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Obama condoms vs. McCain condoms

Yes, you read that right — Obama condoms.

The last remnant

The Associated Press reports:

An entrepreneur has decided to have fun with the U.S. presidential campaign by marketing condoms featuring images of the candidates, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain. Benjamin Sherman, who created the company Practice Safe Policy, says the Obama condom carries the slogan “Use With Good Judgment.” The McCain version says “Old But Not Expired” - a reference to the candidate’s relatively old age of 71. According to the Web site, McCain condoms are battle-tested, strong and durable, for those occasions when “you just need to switch your position”! While the company can’t guarantee the condoms are 100 percent effective, it says it’s certain that without wearing one, there’s likely to be an Obama-Mama in your future.

Here, meanwhile, is the image for the McCain condoms:

And the marvels of capitalism continue…

UPDATE: Here’s even more political coverage:

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Go Home Already: Shoe and No U

photo (and subtitle concept) by sandygbandy

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How To Add Exceptions To Windows Firewall?

this is a guest notify by aseem kishore, the captain blogger suited for helpdeskgeek.com, which focuses on providing helpers desk tips to it professionals. hope for to write a customer post for us? drop us a line using the contact us form. windows firewall blocks incoming network connections to your computer to help take care of it from malicious programs … related posts:

India England 2008 schedule

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india, after beating australia will take on england on nov14 which is the first of the seven odi match series and although followed by 2 test matches .india after beating australia is in its prime form and leave endeavour to attack england from the surrender go.england mean while have a young and dynamic captain pieterson who is in fait accompli in great form and are boosted after the conquest that against south africa.the great rivalry that to watch will be between anderson and gautam , yuvraj and broad, and ofcourse the captains tactics of both the dynamical captains dhoni and pieterson. hence it will be areally great go when both teams compete fit the title. the first match of series resolution take place in rajkot.india will be missing sachin and ishant for the first odi which is in inside info a eximious blow for india . ishant in prime pose need have to recover from the mistreatment , mean while zaheer will lead the squad and bowling part . sidebottom who will be missing from the englad squad. the home cooperate longing have its due advantage of the match practice and that they had again st australia and hence it have a great advantage. england struggled against a domestic team in their repetition match held here in india, they are aware of the subcontinent pitches and actually want try to be in great hub.nov 14 - 1st odi (rajkot)nov 17 - 2nd odi (indore)nov 20 - 3rd odi (kanpur)nov 23 - 4th odi (bangalore) day/nightnov 26 - 5th odi (cuttack) day/nightnov 29 - 6th odi (guwahati)dec 2 - 7th odi (delhi) day/nightdec 5-7 - warm-up match (baroda)dec 11-15 - 1st try out (ahmedabad)dec 19-23 - 2nd test (cci mumbai)hours of tomfoolery (local time)check up on matches schedule9.30-11.3012.10-14.1014.30-16.30odi matches scheduletime matches:9.00-12.3013.15-16.45day match at guwahati:8.30-12.0012.45-16.00day gloom matches:14.30-18.0018.45-22.1soucres -: http://nsemarket.wordpress.com
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Games Without Frontiers: Victory in Vomit — The Sickening Secret of ‘Mirror’s Edge’

mirror’s edge screenshot courtesy electronic arts

By now you have probably heard the warning: Playing Mirror’s Edge will make you vomit.

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The hot new videogame is a sort of “first-person runner”: You’re a courier who travels across the rooftops of a locked-down, police-state city, delivering black-market messages by using acrobatic feats of parkour. You’re constantly leaping over gaps 40 stories in the air, tightrope-walking along suspended pipes and vaulting up walls like a ninja.

It doesn’t do justice to call the action in Mirror’s Edge “intense”: It quivers, like a hummingbird, and your first-person view is constantly whipsawing like a paranoid cameraman hunting for the best shot.

Only 15 minutes into the game, my mouth began overproducing saliva, and I had to pause the action for a few seconds to avoid carsickness. I would feel like a total lamer, but apparently even the Penny Arcade guys wrestled with nausea.

Still, it made me wonder: What makes Mirror’s Edge so different? Sure, the action is swoopy and vertiginous, just as it is in many other games. But I’ve played plenty of first-person shooters that required me to navigate ridiculous, zero-G boss lairs that were suspended over improbable heights, and none of those ever made me feel nauseated.

Why does this game get its hooks into my brain so effectively? Why does it feel so much more visceral?

I think it’s because Mirror’s Edge is the first game to hack your proprioception.

That’s a fancy word for your body’s sense of its own physicality ? its “map” of itself. Proprioception is how you know where your various body parts are ? and what they’re doing ? even when you’re not looking at them. It’s why you can pass a baseball from one hand to another behind your back; it’s how you can climb stairs without looking down at your feet.

Most first-person shooters do not create any sense of proprioception. You may be looking out the eyes of your character, but you don’t have a good sense of the dimensions of the rest of your virtual body ? the size and stride of your legs, the radius of your arms. At most, you can see your arms carrying your rifle out in front of you. But otherwise, the designers treat your body as if it were just a big, refrigerator-size box.

Worse, in most games your virtual body cannot do even the most simple things that it ought to be able to do. Every time I’m playing a first-person shooter, I’ll inevitably try to jump or walk up onto an object ? a ledge, a curb, a railing along a wall ? and discover that I can’t. The designers decided they didn’t need to worry about those subtle physics, and the resulting limitation completely breaks the illusion that I’m in that virtual body.

Mirror’s Edge, in contrast, does something very subtle, but very radical. It lets you see other parts of your body in motion.

When you run, you see your hands pumping up and down in front of you. When you jump, your feet briefly jut up into eyeshot ? precisely as they do when you’re vaulting over a hurdle in real life. And when you tuck down into a somersault, you’re looking at your thighs as the world spins around you.

What’s more, the Mirror’s Edge world feels tactile and graspable. Because the game is designed around the concept of parkour, or moving through obstacles, most times when you see something that looks like you could jump on it, you can. The gameplay requires it.

The upshot is that these small, subtle visual cues have one big and potent side effect: They trigger your sense of proprioception. It’s why you feel so much more “inside” the avatar here than in any other first-person game. And it explains, I think, why Mirror’s Edge is so curiously likely to produce motion sickness. The game is not merely graphically realistic; it’s neurologically realistic.

Indeed, the sense of physicality is so vivid that, for me anyway, the most exhilarating part of the game wasn’t the obvious stuff, like leaping from rooftop to rooftop. No, I mostly got a blast from the mere act of running around. I’ve never played a game that conveyed so beautifully the athletically kinetic joys of sprinting ? of jetting down alleyways, racing along rooftops and taking corners like an Olympian. It’s an interesting lesson of game physics: When you feel like you’re truly inside your character, speed suddenly means something.

The opposite is also true. Without a sense of physicality, speed feels lifeless. In Halo, you’re playing as the cyborgically enhanced Master Chief, so your top speed at an open run is ? according to Halo nerd canon ? 30 mph or something. But it …

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Pop singer Rihanna cancels Indonesia show

rihanna has canceled a concert scheduled friday in indonesia over security concerns.

dump purnomo, a spokeswoman also in behalf of the event organizer, said the 20-year-veteran singer had been scheduled to perform before a sold-out crowd of 6,000 in the capital, jakarta.

but acheter levitra she changed her mind while in australia, one of several countries that issued a travel consultative to citizens in indonesia after the weekend executions of three islamic militants convicted in the 2002 bali bombings.

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Can the U.S. CTO avoid being steamrolled by bureaucracy?

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Tonight In Rock: The Who, Beck, Onyx, Charlie Wadhams

beck will be playing tonight at billy nokia photo by ingrid renan via beck’s website

Our Pick: Beck, Jenny Lewis @ Club Nokia

Tonight we’ve got our fair share of shows, but nothing extraordinary. Legendary English rock band the Who will be playing their second and final night at the Nokia Theatre in Downtown. Much to our surprise, NY-based hip hop group Onyx will be playing a reunion show at the Echoplex. And local folk singer/song-writer Charlie Wadhams will be kicking off the first night of a month-long Sunday Residency at Tangier. But we recommend stopping by Club Nokia, which just opened its doors earlier this month, to catch LA mainstay Beck (LAist Review, #2) in all his glory. And for those of you who are still on the fence, Jenny Lewis (LAist Review) is also slated to open the show.

Beck - “Timebomb”

Bobb Bruno, 60 Watt Kid, Halloween Swim Team, Laco$te, White Leopards @ The Smell The Who @ Nokia Theatre Charlie Wadhams @ Tangier Beck, Jenny Lewis @ Club Nokia Terry Reid, Tony Furtado @ McCabe’s Andy Clockwise, Zachariah & The Lobos RIders, Dave Phenice, Amy Wallace, Calaisa @ The Hotel Caf

Associated Press declaration of Obama as N.C. winner only symbolic

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originally published by mike “gamecock” devine as charlotte law and civil rights examiner for the treatment of examiner.com what is the big hurry in “declaring” the winner of north carolina’s electoral votes in the presidential election? especially since the outcome will not slow down the change of president-designate barack obama? the day after the voting, ap reported: “in the unauthorized returns, …
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Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/6/2008

the accolades suited for the one from all over the beget continue tonight. if you contain the stomach inasmuch as them, they’re included here.also notable is a suicide-bomber video game in which the score is based on how many innocent women and children you kill. i’ll bet that one’s a thump in the territories!another one: in turkey, the city of batman is suing warner brothers for infringing on its good name.thanks to abu elvis, c. cantoni, conformist swede, fausta, frontinus, gryffilion, insubria, jd, steen, tb, tv, and all the other tipsters who sent these in. headlines and articles are below the fold.- - - - - - - - -

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/6/2008

the accolades for the one from all over the world continue tonight. if you have the gut for them, they’re included here.also conspicuous is a suicide-bomber video pastime in which the score is based on how many innocent women and children you kill. i’ll bet that one’s a hit in the territories!another one: in turkey, the city of batman is suing warner brothers for infringing on its good name.thanks to abu elvis, c. cantoni, conservative swede, fausta, frontinus, gryffilion, insubria, jd, steen, tb, tv, and all the other tipsters who sent these in. headlines and articles are below the fold.- - - - - - - - -
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