Electoral song and dance too hot for Bangkok (Reuters)

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Another Song and Dance

Another Song and Dance 05/20/2004 11:34 AM
Who says nice guys always finish last?

Let Her Dance, Let Her Dance, Ket Her
Dance All Night Long....

Let Her Dance, Let Her Dance, Ket Her
Dance All Night Long.... 05/07/2004 11:27 PM
Bobby Fuller< /a> was a Texas based rock and roll singer best known for the immortal rebel anthem &quot;I Fought The Law,&quot;. Considered by many to be the heir to Buddy Holly as the king of Texas Rock, he built on Holly's style with songs like the aforementioned &quot;...Law,&quot; &quot;Jenny Lee,&quot; &quot;Love's Made A Fool Of You,&quot; and the 2 1/2 minute masterpiece &quot;Let Her Dance.&quot; And then it ended, at age 22, in very weird circumstances. Over the years, interest in Fuller and his work has ebbed and flowed, and plenty of archival material surfaced, but the mystery of his death remains unsolved, although many have speculated. Ann odd end for a footnote character in rick history, but who was bound for more

Health insurers to fat kids: Go play
Dance Dance Revolution

Health insurers to fat kids: Go play
Dance Dance Revolution 04/04/2005 01:18 PM
Cory Doctorow: American health insurers are working with obesity researchers to encourage children to play Dance Dance Revolution on home consoles with dance-mats as a way of reversing childhood obesity and the concomitant health costs later in life.

Jones is one of 85 children in an at-home study trying the popular Dance Dance Revolution video game to boost their activity. The study is being done by West Virginia's public employees insurance group in hopes it will lead to better health and lower costs.

Jones lost about 10 pounds by changing his diet. Now, after two weeks playing the game, he has lost another 10.

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Kickass Kung Fu: Like Dance Dance
Revolution for martial artists

Kickass Kung Fu: Like Dance Dance
Revolution for martial artists 06/24/2005 06:25 PM
Cory Doctorow: Kickass Kung Fu is a video-game in which you use real martial-arts moves to control an on-screen kung-fu fighter in order to best both human and AI opponents.

The game takes place on a 5 meter cushioned playfield suitable for martial arts and acrobatics training. Using custom computer vision technology, you are taken inside an artificial reality where the normal laws of physics no longer apply. Your movements are exaggerated so that you can easily dodge your opponent's bullets by jumping five meters in the air and landing behind his back. Using the dual projected screens, one at each end of the playfield, you can also continue by counter-attacking your stupefied enemy from the behind.

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Play Dance Dance Revolution... Save On
Insurance

Play Dance Dance Revolution... Save On
Insurance 04/04/2005 01:54 PM
There have been discussions over the past few years about the problem of childhood obesity and how video games that force kids to be active may be at least part of the solution. While going outside and doing something is probably better, if they must be staring at a screen, they might as well be active about it. It appears that one insurance company has decided to test this out and is running a study by giving Dance, Dance Revolution to kids in an effort to make them lose some weight. While others have noted the aerobic nature of the game (and the game apparently has a calorie burning counter as an option), this appears to be the first insurance company promoting the game. Next thing you know, your car insurance rates will rise if you play Grand Theft Auto...

DJ Format meets Dance Dance Revolution

DJ Format meets Dance Dance Revolution 04/03/2005 07:50 PM
DJ Format meets Dance Dance Revolution Director Keith Schofield turns out a blazing video for British DJ Format and his top notch crew of pasty Canadian rappers, turning their song "3 Feet Deep" into a high adrenaline arcade hi-score smashing rampage.

Dance Dance Revolution as teen
weightloss aid

Dance Dance Revolution as teen
weightloss aid 05/24/2004 06:59 PM
This CNN piece follows the tales of formerly supersized boy and girl geeks who shed *lots* of unwanted weight playing the wacky Japanese electronic game "Dance Dance Revolution." In DDR, players stomp around on a grid of brightly lit squares while hyperfast techno music blares at them from a video display unit. There's also a home version, which sells for under US$50.

As she cooled herself in front of a fan at a video arcade, two teenage boys danced on a machine nearby. Their sneakers pounded out a staccato rhythm at a pace so fast that "Lord of the Dance"'s Michael Flatley would be envious.

Not everyone sees dramatic results. Seventeen-year-old Justin Meeks says his body is more toned, but his weight hasn't changed. He's pleased to point out, though, that his dancing skills have helped him get girls. "Two. I'm guilty of that," Justin said with a grin as he watched friends play DDR.

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Life on the pro Dance Dance Revolution
circuit

Life on the pro Dance Dance Revolution
circuit 01/25/2004 04:09 AM
Yoz has posted a great account of his encounter with a touring clade of pan-European Dance Dance Revolution obsessives:

"We're a group of DDR players in Norway." Do they play other bemani games? "No, just DDR." He points to the guy he was playing with, now off the machine and chatting to his girlfriend. "He's from Sweden, he has a DDR group there too." The machine is now in the control of the third chap, a large-ish bloke with shoulder-length hair. "He has a group in France, but they play all kinds of music games." Do you guys play competitively? "Sometimes... like tomorrow. It's why we're all here - there's a big contest at the Namco arcade in Westminster. There'll be players from four different countries. It's pretty big."

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Dance, White Boy, Dance (glumbert.com)

Dance, White Boy, Dance (glumbert.com) 04/08/2005 05:05 AM
born

glumbert.com/media/dancewhiteboy.html
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Top cop rapped by race chief for rap
song (Reuters)

Top cop rapped by race chief for rap
song (Reuters) 04/28/2004 08:49 AM
Reuters - A senior police officer has been criticised by a race watchdog for singing a "demeaning" rap song to black officers.

Beatles Said to Be in Online Song
Licensing Talks (Reuters)

Beatles Said to Be in Online Song
Licensing Talks (Reuters) 06/08/2004 08:31 PM
Reuters - Representatives of the Beatles are in discussions with various online music services about licensing their songs for distribution on the Internet, people familiar with the discussions said on Tuesday.

Canada cool with happy penis song
(Reuters)

Canada cool with happy penis song
(Reuters) 01/16/2004 01:05 PM
Reuters - A song lauding the joys of an "enormous penis" is not obscene because the object of the lyric's affection isn't necessarily sexual, a Canadian regulator has ruled.

France Joins U.S., Britain Against Song
Swappers (Reuters)

France Joins U.S., Britain Against Song
Swappers (Reuters) 01/25/2004 12:53 PM
Reuters - Add the French to the war on Internet song swappers.

Bangkok Telco Adds Wi-Fi

Bangkok Telco Adds Wi-Fi 01/18/2004 07:06 PM
Fixed-line provider TOT will open its TNET Wi-Fi service: TOT is a fixed-line provider that's rolling out more advanced features for land lines (including SMS and caller ID), but it's also trying out Wi-Fi at 100 baht per hour or about US$2.50. The first location is at a cafe that will also have 12 computers available; future locations include other branches of this cafe and supermarkets. Pricing deregulation appears to be driving the landline services into more competition against increasingly inexpensive package deals from the cellular operators, according to this article's details....

Bangkok set to elect new governor

Bangkok set to elect new governor 08/29/2004 01:45 AM
Pollution and overcrowding top the agenda as the Thai capital, Bangkok, votes for a new governor.

Wal-Mart Launches Windows Media Song
Downloads (Reuters)

Wal-Mart Launches Windows Media Song
Downloads (Reuters) 09/02/2004 03:38 PM
Reuters - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. launched an online music store that works with Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Media Player, the world's largest retailer said on Thursday.

Fire rages through Bangkok slum

Fire rages through Bangkok slum 04/23/2004 04:05 AM
A massive fire engulfs a poor area of the Thai capital, forcing residents to flee with their belongings.

Bangkok Official: Fans Fit for Funerals
(AP)

Bangkok Official: Fans Fit for Funerals
(AP) 07/22/2004 08:23 PM
AP - When it comes to paying last respects, an electric fan is better than a customary flower wreath, an official in Bangkok said Thursday.

Canada's Music Industry Seeks Song-Swap
Crackdown (Reuters)

Canada's Music Industry Seeks Song-Swap
Crackdown (Reuters) 02/16/2004 05:13 PM
Reuters - Canada's biggest music producers asked the courts on Monday to order Internet service providers to identify customers who swap songs illegally on the Internet as the Canadian firms try to match a U.S. crackdown on music piracy.

Powell and Governor of Florida Arrive in
Bangkok

Powell and Governor of Florida Arrive in
Bangkok 01/03/2005 02:44 PM
The four-day trip through the region is designed to assure nations devastated by the tsunami of the United States' support.

Thai Police Warn of Piranhas in Bangkok
(AP)

Thai Police Warn of Piranhas in Bangkok
(AP) 05/30/2004 02:52 PM
AP - Thai police have issued a warning, but it seemed fishy: flesh-eating piranhas may be lurking in the capital's waterways.

US$50-Million orders tipped for Bangkok
Show

US$50-Million orders tipped for Bangkok
Show 05/31/2004 02:11 PM
Large numbers of visitors from around the world are converging on Bangkok, Thailand, to attend INTERMACH 2004 this month - and its theme this year is "Cross Border Collaboration". [PRWEB May 10, 2004]

Dance dance revolution

Dance dance revolution 10/28/2003 11:07 PM
Holy cow!! They just had the guy from the Kollaboration 2000 talent contest perform in between talks. Fucking amazing.

Dance Voldo Dance

Dance Voldo Dance 07/18/2004 03:34 PM
Dance, Voldo, Dance (embedded quicktime .mov) Two people controlling two Voldos (the #1 freak from Soul Caliber). Quite possibly the most amazing synchronized video game dancing you'll ever see.

Dance, Voldo, Dance

Dance, Voldo, Dance 07/19/2004 04:26 AM
Soul Calibur's Voldo choreographed to music .. 11.2 MB Quicktime Link .. Dance, Voldo, Dance

bainst.com/madness/voldo.html
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Dance Dance Resurrection

Dance Dance Resurrection 05/28/2004 04:51 PM
Jesus-themed variant of DDR (shut up, don't go pointing me to snopes -- of *course* it's a hoax).
Link; other recent BoingBoing posts on DDR 1, 2, 3. (millegrazie, mi piccolo snoodilio, also on Absolute Friends:

But who is Mundy Three, when Mundys One and Two have gone to bed? Who is this third person who is neither one of the other two, who lies awake while they sleep, and listens for the chimes of country bells he doesn't hear? He is the silent spectator. he is the one member of the audience who doesn't applaud the performances of his two familiars. He is made up of all the odd bits of his life that are left over after he has given the rest away.

Electoral Vote

Electoral Vote 08/11/2004 01:32 PM
The votemaster: it may all come down to Missouri. Watch it closely.

Electoral barrage

Electoral barrage 03/28/2005 07:50 AM
CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh tells why government rules for blogs put campaign reformers on the spot.

" Electoral College Graph"

" Electoral College Graph" 08/04/2004 03:30 PM

Abolish the Electoral College

Abolish the Electoral College 08/30/2004 10:41 PM
unsigned editorial .. such depths .. abolition

nytimes.com/2004/08/29/opinion/29sun1.html
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Electoral College Graph

Electoral College Graph 08/04/2004 09:28 AM
great graph here .. graph

electoral-vote.com/info/graph.html
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Zogby electoral tally

Zogby electoral tally 09/22/2004 02:27 PM
Zogby

zogby.com/news/ReadNews868.html
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Electoral Vote Syndication

Electoral Vote Syndication 08/03/2004 02:35 PM
Over the weekend, and in between events at the IETF, I got into a dialogue with “the Votemaster,” who runs the Electoral Vote Predictor 2004. I find the Predictor unequaled as a daily read-out on the state of the Bush-Kerry contest. I suggested by email that the page could use a feed, and he wrote back “Say what?” and I explained and he hacked and debugged, and now, here it is. He says it’s a beta, but it works fine in all the readers I try and also validates, so what’s not to like?

why eliminating the Electoral College
would be a bad idea

why eliminating the Electoral College
would be a bad idea 09/08/2004 11:58 PM
OpinionJournal

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Be an electoral scrutineer and keep the
vote honest

Be an electoral scrutineer and keep the
vote honest 08/03/2004 07:46 PM
Skippy sez, "I just received a note from MoveOn.org about their effort to help the Verified Voting Foundation monitor electronic voting this year:"

The non-partisan Verified Voting Foundation is working with other voter protection groups to make sure every vote is counted, focusing its efforts on the new electronic voting terminals we're all concerned about.

Their program is called TechWatch, and it will help reduce the risk that votes will be lost or miscounted by these machines and other technology.

Link (Thanks, Skippy!)

IHT: Evidence of an electoral fraud is
growing

IHT: Evidence of an electoral fraud is
growing 08/19/2004 05:55 AM
more and more like a fraud .. VOTE FRAUD IN VENEZUELA, .. reports .. IHT:

iht.com/articles/534518.html
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In Colorado, an Electoral College
shake-up

In Colorado, an Electoral College
shake-up 08/17/2004 04:58 PM
In his new book, "Why the Electoral College is Bad for America," Texas A&M political science professor George C. Edwards III explains how the odd-ball way in which we go about electing presidents is "inherently unjust" and disregards the bedrock democratic concept of "political equality."

Candidates Face Sprawling Electoral Map

Candidates Face Sprawling Electoral Map 05/12/2004 04:05 PM
The presidential campaign is a struggle to master one of the largest and most complex electoral playing fields in nearly 20 years.
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Electoral song and dance too hot for Bangkok (Reuters)