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Get Roaring Drunk With DIY Alcohol Kit
Brainwave Activated Brain Bulb Lights Up Great Ideas
Is England Unprepared For A Zombie Apocalypse?
Sony’s Vita-PS3 Link Might Look A Lot Like Wii U Functionality
Nintendo Wii U Only Supports One WiiPad
Facebook Inbox, Free Speech Targeted By Blatantly Unconstitutional Tennessee Law
Windows 8 Getting Xbox Live Integration
Apple iCloud Not Supporting Windows XP
Three Suspected PSN Hackers Arrested in Spain
HTC ChaCha Facebook Phone Hands On

Posted: 11 Jun 2011 11:52 AM PDT

But how? Packaged yeast, apparently. There’s this kit selling for ten bucks that will turn any boring juice drink to fine alcohol in the span of 48 hours. It might not be Patron, but its close enough if all ya wanna do is par-tay.

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Brainwave Activated Brain Bulb Lights Up Great Ideas

Posted: 11 Jun 2011 11:45 AM PDT

So at a recent Maker Faire Bay Area event this Jeri Ellsworth chick walks in with a bulb in her head. Is she daft? Certainly not. But brilliant, yes. What’s it for? Humor and big ideas. But lets focus on the latter: Ms. Jeri wanted to bring to reality the longstanding tradition of having a bulb go on in someone’s head every time an idea hit them. She wanted it literal and went about the task with aplomb.

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Is England Unprepared For A Zombie Apocalypse?

Posted: 11 Jun 2011 11:34 AM PDT

If the frank admission of the Leicester city government is anything to go by, then the answer is ‘no.’ Anyway, who is?

While the gist of this post is humorous, the evidence of its subject is rock hard and most grave (get it?). A concerned citizen of Leicester, fearful of such a terrifying event, requested to be informed of the exact measures the local gov was prepared to take in case of zombie attack/infection. Thanks to it being a Freedom of Information request, the local gov obliged. According to information governance rep Lynn Wyeth, Leicester can't do much. So that’s a ‘no’ for preparedness.

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Sony’s Vita-PS3 Link Might Look A Lot Like Wii U Functionality

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 05:54 PM PDT

Seems Sony’s gotten “borrowing” down to an art form and is now proceeding to draw inspiration from the Wii U’s seamless switch between a separate portable console-like controller and the TV screen before the console is even out. Or, as it would have us believe, its developers are, as according to Sony, devs who have had the Vita for a while have been playing with similar ideas.

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Nintendo Wii U Only Supports One WiiPad

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 05:27 PM PDT

Well, it’s a good thing Nintendo managed to keep this little tidbit under wraps during E3, or the – um – less than toasty reception the Wii U received might have turned into a full on blizzard. In fact, we’re slightly amazed nobody there thought to ask this earlier and it certainly hadn’t even occurred to us that for all the hype surrounding this controller, the Wii U will only support one.

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Facebook Inbox, Free Speech Targeted By Blatantly Unconstitutional Tennessee Law

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 04:56 PM PDT

At least video games are off the hook in the latest well-meaning, but supremely misguided attempt by American politicians to legislate right over protected speech, or in this case image sharing over the Internet in the state of Tennessee. Offenders who ”transmit or display an image” online that could “frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress” can find themselves at the receiving end of a hefty fine, or even jail time. So, even if the image turns up in a Google search, the poster is responsible and ripe for a lawsuit.

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Windows 8 Getting Xbox Live Integration

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 04:15 PM PDT

For those of you still baffled by Microsoft’s distressing near neglect of its by now embarrassing Games for Windows service, this bit of news may shed some light on the matter. Apparently the plan is to deeply integrate Windows 8 and Xbox Live, similar to the way the service has been integrated in Microsoft’s mobile offering, Windows Phone 7.

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Apple iCloud Not Supporting Windows XP

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 03:54 PM PDT

We strongly suspect all the support Apple has shown the venerable Microsoft OS with iTunes and Mobile Me has mostly been a way of keeping people from buying shiny new copies of Windows 7, but that’s all coming to an end with Apple’s music-streaming iCloud, which won’t be featuring Windows XP support and will need either a Vista or Windows 7 PC to run.

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Three Suspected PSN Hackers Arrested in Spain

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 03:19 PM PDT

Three suspected Anonymous members thought to be involved in the April PSN attack that took down the network for the better part of a month have been taken into custody by Spanish Police. One of the servers used in the attack has also been recovered. The capture in itself is hardly surprising, an operation of this magnitude was bound to mobilize law enforcement agencies, especially with the FBI on the case.

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HTC ChaCha Facebook Phone Hands On

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 01:41 PM PDT

In case you’ve been keeping an eye out for HTC’s Facebook button with a mobile phone attached, the HTC ChaCha, you’ll be happy to know we’ve just received our review unit and have been putting it through its paces. By which we mean pressing that Facebook button. A lot. That and staring confusedly at the G1-style chin that afflicts the surprisingly great hardware keyboard.

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