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techy.Bytes - January 2007

Islamic Terrorist Running for United States Presidency!?

January 31st 2007 13:22
I figure a quick filler post can’t do too much harm.

I think it is about time the US takes serious measures in preventing people with shady backgrounds from running for office in any level of government. The security of the country, and as such, the rest of the planet is compromised because of it. Thank god for Fox News, reporting what the rest of the corrupt liberal media refuses to.

Why don’t they have shows like this on Australian TV? Oh that’s right, THEY censored CANCELLED THE LAST ONE! Bleh, thank god for American liberal TV.


Oh, heres what I'm talking about (since you no doubt are confused right now):



I love Fox News, but I’m not a conservative, bleh, I’m not a liberal either, I’m a cube (long story).

Very well sums everything up, could have said more, but comedy is all about keeping it short and sweet, not to spoil the audience and all.
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Sony is Upping the Price of the Playstation 3

January 26th 2007 17:43
Contrary to popular opinion that a price cut for the Playstation 3 would do good for Sony in terms of Playstation 3 units sold it has instead raised the price.

Canadians will be paying an extra $40 for their Playstation 3’s bringing the price to $700.

I don’t recall a time ever in console history where the price of a console has actually gone up, and certainly never has the most expensive console in history shot up in price.
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Wii-Remote, Real Time Robotic Control

January 26th 2007 15:58
The Wii-Remote uses Bluetooth as its communications interface allowing the actual Wii-Remote to be compatible with any Bluetooth receiver.

As such it has paved the way for new and innovative designs on the PC. But now it is being taken to the next level, the Wii-Remote has been made to control a robotic arm in near real time.



People talk about Wii Remotes being flung from their hands, this thing could impale you, talk about taking it to the extreme.
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Nerds Have Girlfriends and Are Emo’s

January 26th 2007 13:16
Typical Nerd or Stereotype The Simpsons
Typical Nerd or Stereotype?
That is when they get dumped, but instead of running to their rooms and throwing on a CD of emo musicy goodness or making out with the nearest emo male (just an emo thing I guess) they create computer viruses and cause global chaos.

Research conducted by Sarah Gordman indicates that Virus writers have girlfriends


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Sony Looks To Microsoft for In-Game Screenshots of GT: HD

January 25th 2007 19:25
This is just too good to be true (and it is true), Sony is using Microsoft’s Project Gotham Racing 3 press packet to advertise their own racing game, Gran Turismo HD! Featuring on the PSP Connect website you see the top banner is actually a screenshot taken right out of ‘Project Gotham Racing 3’ here.

Here’s a screenshot of the website featuring the offending image (the yellow exotic car) so that if they remove it (which they will) people can still see


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Cats Are Butt Ugly in the Nude

January 25th 2007 18:41
So people shave their cats, and not just shave them, shave them in a weird way. I don’t know what this does to your cat (besides the obvious cosmetic appearances) and I sincerely hope they aren’t suffering, but looking at their faces it makes you wonder…

Funny Naked Cat
What Are You Look'n At?

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Misinformation on the Internets? NO!

January 25th 2007 16:22
Well yes, lots of yeses here, the internet is full of misinformation, often times deliberate misinformation.

It isn’t like that though, not always, sometimes it can give you an exact 360 degree spin on it all


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To Hawk-Eye It

January 25th 2007 13:01
In the Australian Open this year something was given to players never before given to them, the ability to officially challenge calls made on the tennis courts.

Players can challenge verdicts where their shots are called out, or that of their opponent is called as in by the lines people or umpire. They get two incorrect chances at it per set, so long as they are correct and their challenges are upheld they can keep challenging


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Idiots Rock the Internet

January 24th 2007 18:54
We all know the South of the United States is full of racist bigots not fit for human skin and we all know it is full of the regular people who are actually, how do you say? Human.

Just like all other parts of the world, you have a handful of different kinds of people, good and bad. So why is it the idiots always seem to be more prevalent on the internet? We all know idiots constitute a small minority in the worlds population (well, more or less


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Nintendo Taunting the Contest

January 23rd 2007 11:25
This was a pretty funny segment on Nintendo Power about Sega and Sony trying to get the heads up on Nintendo’s Triple-A title ‘Star Fox’. While Nintendo might not have dominated that console generation, or the subsequent one with the terrible GameCube, Nintendo really did a good job with first class titles, the greatest game of all time (as voted by the people) came out on the Nintendo 64, ‘Zelda: Ocarina of Time’.

Nintendo learned a lot from this show, it learned that secret’s should be kept secret, after the rumble pack was revealed it was promptly copied by Sony. Well at least Nintendo left the wii-remote secret until the very last minute, so Sony could not do a full blown copy, instead it just put in a half arsed tilt function in the Playstation 3 controller, not enough time for all the finer points of the Wii Remote


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2007 Cell Phone Retro Style

January 22nd 2007 19:02
Someone needs a nice swift kick, to think we have developed all this advanced technology over a period of a great many years, only to go back to the bloody past.

3G Mobile Cell Phone Retro Style

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Run Hamster, Run, I Type Fast!

January 22nd 2007 18:56
Hamster Running on Wheel
Run you little bugger!
The USB hamster wheel is a simple plug and play utility that records your WPM, or more like, indicates your WPM by having a toy hamster do its run on a wheel, the higher your WPM the faster hamster runs.

At this point you’ll probably be looking for a name for hamster, I suggest something cute and obvious like Hamtypo


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My God You’ve Gotten Fat

January 22nd 2007 16:36
I love that line from Pixar’s ‘The Incredibles’, just love it. It is the epitome of comic wit and timing.

Well I’m a plagiarist first and original content creator second, so upon deciding to give myspace a run through to see if I could find anyone from my long lost (and never to be forgotten) past I was thinking of how fat everyone would be now


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Speak of the Week #3

January 21st 2007 17:01
Lets keep it all relative here folks, the number one threat to the US of A is not WMD’s as George Bush would like us to think, nor would it be automobiles, but automobiles are more dangerous than terrorist attacks, that much is confirmed.

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Super Hawt, Super Wrought

January 21st 2007 15:01
Not surprisingly photoshopping and fancy lighting effects are what is responsible for all the beauty in the world. I don't think it would take a genius to figure that any of these... things... are particularly ‘beautiful’ in real life, at least not out in the skin and judged by their own set standards.


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Blogg-Buzzing to Boring Stories World

January 19th 2007 15:29
I was at first excited about the concept behind Blogg-Buzz yet weary that it might turn into a Digg clone with nothing but what they call on Digg as ‘blog spam’ heaven.

While the submissions are exhibiting similar traits to Digg it looks like the bigger problem Blogg-Buzz is facing is that the community of bloggers it has mustered seems to have lost the plot some way down the line re-posting stories from sites such as Digg and submitting too many stories related directly to blogging


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Wii Vastly More Popular Than Playstation 3 in Japan

January 19th 2007 15:08
According to Google trends the Wii is clocking up about ten times more Google searches than ‘Playstation 3’, in other countries like the US of A it is far closer to the Playstation 3 and sometimes is coming a distant second to the Playstation 3.

Wii VS Playstation 3 Japan USA
Blue: Wii, Red: Playstation 3

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The Pirate Bay dropping in Popularity, Mininova continues to Rise

January 19th 2007 14:27
After reaching a peak in 2006 the Pirate Bay has begun to steadily decline in popularity as Mininova has started gaining rank and surpassing the Pirate Bay. This can no doubt be attributed to Mininova’s cleaner interface, English words and heavier moderating of the site, such as quickly removing misleading content.

Coupled with the comfort of not having the MPAA after its arse and the fact it is not planning on skipping the country it looks like Mininova will eventually dominate over all other


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Shockwave Table Tennis

January 19th 2007 13:46
This has got to be the best iteration of a Shockwave Flash based table tennis game ever. The whole game revolves around the mouse, it is pretty much pick up and play, you can even shoot curve shots if you so wish. It doesn’t cover the full spectrum of table tennis moves, quite the opposite in fact, but it is extremely addictive. You’ll be playing like a pro within a minute of picking this game up.

Play it here
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Face Manipulation

January 19th 2007 08:28
This new ‘technology’ runs purely on software so you won’t need any fancy pansy hardware to get it working other than a computer that can handle it.

Simply put it creates a face in 3D from a photograph and a reference model


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Amazing Artificial Waterfall

January 18th 2007 08:09
This artificial waterfall is nothing short of amazing yet it screams out ‘why wasn’t it done before?’


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Open XML Trap, From Microsoft With Love

January 17th 2007 20:18
Clearly Microsoft is trying to get under the skin of open source then deviously tear it apart from the inside.

OOXML open XML logo
OOXML
Open XML (OOXML) is a list of specifications for the file format of several document types such as memos, spreadsheets, documents amongst others, it is to be used in Microsoft Office 2007. Microsoft has also gained approval from Ecma to make OOXML an open standard
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Toshiba Announces Dedicated HD DVD Burner for Desktop PC’s

January 17th 2007 19:41
SD-H903A HD DVD burner drive Toshiba first ever dedicated DVD burner
The SD-H903A
Took them long enough, after showing off the SD-L902A you would think that a bigger version of it for desktop PC’s wouldn’t be far off on the horizon.

Well at last Toshiba has announced the first dedicated HD DVD burner for desktop PC’s, the SD-H903A. Naturally the drive can read from all mainstream optical mediums such as CD’s and DVD’s


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Kutaragi Sez

January 15th 2007 07:08
“The PS3 is not a game machine “

“Beating us for a short moment is like accidentally winning a point from a Shihan (Karate master), and Microsoft is still not a black belt. Just like with their operating systems, they might come out with something good around the third generation of their release.”

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FLASH Killed the Format War

January 15th 2007 06:55
Is the story of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. I don’t like calling victories for either side and if I could have it my way DVD’s would stay for another five to ten years and won’t need to be replaced until my kids start complaining the holiday home only has a 50” SED TV instead of the 120” sucker we have at home.

But still, that isn’t going to happen (the DVD lasting out that long, I’m still getting that 120” tribute to modern technology


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The Fanboy Mentality

January 15th 2007 06:23
Typical Pokemon Fanboy doing what he does best
Fanboy
I have discovered about fanboys, well not fanboys, but the mentality fanboys carry.

It’s called justification, they justify failings in the items they are infatuated with and think that is enough reason to ignore its failings. Take the Playstation 3, they rationalize its failures and think it is a justification, they state that it has a built in Blu-Ray player hence the price is justified, they rationalize that it was only recently released justifying its lacklustre titles compared to the Xbox 360


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Speak of the Week #2

January 15th 2007 06:00
It was eight days since the last one which is made on the Sunday of Australia, this next one is coming and it is the Sunday of other parts of the globe so technically this isn’t a delay, simply an adjustment. I’ll be alternating from here on in I guess...

So the biggest thing that happened in the last week for the blogosphere would have to be the introduction of Blogg-Buzz. Essentially a Digg.com equivalent for blogs and nothing but blogs it should help out given the amount of cracking down Digg has been doing on its democratic dictatorship in which it has blocked out URLs that correspond to blogs written by, say, one person and/or not affiliated with any major news distributing chain. So much for giving the user the right to choose what they like and what they don’t


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HD-DVD = Blu-Ray Plus One

January 12th 2007 16:17
Like the realisation that you wouldn’t be able to watch porn on Blu-Ray (at least officially) would not be enough to put pretty much everyone off of Blu-Ray Toshiba has now announced a HD-DVD disk that stores one gigabyte more than the highest capacity Blu-Ray disk.

That's right, HD-DVD has now completely trumped critics who claimed that HD-DVD had ‘insufficient’ storage for HD movies (which is in fact incorrect), with a triple layer 51 gigabyte monster, ousting Blu-Ray’s 50 gigabytes


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Thank You For Making the Decision Ever So Easy, Sony

January 11th 2007 21:01
What decision? The Blu-Ray VS HD-DVD decision of course! Sony is behind Blu-Ray, so obviously Sony has made it easier for us to choose Blu-Ray over HD-DVD, right? WRONG!

Thank you very much Sony, you made it easy on us with the Playstation 3 (everyone go get an Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii), now you are making it easy for us with Blu-Ray. It won’t dominate over HD-DVD


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God Hates America, Canada and Sweden... no word on Australia

January 11th 2007 03:57
God Hates Fags Americans Australians chinese africans brits and pretty much everyone else
God Hates Me :'(
The internets big, very big, so big that a stupid site like godhatesamerica.com can go unnoticed. Honestly I dunno what to say about this crap, freedom of speech? Bleh, I hate the internet because of this very same problem.

What I really dislike is the way the ‘god hates’ community disrespect people via generalising, apparently if you are Swedish you are going to hell because your king is the king of paedophiles and fags and Incestuous Perverts (they aren’t basing that on anything, even they know it is made up


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A Nokia like 8th

January 8th 2007 15:11
Well Nokia decided to go crazy at some random trade show in Las Vegas, as such I’ve compiled all their press releases for the day here.

Unleash your story in video with the Nokia N93i

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Nokia adds N76 to the ‘N Series’

January 8th 2007 15:00
N76 Nokia Phone MobilePhone Mobile cellphone cell pocket
N76
It was only a matter of time before Nokia decided to bloat up its newest line of smart phones, the N76 sits between the N70 and N80. It will be smaller than any other of the N-series phones and should not sacrifice on features.

The N76 will feature a 2 megapixel camera with 20x zoom, expandable Micro-SD storage (up to 2 gigabytes) an integrated hands free speaker among other things


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Sharp Shows off 108V-Inch LCD TV, Largest in its Class

January 8th 2007 14:31
Sharp LCD TV largest in its class big television massive screen size realestate real estate
TV’s just keep getting bigger, Sharp has just unveiled the worlds largest LCD TV. Measuring in at 2,386 mm to the horizontal and 1,344 mm to the vertical with a whopping 2.07 million pixel display at a resolution of 1920*1080 those boffins at Sharp really aren’t kidding around, this is really the biggest sucker you’ll see on the market.

Sharp is continuously pushing LCD technology believing it will continue to sell for the foreseeable future


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Speak of the Week #1

January 7th 2007 17:27
Well I figure every Sunday (or any day I can be bothered) I could state some interesting things that happened in the previous seven(ish) days.

So here goes noth’n


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Wii to get Ana-like HD?

January 7th 2007 06:51
Ana is a chip in the Xbox 360 that up/down scales games in HD irrespective of what output those games give. The benefit visually of an up-scaled game isn’t as great as that of a game running natively at a higher resolution, however up scaling still makes the visuals look better than if it were running on a lower resolution.

Technically speaking giving the Wii HD capabilities without any hardware enhancements to the console would be the worst decision Nintendo could make. Put simply the Wii does not have the number crunching power to run a game at a HD resolution that will look any good, an upped resolution does not make a game look much better, especially when the higher resolution is at a cost to the actual in-game visuals


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Human Robot

January 7th 2007 04:26
Something like this was pretty much inevitable, what I didn’t expect was how long it took for such an inevitability to occur.

I could say all the usual and cheesy stuff like how it ‘blurs the line between what is real and what is not’ or ‘like something out of a sci-fi’ I figure I may as well just show the video so you can see just how realistically human this robot looks yet how unrealistically it moves


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Magic Mag-net-ic

January 6th 2007 14:02


I have no idea what practical uses this has but it does look like a bit of fun. It could be used as jewellery if magnets are a turn on for anyone. No it won’t try to attract metals so long as every magnet on that bracelet is linked up so there's no chance it could get annoying as a bracelet


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Spray On Clothing

January 6th 2007 11:37
Fabrican is a spray created by Manel Torres can that sprays on clothing, it does this by spraying many layers of fibre onto a surface after which the fibres latch onto themselves and form the piece of fabric around the object.

From the website


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Self Cleaning Underwear

January 6th 2007 10:26
Boffins working at the US air force have created ‘self cleaning fabric’ that has been put to good use with underwear.

The only industry that could benefit more from the underwear manufacturers would be the sports underwear manufacturers. It’s that big a discovery


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Toshiba to Launch Desktop HD-DVD Writer

January 6th 2007 09:48
Toshiba today announced a HD-DVD Writer drive the size of a standard CD/DVD drive for a desktop computer.

Besides writing to HD-DVD drivers it can also write on blank CD’s and DVD’s


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Nintendo DS iPod Clone

January 5th 2007 11:40
iPod DS Nintendo NDS iNDS iDS iPoDS
Well it isn't quite that accurate
It’s a shame it is homebrew (i.e. a hobbyist sat down and programmed this), it won’t see any retail shelves, it is also extremely limited in storage, don’t expect an iPod storage clone here.

The storage limitations are only a theory since as of now the iPod DS media player has no mp3 playback


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Casamassina, No You Didn’t!

January 5th 2007 07:55
Matt Casamassina of IGN.com has claimed that he played a Nintendo DS version of Halo. He provides no evidence, the only thing he does provide is a silly mock up photograph of a Nintendo DS with Halo running on it and claiming that it looked very much like the DS game.

Halo 3 DS port running on Nintendo DS Mock up real

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Lockheed Martin to Make Turkey’s Fly

January 5th 2007 06:57
Says the press release:

FORT WORTH, Texas, December 26, 2006 -- The U.S. government awarded a $635 million Fixed Price Incentive contract to Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] on Dec. 22 to upgrade the Turkish Air Force’s existing fleet of F-16s.

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Zombii Mii and Ninety Nine Others

January 5th 2007 05:55
Pardon the pun, I didn’t come up with it, some other guy did... no really!

This is an excellent demonstration of the Wii’s ‘Mii’ creator’s flexibility as this guy demonstrated different Mii’s from ‘Zombii’ to ‘Saddam Hussein’ to ‘Han Solo


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3rd World Farmer: The Game

January 5th 2007 05:46
3rd World Farmer is a simulator where you play the role of a farmer struggling in the third world. You have two kids and wife and have to run your farm, send your kids off to school and eventually have them marry them off.

It is a game with a political message, go call the neocons, now videogames are anti-US propaganda


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Buggy Hardware O_o

January 5th 2007 05:41
Apple just gave a whole new meaning to the term ‘buggy hardware’ when some hapless chap bought an Apple brand LCD monitor that has bugs crawling in it *underneath* the screen!

I bought an external screen for my MacBook. I'm using it for about a month with no error, but today i found very tiny little animals living in my screen. I'm 100% positive they are nog on my screen, but in it. Should I order replacement, or is this somewhat "normal" for LCD-screens?

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Beryl VS Compiz

January 5th 2007 05:28
It was only a matter of time before the open source community turned in on itself. Almost.

A member of the Compiz community in a fit of frustration went and hacked into Beryl’s mySQL database and had deleted wiki and the various Beryl related blogs


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Mode 7, Xbox 360 and Ana

January 5th 2007 04:50
What does the rendering technique ‘Mode 7’ on the Super Nintendo and the HD scaling chip on the Xbox 360 dubbed Ana have in common?

Mode 7 rendering demo on super nintendo super mario kart
Mode 7 Demonstration in Super Mario Kart
They both provide(d) the consoles they were on a distinct technical advantage, there was no ‘Mode 7’ on the Sega Genesis and there is no scaling chip on the Playstation 3


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Windows Vista ‘Aero’ Has Almost no Effect on Business Applications

January 5th 2007 04:09
Vista Aero Interface Menu
Everyone hates Microsoft ay? Ay. Ok, so when Microsoft began showing off their upcoming operating system to succeed Windows XP, Vista, people were sceptical about the performance hit the preddy visuals would incur on a system.

Well all fears can be put to rest as it apparently has little to no effect on performance


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Zune and Monsters

January 1st 2007 15:31
You wonder why they make commercials like this, but they do. Nothing to do with the product, nothing to do with anything, nothing to do with the very fabric of the space time continuum. But they make them, and they expect it to sell whatever.


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Is Technology Slowing Down Freedom of Speech?

January 1st 2007 14:24
Plenty of schools, libraries, among other institutions are wholly banned from editing Wikipedia, this comes from Wikipedia’s own system which blocks off users who continually break the Wikipedia TOS.

However there could be a problem, recently the entire nation of Qatar was banned from editing Wikipedia, not because the entire nation was vandalising Wiki articles but because a few where. Wikipedia could not distinguish between contributing members and non-contributing members because the entire nation of Qatar is represented by a single IP address


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Happy WINTER-EEN-MAS

January 1st 2007 05:35
Well it’s that time of year again, I would just like to wish all gamers out there to have a great Winter-een-mas and lots of frags.

In celebration of this event I have compiled a list of the first comic strip of every Winter-een-mas subplot: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and as of now: 2007. Enjoy


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