Killer Whale attacks Sea World trainer again.

Disney representatives refused to make any comments at the same time a big cake with the phrase "Amen to that", arrived to their offices.

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No Mario Galaxy until Christmas 2007? - NOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has said that North American gamers can expect Mario's first Wii adventure, Super Mario Galaxy in shops between the end of March and next Christmas, in an interview with MTV.com.

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The Onions Settles the PS3 vs Wii Battle made easy

No more mumbo jumbo and BS, here are the FACTS and are indisputable.

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Namco Bandai's Takasu Says PS3 Game Titles Must Sell 500,000!!!!!

Namco Bandai Holdings Inc., Japan's second-biggest maker of video-game software, must sell at least half a million copies of a game for Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 console to make money on the title, said President Takeo Takasu.

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Get the HDTV You Want -- At the Price You Want

If the biggest decision you had to make the last time you bought a TV set was between one with a built in VHS player or one without, you're in for a treat.

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Think video game jobs are all fun? Think again

Think a job in the video game business will involve shooting monsters and taking on virtual missions all day, every day? Think again.

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Dual Control R/C Car

The purpose of this project was to take a traditional remote controlled car and create our own control mechanisms. To control the car, we used a dual-axis accelerometer and LEDs (light emitting diodes) configured as photo-detectors.

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Your TIMEX watch is a piece of ...

Take a look to these watches and see why Japan is way ahead of us.

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Make Christmas Light controller in 5 minutes!

I’ve been rolling around the neighborhood this late November and some people already have their Christmas lights decorated. Well I
’ve seen many “static” Christmas lights that always stay on. Today, I will show you how you can customize your Christmas lights by using a PLC, a Programmable Logic Controller.

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Full-screen scrolling teleprompter

I needed a teleprompter to help me make better looking videos for my website on woodblock printmaking, so I built this one, using nothing but a few pieces of scrap wood and glass, and only free software.

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Games assault self-control

YOUNG people who play violent video games show increased activity in areas of the brain linked to emotional arousal and decreased responses in regions that govern self-control, a new study has found.

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Solve linear programming problems on-line

PHPSimplex is an online tool to resolve linear programming problems. It can be used free.

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NetBSD Live! CD 2007 available

NetBSD doesn't have an official Live CD as part of the project, but there are several ones from 3rd parties. J
örg Braun from the german publisher "Computer und Literaturverlag" (C&L) has previously made a NetBSD Live! CD which was available via the C&L FreeX magazine.

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NASA: Back to the Future

Every time a space shuttle launch is impending, I like to regale friends with the story of NASA
’s hunt for the high-tech computer components — nowadays found only on eBay — that make sure the shuttle doesn’t turn into a flying funeral pyre for the astronauts on board.

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The KOffice Project - KOffice 1.6.1 Release Announcement

November 29, 2006 (The INTERNET). The KDE Project today announced the release of KOffice version 1.6.1, the first bugfix version of KOffice 1.6.

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Linux-based wrist PC goes to military expo

The Zypad WL 1000 is based on a Raza Microelectronics 32-bit MIPS-based AU 1100 processor (formerly offered by AMD) clocked at 400MHz. It has 64MB each of RAM and flash ROM, with expansion available through an SD card slot.

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Police track reckless driver on YouTube

Police took up pursuit in cyberspace after a young Norwegian posted on the Internet video of his wild car driving. Following an electronic trail that he left online, police caught him and slapped him with real-life fine $1,300.

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Video Game Violence Goes Straight to Kids' Heads

A study of adolescents finds that violent video games stir up the brain's emotional-response center while reducing activity in regions linked to self-control.

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Music Syncronized Christmas Lights

The basic Idea was to have Christmas lights flash with the music. In my design I use an ordinary amplified computer speaker, a diode bridge, and a 'CRYDOM' SSR (Solid State Relay).

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Quick and dirty Samba setup

Here's how you can set up a simple Samba server on Slackware for SOHO use.

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Something in Space will suck us all

A huge volume of space that includes the Milky Way and superclusters of galaxies is flowing towards a largely unseen mass called the Great Attractor

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Brazilian president receives first version of US$100 (€76) laptop

SAO PAULO, Brazil: President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday received a version of a US$100 (
€76) laptop to be distributed nationwide, and 50 were expected to be tested in Brazilian schools beginning next week.

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Build A Roomba Bluetooth Adapter

If you liked the serial port cable/board Roomba how to, you
’ll really like this one - controlling a Roomba via Bluetooth! Roomba’s have a serial port that let you entirely control them.

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Steven Colbert shows off his Mii, defeats Pelosi

During the Colbert Report last night, Steven Colbert listed the Wii as the number one threat this holiday season. Why? Because he is horribly addicted to it.

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Developers are playing waiting game with PS3, says GDC organiser

GDC boss Jamil Moledina has told GamesIndustry.biz that many studios are holding back on starting PlayStation 3 projects due to the challenges of developing for Sony's new console.

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Very cheap PC developed by Chinese firm

A Chinese technology company has developed a low cost computer that will be priced under R1 500 and fitted with a home-grown microprocessor.

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Breaking Physical Security

we are going to discuss just a few of the tricks that attackers (and penetration testers) have up their sleeve when attempting to bypass physical security features. As you will learn, protecting your computer resources takes more than a firewall, IDS, and anti-virus solution.

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Hack the Wiimote with candles.

TheFeed loves two things: Videogames and aromatherapy. That's why we were psyched that plucky hackers were able to combine our two loves in such a pleasing manner. I'm talking about the Wii-candle-hack.

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Rest in pieces Iraqui-sniper

3/8 Kilo US Marines launch 203 grenade rounds on to a roof to kill a sniper. The man who filmed it says that when they checked the roof, the sniper was in several pieces.

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What an ambushed humvee looks like

well, what we have here is an ambushed humvee. notices how some are entrance holes and others are exit holes?...mostly exit holes

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Geronimoooooo!!!!!, BASE jump compilation.

BASE jumping with more snazzy music!

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Panda porn pays off

Scientists say a bid to encourage giant pandas to breed by showing them 'panda porn' has paid off.

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Vida Guerra original FHM shoot

Gentlemen, grab your bibs.

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PlayStation 3, Wii prices falling online

The recently-launched PlayStation 3 and Wii game consoles remain popular on Internet auction sites, but the price they are fetching is falling as launch-related hype dies down.

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AvrX: The open source synthesizer

Over a year has passed since we published the first version of this site, and the kit is still not available. We have realized that we don't have the time to manage a kit. Instead we decided to release all sourcecode and information about AvrX as open source.

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Nomad Autonomous Buggy

At present I've now totally assembled Nomad and all the hardware works however it has no software glue to actually make it useful - I've managed to put this together in 1 week so its very messy and I've cut so many corners its embarassing. So please take this project as an example of what is actually achievable with a gumstix and waysmall board usi

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NASA on track to outsource: India mulls unmanned mission to Mars by 2013

Indian space scientists plan to send an unmanned mission to Mars by 2013 to look for evidence of life, a news report said.

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'Zelda: Twilight Princess' Enough Reason to Buy a Wii

Nintendo learned this lesson a long time ago, and as such, the company has a proud tradition of rolling out its two flagship franchises alongside every new system.

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Wii takes the early lead from the PS3 but Xbox 360 still rules sup

Early reports online tell us that the Wii is hitting high marks with consumers who have managed to snap one up on launch day and soon after. With four times as many consoles on sale at launch, the Wii may well have sold out, but there are, according to NexGenWars, over 563,000 Wii’s out there to the PS3’s 317,000 consoles sold.

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Shift to finer, larger TVs favors LCD over plasma

Plasma TV suppliers such as Panasonic maker Matsushita Electric , already outnumbered by the rival LCD camp, are expected to lose further ground as LCD TVs encroach on the 40-inch-class market, a plasma stronghold.

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Read who will rule the game console wars the next year

Next month Sony's PlayStation 3 will launch with only two games which will get an average review score of 90% or better. On the other hand, Nintendo's Wii will have three games which will average scores of 90% or better.

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Nissan plans to sell electric cars in 3 yrs

Nissan Motor Co. plans to develop and start selling subcompact electric cars powered by self-developed lithium-ion batteries in about three years, the Nihon Keizai (Nikkei) business daily reported on Sunday.

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Wii Skins

To show our love for the Wii, we developed exceptional Wii skins, with maximum coverage and a precision fit to avoid huge gaps between panels.

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See Sony, nobody cares for the PS3 proof #15221

Pre-ordered in January 2006, to just beat the crap out of it.

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Web sales down on Black Friday

EBay was the online winner this "Black Friday," data published on Saturday showed, but overall Internet traffic growth was well below last year's even as bargain hunters tracked down sought-after toys and electronics on the Web before "Cyber Monday."

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Great Chance to Spot Planet Mercury

If there ever was a planet that has gotten an unfair reputation for its inability to be readily observed it would have to be Mercury, known in some circles as the "elusive planet."

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Space Food: From Squeeze Tubes To Celebrity Chefs

Astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria didn't need to request any special foods be launched to the International Space Station for this Thanksgiving: He had everything he needed on his regular menu to prepare the typical American holiday meal.

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Store the energy you generate

The Matrix was right, you are battery, now find the way to store the energy you generate.

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Xbox controller PC mod

The X-Box controller will actually work on a PC system with very little modification. ok, the plugs look different, but in its heart, its a PC controller.

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Got your heart broken?, put it back with this video

A version of Wild Thing you haven't heard before.

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2OO MPH Nitro RC Car

You cannot even tell what it is.

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Wii Makes #7 On Gadgets For Women List

The end of the year uber-cool lists that praise Nintendo Wii continue. This time it's a list of tep ten gadgets to give to women this holiday season.

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Is PS3 shortage an opportunity for Wii?

By all accounts getting your hands on a PS3 in North America has been quite difficult, and here
’s the reason why. While Sony orginally planned to ship 300,000 to 400,000 PS3s during the launch weekend, according to statements by American Technology Research, Sony actually shipped somewhere between 125,000 and 175,000 units.

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PS3 Sells for $9.99 on eBay

If you
’re planning to make lots of money by hawking your launch-day PS3 on eBay, please please make sure that you know how to use eBay. Some poor sucker (who obviously spent a lot of time out in the cold to get it), accidentally just sold his brand-new, unopened PS3 for the grand total of $9.99 + $50.00 S&H. This year’s “Worst Use of the ‘Buy It No

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Bush + Hitler = ???

As seen on the streets of Cuba.

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Creating widgets for the Nintendo WII

Creating an Opera Widget is quick and painless. This tutorial will take you through all the steps in making your first widget.

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Don't sell memory sticks, thumbdrives or alike without using this

HDDScan is a freeware program for low-level HDD diagnostics, it supports IDE/SATA/SCSI hard disk drives, RAID arrays, external USB/Firewire hard disks, flash cards.

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Windows Desktop Search: Advanced Query Reference

The following tables describe the syntax to use with Windows Desktop Search, as well as the properties that can be queried for each category of file displayed in the Desktop Search results window.

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Laser eye ops could ruin sight

Concern has been raised about the long-term effects of laser eye surgery after a new study has shown that tens of thousands of Kiwis are likely to suffer defective vision from the surgery in their later years.

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Don't know what to buy for this X-Mas?, try made-in-prison products.

Internet shopping knows no boundaries, not even for products made behind bars. Maryland Correctional Enterprises, the manufacturing division of the state Division of Correction, has put its 182-page catalog online.

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Gooooooooaallll Screaming Banned at Soccer World Cup

It's no ordinary World Cup: the soccer ball sounds like the clatter of a rattlesnake's tail, fans are barred from cheering too loudly and the sidelines are clear plastic walls meant to keep the players in-bounds.

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Zelda may be aging, but Wii is happenin'

The Zelda series it continues is storied, running almost 20 years and spanning 12 games. Creator Shigeru Miyamoto famously based his dungeon-exploring fairy tale on caves he visited during his childhood, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife, Zelda, served as inspiration for the princess at the centre of the game because he thought her name sounded "pleas

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HOT!! Dead or Alive DOA: Helena vs Christie Fight Scene

Sexy CAT FIGHT!!!!!!

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Scissor Sisters~I Don't Feel Like Dancing

Scissor Sisters~I Don't Feel Like Dancing, enjoy.

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French movie producer sues Google

French movie studio alleges that world's top search engine distributed its film online for free.

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Flying Through Mountain

Some pilots know how to have some thrills.

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Post it note animation

Stop motion animation with everyday items.

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French movie producer sues Google

French movie studio alleges that world's top search engine distributed its film online for free.

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PlayStation 3 profiteers may score less online

Nashville resident Blake Sullivan, 19, who waited overnight last week at the Target on Old Hickory Boulevard to buy one of the prized units for between $500 and $600, now says he's decided to delay reselling it because prices on eBay have dipped to around $1,300.

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Gaming Digg

It seems like everyone is out to game Digg nowadays. They have realized the power in garnering traffic from the popular top news story site, and are now on a mission to get on the front page as fast as they can.

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Free Solaris 10 and Sun Studio Software Media Kit

For a limited time, Sun is offering a free DVD media kit which includes the Solaris 10 Operating System for both SPARC and x86 platforms as well as Sun Studio 11 software.

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Nintendo's Wii game console sells out of U.S. stores

Nintendo Co.'s Wii game console sold out in some U.S. stores as shoppers snapped up limited supplies in today's kickoff to the holiday shopping season.

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Firefox 2 Browser Struck by Password Flaw

Mozilla's Firefox 2.0 has long been considered a safer Web browser than Microsoft's Internet Explorer, but a new flaw in the Firefox Password Manager, which lets users store usernames and passwords for trusted Web sites, could let hackers steal their login data.

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Can't Wii all just get along? (and a testy TSA tale)

100% Fun. That's right, it's IT Blogwatch, in which the Wii game console stokes amazement ... and resentment. And rubber bands join the parade of banned items at one TSA checkpoint ...

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DIY TV Signal Amplifier

It is connected between the antenna and the input of your receiver and boosts the signals by up to 20 dB, thus making it possible to receive even the weakest signals

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DIY Casio data logger

Now you can interface your Casio to the outside world! Get lots of data from any kind of sensor, store it in Casio memory, graph it on the built in display in real time or apply any math function you like. Do it anywhere, the unit works on batteries. Sophisticated processing, as regression or statistical analysis, are only a keystroke away.

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Backstabing made easy: meet the nanoknife

U.S. scientists say they have designed a carbon nanotube knife that, at least in theory, would work like a tight-wire cheese slicer.

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First Look: Asus Striker Extreme

With the announcement of the Republic Of Gamers product line, Asus has been making some changes to its enthusiast line of motherboards in recent months. The first in Asus
’ new line was the Crosshair, based on NVIDIA’s nForce 590 SLI chipset for socket AM2 Athlon 64 processors

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USB mice and laptops

I have recently noticed that my friends were impressed when I plugged in a usb mouse into my Linux laptop that was already running X11. The mouse just works and I don't need to restart the X-server. For me this was normal but I must admit that I have never seen a linux distribution until today where this is the default behavior. So here is the solu

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DIY Media Center extender

...or extension is more appropriate I guess, since there’s no active component in our über-budget solution.

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Ban on MP3 transmitters is lifted

Ofcom is legalising the use of FM transmitters that allow iPods and other MP3 players to play through car radios.

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What would you do with 50 iMacs

In the fall of 2006, there were a bunch of Imacs in the old girl's locker room of the middle school. Nobody wanted anything to do with them, and since there were enough of them, it seemed like there might be something interesting we could do with them in the Build Repair class. Enough kids were interested in trying it out that we turned it into an

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Zelda wins Wii players but critics query future demand

The rush to get hold of Nintendo's new Wii video game console is being fueled by demand for another attraction -- the new game in Nintendo's legend of Zelda series -- but game critics were uncertain this level of interest would continue.

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Linux Command Line Hacks

Follow this Trailfire and become the Linux master you always wanted to be.

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Nintendo Wii-remote Dissection

Since we're sensitive peeps, we decided instead to cut straight to the real heart and sole of the Wii: the Wiimote.

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Idaho Zamboni drivers fired after trip to fast-food drive-thru - USATODAY.c

Two employees of the city's ice skating rink have been fired for making a midnight fast-food run in a pair of Zambonis.

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Martians to Earthlings: No FREE HBO, we shut your probe down

ars Global Surveyor, the hardy ship that has orbited Mars since 1997, has not been heard from in two weeks, and as Michael Meyer, NASA's lead Mars scientist, put it, "We may have lost a dear old friend and teacher."

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Everything You Need for 'Black Friday'

Regardless of those facts, millions will be still head to shopping malls and national and local retailers Friday; with that in mind ABCNEWS.com went to the Black Friday experts over at Consumerist.com to get some tips and tricks to give you an edge in Friday's all-out shopping warfare.

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A beginners guide to time-lapse photography.

Time-lapse photography is a method where you take pictures of processes that goes very slowly with relatively long time interval, and then join the photographs to a movie so that jou can see the progress in very fast forward.

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Linux on board: Linux powers Nokia 770

The Linux
®-based Nokia 770 Internet tablet is an intriguing gadget for Linux enthusiasts. Though it lacks most of the personal information manager (PIM) apps one would expect from a palmtop-sized device, recent advances in its development environment make it a toybox for hobbyists and professional embedded developers alike.

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7 Google Reader Tips and Tricks

I switched from Bloglines to Google Reader a few weeks ago, and my life has forever changed for the better. Here
’s the list of tips and tricks from what I’ve discovered so far.

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Star Trek LCARS controls for the Microsoft.NET framework

Today, in several Star Trek related websites we can see the look & feel of the ship's computers, named LCARS (Library Computer Access and Retrieval System). But in all of them the interfaces were developed in flash or HTML. Searching on the internet I can't find components for another platforms.

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Make the open-source Nokia 770 Internet tablet do anything

Because the device has an open-source operating system, anyone can build new programs for it, endowing it with nearly endless functions (we’ve nicknamed it the HackBerry).

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5 Laptops You Can’t Buy

Our editors have compiled a list of five laptops you can
’t buy — or at least anytime soon. If we happened to miss any, please leave us a comment. “Continue reading” for the entire list.

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Macgyver Phone Charging device

Every once in a while you get the problem of your cell phone running out of batteries just when you haven't got a charger at hand.

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DIY Cipher Device with CDs

This is how to make a homemade Cipher Device for fun by recycling used or damaged cds. I did this fast but you can get more creative and make it a bit more complex or even more durable using stickers and other materials found at home.

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Console Wars II : Does the Xbox 360 need to do an about-face?.

No longer sitting pretty as the only Next-gen gaming console, Microsoft has its work cut out to continue a strong market share in the cut-throat gaming arena. Will its focus on integration of the online space be enough to keep Sony’s PS3 and the Nintendo Wii from encroaching?

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PS3 vs. Wii: Nintendo comes out ahead in our eyes

And no matter how much power is under a console's hood, it's the games that will determine the success for each console, and right now, Nintendo has the edge.

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DIY 3d Dinosaur Birthday Cake

Two nine-inch round cakes, frosting, decorations, and an unquenchable thirst for adventure are all you need.

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Wii Exposed: Wiinternals, Wii-motes, and a Teardown Wiideo

Nintendo is billing the Wii, their entry into the latest round of next-generation video game console wars, as something different. Sporting a low price and a completely different kind of controller, it is different on the outside.

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Night Rider mod for your bike

To see and be seen after dark on his bicycle, Bill designed this 40-LED light. He configured a 555 timer IC to generate a continuous on/off timing cycle to alternately flash two groups of 20 LEDs.

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Easy video creation using only FOSS software

While digital video editing today is an affordable, popular activity for both the computer hobbyist and amateur cinematographer, many people seem to think that video creation under Linux is either impossible or too difficult for the average computer user.

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Peripheral Power control with screen saver

After thinking about my power problem for a while, I decided to try and rig something up to turn on and off a bank of power sockets triggered by the screen saver

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How to get a PS3 before X-Mas

I was browsing e-bay for a couple of minutes and found that many PS3 are not getting more than $1500, and MANY of them are going cold turkey like the auction of this optimistic fellow:

Fact #1678231312: People are not buying the PS3 for the games dufus

Other examples are:

$2500 for a PS3?, that's so 11-16-2006

The only thing you had in hand was your money and now is gone.

So, if you are still under the PS3 spell, here is the tip to get a PS3: hit the returns desk at your major retail chain and "camp", it sounds totally far fetched but so does believing that SONY does the best for their costumers. I'd bet some PS3 "investors" will call it even getting their money back.

Let's face it, most of the people that got the PS3 are not gamers, like the girl that was in a PS3 camping line "just for the thrill", keep aiming for that pole at the nude bar hon. Their so called "investment" is damned to be marginal, no HDTV set for you I'd say.

Finally, PS3 "investors" will realize that the only winners of this whole debacle were Ebay and it's sister company Paypal. PS3 "investors" gave them most of their 5 days camping-barely-eating-pissing-in-a-bottle days in charges for posting auctions, final sales cuts and money transactions with credit cards, lovely huh?.

And that's how capitalism works!!!.

For SONY as always:

Right here guys, you couldn't develop a better controller, you couldn't get a plan to reach your true fans and you are still hiding behind your wives skirts in shame.

Bonlebon

PS3: better than a toaster?

For serious gamers this holiday season, there is really only one question: whether to buy a PS3 or a toaster.

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"PS3 looks like a vacuum cleaner"

CNN reviews the PS3 and the WII. See who really gets the attention and hear the run out of the mill comment you have heard about the PS3 one more time.

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PS3 Fans: "Wii are a bunch of idiots"

More than a thousand fans lined up in Times Square for the Sunday launch of Nintendo's entry into the holiday season's field of competing video game consoles, the cheap but innovative Wii. Despite the throngs, the midnight launch event went smoothly: No shootings, no riots and no stampedes.

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Chinese students trampled to death

Six students were trampled to death at a middle school in eastern China and 39 were injured when a sudden panic caused them to swarm into a staircase, state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday.

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Greed as a murdering motive

A woman accused of helping her husband and several accomplices kill a wealthy couple for their yacht was found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder Friday.

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More Buddhists killed in Thailand's Muslim south

Suspected Muslim militants shot dead a Buddhist man in Thailand's restive south on Sunday in another apparent response by separatists to Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont's peace visit last week.

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Diy desktop microphone stand

Quick and dirty desktop microphone stand from a metal clothes hanger. Just take a metal hanger, bend it in half a little, then bend the hook down and adjust as necessary. It's pretty stable, being what it is.

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Create a Killer Black and White Photo Using Photoshop Elements 5

The process of turning a color photo into a beautiful black and white has been revolutionized with the introduction of Photoshop Elements 5. Matt Kloskowski shows you how to use Elements to create killer black and white photos through two short video tutorials.

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Bottle Rocket Pistol

There are plenty of bottle rocket plans out there, but I hadn't seen anyone use a quick release coupler as a launch mechanism before.

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Baby toy controlling my Christmas lights.

A contraption that will make X-mas rock!!!

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Getting started with AVR microprocessor

In this instructable, find out how to build up a complete AVR microprocessor toolchain: compiler, programmer software, programmer hardware, and some simple demos to get your feet wet.

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How to fold a foldable map

Don't we all sometimes have problems folding back some of those big maps. You know the ones you have to fold like 5 times... If you are going on a trip somewhere, you can make your own map. Print it on a paper and fold it like a pro :-)

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'Idiots' destroyed PS3 for the thrill

Ben Lovatt and Victor Moukhortov waited in line for two days to buy a new PlayStation 3 only to take it to Dundas Square and smash it to bits with a sledgehammer. See SONY, nobody give s sh*t about the PS3, is all about the Benjamins.

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Adam Sessler on the PS3: Adam proves himself as an utter idiot

"It can't be a marketing ploy because Sony has been losing money hand over fist," said Adam Sessler, host of G4's Xplay. "They're trying to get out as many as they can.". Yes Adam, SONY is not pulling a viral marketing campaign NOT!!!

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122 Reasons Not To Buy A PS3

Not that you need this many, but someone put together a list and I thought I
’d post it. Based on the internet buzz the PS3 seems to be setup for a eventual failure. Not to mention the insanity with the limited amount of actual units available. Here’s just some of the internet backlash.

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Holland to Muslims: get in line or get the f**k out of the country

The Dutch government agreed on Friday a total ban on the wearing of burqas and other Muslim face veils in public, justifying the move on security grounds.

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Nintendo: New console is for the masses

Nintendo's strategy is radically different. Its console costs $250 and doesn't boast the computing muscle of the PlayStation, but comes with a controller that the company says will revolutionize game play.

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Universal Music sues MySpace.com for copyright infringement

Universal Music Group on Friday sued MySpace.com, claiming the online social-networking hub illegally encourages its users to share music and music videos on the site without permission.

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PS3 launches violent acts in US

Perhaps US gamers have learnt too many lessons from violent console games as a shooting, theft, violence and police action mark the launch of the PS3 console in the US.

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PS3 launches violent acts in US

Perhaps US gamers have learnt too many lessons from violent console games as a shooting, theft, violence and police action mark the launch of the PS3 console in the US.

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All about next generation price gouging

andisk piggybacks on the launch of Nintendo's Wii and said that will be offering a "special edition" SD memory card when the game console launches this weekend.

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OpenOffice.org Calc adds support for Excel VBA

As an Excel user, you may have looked at OpenOffice.org and found that it doesn't support Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), the Microsoft Office macro language. If you've spent years building hundreds of Excel macros, the fear of losing them all could keep you locked in to Office. If so, it's time to look again; Novell has taken OpenOffice.org's

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Emulating Bart Simpson: 98-Year-Old Woman Graduates High School

Graduation time is a special day for any student who worked hard to get their diploma, and for one student, it's a really, really big deal. That's because she's 98 years old. Josephine Belasco is getting her diploma from Galileo High School in San Francisco tomorrow.

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Presidential Oddities.

Bill Clinton was eight years old when he was beaten up by a sheep. That was the day, according to his autobiography, that he learned that he could take a hard hit.

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Apple Changes APSL License to screw you

In an attempt to out-maneuver OSx86 kernel hackers, Apple has changed their APSL open-source license. Semthex, who has worked on a few of the more popular hacked kernels himself, found this passage in their new license:

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Xbox 360 survives multi-roll car crash, keeps churning

. Reportedly, an Xbox 360 owner was rammed in a hit and run style accident, where his Chevrolet S-10 "rolled over three or four times," launching the helpless console and a bevy of accessories onto the freeway. While the fellow (thankfully) survived the ordeal with little more than a "bruised elbow," his beloved console suffered quite a beating; th

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The Ps3 stampede-upity

The mania over the new Playstation 3 video game system turns dangerous in Wisconsin.

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Try to get a PS3 and get shot in the process

Two armed thugs tried to rob a line of people waiting to buy the new PlayStation 3 gaming console early Friday and shot one who refused to give up the money, authorities said.

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Gunmen Rob Local Game Store For PS3s

Police are trying to track down two gunmen wanted for robbing an Elk Grove game store and stealing their complete supply of PlayStation 3s.

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Five Zune Secrets You Need to Know

You've been Zuned! Congratulations. In this article, I'll share a handful of tips for your new digital media player that can save you time, effort, and money. These five handy techniques are a taste of the information you'll find in "Eight Great Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Zune,"

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Celebrity Deathmatch - Madonna x Michael Jackson

Jacko and the bitch have a fight.

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3D animation + music = Animusic

The best use for a 3d graphics physics engine.

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Image Compressor

As a Web developer, it's likely that images will play a part in your layouts. For some developers, all that's needed is a simple way of getting images ready for the Web without any major corrections. If that's the case, have a look at Image Compressor.

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Game makers say Wii a bargain

In the unfolding video game war, underdog Nintendo has lined up powerful allies -- game makers, who like the new Wii's unconventional features and game development costs that run about half what's required for Microsoft and Sony's new consoles.

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Santana wins his second Cy Young Award

Minnesota Twins left-hander Johan Santana won his second Cy Young Award as top pitcher in the American League (AL) on Thursday by a unanimous vote of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.

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Random acts of kindness for the PS3 line folk, Or how SONY gives U "nada"

Saw about a dozen fanboys and one nice grandma huddled under plastic tarps and tents to keep themselves out of the freezing rain. So I drove across the parking lot to Tim Horton's and brought them all back hot chocolate.

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You have been here

My World66 is the page where you can find and experiment with some of the projects we are working on. Select in the table below the countries you've visited and produce a map of the world with those countries in red. You can even put the map on your website or blog by simply pasting the code you'll get!

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How I did deep frying with my computer, literally!

I soon became hungry for a fried snack - and since I had used all the oil in the house I couldn't fry myself anything. Then I had a brilliant idea. Why not use the oil that the computer's in?

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Hacking Microsoft Xbox 360 - DVD Drive Firmware, the easy way

Remember a while back when we reported on the Xbox-360 DVD Drive mod chips that were availiable? Well now theres an easier cheaper method to get your x-box 360 to play burned games

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me.dium coming for the kill in the web 2.0 world

Me.dium is a Firefox extension (soon to be IE7 Add-on and even more in the future) that let
’s you visualize the world a little more. You can see your friends browsing, all with relevance letting you know who is doing similar things, and letting you chat with those people.

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I Is for Infidel--From Holy War to Holy Terror: 18 Years in Afghanistan

And the best of the war on terror is yet to come.

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Get top-quality scans from your scanner with Lprof

The key to getting first-rate image output on any operating system is setting up a good workflow. One piece of the workflow puzzle that used to be out of reach for Linux users is device profiling -- accurately measuring hardware devices like scanners and monitors to account for their differing capabilities. But a relatively young open source applic

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Monitor your Linux computer with machine-generated music

Use open source FluidSynth and Perl to create simple tonal compositions representing the status of various parameters in your Linux computer

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Hitler Historical Museum

The Hitler Historical Museum is a non-biased, non-profit museum devoted to the study and preservation of the world history related to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist Party.

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Google Sponsors the LinuxBIOS project

The LinuxBIOS project aims to take down the last barrier in Open Source systems by providing a free firmware (BIOS) implementation. LinuxBIOS celebrates its Sixth anniversary this year, and has an installed base of over 1 million LinuxBIOS systems. With the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, that number is expected to exceed 10 million users in 2

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Build a Web spider on Linux

This article shows you how to build spiders and scrapers for Linux
® to crawl a Web site and gather information, stock data, in this case

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Mozilla Claims Early Win in Browser Phishfight

A new study sanctioned by Mozilla declares Firefox 2 as a big winner over Microsoft's IE 7 in the battle to block ID theft scam sites, but weaknesses in both browsers confirm that the battle against phishing has only just begun.

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Escape from sticky situations with the invisible sphere

Artist attempts to build an invisible sphere. 215 monitors are placed directly opposite 215 cameras, allowing the viewer to peer directly through a eight hundred pound mass of steel, glass and electronics.

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Which Is Safer: Internet Explorer 7 or Firefox 2.0? - Yahoo! New

On the Wild Wild Web, where scams, fraud, and identity theft are commonplace, which browser protects you more effectively? Is it Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 or Mozilla's Firefox 2.0?

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Intro of Time Scheduler and Regulator modes

SerReg is a small home controller intended to turn your personal computer ( PC ) into a process control / data collection system. With the appropriate sensors SerReg can monitor physical variables such as pressure, temperature, light intensity, weight, movement etc, process the information and then use the result to control up to three physical dev

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Firefox 2.0 hacks

You might learn one thing or tw0_o.

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TechCentric episode 5 is out

You see, your favorite IPTV show, TechCentric, released episode 5 on this glorious day. So ready the torrent trackers, recompile the file grabbers, and do whatever else it is you do, and watch the episode.

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How to write Greasemonkey scripts

Greasemonkey is a Mozilla Firefox extension that allows users to install scripts that make on-the-fly changes to specific web pages. Greasemonkey can be used for adding new functionality to pages.

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OpenBSD encrypted fileserver HOWTO

In this document I will try to explain what it takes to get an encrypted fileserver with a webbased bittorrent-interface as mentioned here

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Hubble photo gallery

See what the world will miss if the Hubble goes out of service.

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T-Shirt Turns Air Guitar Into Music

Scientists announced Monday that they have developed a high-tech T-shirt that turns the strumming of an air guitar into music.

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Sony PS3 has problems running some PS, PS2 games

Sony said on Tuesday its new video game console, the PlayStation 3, does not run some PlayStation and PlayStation 2 software titles properly, the latest problem the electronics maker has encountered in its cash cow game business.

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NASA Loses Contact With Mars Global Surveyor

NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft has failed to check in with Earth for the fifth straight day in a row, after losing contact during a routine adjustment of its solar array.

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RoboDump The never ending noisy bowels robot

RoboDump is a robot. Sort of. And it poops. Sort of. Forever. A horrible, never-ending bowel movement complete with straining grunts, horrific gas, splashes, and pee sounds.

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Changes in Congress May Mean More Oversight, New Challenges for NASA

As Democrats take charge of the U.S. Congress for the first time in more than a decade, NASA and its reinvigorated space exploration agenda will face new challenges.

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Blogging made easy with Drivel

Most bloggers use a browser to log in and post new entries. The Drivel Journal Editor is designed for those who consider using a browser too tedious when making new blog entries. Designed for GNOME, Drivel can work with Blogger, LiveJournal, MovableType, WordPress, and other popular journaling tools.

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Why girls shouldn't do base jumping

There are plenty of stuff to jump from or to but Building, Antennae, Span or Earth

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Reason #1 to buy Bottled Water: Hackers break into water system network

Pennsylvania breach occurred via compromised laptop

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Computer Security Touches Even Most Trusted Workers

Some companies eye new hires or part-time employees as potential tech security threats.

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Babes With Books -- Pictures of sexy girls reading and studying. Smart girl

Nothing but pictures of attractive literate females.

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Police car hit head on by van

The guy just misses the cop.

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How To Make A Duct Tape Belt

This will instruct you on creating a duct tape belt, going hand in hand with How to Make An Altoid Can Belt Buckle.

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Serial Controlled Variable Speed Motor

Control the speed of a small DC motor with nothing but the serial port on your computer, a single MOSFET, and some trivial software.

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Political/Celebrity Impressions

Have a blast with this guy making impressions of your beloved politicians/celebrities.

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For this Thanksgiving: a giant fractal pecan pie

Distract the attention from dealing with the drunken relative, the family arguments and the odd comments, the fractal pie comes to the rescue. By the time every one understands what a fractal pie is, it will be time to head back home :).

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DIY Undercover Laptop Case

Diverting the attention of your valuable possession with materials you've got at home. Or how to identify potential victims.

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Gasmask Collection

The required gadget for you to survive gas passing roommates.

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Caller ID Security: Hacking like Paris Hilton

In this section we are going to look at caller ID security in some detail. We will first look at what caller ID really is and how it works, then we will demonstrate how it can be spoofed. Finally, we will examine several major security threats that everyone needs to understand.

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QED Quick Config of Your NIC!

This section delves into the details of configuring your Network Interface Card (NIC) and how to use the command line to control networking under Linux.

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Paintball Mask Modifications

Sometimes I just scare myself. A few spare paintball masks, some halloween masks, paint, hot glue / epoxy / pop rivets and you get one hell of a cool paintball mask.

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Emirates Airline to Debut Cell Phone Calls

Dubai-based Emirates Airline announced that it would become the world's first airline to introduce in-flight mobile phone use across its fleet. It has beat rivals Ryan Air and Air France to the post.

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LED sign to communicate with other driver, up next states ban it

Helps you improve communication with other drivers & express yourself. Fix display module to rear windscreen & use remote control in the front of the car. Battery operated - No Wires - Single and Multiple message options.

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Improve the range of your wireless keyboard or mouse

I bought a really cool wireless media center keyboard with an onboard trackball mouse, so I diden't need to sit at a table with a mouse, mousepad and a keyboard while enjoying my media center. The plan was that i would be able to relax in my sofa while surfing the internet by using this clever unit.

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Easy Web development on the go with Server2Go

Server2Go is a Webserver that runs out of box without any installation. That means it is a webserver that can run directly from cdrom, usb stick or from any folder on harddisk.

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Start your own YouTube then sell it to FOX Network

Aspire to run your very own highly profitable online video sharing community just like YouTube and DailyMotion? The wait is finally over with AlstraSoft Video Sharing Enterprise! Unleash the power of video sharing and social networking and boost more traffic and revenues to your website now!. Fox just buys anything, take the chance.

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Pacific Ocean gives birth to new volcanic island

The Pacific Ocean has given birth to a new volcanic island near Tonga, according to ocean-going eyewitnesses.

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Fedora Core 6: Kneel before Zod!

Fedora Core 6, codenamed Zod, was released on October 24 for x86, PowerPC, and AMD64 systems. With a number of improvements over its predecessors, this is an impressive release, if you're willing to overlook a couple of installer bugs

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Chumby CEO looks forward to hacker input

Most CEOs would faint dead away if you said you'd taken a prototype of their new electronic device, ripped off the housing, reconfigured its innards, hacked your way through its code, and then sewn the whole thing into the stomach of a Teletubby doll. Steve Tomlin would shake your hand and say thanks.

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The largest model railroad in the world!

Digitally controlled - H0-scale (1:87) - up to date digital equipment (for train and light control)

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How some Casinos own your ass every time

Or how to own your friends at poker.

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Analogue Video Synthesizer

This "VGA Expropriator" will be the first in a series of proprietary analogue hardware devices which seek to explore the possibilities of digital/analogue hybrid technology in video/audio performance and studio production contexts.

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Linux printing: much done and more to do

In the last seven years, printing on Linux has undergone a metamorphosis. Barely adequate printing support, provided on a program by program basis, has been transmuted by a half dozen projects into a wealth of options comparable to those available on Windows or the Mac OS.

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5 er 7 Disturbing Dog Technologies

From the dog-powered scooter, to the Doggy Bag pet handbag, dogs are getting a pretty raw deal when it comes to technology and gadgets. Here
’s a round-up of 5 we found to be especially disturbing.

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stikkit: In Browser Personal Organizer

Stikkit gives you the digital equivalent of a sticky note: the easiest thing you can grab to jot down an idea or reminder. As you type, Stikkit watches for appointments, to-dos, people, bookmarks and more, magically extracting and organizing the important details.

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Beryl debuts a dazzling community-built 3-D desktop

The new project has quickly become a popular choice for supporting the 3-D desktop effects that make the Linux desktop sizzle these days. I installed Beryl on Ubuntu Edgy and have been running it for the past week. I find Beryl impressive, but, predictably, unstable.

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Using GnuCash 2.0 to balance your checkbook

Version 2.0 of GnuCash was released this summer, and it's better and more powerful than ever. GnuCash is a powerful free software tool for handling personal and small business finances, but if you're not familiar with double-entry accounting, the initial learning curve might scare you away from even trying it.

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Brewing BEER with Linux

QBrew is an open source application to aid you in developing a recipe for home brewed beer.

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Recycled Light Bulb Bug

Kansas City has a fantastic light display during the holiday season. Jenny wondered what happened to the bulbs that would burn out during the holidays.

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A "Google-plex" of troubles

From one side of the world to the other, life is not easy for Google! These days, a number of troubles of various nature bothered the crystal-clear image of the most beloved searching engine in the world, and of course have caused some worry to Google’s management:

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Chile arrests 'Byond' hackers

Police in Chile arrested four suspected computer hackers for allegedly belonging to a group accused of breaking into thousands of government Web sites around the globe, including NASA's.

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Pentium 2 Lamp

This lamp was commissioned by Amanda Webb. It is made from a brushed aluminum hard drive case and a Pentium 2 processor. There are LED
’s strategically placed around the base of the lamp along with 2 LED’s aimed at the processor.

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Shake some sense into your Linux ThinkPad

Use open source software and accelerometer-enabled ThinkPads to listen for percussive impacts and shaking to kick-off user commands or a reset

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Why Mommy is a Democrat

A must have for any night table in America.

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Poor Man's Laptop

This article presents a reliable and truly cheap alternative to buying a laptop for keeping up with work/study demands.

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NBA - O'Neal sits out second straight

Shaquille O'Neal missed the Heat's game against the Seattle SuperSonics on Tuesday night because of a bruised left knee.

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UNIX/Linux tips and tricks for a new user

The vi text editor might seem counterintuitive to new users but, make no mistake, there is a good reason this 30-year old tool is still widely used by many of the best developers in the world.

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A380 0wn3d by Boeing

Boeing scored a victory in the airliner wars Tuesday when FedEx became the first customer to cancel an order for Airbus's much delayed A380 superjumbo jets and said it instead will buy Boeing 777s.

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Democrats' voter turnout outpaces GOP's in Oregon

Democratic turnout in Oregon for today's election continues to outpace Republican turnout, consistent with the results of national polls.

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Microsoft to pay Novell $348 million under Linux pact

Software maker Novell Corp. (Nasdaq:NOVL - news) said on Tuesday Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) will make two separate up-front payments totaling $348 million to the company under an agreement to allow Novell's open-source Linux software to work with Windows.

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Windows Vista on my MacBook Pro (because I'm an idiot)

As many of you know, I've experienced numerous, nail-biting, revenge-worthy problems with my MacBook Pro. After many replacements and repairs, I finally just cracked and decided to wreak my vengeance in the form of callously installing Windows Vista,

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Drilling circuit boards.with a Dremel

The Dremel drill fitted with a mini drill-chuck on a stand is a great setup for drilling circuit boards. The problem is that it does not do low speeds very well. My unit had a failed internal speed controller, so I just wired around it and connected it to a regulated 24 volt DC supply.

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Top 3 underwater robots

The swimming pool at Kobe university Japan was home to the first underwater robot festival. With around 75 % of our planet covered in water these robots will help us uncover secrets what lies in dark world underneath.

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How holograms are mades

The more you learn

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Linux PCs

High performance line pre-installed with software designed to make the Windows-to-Linux migration easier

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Fighting HIV With HIV: New Gene Therapy Vector Shows Pr

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine report the first clinical test of a new gene therapy based on a disabled AIDS virus carrying genetic material that inhibits HIV replication.

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Open Source Law

Center staffed by intellectual property lawyers gives legal assistance to eligible software developers and projects

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High Performance Linux

SGI supports up to 256 processors on SGI Altix Systems running on single Linux kernel

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Calling Cape IT entrepreneurs

VeloCITI is the newest business acceleration initiative to come out of the Cape IT Initiative (CITI). Aimed at growing the IT industry within the Western Cape, the project is calling on IT entrepreneurs.

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Apple upgrades Bono's iPod

Apple Computer has announced it is adding a red 8-gigabyte version of its tiny iPod nano to its popular line of digital music players, offering to donate money to charity for every player it sells.

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Samsung unveils new MP3 phone

South Korea's Samsung Electronics said it has unveiled a new mini mobile phone which doubles as an MP3 player.

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DIY Split-Etched Acrylic Postcard - Optical Trickery

If the postal workers don't hate me now, this laser-etched piece might turn them to the dark side. If I'm lucky they'll have a fondness for optical tricks and get this postcard to the right place.

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PDA jacket with VGA, RS232, USB hub, car charger, audio preamp, ...

After a lot of work and time I finally finished my jacket like magic box

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DIY Telephone Handset Microphone

Some time ago my girlfriend asked me if I would make her one of those telephone microphones like the kind that all of those hipster bands have. So, I of course told her I would. Much time passed... and then I made this

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How to make Mac SE/30 audio visualizers

Anyway, back to the Macs, why
’d you want them? Well, if you’re not a performing rockstar you can always make these to impress your friends and/or integrate it into your stereo. (I think I will, after Krause’s done with them ^_^)

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The Big Fun, Low Cost, SLI Gaming Rig

We've built killer gaming rigs where price is no object. We've built $800 game systems, and we've built bang-for-the-buck systems. These have always had noble goals
—push the high end to the limit, show someone what they can build for relatively few dollars, and so on. While it's useful to do that, sometimes it feels like an exercise in accounting.

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'Extreme Big Brother fears to become a reality'

Chips in our clothes and 'eyes in the sky' by 2016?

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Old bugs blight shiny new browsers

An old security bug provides a way to crash Firefox 2.0, security researchers have discovered. The memory corruption vulnerability involving the handling of JavaScript code has been known about since June 2006 and Firefox version 1.5.0.7 was supposed to fix the problem.

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cassette tape wallet! yay!!!

so i saw a cassette tape made into a wallet here a while ago and i knew i had to do one for myself.

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DIY Indoor Deck

This will give you an overview of how to make a sturdy wooden deck inside your apartment. Yes, you read that right, *inside your apartment*.

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Hacking the Infoglobe

This document contains some information provided by other hackers and verified by me, but is mostly my own work.

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DIY Bedside notebook hub

An easy way to avoid uncomfortable heat coming from my laptop. And It didn't cost me anything!

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Cable Management Solution

I have lots of cords and cables running from my laptop to behind my desk. The problem is, whenever I disconnect them all to take my laptop with me, they all fall down behind the desk, which is relatively inaccessible. This is a quick fix I came up with in about 2 minutes, so I thought I'd share, since pretty much everyone has the parts laying aroun

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Starbucks loses 4 laptops with employee data, who was behind this?

Starbucks Corp. on Friday said four laptops, two of which contained the names and Social Security numbers of about 60,000 U.S. employees, are missing from its corporate headquarters.

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Pink PSP vs. P!ink PSP, or, Classy vs. Trashy

Oh no! The PSP bundles have been fairly attractive so far (especially the Killzone pack), but I guess Sony wanted to make a really hideous one for the girls. Does having P!nk scream at your face make you want a PSP? I think not. Hopefully, someone at Sony just got fired.

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System Administration Toolkit: Swap space management and tricks

Configure your swap space (including adding space in an emergency) to get the most out of your system. In this article, you'll learn how to monitor your system to determine an effective swap space figure as well as examine methods for using swap space for more than just secondary random access memory (RAM).

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Inside the Hacker's Profiling Project

Imagine being able to preview an attacker's next move based on the traces left on compromised machines. That's the aim of the Hacker's Profiling Project (HPP), an open methodology that hopes to enable analysts to work on the data (logs, rootkits, and any code) left by intruders from a different point of view.

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PlayStation3 Canadian Commercial - The Wait is Over

Seems like sort of invasion.

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Aaargh!!! The ultimate home defense device: the pirate cannon

Halloween has been a pirate theme around here for a while. I had the sword, I had the treasure chest, I needed a cannon. More than just a prop, this cannon will fire a potato slug a couple of hundred yards. For Halloween we dialed back the psi and shot harmless "cannonballs" made from tissue paper filled with baby powder. The result was a VERY popu

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Irresponsible Parenting: Girl With Potato Cannon

Kinda cute though.

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Pepsi Girl (Mentos + Coke + Human = Mess)

This video proves what happens when you drink pepsi and eat mentos.

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Technology heaven in S Korea

South Korea is a hustling, bustling cosmopolitan place that could not be more different to its communist neighbour, and this week we are there to see what is what.

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Cyber bullying rises in S Korea

South Korea is one of the most connected places on earth, but as Dan Simmons reports, spending so much time online has created a whole new set of social problems.

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Managing paper documents electronically

That led to a solution I've used now for several years: virtualize my document management! It's a system that worked great for me and I think will work for any tech-savvy person, so I'll share it here in the hope it might help you. It involves a Perforce revision control system, a document scanner, and several hard drive organizational conventions

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Make Your Own Photoshop Brushes

Photoshop expert Dave Cross shows you how to make your own Photoshop brushes in this fast and easy two-page tutorial.

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How to Become a Certified Mac Professional

Certifications such as Microsoft's MCSE and CompTIA's A+ are well-known, and employers often look for these and other certifications when scanning resumes. For Mac professionals, there is a series of certifications from Apple and other vendors that can build and showcase your knowledge of Mac troubleshooting, networking, and common applications.

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DIY Small Strobe Light

A fun project that cost under $50 and takes under 2 hours.

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Report: Seafood faces collapse by 2048

Clambakes, crabcakes, swordfish steaks and even humble fish sticks could be little more than a fond memory in a few decades.

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Sony PlayStation3 hands on review

CNET's Rich DeMuro gets hands on with Sony's next-generation gaming console. Here's what he saw.

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Firefox 2.0: Not Radical, but Just Right

There's no denying that Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 7 release is a heftier upgrade than Mozilla's new Firefox 2.0 release. Where Microsoft has significantly added to the feature set, Mozilla has tweaked its feature set. (It was already ahead in the features war.) The question is: Are those tweaks enough to keep the open-source browser on top?

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Forgent Settles JPEG Patent Case

A company that generates most of its revenue from patent licensing and litigation has reached an $8 million settlement with some of the technology industry's biggest players over the use of a patent covering the ubiquitous JPEG digital image format.

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Paper Guns for the savvy terrorist

Here is something no detection device will be able to catch.

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Chocolate Covered Ants

Yield – 12 Chocolates

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Turn your iPod into a Ouija board

When we first heard that occultists were using the new iPod to channel spirits, we had our doubts. Why would ancient spirits choose to manifest themselves in consumer electronics -- don't they prefer the dusty seclusion of basement seances? Apparently not.

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Visualize any kind of data on Linux

"Data Explorer's data model is so powerful that it can handle almost any type of data. Because of the data model, this tool is not focused on a single application and has been useful in every viz situation I've encountered."

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DIY International Clock

This is an international analog clock so you can see what time it is in other cities. With a lazy susan bearing, some magnets, and a couple of bolts this baby rotates and then locks in place, thus changing the time along with the city name on top.

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Home made ocliloscope

ScopeOnPC is a software that uses the PC parallel port and an ADC (Analog To Digital converter) circuit to turn your PC into a full featured ocliloscope

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The online Skill Crane machine!

This site allows you to operate a real arcade skill crane machine located in Virginia Beach, VA from anywhere in the world. Upon selecting "Play the game" on the left, you will be presented a current photo of the machine, allowing you to see the contents. You are welcome and encouraged to enter percentages for left movement and back movement.

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