VG Cats + Pokemon

http://www.vgcats.com/super/?strip_id=0

If you have played Pokemon for the first few minutes of a new game, that is enough to see this.

Slashbot - Guitar Hero Robot

Playing multiplayer on Expert, the robot finished "My Name is Jonas" with 97% accuracy. Vinny, the human challenger, finished with 96% but had a higher final score.

Left side: Slashbot
Right side: Vinny

SlashBot is the Electrical Engineering senior design project at Texas A&M. The system plays Guitar Hero by analyzing the video signal.
http://slashbot.wordpress.com/

Stress Reliever

A pair of Harvard researchers say violent video games don’t turn children into killers. In their two-year study, they found that there was no data to support any causation between games and real-life violence.

Video games don’t turn children into blood-thirsty killers – Harvard research

So boys (and girls)... play at least one console or one pc game [and have fun doing so].

"A danger sign for boys is not playing video games at all, because it looks like for this generation, video games are a measure of social competence."
-Kutner and Olsen.

Intelligence hurts

Intelligence, it turns out, is a high-priced option. It takes more upkeep, burns more fuel and is slow off the starting line because it depends on learning — a gradual process — instead of instinct. Plenty of other species are able to learn, and one of the things they’ve apparently learned is when to stop.

The Cost of Smarts

Is this the reason why I have so much white hair on my head? I think too much...

TIME asked who you thought should be on the list of the 100 most influential people of the year. Over 200 candidates were given a rating of 1 to 100. And your #1 choice? Shigeru Miyamoto! The video game designer had almost 2 million votes, over 300,000 more than runner-up, Rain. After a tight race at the top, Stephen Colbert came in third place with close to 900,000 votes.

Your Time 100

Stephen Colbert got a higher rating, but he can not come close to Nintendo's infamous creator of Mario (and Donkey Kong xD....)
RAIN RAIN RAIN... ROFL

Reminiscing "Endgame"

I must be an unusual person to watch the last episode of Star Trek: Voyager "Endgame" before I fall asleep. Best Star Trek show I have enjoyed ever.

Caffiene and Skin

Coffee, tea, or ... sunscreen? That might one day happen if research into the anti-skin cancer properties of caffeine proves true. As this ScienCentral report explains, research into the effects of caffeine in mice shows it can help get rid of sun damaged skin cells before they become cancerous.

Caffeine and Skin

Hats off to the people at Rockstar. They've put up a parody of the Apple's products on their game's website.

The Unofficial Apple Weblog