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Museums: Eye-popping accumulations
From an interactive show exploring Leonardo da Vinci’s fecund imagination to an exhibition highlighting Maurice Sendak’s use of line and texture in his children’s-book illustrations, and another taking the measure of spies, traitors, and saboteurs in American history, the region’s museums will offer an eclectic potpourri of exhibitions that should find wide appeal among children and adults.
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iPhone Silver Lining: Used Handset Deals
The Verizon iPhone release has created an unusually good secondhand market.
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100 trends shaping our West Coast lifestyle
Discover the top 100 ideas, people, places, and things that are making life out here on the West Coast better right now.
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Weird Gadgets Unusual Gifts Ideas – Pac Man Heat Changing Mug – Arcade Machine Money Box

Hands up who loves Pac-Man? If you’re not reaching for the sky we can only assume you’re twiddling your joystick as you read. Because despite being thirty years old, Pac-Man is still the most addictive game in the world. Power pellets and glowing ghosties – what’s not to love? Wakkawakka!

With this in mind we’re always on the lookout for Pac Man related products – and here’s a real humdinger. Officially licensed, the Pac-Man Heat Changing Mug is emblazoned with the legendary Pac-Man maze. But fill it with tea, coffee or any other hot liquid and the pellet-chomping icon appears, as if by magic, along with his ghostly pursuers and a whole heap of power pills. ‘Ulp!

A brilliant pressie for geeky tea drinkers and anyone who habitually handed over their pocket money to Mr Namco, this eye-catching vessel will have you pining for those thumb-blistering days the second you clap eyes on it. ‘Quick, the cherries!’

Arcade Machine Money Box

Fingerless day-glo gloves. Betamax. Flashdance. Frankie says. Yes siree, the Eighties have got plenty to answer for. And let’s not even mention all that pocket money you squandered on arcade games. Dum, dum, dum, dum.

Thankfully your one-time financial nemesis is about to become your fiscal saviour because the brilliant Arcade Machine Money Box will swallow your shrapnel for all the right reasons. Simply deposit a coin and prepare to be amazed as this retro-tastic machine comes to life, allowing you to play a thumb-blisteringly addictive invaders-style game for two minutes.

When only thirty seconds of thrilling dodging and shooting remain, an alarm sounds – insert another coin or it’s game over. Aargh! If only real banks offered such a compelling incentive to deposit cash. Crummy interest rates? Pah!

Put this evocative 15cm cabinet on a desk or shelf and we guarantee the memories will come flooding back – high scores, blippity-blop music, the smell of burning retinas, the incessant clattering of coins. Mum, lend us 10p!

Sadly this particular cabinet is a bit too small to side-slap in frustration, and it’s battery operated so you can’t unplug it from the mains when you’re about to lose (or was that just us?). On the plus side the thought of blasting blocky aliens should provide sufficient motivation for all you old-school vidiots to save a considerable pile of wonga. Then in true Eighties style you can go and blow the lot down the arcade. It’s like the last thirty years never happened. Game (and short term financial crisis) over!

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VLC Media Player 1.0.0 RC1

VLC media player

VideoLan has release VLC Media Player 1.0.0 RC1. If you’ve ever used VLC, you will have know that it virtually support any file type you ever use before. These are some basic feature it provide during playback:
* Instantaneous pausing
* Frame-by-Frame playback
* Finer speed control
* On-the-fly recording for all medias
* Timeshift for most medias
* RTSP trickplay support
* Subtitles core improvements and fixes

For complete features you can check it out at filehippo under changelog. It is still very new so you will not be able to find more information at the main page of VideoLan.

via lifehacker

Look!! What your tap water can do?

Be careful, next time when you feel your water taste or smell funny better to a check before drinking it.