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How to Turn Shark Week Into a Drinking Game

How to Turn Shark Week Into a Drinking Game

Beware of the Hipster Shark! Discovery Channel’s Shark Week has become somewhat of a holiday around the country, or more accurately, around the offices of the Discovery Channel. And while it does boost the network’s ratings by a ton, it is also—in its 23rd year—becoming slightly tiresome.

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Updated: Top 20 best free games you should play today

Updated: Top 20 best free games you should play today

Whether you play games all the time or just want something to fill a few quiet moments here and there during the day, passing the time doesn’t need to be expensive. Yes, you need to break out your wallet if you want the latest big AAA shooter, but the free route is becoming increasingly interesting. Many older games are now opening out in search of a wider audience, and more and more companies are finding ways to profit from free releases

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Cooliris turns Wikipedia into an iPad magazine

Cooliris turns Wikipedia into an iPad magazine

The first thing that should come to mind when you think of Cooliris is photos. The company is well known for its imaging products, which include a very snazzy cross-platform browser add-on , an iPhone app , and embedded Web site and mobile phone technology . All of these are able to turn a collection of photos into an interactive, 3D wall, be it in on your browser, Web site, or cell phone.

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Review: ZTE F930

Review: ZTE F930

Touchscreens are where its at with mobile phones, and increasingly that means not just at the top end of the range but at the middle and lower ends too. Take the ZTE F930, for example

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Gary Marshall: The Facebook movie is just the start

Gary Marshall: The Facebook movie is just the start

Flying in the face of everything that’s good and lovely about the world, Facebook has hit the 500 million user mark – and it’s so popular Hollywood is making a movie, The Social Network , about it.

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Sponsored: Get instant answers and find needles in haystacks

This is a sponsored article in association with Microsoft Online information tends to be pretty linear: “search for this”, “show me that”, “find me a picture of a tiger stuck up a tree eating a clown” and so on. But what happens when you don’t know what it is you’re looking for, or if you can’t express what you want in simple search criteria, or when you want to identify and explore the links between all kinds of different things? Wouldn’t it be great if you could amble down avenues of information to see what catches your eye, or chuck all of your data in a bag and shake it until something interesting or exciting falls out?

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Survey: Facebook fails at customer satisfaction

Who’s worst at customer satisfaction–airline companies, your local cable provider, or Facebook? Well, according to a new study from ForeSee Results, all three are in the dumps, scoring poor grades among consumers

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At 2,000 miles, Road Trip 2010 hits the suburbs

At 2,000 miles, Road Trip 2010 hits the suburbs

Road Trip 2010 crossed the 2,000 mile mark in Southington, Conn. Where will he be at 3,000 miles? (Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET) SOUTHINGTON, Conn.–If you’re going to hit 2,000 of miles of driving while traveling through the Northeast, I can think of a lot of places a lot more interesting than where I did.

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Google finds perks in its Wikipedia translations

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible, but not necessarily to create it outright. This makes Wikipedia a natural partner. It’s therefore no surprise to hear when the search colossus helps out the cooperatively written project

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The Greatest ‘Rock N’ Jock Softball’ All-Stars Of All Time

It’s hard to imagine MC Hammer and Kevin Costner in any other list, in Bigger Than the Sound. By James Montgomery Dan Cortese, Jon Stewart and George Clooney at MTV’s sixth annual ?Rock N’ Jock Softball?

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