judgecorp writes “Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron will get a personalised iPad app to help him run the country. The ‘government dashboard’ will include health waiting list figures, crime statistics, economic statistics and a real-time news feed. Cameron is a committed Apple user — but British members of Parliament have only been allowed iPads in the House of Commons since March 2011.”

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Even if you don’t harbor fantasies of John McCain and Sarah Palin throwing down on Barack Obama and Joe Biden, you could still probably find a way to enjoy last year’s reissue of “NBA Jam,” the classic arcade game that made Boom-Shaka-Laka a household term for a couple days in the ’90s.

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Worf Maugg writes with this excerpt from Wired:
“Researchers at U.C. Berkeley have discovered that some of the net’s most popular sites are using a tracking service that can’t be evaded — even when users block cookies, turn off storage in Flash, or use browsers’ ‘incognito’ functions. The service, called KISSmetrics, is used by sites to track the number of visitors, what the visitors do on the site, and where they come to the site from — (more…)

Generally speaking, I like watching sports. I’ll sit through extra-innings in baseball, scoreless hockey games and, when nothing else is on, pool. Even if I have no personal investment in who comes out on top, there is something fundamentally appealing about witnessing an entire lifetime of practice and struggle culminate in achievement. Somebody has to win, and success, much like sex, is fun to watch even if I’m not the one having it.

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â‹Most high-budget video games take around three to four years of development time to complete. However, there are some games that have been in production for much longer. Those games are called Vaporware, and here are five shining examples.

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Coffee has some health benefits. When it comes to coffee, the bulk of research supports that regular coffee intake among healthy people–even up to the 2-5 cup per day range– is associated with a variety of positive health outcomes compared to lower (or no) intake of coffee.

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When we think back on our memories, we have a tendency to concentrate on the good bits. My gaming past is dotted with Zelda’s, Final Fantasies and other such classics, but there were just as many retarded excuses for games that I endured in my youth. There are most certainly such games that have offended our current generation of consoles, so it’s time we have a think about what games we wish we could forget from our present.

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Another year passes, and PC games continue to deliver a healthy dose of shock and awe, sometimes in surprising forms.

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Tired of the losing ways of the Bengals, Cincinnati QB Carson Palmer has come out over the last few weeks to state he will not return as a Bengal. The team can either trade him (or release him) or he will retire.

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There have been so many games in the industry that were overhyped. In the end they went on to become such huge flops that their names will never been forgotten just due to the fact that these were a combination of both commercial and critical failures.

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