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Kotaku Off Topic: My Old Friend Pete
The checkout lady asked if I found everything. “And then some!” I said. “Please thank whoever ordered Texas Pete. This is the first time I’ve seen it west of the Mississippi!” She looked at me like I was from Jupiter. Not to be provincial, but only those who grew up with Texas Pete – made…
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Three Gaming Products Make Time’s 50 Worst Inventions List
I poke fun at the Virtual Boy as much as the next guy, but does it belong on the same list as New Coke, Clippy the helpful paper clip, the Segway, and Agent Orange? Time’s list of the 50 Worst Inventions isn’t so much a list of failed inventions as it is a list of…
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Gary Coleman Dies
Gary Coleman, best known for his role as Arnold in the 1970s-80s sitcom Diff’rent Strokes, died today of injuries he suffered in a fall at his Utah home. Coleman, who also appeared in 2003’s Postal 2, was 42. TMZ reported Coleman’s death just past 12:30 p.m. U.S. Mountain time. He had been in a Provo,…
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High School Swaps Out Textbooks For iPads
When the students of St. Catherine’s High School’s new middle school program arrive next year, they’ll be sporting shiny new iPads instead of textbooks, giving students plenty of games to play while they should be learning, until they get stolen. It’s a revolutionary idea, I suppose, but a very bad revolutionary idea. St Catherine’s High…
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Sex While Driving More Popular Than Gaming While Driving
A survey of drivers from six different countries found that while 15% of people claimed to have engaged in sexual activity while driving, only 5% admit to playing portable games behind the wheel. The survey, underwritten by hands-free mobile phone device maker Jabra and performed by Lindberg International, polled 300 drivers each from the United…
By Mike Fahey
