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Aside from Sweden’s embassy and Reuters’ news bureau, Telstra and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation have also established their own presence in the virtual world of Second Life.
And there’s more: Dell, Toyota, Adidas, IBM, and Intel, who all have built a base within the virtual world, “seeking to test its worthiness as a promotional and commercial […]

While everyone’s all excited about the staggeringly wow-heavy possibilities with Microsoft’s latest version of its operating system, IntelliAdmin sat on the couch, gazed out the dormer window, and reminisced about those distant days when proto-Windows was still called “Interface Manager.”

Screen shot of the first Windows in 1985 (above) and a screengrab of Windows Vista (below). […]

Just as when we had already settled with the idea of the Echo as a clever robot that gets a raging hard-on whenever it detects other hot, Echo-toting people nearby, here’s Andrew from the robot’s development team correcting our naughty mistake.
He says:
Echo is meant as a way to connect people with common interests for any […]

In the UK, installing x-ray cameras on lampposts to spot armed bad guys is good. Installing x-ray cameras that can also see through clothes is…well, much better.
But not everybody seems to be very happy about it.
According to a leaked memo “detection of weapons and explosives will become easier” if the scheme drawn up by Home […]

Yone Minagawa must be thankful of her lucky stars for the sudden death of Emma Faust Tillman of the United States. Because the good Lord summoned Tillman just days after she had been declared as the world’s oldest living person, forcing the old-people-hunters at the Guinness Book of World Records to readjust their sniper scopes, […]

Another supposedly great web-based service surrendering to those crazy Nigerians and their kin. One look at the comment thread of all sorts of people who’ve have some bad eBay experience, this is a strong undeniable suit.
Just this past week I attempted to use eBay to auction off two notebook computers and quickly discovered that this […]

The Gamespot Forum is currently on fire with gamers dredging their Gears of War-addled brains on how best to answer the profound, thought-provoking question: Xbox 360 or girlfriend, which would you choose?
Some offered groundbreaking pieces of wisdom, such as “you must be mentally ill if you choose electronic [sic] over a female” or “haven’t you […]

Xu Wei Lun (Beatrice Xu), a well-known Taiwanese actress, has just passed away on Jan. 28, 2007 due to massive injuries she had sustained from a fatal car crash.
She once played in a cameo role as Ah Xun in the first Taiwanese version of Meteor Garden.

As an interesting aside, one fan noted that:
“In WeiLun’s new […]