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Make a better world

Fancy being a superhero and saving the whole damned planet? Well, you can. It turns out all that nonsense about mutation or irradiated spiders wasn’t at all necessary. All you have to do is simply buy a book.
Better World Books
Better World Books is a US-based online bookseller founded by college students who decided to start a business with the unusual goal of being socially responsible and making a better world. Better World Books does this by selling books and using the profits to fund literacy programmes worldwide.

If that wasn’t noble enough, Better World Books is also a launch partner for Carbonfund.org, an organisation that helps offset carbon emissions. Remember, kids, don’t be an enemy of Earth; stop global wanging.
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By Gobi – Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Vader’s caring fist

The charitable Stormtroopers. “Where else can I dress up like an action figure and help kids?”

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By Gobi – Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Mind games

On games and gamers. “… the average American video game player is now 35 years old and has been playing games for 12 years, while the average frequent buyer of games is 40 … with women over 18 representing a far greater portion of the game-playing population … than boys aged 17 or younger …”

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By Gobi – Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Master of fantasy

Amano Yoshitaka interviewed. “In the 60s, many including myself were influenced by American pop art for our animations. In the meantime, (Murakami Takashi), who was influenced by our works, entered the American art scene and calls his style Japanese pop culture.”

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By Gobi – Tuesday, June 3, 2008

PS2

Being a risk-taking, gung ho early adopter always on the cutting edge of gaming, I got myself a Playstation 2 yesterday, only eight years after it was first introduced.

I got the SCPH-90006, which is the slim PS2 model introduced in late 2007. Aside from being ridiculously thin and light — if it were anymore slimmer and lighter, it could qualify as a handheld gaming device — the latest hardware iteration of the console features a built-in power adapter, making it compact enough for the desktop.

As I planned to slowly work my way through Play-Asia’s stocks of PS2 Region 1 Greatest Hits titles, I got myself a modded PS2. I’m told the mod chip used is the Super 7 chip. I can’t seem to find any details about its abilities but truth be told, the only feature that matters to me is it allows me to play region 1 games on my region 3 console.

The first thing I had to figure out was how I was going to view and hear the PS2 as it includes several AV options.
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By Gobi – Thursday, May 29, 2008