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		<title>Google Says Microsoft Is Driving Antitrust Review</title>
		<link>http://blog.packeton.com/2010/09/google-says-microsoft-is-driving/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[GovTechGuy writes &#8220;On Friday we discussed news that Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott opened a probe into whether Google ranks its search listings with an eye toward nicking the competition. Google suggested the concerns have a major sponsor: Microsoft. In question is whether the world&#8217;s biggest search engine could be unfairly disadvantaging some companies by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In-Depth: Pitchford On How Gearbox Got To Own Duke Nukem Franchise</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday morning, Gearbox Software and 2K Games dropped a bomb on gamers and industry alike at Seattle&#8217;s Penny Arcade Expo. Not only was Duke Nukem Forever alive once again, it was playable. On Sunday, they dropped another one. 3D Realms, the company that gave birth to the cigar chompin&#8217;, alien ass-kicking muscleman, had sold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aging Star System Leaves Strange Death Spiral</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[jamie tips a post at Phil Plait&#8217;s Bad Astronomy blog about an extremely unusual astronomical phenomenon originating from a binary system about 3000 light years away. Quoting: &#8220;The name of this thing is AFGL 3068. It&#8217;s been known as a bright infrared source for some time, but images just showed it as a dot. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Business Embraces &#8216;Gamification&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hugh Pickens writes &#8220;JP Mangalindan writes that for years psychologists have studied what makes video games so engrossing &#8212; why do players spend hours accruing virtual points working towards intangible rewards and what characteristics make some games more addictive than others? Now, companies are realizing that &#8216;gamification&#8217; &#8212; using the same mechanics that hook gamers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plagiarizing a Takedown Notice</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ChipMonk writes &#8220;Over at hobbyist site OS News, editor-in-chief Thom Holwerda published a highly skeptical opinion of the announcement of Commodore USA&#8217;s own Amiga line. Within hours, Commodore USA sent a takedown notice to OS News, demanding a retraction of the piece and accusing the site of libel and defamation. What&#8217;s funny is that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sony Has Lost the PS3 Hacking War</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[YokimaSun writes &#8220;Sony may have dealt a major blow to the PSjailbreak sellers, but the release last week of PSGroove, an open source version of the hack, has now opened the floodgates of ports to mobile phones such as the Nokia N900 and Palm Pre. The final kick in the teeth is that a port [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analysis:  I Have No Mouth and I Must Save the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[In this analysis, Gamasutra writer Jeffrey Matulef examines the silent protagonist through video game history, looking to games including Half-Life 2, Okami, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Deadly Premonition for prominent examples or surprising deviations.] &#8220;It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open one&#8217;s mouth and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK&#8217;s Royal Mail Launches First Intelligent Stamps</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader writes &#8220;The Royal Mail on Friday issued what it called the world&#8217;s first &#8216;intelligent stamps,&#8217; designed to interact with smartphones using image-recognition technology. The Royal Mail&#8217;s latest special-issue stamps, devoted to historic British railways, are designed to launch specially developed online content when a user snaps them using an image-recognition application available [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WikiLeaks Calls For Assange To Step Down</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stoobalou writes &#8220;A member of Iceland&#8217;s parliament and prominent organizer for whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks has turned on the site&#8217;s spokesman, Julian Assange, urging him to step down over rape allegations made against him in Sweden. Birgitta Jonsdottir told news site The Daily Beast that she did not believe Assange&#8217;s repeated assertion that the allegations of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obituary: Company of Heroes Designer Brian R. Wood</title>
		<link>http://blog.packeton.com/2010/09/obituary-company-of-heroes-desi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brian R. Wood, 33, a lead designer on Relic Entertainment&#8217;s Company of Heroes real-time strategy game series, was tragically killed in a Seattle-area car accident on Friday night. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that Wood was driving his Subaru Outback along the Whiteby Island area of Highway 20 when his car was struck head-on by a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Programming Things I Wish I Knew Earlier</title>
		<link>http://blog.packeton.com/2010/09/programming-things-i-wish-i-knew/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[theodp writes &#8220;Raw intellect ain&#8217;t always all it&#8217;s cracked up to be, advises Ted Dziuba in his introduction to Programming Things I Wish I Knew Earlier, so don&#8217;t be too stubborn to learn the things that can save you from the headaches of over-engineering. Here&#8217;s some sample how-to-avoid-over-complicating-things advice: &#8216;If Linux can do it, you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ryanair&#8217;s CEO Suggests Eliminating Co-Pilots</title>
		<link>http://blog.packeton.com/2010/09/ryanairs-ceo-suggests-eliminat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[postbigbang writes &#8220;Ryanair&#8217;s miser-in-chief Michael O&#8217;Leary now suggests eliminating co-pilots as a way to save money. Will airliners be powered by drones, or is it actually viable to have just a single pilot on passenger planes?&#8221;
 

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		<title>The Joys Of Reading Many Books At Once</title>
		<link>http://blog.packeton.com/2010/09/the-joys-of-reading-many-books-a/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people are serial readers &#8212;  they read a book cover-to-cover before putting it down. Chicago Tribune cultural critic Julia Keller, however, is a poly-reader &#8212; juggling four or more books at a time. And in an age of rampant multi-tasking, Keller asks, why not?
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		<title>Self-Powered Parts Are the Future</title>
		<link>http://blog.packeton.com/2010/09/self-powered-parts-are-the-futur/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[bossanovalithium writes that an umbrella group including Japanese heavyweights like Panasonic and Toyota is working on bringing the price of self powered parts down to levels where they can be mass produced: &#8220;The idea is that the parts will make external power sources redundant &#8212; because they can convert energy from body heat, light and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>M2Z&#8217;s Free, Wireless Broadband Killed In Advance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[mspohr writes with a sad excerpt from Fast Company: &#8220;Despite a seemingly stout business plan, and all the financial, social, and educational benefits it would bring, the FCC&#8217;s just turned down M2Z&#8217;s application for a coast-to-coast free wireless broadband system. &#8230; The FCC is known to have heard complaints about M2Z&#8217;s plan from existing wireless [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Way To Archive Emails For Later Searching?</title>
		<link>http://blog.packeton.com/2010/09/best-way-to-archive-emails-for-l/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader writes &#8220;I have kept every email I have ever sent or received since 1990, with the exception of junk mail (though I kept a lot of that as well). I have migrated my emails faithfully from Unix mail, to Eudora, to Outlook, to Thunderbird and Entourage, though I have left much of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parrot iPod-Controlled Quadricopter Launches This Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MojoKid writes &#8220;Remote-controlled helicopters are not new, but Parrot&#8217;s AR.Drone Quadricopter is set to make a splash when it goes on sale on Sept. 9th. It will use an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad as a controller, and give a live video feed from two different cameras to the pilot. Each model comes with two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stardock Suffers Layoffs After Disappointing Elemental Launch</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Independent MI-based developer Stardock is laying off staff after a rocky launch for its PC fantasy strategy title Elemental: War Of Magic, according to comments from company CEO Brad Wardell. The title, which has received mixed ratings on MetaCritic due to what some reviewers considered the unfinished nature of the game &#8212; charges that Wardell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transition Metal Catalysts Could Be Key To Origin of Life</title>
		<link>http://blog.packeton.com/2010/09/transition-metal-catalysts-could-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader writes &#8220;One of the big, unsolved problems in explaining how life arose on Earth is a chicken-and-egg paradox: How could the basic biochemicals &#8212; such as amino acids and nucleotides &#8212; have arisen before the biological catalysts (proteins or ribozymes) existed to carry out their formation? In a paper appearing in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not A Departure: The Genesis Of Darkspore</title>
		<link>http://blog.packeton.com/2010/09/not-a-departure-the-genesis-of/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maxis surprised gamers by announcing action RPG Darkspore as its next title after years of Sim games and the sprawling Spore &#8212; but in this interview, executive producer Michael Perry explains how the project came about.


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