Dave Woods: Trolley Challenge comes to a welcomed end w/ Trolley Talk video, virtual trolley tour & poll (The Joplin Globe)

September 27, 2009

I admit, I felt vindicated last week when Lakeshia Smith told me she was ready for the Globe’s Trolley Challenge to conclude. It was music to my trolley-fatigued ears.

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Video games used to treat posttraumatic stress (American Medical Association)

September 27, 2009

Research is under way to find out whether use of virtual reality systems can have positive results for veterans.

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The BBC’s big beast takes a virtual walk on the wild side (Independent)

September 27, 2009

I am watching astonishing footage of a large polar bear single-handedly attacking an entire herd of walruses. As the bear sets about a tusked female in an effort to prise away her pup, the familiar voice of David Attenborough tells me that “the bear’s claws and teeth can’t penetrate her thick hide”.

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Ondoy turns Pampanga into virtual sea (Sun Star)

September 27, 2009

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO — Tropical storm Ondoy unleashed its fury in this province on Saturday and high flood waters reaching as much as five feet flooded low lying municipalities and most parts of this city. read more

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Virtual graveyard aims to preserve remains of old administrations (KGW NewsChannel 8 Portland)

September 27, 2009

It was a historian’s nightmare. During the change from the Clinton to the Bush administration, Web sites affiliated with the Clinton White House went dark, and an unknown number of online documents and files were forever lost.

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Local News (u.tv)

September 27, 2009

Last year will go down in history as the point at which the UK videogames industry pulled decisively away from cinema, recorded music and DVD sales to become the country’s most valuable purchased entertainment market, with combined software and hardware sales topping the £4bn mark for the first time: more than DVD and music sales combined, and more than four times cinema box office takings.

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