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By Anonymous  FORT LEE Laura Wellington won the Forbes Enterprise Award this month for her company, The Giddy Gander. It produces an animated TV series for preschoolers called "The Wumblers," that has been picked up by two cable networks.
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Humanoid devices will be used to encourage interest in science and technology.
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A school playground, an eco-therapy unit and a council's twin- bin recycling scheme are among those shortlisted for an award for ecological innovation.   The County Durham Environment Award winners will be announced tomorrow with the successful projects receiving cash prizes.
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By David Williams, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn.  Feb. 14--Imagine an adventure sprung from the pages of a comic book.  Imagine a real-life version of a video game.
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Gabe: I had planned on making a couple posts last week but I ended up getting some kind of devil virus. It was the sort of sick where you don't really sleep. You just curl up in the bathroom and hallucinate that wolves are encircling you. I'm feeling better now though.I had wanted to talk about some stuff but I forgot almost all of it during my spirit quest. Let me see if I can remember anything. Sorry if this is sort of scattershot.I did go to the Pokemon Tournament and I ended up taking fourth. It was my first tourney and I was using a pretty crazy deck I'd built just a few days prior. Kiko also went and he took fifth even though we had the same win loss record during the day. They used some special Pokemon math to push me in to the final four and give him fifth. I pretty proud of both of us. It was a new level of competition that we'd never seen before and I think we played really well.If you're a fan of Transformers I highly recommend the new animated series on Cartoon Network. Some people might be turned off by the look but I think it's incredible. It's got a very Teen Titans look which makes sense seeing as it's by the same people. Even in vehicle mode these transformers are expressive and full of character. I read Amulet over the weekend (don't believe the date on his site, it is already in stores) and if you are a fan of comics I suggest you do the same. I don't want to say too much about it. I think that Kazu is one of the most talented individuals working in comics today. With Amulet he has created something timeless. I've collected all your Dickerdoodle pictures and there's some pretty great stuff in there. Give me some time to sort through them and I'll start posting my favorites soon. I'll get Tycho to help me pick a winner and we'll find something cool here in the office as a prize.-Gabe out
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Tycho:  Rhythm games aren't my forte, but I have a lot of inbuilt experience with meter which helps me fake it until I can build genuine skill.  And, as rhythm elements have crept into the entire medium, Tycho stock has been in a boom phase.  It's understandable, then, that while I soar and illuminate - and Gabriel sputters, bound to earth - tensions related to my prowess have begun to burn red-hot.  That is, until they cool again.  These things have a way of working themselves out in the fullness of time.          There's an incredible article over at Wired this month (and possibly also in the magazine?) about the Bungie's psychological approach to game design.  What a tremendous challenge it must be to retain authorial control in such a case!  As someone whose output is rarely screened by any agency, the whole thing gave me chills.  The right to fail nobly in a creative endeavor (as we sometimes do) is such a powerful luxury.  No such luxury may be extended to them, upon whose toil an entire platform rests.  God keep me from such a fate.          I keep hearing that Metroid Prime 3: Corruption isn't being promoted very well, but the person saying this always seems to know about it, and then when people share this complaint in the thread those people also seem to be "in the know."  It ships on the twenty-seventh of August, if you weren't aware - but since you almost certainly are, we needn't dwell on it.  What we should be dwelling on are the series of teaser vids that Retro has been trickling out.  Metroid's largely mysterious heroine has always been a huge draw for me, and going into deep detail about the character would actually damage the mystique.  But the universe she operates in need not be vague, which is why these clips are such a rich meal:  there's the Aurora Unit trailer that modernizes ancient Metroid canon in a classy way, and there's a treat at the end of the Valhalla trailer that ties it all together.  They both cover a setting that has gotten darker and more sophisticated, tones we don't typically associate with Nintendo.       We like to get kicks in on the post-Harmonix Guitar Hero, partly based on their "wacky" multiplayer concept - which ordinary gamers will probably love - but also out of a sort of tribal loyalty.  This having been established, they've built an authentically heroic tracklist that really has a lot of beef.  Going from the most recent Rock Band announcement out of Leipzig, both versions appear to have Radiohead's "Creep" and the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage," which is something of a comfort.  After seeing different songs on each game from Metallica and The Rolling Stones, I wasn't sure if they were already traveling down the catalogues securing exclusive weaponry.  I hope that the labels in this case see the old wisdom of arming both sides.
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The previous article introduced the Doodle drawing application. This week, an application framework is added, complete with a document-view architecture. This powerful programming technique separates the document data from the view. By Guyon Roche. 0929
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Move over, junior. Grandma and grandpa are joining the wave in video and computer games as makers step up efforts to promote the software as brain-healthy exercises.
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Life & style: Blokarting, octopush, goalball - weird new fusion games are being invented all the time to encourage more people to play sport. Anyone for blackminton?
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Attraverso tale camera si potranno visualizzare in tempo reale qualsiasi immagine ripresa da un videofonino o computer anche in zone non coperte da Wi-Fi o Bluetooth. Il prototipo Ã¨ stato studiato nei laboratori
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A camera-equipped robot, a three-wheeled car and avatars were the subjects of some of this week's video highlights.
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By Andrea Weigl, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb.
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Over the past nine months, steady progress has been made to improve Tux Paint and implement features requested by teachers and parents.  This has culminated into the first major release this year of the highly acclaimed childrenâs art software. Tux Paint 0.9.14 introduces several new features, including a highly-anticipated, easy-to-use configuration tool for parents and teachers, and a multi-layered coloring book mode. Reflecting its international team and focus, Tux Paint is currently available in over 45 different languages.   For more information, and to download Tux Paint, visit: http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/
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The 'ImageJ Plugins' project is a source of custom plugins for the Image/J software. Image/J is a public domain image processing and analysis program developed in Java (http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/).   Version 1.2 of the core ij-plugins is available.    Improvements: * sRGB  XYZ  CIE L*a*b* conversion modified to use approach presented   at http://www.brucelindbloom.com/. * Improvements to maximum entropy threshold plugins.  Bug fixes: * BUG-1503298: MetaImage Reader did not support some of MetaImage tags. * BUG-1812587: FastMedian Exception for even kernel size. * BUG-1881444: k-means macro always showed animations.  There are 26 plugins in this release:  * 3D IO   -- MetaImage Reader   -- MetaImage Writer   -- VTK Reader   -- VTK Writer  * 3D Toolkit   -- Connected Threshold Grower   -- Auto Clip Volume   -- Morphological Dilate 3D   -- Morphological Erode 3D  * Color (and miltiband images)   -- RGB to CIE L*a*b* stack   -- CIE L*a*b* stack to RGB   -- RGB to YCbCr stack   -- YCbCr stack to RGB   -- Multiband Sobel edges   -- Multiband Difference edges   -- Multiband Gradient edges   -- Intensity shift  * Filters   -- Coherence Enhancing Diffusion   -- Directional Coherence   -- Fast Median   -- Perona-Malik Anisotropic Diffusion   -- Speckle Reducing Anisotropic Diffusion  * Segmentation   -- k-means Clustering   -- Maximum Entropy Threshold   -- Maximum Entropy Multi-Threshold  * Graphics   -- Image Quilter
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This innovative software gets students excited about words - improving reading, writing, and communication skills. Search results are presented in thought-provoking Thinkmap visual display.
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Plus: Mashups for the masses and HD Video in a Digital Camera.
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This week you're going to learn how to create a Color Picker similar to the one used in Photoshop, but entirely in JavaScript! By Mark Kahn. 0901