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http://www.freyburg.com [Freyburg.com] first a retrospective on the glory that is Pac Man, which recently got re-released on Xbox LIve and which holds up after two decades. Next, a look into the wild world of drug-soaked LAN parties(!)

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[Smartpei.typepad.com] Robert Paterson's Weblog: Musings: All over Russia this week, in Beslan as everywhere else, those rivers of flowers would have flowed along the streets, the whole continent of the country running with streams and cataracts of the dahlias, gladioli and chrysanthemums the Russians had picked from their allotment and dacha gardens, the private gestures of a traumatised country whose century-long sufferings are still, it seems, far from over.

http://itscout.blogspot.com [Itscout.blogspot.com] ITscout Blog: The White House leadership along with legislation from the Republican-controlled Congress (House and Senate) has brought us (in no particular order): Iraqi Mess-o-potamia, Guantonamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, warrantless wiretap surveillance, Katrina, Social Security, Medicare Prescription Drugs, Tom DeLay, Jack Abramoff, Duke Cunningham, Bill Frist, Scooter Libby, tax cuts for the wealthy, budget cuts slashing assistance to students, children and seniors, astronomical budgets, astronomical deficits, astronomical oil company profits, astronomical gasoline prices, astronomical trade deficits, Halliburton, global warming, stem-cell research, leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson... and on and on and on.

[West-of-house.net] Hillside Meditations: The SaveKQIX website is very well done and really informative, telling about the History of KQ, offering a forum for fans and the most important King´ s Quest weblinks , as well as a page offering several ways for the interested to help and try and “save KQIX” (emailing to Vivendi, spreading the word about the website - like I am doing at the moment, linking to the website or writing paper letters to Vivendi Universal Games).

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