The new version of Eve Online, Trinity, which will basically be a free patch, will improve the graphics engine greatly on the venerable game.

No word on when the “walking in stations” patch is due out, though.

fully controllable, portable exoskeleton:

When they start speaking of “autonomous operation”, you can visualize the beginnings of Cyberdyne.

Sonar. Dolphins do it. Bats do it.

People can too. Or at least one boy can.

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Skittles are the new gold.

Get it here. But don’t expect your plugins to work! As with all Firefox betas, it’s recommended to make a separate profile while using it.

Google has changed their news a little, by allowing participants in a story, or those referenced or related to it, to post comments in reference to it.

Here’s the first example I saw.

I’m not sure how they verify people’s identities, but this is a neat idea… they are opening news up to a form of public forum.

Apparently several drives being shipped by Maxtor from different sources come conveniently pre-laced with trojans and virii.

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No, I mean they play the video game theme songs, at the recent UC Berkeley vs. Washington State football game.

Here they do renditions of Pong, Tetris, Mortal Kombat, Pokemon, Legend of Zelda, and Super Mario Brothers. All with “animations” of the games. There’s even a Pokemon mascot battle!

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The coolest link you will see all day(week).

Why is it always the Super Mario theme that gets played on weird things? Because it’s awesome, that’s why.

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