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• SHIFT: Why today's video games are so bad — and how they can get better

  Published: July 26, 2007, 7:55 pm

  Tags: Shift

  Another Electronic Entertainment Expo, the annual trade show for the video game industry, has come and gone. Unlike last year — when the focus was on the launch of two video game consoles — this year was more about individual games, not so much the hardware. As a result there were plenty of titles to see… if you like playing

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• Autism Research Paradigm Shift

  Published: July 15, 2007, 2:08 am

  Tags: Autism Treatment, Applied Autism Research, University Of Minnesota, Thomas Kuhn, Scientific Revolution, Autism Knowledge Revolution, Paradigm Shift

  be accompanied by a paradigm shift in how autism is viewed. In an opinion article, TwinCities.com reviews the shift from Bettelheim's "refrigerator mom" theory which viewed autism as arising from personal interaction, or lack thereof, between mother and infant child to a genetic model which viewed autism as irreversible with the only viable

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• In Brief: NBC says talentless hack Jimmy Fallon is ...

  Published: July 30, 2007, 11:30 am

  Tags: Jimmy Fallon, The Late Shift, Why

  NBC says talentless hack Jimmy Fallon is at the top of the list to replace Conan O'Brien on "Late Night," for some deeply inexplicable reason. [B&C]

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• SHIFT: Social Etiquette in the Facebook Age

  Published: August 2, 2007, 6:55 pm

  Tags: Shift

  A few years ago, social networking was something that was for kids, lonely adults, nerds, and perverts. Today, everyone uses Facebook. This is a positive development: Facebook is fun, and it serves as a virtual White Pages for all of your friends, telling you where they are and what they're up to at all times. But now that everybody's on

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• SHIFT: The Great HDMI Swindle

  Published: August 9, 2007, 8:25 pm

  Tags: Shift

  When it comes to the quality of audio and video, there are those who claim they can see and hear angels dancing on the heads of pins when higher-priced cables are used. Instead of balletic angels, others more skeptical see and hear A/V geeks showing off how much more they think they see and hear — and how much they spent for the privilege.

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• HTC Shift gets hands on

  Published: August 13, 2007, 8:44 am

  Tags: Htc, Htc Shift, Htcshift, Shift, Umpc

  has a hands-on with the HTC Shift, the first UMPC from the traditionally cellphone only company. It appears as if HTC has a winner on its hands with the Shift, as the reviewer seems completely smitten with the device: HTC has definitely nailed the "feel" of the device in terms of balance and finish. The Pocket PC mode seems to be pretty great

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• HTC Shift gets a price: $1500 on Dynamism

  Published: August 14, 2007, 11:03 pm

  Tags: Htc, Pre Order, Shift, Umpc

  says it all, friends: HTC's Shift, both UMPC and Pocket PC Windows Mobile 6 Professional, has a pre-order price of $1500 over at Dynamism. No date is listed on the site, but with units in the wild (or, at least, a unit in the wild) we're hoping it won't be so long.[Via jkOnTheRun] Read Permalink Email this CommentsOffice Depot

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• YET ANOTHER SIGN OF IMPENDING FOOTBALL

  Published: August 15, 2007, 10:03 am

  Tags: Red Shift Fast, College Football, Coaches The Bcs Scandals Arrests Other Eccentri, Southeastern Conference

  We were stumbling around the room at 6:15 this a.m. when another sign of impending and awesome football stumbled across the CNN crawl as Sanjay Gupta told us all the bad things lead poisoning can do to you. (Why no one talks about all the upside of lead poisoning is yet another cheat the liberal MSM sells you on every day, slave!) The crawl read:

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• SHIFT: How Apple can stop stolen iPods forever

  Published: August 16, 2007, 8:25 pm

  Tags: Shift

  It happens all too often. You turn your back, and bam! Your iPod is gone. It's been pinched. Jacked. Stolen. In fact, well over 50 million iPods have been taken illegally. One tragic murder has been attributed to a stolen iPod, and consumers have spent millions of dollars replacing their jacked players. If you're one of the victims of this

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• SHIFT: Video games are not art

  Published: August 23, 2007, 8:25 pm

  Tags: Shift

  Last year, my colleague Adam Frucci took the position in his weekly column that video games are art. And in the last several months the debate has heated up with differing points of view. Film critic Roger Ebert weighed in recently to say video games are not art, while various gaming insiders — notably Newsweek's N'Gai Croal rallied to

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• Working the night shift does not increase cancer risk

  Published: August 28, 2007, 7:49 am

  Tags: Cancer, Night Shift, Nightshift

  workers, working the night shift does not increase the risk of cancer. This study was led by Judith Schwartzbaum at Ohio State. Schwartzbaum and her team analyzed over twenty years of data.Recent studies had found the opposite, that working the night shift may increase the risk of developing breast, prostate and colon cancers. Some researchers

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• HTC Shift, others to see release at Dubai's GITEX show

  Published: August 28, 2007, 7:13 pm

  Tags: Cellphone, Htc, Nike, Phone, Shift, Umpc

  LaptopsWith interest in the Shift -- HTC's foray into the wacky UMPC market -- coming to a rolling boil, we're glad to hear the company has finally shored up firm plans to get the sucker released. Vishnu Vardhan, HTC's exec for the Middle East and North Africa, says that the Shift will see an official release at Dubai's GITEX Technology Week

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• SHIFT: A eulogy for the tube TV

  Published: August 30, 2007, 7:55 pm

  Tags: Shift

  A moment of silence, please, in mourning for cathode-ray tube televisions. Certainly, LCDs and plasmas have many marked advantages over the elderly CRT. But those old screens are still better than flat panels in several ways, and they still cost less than a third of the price. After all, plasmas are at risk of getting an image permanently burnt

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• TimeShift demo now on Xbox Live Marketplace

  Published: August 31, 2007, 4:41 pm

  Tags: News, Timeshift, Time Shift, Fps, Game, Videogame, Xbox 360, Ps3, Playstation 3, Demo, Xbox Live

  TimeShift demo is now available for download on Xbox Live Marketplace. The 582MB playable TimeShift demo should give you a good idea on whether the game’s additional year of development did it right or not. The FPS game’s release date is October 30th on PC & Xbox 360 and in December 2007 on PS3. The game’s storyline

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• SHIFT: The iPhone, two months later

  Published: September 6, 2007, 8:55 pm

  Tags: Shift

  My poker buddy Seiji bought an iPhone an hour after I bought mine on June 29th. But instead of kibitzing for 13 hours in line with a couple of thousand other nincompoops at Apple's Fifth Avenue showcase store in Manhattan, he merely strolled into the Soho store at 7 p.m., walked up to the counter and bought one. Silly me. Silly everyone. Our

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