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I was just reading an interesting piece on the greatest years in video game history. They start with 1980, talking about Pac-Man, Space Invaders and others. You look at the basic graphics and smile with a warm nostalgic feeling, you realise the graphics are no match for a game that came out that same year, one that they also mention.

It is in fact a game who’s graphics have never been surpassed since. In fact, modern games don’t even come close. It wasn’t alone though. A whole series of games from that era had graphics to die for. 100% life-like, 3 dimensional.

And why are we still waiting for that game and its peers’ graphics to be surpassed?
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Sooner or later you need a font. So I’ve put together this post which is a lists of a few sites dedicated to free fonts.

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I read with great interest about a study in the USA that found that road accident deaths on highways went down over the last 10 years after the increasing of speed limits.Read about it on the Wall Street Journal: Safe at Any Speed Here in Victoria, Australia there has been a very questionable campaign featuring the slogan “Wipe of 5 and save lives”.

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The Web page that started them all, created by Tim Berners-Lee.
Check out a bit of history. It’s not often you can see the first of anything.
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Trusted Reviews provides a first look at the Ninentdo Wii, and the are very impressed. Get over an read the whole review, it’ll leave you salivating

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A very refreshing news website where any news that is posted is good news. Technological, environmental, social, and medical news plus much more. Content can be localized.
A better way to start your day.
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A very useful quick tutorial on using the Google Synonym operator to perform better and more interesting searches by using the tilde i.e. ~ to search for synonyms of words
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Greg Apodaca’s web portfolio showcases some of the most amazing photoshopping around. This is worth checking out to see who the real models are behind the magazine covers who we try to emulate. His site shows the original scans followed by his retouching of each image.
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Professor June Entman warned her first-year law students by e-mail to bring pens and paper to take notes in class and that laptops would not be allowed.
From USAToday:
“My main concern was they were focusing on trying to transcribe every word that was I saying, rather than thinking and analyzing,” Entman said Monday. “The computers interfere […]

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But you can’t expect that, it would drive the prices too high.

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