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2voteThe Game Genie is a series of cheat cartridges designed by Codemasters and sold by Camerica and Galoob for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, Mega Drive/Genesis, and Sega Game Gear that modifies game data, allowing the player to cheat, manipulate various aspects of games, and sometimes view unused content and functions. Although there are currently no Game Genie products on the market, most video game console emulators feature Game Genie support.
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2vote"Any text is woven entirely with citations, references, echoes, cultural languages, which cut across it through and through in a vast stereophony. The kernel, the soul—let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances—is plagiarism. If we cut-and-paste our selves, might we not forgive it of our artworks?
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1voteOver the course of Jonathan Lethem's new indie rock novel, You Don't Love Me, we discover that none of Monster Eyes' songs come from one author. They're cobbled together out of pop culture, history, conversations & the ephemera of everyday life. One character tries to claim copyright on the songs after contributing some lyrics, and Lethem characterizes his actions as "manipulative" and "bullying."
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1voteWayne Chiang (23) was mistaken by some as the VT shooter--partly because his Facebook profile includes references to graduating from Virginia Tech and several photos of him with his gun collection. At first, Chiang says he "played along with it" on his personal web page, partly to see how much money he could make, since payment from the ads he places on his site are based on the number of hits.
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1voteRandom Shapes features the best teen blogs on the web in an attempt to encourage good blogging among teens. Random Shapes is only open to teens, who must apply to participate in the community. The focus is on developing teens' blogging skills and creating a sense of community.
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1vote“Can large groups of widely scattered people, working together voluntarily on the net, report on something happening in their world right now, and by dividing the work wisely tell the story more completely, while hitting high standards in truth, accuracy and free expression?”
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2voteDigg (a website that ranks & displays news, blogs & other items based on recommendations from its visitors) has decided to remove its list of most active users. This list potentially gave companies wishing to publicize their stories an easy way to find people whom they might try to influence with incentives to vote favorably for certain items.
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1voteThe practice of using popular social-networking web sites as a means to market new products is a growing trend that raises questions about where internet marketing might cross ethical lines. Critics say the online music downloading service Ruckus Network clearly went too far in its recent use of the social-networking web site Facebook.com to spur business.
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2voteDecades of research indicate that the quality of one's output and depth of thought deteriorate as one attends to ever more tasks. Some researchers are concerned about the disappearance of mental downtime to relax and reflect. Thousands of years of evolution created human physical communication--facial expressions, body language--that puts broadband to shame in its ability to convey meaning and create bonds. What happens, wonders UCLA's Ochs, as we replace side-by-side and eye-to-eye human connections with quick, disembodied e-exchanges?
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