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AP - With the summer camp season fast approaching, kids across the country will be stocking up on hiking shoes, bug spray and other necessities for adventures in the great outdoors. Thousands of others, however, will be enjoying adventures of the indoor variety: creating video games, building robots and designing Web pages.

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Forget about hacking together your own cordless Skype
phone—Chat-Cord is selling a switch that’ll let you use any regular wireline phone to connect to make both VoIP
and regular PSTN phone calls. The Chat-Chord PSTN Switch isn’t anything all that special, when it comes down to it,
it’s just a couple of RJ11 sockets, some of cables for connecting to your PC’s audio card, and some Skype remote
dialler software.

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Limor Fried, who made that Wave Bubble cellphone cone
of silence we hit up earlier this month, also created a little something called the Media-Sensitive Glasses as part of
her MIT thesis project, Social Defense Mechanisms: Tools for Reclaiming our Personal Space.  This one is a
pair of glasses with lenses that are supposed to protect you from the mind-numbing effects of TV by using a photo
detection circuit by automatically going dark whenever you look at a television screen courtesy of a built-in photo
sensor. The glasses can also be recalibrated to work with computer monitors for those addicted to, uh, checking their
email. [PDF warning]

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AFP - China is to release a set of new rules to vet the content of online games as part of a campaign to combat what it sees as harmful influences on the young, state media said.

AP - A state in Japan has decided to ban a U.S. video game from being sold or rented to minors, after officials deemed it harmful and capable of inciting violence.

Antanas Guoga, known in the poker world as Tony G was named the CEO of online poker room Poker Champs (http://www.pokerchamps.com) today, in a move that was welcomed by shareholders. Poker Champs is the online home of Gus Hansen, and Gus personall

Full Tilt Poker, one of the fastest growing online poker sites, announced today the launch of their newly redesigned website. The new site, www.fulltiltpoker.com, is the gateway to Full Tilt Poker’s cutting-edge online poker software, as well as a hu

Chuck Champion, CEO of Youbet.com, has a dream: He wants to revive off-track betting on horse racing as a thriving Internet business. He’s out to clean up the gaming industry’s image, too. Unlike the many gaming and bookmaking Web sites that find hom

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Strange that there’s a word for this. I wonder if you ever use it to say anything other than 嗑瓜子 - Ke4 Gua1 Zi3 - Crack Melon Seeds?

Update: Jenny reports that in her family they have never 嗑瓜子. Instead they 啃瓜子 - Ken3 Gua1 Zi3 - Gnaw Melon Seeds.

Further update: I am also required to report that Jenny’s Grandmother’s 啃瓜子 technique is unstoppable.

CALGARY (CP) - Gambling software company Chartwell Technology Inc. has paid $4 million for online poker developer Micropower Corp. of Gibraltar.

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Viagra, approved to treat erectile dysfunction, should not be used by men with heart conditions whose doctors have warned them not to have sex. Also, patients taking drugs that contain nitrates have been warned not to take Viagra because of sudden, unsafe drops in blood pressure.
The drug…