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• Woman wakes up at own funeral, dies of shock 

  Douglas Gardner Permalink
  1:24 am on 06/30/2011  

  A Russian woman suffered a heart attack after she woke up at her own funeral. Twelve minutes later, she was dead — this time for good.

  View Link [in.news.yahoo.com]

• The Internets distilled into one 5 minute video 

  Douglas Gardner Permalink
  4:49 am on 06/11/2011  

  One epic YouTube video pays homage to the Internet.

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• 1980′s Atari game about nuclear reactors and earthquakes 

  Douglas Gardner Permalink
  4:27 pm on 03/15/2011  

  In 1980, Atari created a game about nuclear reactors, mainly to educate the public about nuclear safety. To add to the game dynamic, the player must dispatch repair workers to fix damage created by earthquakes.

  Rather an eerie echo of Japan, don’t you think?

  View Link [thenewgamer.com]

  Jack, and emmdeeaych are discussing. Toggle Comments

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    Jack 8:52 pm on 03/15/2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply

    Atari didn’t create that game. It was programmed by Chris Crawford and released by the Atari Program Exchange which was Atari’s in-house pseudo-”public domain” arm that took programs designed by non-staff and released it to the general public. Anyone could write something, submit it and if it were up to snuff, Atari would release it via this experimental channel.

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    emmdeeaych 5:20 pm on 03/15/2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply

    but but but… nobody could have predicted. right?

• BBC Comic Relief: 24 hour panel shows 

  Douglas Gardner Permalink
  7:41 am on 03/05/2011  

  The BBC are currently streaming a Comic Relief show, involving David Walliams, of Little Britain fame, working his way through 24 hours of panel show. It’s available, for once, throughout the world, and not restricted to those in the UK. Shows include QI, Radio 4′s Just a Minute, and Charlie Brooker.

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    Microchip08 7:43 am on 03/05/2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply

    What is quite interesting is that one of the shows, that is on at the moment, is Just A Minute, a show that’s been running for 40 odd years on Radio 4: and the host is struggling to adapt to TV.

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    Microchip08 7:52 am on 03/05/2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply

    Oh, and there’s a hashtag of #24pp.

• Playmobil Security Checkpoint 

  Douglas Gardner Permalink
  3:19 pm on 12/18/2010  

  Playmobil have released a TSA checkpoint toy. Of particular amusement are some of the reviews.

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• Centuries of science distilled into the Underground 

  Douglas Gardner Permalink
  1:41 pm on 09/20/2010  

  500 years of scientific discovery spread out along the eleven branch lines of a subway network. Regrettably, unscheduled maintenance has caused unexpected delays on the Alchemy line between Newton and Boyle. We apologise for the inconvenience.

  View Link [crispian.net]