fysdt writes “The world’s biggest retailer had been rumored to be considering dipping its toe into online grocery delivery for the past few years. The ‘Walmart To Go’ test allows customers to visit Walmart.com to order groceries and consumables found in a Walmart store and have them delivered to their homes, the spokesman said. Products include fresh produce, meat and seafood, frozen, bakery, baby, over-the-counter pharmacy, household supplies and (more…)

It doesn’t take a psychic to know that marijuana legalization is on the way. A new book showing that it never should have been outlawed in the first place will be soon be available online, according to its publisher. Author Hoam Rogh’s new twist on his cult classic marijuana novel, Satan’s Smoke, retitled The Case of U.S. v. Yerbas, shows the history and constitutional implications of cannabis law, exposing marijuana prohibition as unconstitutional.

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adeelarshad82 writes “According to a June 2010 Nielsen NetView survey on Internet usage, online gaming has overtaken e-mail in terms of the total percentage of time Americans spend online. Only social networking scores higher. On average, online gaming now consumes a staggering 407 million hours of U.S. citizens’ time per year. Unfortunately, Nielsen’s not the only one that noticed this trend; cybercriminals have taken note as well and are taking (more…)

harrymcc writes “Long before the Web came along, people were playing online games — on BBSes, on services such as Prodigy and CompuServe, and elsewhere. Gaming historian Benj Edwards has rounded up a dozen RPGs, MUDs, and other fascinating curiosities from the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s — and the cool part is: they’re all playable on the Web today.” What old games were good enough for you to watch them scroll by on your 300 baud modem?

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Starting September 10, Turbine’s Lord of the Rings Online massively multiplayer game goes free-to-play. What this means to existing subscribers is way more interesting than what it means to newcomers.

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In addition to Street Fighter vs Tekken, Capcom has also announced that they’re bringing back the iconic Street Fighter Third Strike title to the online realm.

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Attention Second Lifers: Are you afraid, even in your fantasy worlds, of new experiences? Your avatar might be a candidate, then, for a psychotropic drug called, Virta-Flaneurazine, designed to treat Wanderlust Deficit Disorder — in other words, Internet addiction.

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The Xbox Live Marketplace, PlayStation Network, and Wii Shop Channel may all be doing big business, but they have much to learn about selling their wares digitally. Dave Rudden details a few ground rules that all online distribution services would be wise to follow.

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D4C5CE writes “A chess-playing German tinkerer has contrived (and made a video of) an amazing contraption that plugs real chess pieces into the freechess.org server using a 20W LED projector and an old webcam to read moves on a projected chessboard.”

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medea and several other readers noted that the LHC came back online early this morning. Here is the tweet from CERN announcing the milestone. As we discussed a few weeks ago, CERN plans to run the LHC at half power or less through 2011.

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