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Surgeons ‘are better after playing Nintendo Wii’

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:52:09 +0000

Trainee surgeons will soon be practicing operations from the comfort of their sofas after a study found they performed better after playing games on the Nintendo Wii.

US researchers are designing software that will allow doctors to carry out simulated surgery using the console’s novel control system.

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PBDEs: They’re everywhere, growing and spreading

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:51:50 +0000

The chemicals, called polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs, are everywhere: in your TV, your computer, your toaster and your sofa. But PBDEs don’t stay put, The flame retardants bioaccumulate. Over the past three decades, PBDE levels in people have doubled about every three to five years, and some experts don’t think we’ve reached a peak.

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New Jersey begins taxing iTS downloads like CDs and armored cars

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:51:27 +0000

The state of New Jersey is suffering from a slight $4.5 billion debt problem. Amidst a recent sales tax increase and a frantic session of checking the sofa for change, Governor Jon Corzine has expanded the list of items which can be taxed to include, amongst other things, iTunes Store purchases.

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The Great Underperforming Movies of 2007

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:50:59 +0000

With critics and sofa kings churning out their lists for best and worst films of 2007 like Jonah Hill drawing dicks, let
?s take a look at the movies that failed to reach general expectations, whether at the box office, creatively, or both.

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Comfy IKEA Train Makes Me Want to Move to the Subway

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:50:47 +0000

IKEA has outfitted a train in Kobe with sofas and curtains probably named things like Oompa-loompa, Svenssonjohansensson, Frida, and Bucarest. Unfortunately, the makeover is temporary, to mark the opening of a new shop in the city

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DIY bean bag sofa / bed

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:50:34 +0000

i started out thinking about building a beanbag, but being the prototypically exuberant man’s man that i am i thought: “i am going to go huge! why make a beanbag just like everyone else? i’ll make the biggest, baddest beanbag evah!!!”

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Ten Great Web Video Mashups

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:50:21 +0000

ZonTube is just one of the many great web video mashups to be found at ProgrammableWeb. Other mashups that have appeared on NewTeeVee include SofaTube2 and Vidmeter3. Here is a list of ten of the most entertaining mash-ups

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Star Wars Rejected Promotional Crap

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:50:09 +0000

These amazing examples of human genius go from a mini-fridge with a door made from Han Solo frozen in carbonite to a Death Star BBQ, actual Leia’s hair headphones and even an AT-AT chair caddy to hold your magazines, snacks and Pepsi
?the marketing masterminds proposed all these gadgets?next to your favorite sofa.

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McDonald’s Getting Classy?

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:49:51 +0000

As part of its ‘Forever Young’ campaign, McDonald’s will be installing leather sofas, armchairs, flat-screen TVs and WI-Fi Hotspots in all 13,000 of their US restaurants.

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Spinning Black Hole Leaves Dent In Space-time

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:49:27 +0000

MIT scientists and colleagues have found a black hole that has chiseled a remarkably stable indentation in the fabric of space and time, like a dimple in one’s favorite spot on the sofa.

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