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Play your favorite 1980s arcade games online. FREE! Shockwave, Java and DOS video games for your PC. Brought to you by Triplets and Us Now that classes are done for the semester, I found how I'm going to spend the next couple of weeks! Just kidding... I hope!

Hutchison Effect - American Antigravity Here's how to create your very own hoax (and I only needed to use common sense for this one -- no Googling or anything... yet.): Step 1: Attach a camera to a piece of plywood Step 2: Set something on the plywood. Use a tiny bit of sticky tape or such for a more dramatic effect Step 3: Turn plywood upside down Step 4: Send footage to Coast-to-Coast AM web site

I just saw my favorite commercial -- one for Zoloft, with that poor little depressed blob that gets to be all happy and bouncy when it goes on an antidepressant. If I ever need an antidepressant, I'm asking my doctor for... well, at that point I probably won't remember the name "Zoloft", and I'll have to ask my doctor for "the one with the cute little blob", at which point he'll probably do more than just give me an antidepressant. And, frankly, I'm lying to you; I don't even have a doctor. I just go to whichever one is available at the clinic my HMO will pay for. SO can't even "ask my doctor" anything. :) Someone else had the same love for the commercial that I did, and you can find her question (and its answer) here .

Yahoo! News - Will Windows Power the Living Room? : " I can't wait until 2006! Seriously, this is an interesting idea (the pieces are in place to do it now) but it'll be awhile before it's all pulled together... 'This is not a product announcement; it is a demonstration of a concept,' he says. 'Over the next 12 to 18 months you will see many of the technologies that we are showing here shipping in PCs. The full end-to-end scenario of the concept, we're thinking is kind of a 2006 scenario.' "