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Winter is rapidly approaching which means snow. And snow inevitably means that snowball fight will break out. But as fun as snowball fights are, the worst part has always been the insane pain and burning caused from your hands feeling like they’re going to fall off from frantically sculpting your 100′th snowball.

Something that won’t be a problem with this snowball gun. It sculpts the ‘balls for you, three at a time actually, and you can use its internal slingshot to fire them at your neighbors kids up to 50 feet away.

Come to think of it, I remembered that thing that ever happened to me in a snowball fight was being hit by one that “accidentally” had a rock in it and was urinated on, but whatever, you get my point. With this baby tucked under your arm, you’ll be a force to be reckoned with and it’s all yours for $30.

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Hey everybody, your favorite gamers’ favorite gaming site here!!

So as you may know, WorldGaming will be opening up its Gamer Training Institute (GTI) soon, and because sometimes the best talent is right under your nose, we are making some positions available for our people to become Gamer Trainers.

Why would you want to do that? Well, you can…… Continue reading Looking for gaming coaches, trainers, teachers and mentors!!!

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October 30th, 2008

WG player profile: Mephisto6000

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Meet my man Mephisto6000, kid has serious swagger. He’s got great game but he’s very humble while being well mannered and I dig that about him. He’s one of the better Madden and Halo players out there on WorldGaming. As I’m typing this he’s currently 19-3 and willing to take on all challengers!

He lives in the Bronx and when he’s not playing video games or studying, he’s solely focused on his passion in life: track and field.

Click on the link below to get to know the phenom better and send him a challenge…don’t be scared!!!!!!!

Continue reading WG player profile: Mephisto6000

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October 30th, 2008

VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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These videos are not only hilarious but come with a very serious message.

Jonah Hill kills it in the first one, he’s hilarious!!! And nobody beats Borat in the second one.

Be sure to pass these along to 5 friends. And yes, for the record, I am registered to vote and will do so!

I’ll shut up now and let you watch. Be sure to watch the one above first and then follow it by watching the one below.

Jonah Hill kills it in the first one, he’s hilarious!!!

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October 29th, 2008

the PSP with the SNES pad

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The PSP does a good job of of giving us games similar to the SNES, but the controls just aren’t the same. That’s why you have to use an SNES pad!

So I thank this modder created this crazy hack by installing a new socket to the back of his PSP that’s wired straight to the motherboard. And as you can see, it plays Super Mario World pefectly and you don’t even need to reboot.

If you ask me, this beats playing the PSP with a Dual Shock 3. But that’s just me, any my opinion means nothing. I still think that Mike Tyson’s Punch Out is the greatest game ever!

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You know how when you’re mad you’re supposed to squeeze on of those little stress balls or punch a pillow to magage your anger? Well imagine that if instead of a pillow, you were punching shadows of a giant mattress on the wall. And instead of just punching, you were throwing ‘bows, landing some roundhouse kicks and unleashing some serious headbutts as well.

Now imagine that those shadows belong to your friends (or coworkers) and you get extra points for hitting them harder. You can now stop imagining because You now have Remote Impact. It’s the silliest, funnest looking interactive fitness game I’ve ever seen in my life, save some of the Wii aps.

Remote Impact: Shadow Boxing Over a Distance registers how much brute force is behind every punch, making it a lot like a full body version of Street Fighter. According to the developers, the game is a great way to socially bond and have some team building exercises.

As hilarious and awesome as this looks (it’s worth clicking the link to see the video), I’m not sure if I’ll feel any closer to any of the guys here knowing that they likes to aim for the nuts.

But it sure as hell beats squeezing a stressball.

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October 28th, 2008

the atom bomb cough

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It’s a a technique that’s more commonly used to get images from the supersonic shock cones forming around test aircraft in wind tunnels, but now a group of scientists say they’ve captured the dynamics of a cough on film for the first time.

And yes…it looks absolutely disgusting but kinda cool at the same time.

So there’s a thing called Schlieren photography which involves shining collimated light past a knife edge onto a target, and variations in the refractive index of moving air create “shadows” of a sort in the image captured on film. It’s most often used to solve aeronautical air-flow problems, or weapons in action. Like shot fired from an AK47.

But the great Doctor Gary Settles from Penn State University and Julian Tang from Singapore tweaked the technique and created an image of the turbulent air stirred up by a cough, which is apparently a very unexplored phenomenon. They plan to use the technique to explore how coughs spread diseases like SARS and the flu.

This new science could end up having big health pay-offs in the long run but I’m focusing on the short term, so if this image means one thing to you it should be this: next time you think you have to cough around me, put your hand over your mouth!

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Joe Budden is pretty heavy in the streets. I don’t particularly care for his style that much but the guy is talented. I think my guy Billy “2 Shaves” is his biggest supporter there is in the world…no joke.

So he was happy when this mixtape just dropped as a prelude to his new Mood Muzik album.

Click throught for the tracklist and download link…enjoy!

Continue reading Mixtape Monday: Joe Buddens – Halfway House

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October 25th, 2008

the Banpo Bridge

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The Banpo Bridge in Seoul, South Korea just got a major facelift in the form of a 10,000-nozzle fountain that runs all the way along both its sides.

And I have to say, it’s pretty wild.

They were just installed last month, but already the bridge has turned into a major tourist attraction. Not to hard to figue of why considering I’m pretty sure that none of us have ever driven over a bridge that’s pumping out 190 tons of water per minute. And since it’s just pulling up water from the river below, it’s nice and eco-friendly.

So relax hippies…it’s ok. Peep the vid below!

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October 24th, 2008

hack the vote!!!

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I’m a strong advocate that everyone should vote, but wouldn’t it be awesome if you could make your vote count more than once? Or, even better, change other people’s votes to be for your candidate?

Well I got good news for ya…you might just be able to do that. Now that we’re using designed and insecure electronic voting machines, some simple hacking can change everything! And thanks to some researchers at Princeton, anyone can be a voting machine hacker.

And I’ll show you how…

I’m a big fan of the Princeton University Center for Information Technology Policy. They’ve published a report detailing the security vulnerabilities of the Sequoia e-voting machines and exactly how they hacked them. It turns out you just need to replace a single ROM chip, a process that takes about 7 minutes.

So basically all you have to do it tell the 67 year old poll workers that you’re undecided and need to really think about it in the booth.

Even better? Once you install fraudulent firmware on one machine, it can virally spread itself to other machines, meaning you can commit widespread voter fraud across your entire state by just messing with one single machine.

How sweet is that?!?!?!? And it’ll keep propagating itself, effecting the next election as well, and the election after that. It’s really a gift that keeps on giving!

Oh, and that fraudulent firmware? It’s a mere 122 lines of code and took them 2 days to write. They say that anyone with a computer science background could cook it up pretty easily.

Good to see our education system is hard at work!!!

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