While a wearisome and troubling lack of creativity is a plague within the music, movie, and television industries, there is one medium that would actually benefit from an awakening, and reinvention, of forgotten and slumbering classics: the video game.

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Corpuscavernosa writes “As 2009 winds down and we try to come up with new and clever ways of referring to the early years of this century, there’s really only one thing left to do: declare our ten favorite gadgets of the aughts and show them off in chronological order. It’s arguable that if this wasn’t the decade of gadgets, it was certainly a decade shaped by gadgets — one which saw the birth of a new kind of connectedness. In just ten years (more…)

If they ever make movies of these games, maybe these folks should get the casting call.

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Here’s one way to get back at your sibling: Release a deadly odor. Honeybee researchers have discovered the first example of a pheromone that shortens the lifespan of other family members — in this case, older sisters.

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Assassin’s Creed 2 is just a few days away from us, before we finally get some real hands on the game. So just before we review the game we thought we should shed some light on Ubisoft’s highly anticipated game: Assassinâ��s Creed 2. Behold! There might be spoilers ahead.

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It seems to go without saying, but the foods you eat, much like the gas you put in your Hummer, have a huge impact on your body’s performance. We gorge ourselves on fast food and you’d think we’d care more about what goes into our mouths. Here are 8 foods that you will enjoy and slow your aging.

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There’s a right way to defend yourself, and there’s a wrong way. These are the wrong ways.

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You wouldn’t know it from the “Expendables” trailer and the extremely low profile he’s keeping now, but five years ago Jet Li was put forth as the Next Big Kung-Fu Crossover Star.

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Video games have come a long way since their child’s play, waste-of-time days. Now they’re on a whole other level, some of these bad boys are approaching art.

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An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Wired: “In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s part of a larger movement within the spy services to get better at using ‘open source intelligence’ — information that’s publicly available… Visible Technologies crawls over half a million web 2.0 sites (more…)