopping at the store pulled his own gun and shot the attacker dead. The shooter, Abraham Dicken, had held a grudge against the store's employees for months, even threatening them with a gun once before. His hit-list contained the names of six employees.

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  • CrunchGear Week in Review: Satellite Buzz Edition

    CrunchGear Week in Review: Satellite Buzz Edition

    Posted on May 17, 2010 | No Comments
    Here are some stories from last week on CrunchGear: Portal corporate training program a huge success Old Man Laser: Officially over the hill PlayStation Move Controller will cost $60, expected Sept. 1st CubeSat XI-V: Japan gets tweeting satellite DIY: The Microsoft Office car alarm prank

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  • Old Man Laser: Officially over the hill

    Old Man Laser: Officially over the hill

    Posted on May 14, 2010 | No Comments
    Amazingly, the laser is 50 years old today. When it was originally discovered, many scientists felt that the shiny red light didn't have any practical use. Of course now days, lasers are almost everywhere.

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  • Asus claims 100 percent recyclable laptops (that are made of bamboo)

    Asus claims 100 percent recyclable laptops (that are made of bamboo)

    Posted on May 14, 2010 | No Comments
    What do you do with a laptop when you're done with it? That's an actual question being that the only laptop I owned before my current old man MacBook is sitting in the closet, broken beyond repair. Now, if I had one of these new Asus laptops, I could, somehow, recycle them. Helping the Earth, one laptop at a time.

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  • Halo: Reach multi-player beta is really quite fun

    Halo: Reach multi-player beta is really quite fun

    Posted on May 3, 2010 | No Comments
    I spent a few hours last night playing the Halo: Reach multi-player beta. (Microsoft sent out a few early invites to writing-guys like me, but the beta opens to Halo: ODST owners today.) It's been a while since I've played a Halo game for any real amount of time. I dabbled with Halo 3's multi-player for a little while there, but that was two years ago. First impression of the Reach beta: absence makes the heart grow fonder. CrunchGear: your home for old man idioms.

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  • Are video games art?

    Are video games art?

    Posted on April 19, 2010 | No Comments
    I'm hesitant to write this because, really, who cares? And I don't mean that in a negative, cynical way at all, but rather in a practical way. Clearly there are people who enjoy playing video games, just as there are people who enjoy creating video games. Why should these people concern themselves with whether or not Roger Ebert, a 67-year-old man who wouldn't know the difference between World of Warcraft and The Legend of Zelda if you smashed his face in with the blunt end of the Master Sword, “approves” of their pastime or vocation?

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  • Go Computer: Help the aged

    Go Computer: Help the aged

    Posted on February 22, 2010 | No Comments
    As my sainted old father always says “It’s a stinking world because there’s no law and order anymore! It’s a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old, like you done. Oh, it’s no world for an old man any longer. What sort of a world is it at all? Men [...]

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  • I’m a PC and Windows 7 was my idea

    I’m a PC and Windows 7 was my idea

    Posted on February 22, 2010 | No Comments
    See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. I don’t really get a rise out of College Humor stuff but this one was too good to ignore. I especially like the old man yelling “Racism!” near the middle.

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  • Ringo Starr is not good at Rock Band. And?

    Ringo Starr is not good at Rock Band. And?

    Posted on January 15, 2010 | No Comments
    Famous rock star Ringo Star was on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon last night, and he admitted that he's "crap" at Rock Band. This is news only in the loosest sense of the term because the headline should read, "Old man not good at video games."

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  • Give it a Ponder: OK, LG, you win this round

    Give it a Ponder: OK, LG, you win this round

    Posted on December 15, 2009 | No Comments
    LG is trying to get kids to think before they text. Instead of featuring a cartoon frog and his skateboarding friends, they’ve hired James Lipton and his beard to encourage kids to Give It A Ponder before they text. Well played, LG. Well played. The spots feature just about everything you could want in quirky advertising [...]

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  • Hippies need automatic crossbows too

    Hippies need automatic crossbows too

    Posted on December 9, 2009 | No Comments
    When you live out in the country and have little else to do with your time, you need to make stuff. Take this self-cocking, automatic crossbow, for example. Made by a fellow called the Duckman, this sassy old man has some great facial hair and extremely inappropriate facial expressions as he ponderously loads and fires [...]

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  • Sleep deprived? Just watch this Sharp Netwalker unboxing

    Sleep deprived? Just watch this Sharp Netwalker unboxing

    Posted on October 1, 2009 | No Comments
    Next time I need a nice long nap I'm going queue up this video of some Russian dude going through the Sharp NetWalker PC-Z1. This monster video is 30 minutes long and involves such exciting discoveries as "a Youtube Player," "spreadsheet clicking," and "sniffles on camera." This video is truly akin to watching an old man try to fold a an old Chik-Fil-A wrapper on the bus: it's vaguely disturbing but more fascinating in its uncontrolled precision.

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  • Foxconn employee interrogated over lost iPhone prototype, suicide ensues [Update]

    Foxconn employee interrogated over lost iPhone prototype, suicide ensues [Update]

    Posted on July 21, 2009 | No Comments
    So the story goes that a 25-year-old man at Foxconn - where iPhones are born - was to send 16 iPhone prototypes to Apple, but one was lost somewhere. The Foxconn security department then proceeded to illegally search the man's apartment and interrogated him. But that was too much for the man that might be responsible for leaking a prototype of the next iPhone. Update after the jump

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  • PRTMobile.com: The Mobile Web comes to the folks next door

    PRTMobile.com: The Mobile Web comes to the folks next door

    Posted on June 24, 2009 | No Comments
    PRT MobileI was out for my evening constitutional last night, enjoying the sight of "For Sale" signs on homes throughout my neighborhood, when I spied with my little eye something new and novel. I've seen URLs on For Sale signs a couple of times, and always thought that that was a fine way to attract eyeballs to your property. Let's face it: trawling though MLS listings sucks, so going directly to a property's URL is a time saver! What I saw last night, though, was even better: a URL specifically geared for mobile phones. "Mobile users, go to prtmobile.com/1908".

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