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In the past two weeks, THREAT LEVEL reporters have managed to draw the wrath of two different cultural tribes renown for their resolve and certitude: Apple fanatics, and Ron Paul enthusiasts.

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Home gaming started with Pong, but Pong got old fast. You'd blow your allowance at the arcade, come home and play your one-game console unit.

In general, Newsvine users are a tech-savvy bunch. Almost all of them read blogs and many are bloggers in their own right.

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MSNBC.com said it has acquired Newsvine Inc., a Seattle based Web firm that operates Newsvine.com, a community-based news aggregator.

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1986: The existence of Israel's secret nuclear weapons program is revealed by a former nuclear-plant technician, whose story is published by The Sunday Times of London.

In the most recent edition of Wired Magazine, they declare that "Staying Creative" is the new 'in' thing when compared with "Becoming Happier" and "Getting Smarter." (page 52)

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At age 69, Ridley Scott is finally satisfied with his most challenging film.

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RICHARDSON, Texas (AP) -- David Hanson has two little Zenos to care for these days. There's his 18-month-old son Zeno, who prattles and smiles as he bounds through his father's cramped office. Then there's the robotic Zeno.

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Selling telecom services to New Yorkers is like selling crack on the Lower East Side in the '80s. Telltale signs of our addiction include shortened attention span, carpal tunnel syndrome, nearsightedness and possession of a vast body of trivial knowledge.

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The X Prize Foundation (the people who brought you the $10 million dollar Ansari X Prize for the first private sub-orbital flights won by Scaled Composites' Burt Rutan) just sent out an invitation to the September 13th, 2007 announcement of their next, and largest ever, space pri …

QUOTE: "In my career as a gamer, I've racked up quite a virtual body count. And I've just taken down one more: Big Daddy, a hulking monster with a giant drill bit for an arm. I had to unload all my armor-piercing rounds into his body suit, and I barely escaped with my life.

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Effective with this sentence, Wired News will no longer capitalize the "I" in internet.
At the same time, Web becomes web and Net becomes net.
Why? The simple answer is because there is no earthly reason to capitalize any of these words. Actually, there never was.

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A girl pictured as doing her homework in the super connected home.

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Inflammatory, I know. But I'm not the first person to suggest as much. Last month, Scott McNulty over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog floated the same idea and commenters here on Compiler have said as much as well.

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Google has shut down Facebook Secrets, the Blogger blog that gained notoriety when the anonymous author posted code from the recent Facebook server snafu. The mysterious owner of Facebook Secrets is not going down without a fight, however.

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Uwe Boll isn't happy with Wired's review of Postal. We attended the US premiere of the game-to-movie director's latest film and didn't find it especially funny. Boll, in turn, doesn't find us especially funny. Here's the email we receieved [sic] yesterday evening:

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Here is Wired News' selection of the best educational resources on the net. Sure, the sites on this list aren't going to replace Wikipedia or Google, or even a trip to the local public library.

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Use of live video internet in murder trial of Marines in Haditha, Iraq. From Wired.

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Americans are spending more on technological services then ever before. Here is how it breaks down.

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Wired.com set up a really slick, March Madness-style tournament to determine the greatest gadget of all time. From Walkman to iPod, and StarTac to iPhone (which you can win).
This is fantastic. My final four was: iPod, Tivo, Commodore 64 and StarTac.

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Wired.com - Those crazy Dutch researchers are at it again.

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Microsoft has revealed the release date for its forthcoming Chatpad, a small keyboard designed to attach to the Xbox 360 controller.

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Whether it's citizens appearing at local zoning-board meetings with elaborate Google Earth presentations or the Air Force using the app to reach victims during Hurricane Katrina, the new mapmaking is about much more than spotting your house in a satellite photo.

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Wish someone would have seeded something about this in April when the first 5k to upload a picture of themselves were delivered a copy of the magazine with their mug on the cover! Too bad I missed out on this. Would have been nice to put on the resume.

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Not only did they post screenshots, they also got the good ol'' cease and desist letter. Fun times!