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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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The Secret Origin of Windows

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/. shares a three page Technologizer article titled "The Secret Origin of Windows" -- "A quarter century ago, Windows wasn't everywhere. In fact, some were doubtful it would ever ship at all. And Tandy Trower was there.

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Ten Things You Didn't Know About Super Mario Bros.

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Blue's News shares a OC Weekly blog on the "ten things you didn't know about Super Mario Bros." -- "Everybody knows the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) classic Super Mario Bros.

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20 Years of Adobe Photoshop

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/. shares a Webdesigner Depot article on the 20 years history of Adobe Photoshop: "Photoshop has been a part of every web designer’s life since they picked up their first mouse.

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Malware threat reports fail to add up.

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Infosecurity recently reports that "the December malware threat reports are trickling in from vendors -- and they all appear to be different. Fortinet, Sunbelt Software, and Kaspersky all published their lists of the most prevalent malware strains for the last month of 2009, but they didn't match up, leading to an admission that users will inevitably be confused by the results..."

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The Making Of: Syndicate -- A Retrospective

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This three pages Edge Online article talks about the retrospective/making of one of the classic Bullfrog games, Syndicate

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Scroll Bar Clock

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Neatorama shares Scroll Clock that shows the current time, with scrollbars, in yo

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Why computers suck at maths: How simple calculations can be a matter of life and death.

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This three pages TechRadar article explains "why computers suck at maths and how simple calculations can be a matter of life and death. Computers might struggle to exhibit intelligent behaviour, but blindly performing arithmetic calculations is surely their forte. Or is it? ..."

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24 years of Windows package designs.

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Digg shares a TechRadar article on the "24 years of Windows package design

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50 Most Annoying Things About the Internet.

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Telegraph shares its selection of the trends that they wish could be consigned to the waste bin -- the most annoying things on the web.

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Big Entertainment's Century-long Technophobic Binge: 100 years of Big Content Fearing Technology--In Its Own Words.

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This two pages Arstechnica article talks about the last "100 years of Big Content fearing technology--in its own words... rightsholders have fretted about everything from the player piano to the video casette recorder (VCR) to digital television (TV) to Napster. Here are those objections, in Big Content's own words...

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