September has only just begun and already people are talking about Christmas. Planning committees are being assembled to organise the office Christmas Party, high street retailers are bringing out decorations and online gossip has turned to the hottest gifts for the festive season.
One of the hotly tipped gifts for Christmas 2010 is Amazon’s latest e-reader , better known as the Kindle 3...
Here are some interesting statistics from Social Gold, a virtual currency and payments system for social games and applications.
The company looked at how the most recent holidays, from October last year onwards, impacted virtual goods revenues both during each holiday week and during the holiday itself.
New Years topped both categories, with virtual goods revenues seeing a 50% increase duri...
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This video is a bit dated – since it’s from the 2009 NAMM Show – but good jamming never goes out of style.
The Keith Emerson Band jams on Malambo , From The Beginning & Nutrocker .
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Claire and her mom found this relic of childhood while going through a filing cabinet over Christmas. “Neither of us know what prompted it,” Claire says, “though apparently I was mad enough about something to write her this note, but not mad enough to go to bed without her telling me goodnight. Boy, was I one passive-aggressive 11-year-old!”
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Most of us would agree that the Christmas holiday is a lot more magical and fun when you’re a child. Everyone keeps good memories of that time in childhood, like the moment you meet Santa for the first time. Right? Well, not the kids we see at Sketchy Santas , a website that shows pictures of really creepy Santas.
You may love chocolate or you may love salami, or maybe both..but have you ever tried a chocolate salami? Served as a sweet during the Christmas Holidays in Italy, this sweet treat will knock any chocolate lover into oblivion..with cocoa, butter and rum.. Easy to make and really easy to eat.
Salami di Cioccolata (Chocolate Salami)
copyright, 2009 The Basic Art of Italian Cooking: Holdiays &a...
We apparently missed one release in our Now Playing list for this week: 8-bit Xmas 2009 for the NES . The cart was apparently constructed entirely from new parts and -- aside from incorporating the festive light display you see above -- is actually a fully functional NES game. The best part: you can totally buy it.
RetroZone is selling the cart up until tomorrow for $43 and there's even...
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In just war theory , the concept of “last resort” means that force, violence and other violations of human rights are allowed only after all peaceful and viable alternatives have been seriously tried and exhausted or are clearly not practical, and when force etc. is clearly the only option. In the current “ war on terror “, the use or torture is often justified as a last resort, as t...
CHRISTMAS TIME When you have to see your relatives, no matter how much you dont want to
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Jared Lyon is engaged in an ongoing project to find innovative ways of using falling dominoes. The project is called “Dominoes Everywhere”, and for the Christmas holidays, he performed the “Carol of the Bells” by placing bells at particular intervals between falling dominoes.
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On Christmas Eve
Jeremy Barker of The Ampersand gives us the run-down on saints, demons, and other mythical figures associated with Christmas throughout Western history. Pictured above is “The Lord of Misrule”:
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Well, if not all of us, most of us definitely spent time with our loved ones this Christmas. It’s the same every year, but not for Le Trung, who spent his Christmas with his robot Aiko. The inventor and a science genius shared gifts with Aiko, apart from his mum and dad. His $47,000 fembot was designed and built by hand, which is so lifelike that it can speak fluent English and Japanese and also h...