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Your overlord wants to work for Ed's Super Fix-It!

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VideoSift shares a two minutes potty mouth LiveLeak video showing a television (TV) commercial/spot/advertisement (ad.) for "Ed's Super Fix-It

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The Great Operating System (OS) Games

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/. shares a twenty-one slides Technologizer gallery titled "The Great Operating System (OS) Games" -- "They may not be the fanciest computer games of all time, but untold billions of hours of productivity have been lost to them over the past four decades.

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Typographic mustaches -- A handy identification poster.

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Boing Boing shares buyable agirlnametor's poster showing "personalities of fonts"

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A list of commercial products that included malware.

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rationallyPARANOID has a list of commercial products that included malware since 2000.

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Apple iPhone 4: The Dark Side of the Force -- Reality distortion field remains strong with Steve Jobs after antennagate.

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VideoSift shares a funny one minute and 59 seconds YouTube video showing Next Media Animation (NMA)'s news video recreation showing "Apple founder Steve Jobs have been busy defending the iPhone 4, which has been mired in problems since before its launch.

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Robocop ran DOS - and other movie code decoded.

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Digg shares NetworkWorld's ten pages slide show showing real-life computer screens in movies -- "Virtually no sci-fi/science fiction or action flick these days is complete without a computer scene showing a few screens of mysterious scrolling text and a 3D wire-frame model.

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XKCD Comic Strip -- Workaround

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This XKCD comic strip shows what your overlord and other computer people/geeks/nerds go through with support

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Helping other people's computers at work...

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This Dilbert comic strip shows why your overlord doesn't help with other people's computers

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Funny JavaZone Movie Trailer -- "Coders: Why do we always use .NET?"

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VideoSift shares a funny 3.25 minutes YouTube video (also on its official Web site; warning: a quick censored sex scene) showing trailer for "JavaZone" -- "Java 4-ever".

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Fifteen/15 Retro Video Game Company Logos and their Modern-Day Counterparts

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Neatorama shares a Geekosystem article to "share fifteen/15 video game companies' old-school logos side-by-side with their modern counterparts..."

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Starring The Computer: Computers in Movies and Television/TV.

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Starring the Computer is "a website dedicated to the use of computers in film and television/TV. Each appearance is catalogued and rated on its importance (i.e., how important it is to the plot), realism (how close its appearance and capabilities are to the real thing) and visibility (how good a look does one get of it).

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8-bit StarCraft (SC)

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VideoSift shares an amusing three minutes and 56 seconds YouTube video showing 8-bit StarCraft (SC) parody/spoof -- "This is gameplay footage from the original game 'StarCraft' as it was released in 1984.

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Which store is better?

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Why Everything Is Trying To Be An Role Playing Game (RPG) Now

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This three pages Bit-tech.net article talks about "why everything is trying to be an role playing game (RPG) now" -- "Twenty years ago, the idea of levelling up in a game was confined to a very specific genre: the role-playing game, whose systems were based on pen-and-paper games such as Dungeons & Dragons (D&D). Today, you can still level up in an RPG such as Dragon Age, but you can also level up in far wider variety of games, from sports titles to first perspective shooter (FPS) games... The vast majority of modern games monitor, quantify and reward your skills in a way that would only have been familiar to the biggest geeks in the 1980s.

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Did you buy an Apple iPad?

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GameInformer's Portal 2 Hub: World-exclusive Portal 2 cover story.

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GameInformer has a twelve/12 parts (with multiple pages inside each one; three are missing but will be posted with the shown remaining days of March 2010) talking about the upcoming Valve Software's Portal 2 game. It also talks about the past as well

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