Kids try to dance away weight
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Kids in Study Try to Dance Away Weight
(AP)
Kids in Study Try to Dance Away Weight
(AP)
04/04/2005 11:18 AMAP - Like many other 11-year-old boys, K.D. Jones loves sports. But at
5 feet, 175 pounds, he found his weight and his asthma an obstacle.
His doctor wanted him to lose 50 pounds, and he is hoping a new health
study using a video dance game will help him get down to 125 by the
end of summer in time to play football.
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 PMCory 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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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 "I
Fought The Law,". 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 "...Law,"
"Jenny Lee," "Love's Made A Fool Of
You," and the 2 1/2 minute masterpiece "Let Her
Dance." 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
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 PMCory 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 PMThere 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 PMThis 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.
LinkLife on the pro Dance Dance Revolution
circuit
Life on the pro Dance Dance Revolution
circuit
01/25/2004 04:09 AMYoz 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."
LinkDance, White Boy, Dance (glumbert.com)
Dance, White Boy, Dance (glumbert.com)
04/08/2005 05:05 AMborn
glumbert.com/media/dancewhiteboy.html
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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, familiar. Dance...
Dance, familiar. Dance...
12/11/2003 02:34 PMAn interesting line about the selves manufactured by spies (that
seems to me to have currency for all people who have cause to
narrativise their lives in one way or another) from John Le
Carré's rather blandly-titled (but also rather good) new novel
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.
Dance, Voldo, Dance
Dance, Voldo, Dance
07/19/2004 04:26 AMSoul 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 revolution
Dance dance revolution
10/28/2003 11:07 PMHoly cow!! They just had the guy from the Kollaboration 2000 talent
contest perform in between talks. Fucking amazing.
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 Through Wholesale-Telecom
Keeping Your Kids Truly Safe and Secure
on the Internet Now Just Became as Easy
as "Smart Zone Kids" Browser Available
Through Wholesale-Telecom
12/30/2004 05:15 AM
Wholesale-Telecom is now offering an Internet browser that protects
children and teenagers from online pedophiles and inappropriate
content The browser is totally interactive for parents to customize
to their preference. [PRWEB Dec 30, 2004]
Keeping Your Kids Truly Safe and Secure
on the Internet Now Just Became as Easy
as “Smart Zone Kids” Browser Available
Through Wholesale-Telecom.
Keeping Your Kids Truly Safe and Secure
on the Internet Now Just Became as Easy
as “Smart Zone Kids” Browser Available
Through Wholesale-Telecom.
12/22/2004 01:28 AM
Wholesale-Telecom is now offering an Internet browser that protects
children and teenagers from online pedophiles and inappropriate
content The browser is totally interactive for parents to customize
to their preference. [PRWEB Dec 10, 2004]
MP3 Players Aren't Just For Kids; In
Fact They're Barely For Kids
MP3 Players Aren't Just For Kids; In
Fact They're Barely For Kids
12/19/2004 03:47 PM
The common bit of wisdom is that MP3s are a young person's technology.
It's the teens and the folks just coming out of college that are the
MP3 generation, after all, so they'd be the most likely to own an MP3
player, right? Not at all, apparently. A new study says that 90% of MP3 player
owners over 34 years old. While this may have something to
do with the high price of many of the best MP3 players, the numbers
still don't seem right. It would be interesting to see the
methodology behind this study. That's not to say that those over 34
aren't likely to own an MP3 player, but it's hard to believe that
90% of MP3 players go to those 35 and older.
Presents For Bad Kids Head To eBay,
Rather Than Kids
Presents For Bad Kids Head To eBay,
Rather Than Kids
12/27/2004 04:42 AM
Well, normally, people wait until after they've received presents to
dump them on eBay. However, one father who felt his three sons were
being particularly bad lately decided that to punish them he's putting their
presents up for sale on eBay. To be honest, this sounds like a
bit of a publicity stunt -- and it seems likely that, now that this is
getting attention, that casino that seems to be buying e
very random quirky auction item will snap this one up. Update:
Whoops. It's apparently already happened. Indeed, the casino in
question has d
ecided to buy the undelivered presents. This is sort of an update
on our story last year about how sellers were increasingly looking to
use
eBay as a publicity generating tool. It appears that's now being
used by buyers to generate publicity, as well.
Ithaki 4 KiDs MetaSearch Engine for Kids
Ithaki 4 KiDs MetaSearch Engine for Kids
06/22/2005 02:48 AM
Ithaki 4 KiDs MetaSearch Engine for Kids
http://kids.ithaki.net/
Ithaki 4 KiDs helps you to find the best sites just for kids via
searching in real time several search engines for kids like DmozKids,
Yahooligans, FactMonster, ArtKIDSRule, AolKIDS, AwesomeLibrary &
KidsClick!. Ithaki is a metasearch engine, it finds quickly the best
web sites because it searches at once the top search engines and
guides for kids, then ranks the results according to an internal
ranking to make sure you get the exactly what you're looking for. This
will be added to the search engines section of all the 2005 Internet
MiniGuides.
Weight of Words
Weight of Words
12/19/2004 03:05 PM
The 10 ten words of the year according to Merriam-Webster, based on
lookups: with del.icio.us and Flickr tags. Also links to
currently blank wiki pages and Wikipedia articles. 1. blog: del,
flickr, wiki, pedia2. incumbent: del, flickr, wiki, pedia 3....
The weight-loss car
The weight-loss car
12/29/2003 01:36 PM
A Connecticut inventor has received a patent for a car that can weigh
you every time you go for a drive, track whether you're gaining...
USB weight sensor
USB weight sensor
08/27/2004 01:34 PM
Wow! A USB weight sensor. Now we can automatically add our weight to
the sidebar and make RSS feeds of our weight changes. Who wants to
write the mt-weightsensor plugin?
via Daiji
Current Mood: chipper
Current Weight: heavy
Listening to: 
You Trip
Me Up by 
The Jesus
and Mary Chain from the album 
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Demonizing Fat in the War on Weight
Demonizing Fat in the War on Weight
04/30/2004 09:52 PMA growing group of historians and cultural critics who study fat say
our obsession with it is based less on science than on morality.
Poll: Many in U.S. Underestimate Weight
(AP)
Poll: Many in U.S. Underestimate Weight
(AP)
05/29/2004 01:56 AMAP - Many Americans underestimate the seriousness of their own weight
problem and give up on diets, only to regain at least some of the lost
pounds, an Associated Press poll found.
IBM throws weight behind BPEL
IBM throws weight behind BPEL
04/13/2004 07:17 AMThe Register Apr 13 2004 11:14AM GMT
Sun Microsystems puts its weight behind
Sun Microsystems puts its weight behind
04/15/2004 01:10 PMMicrosoft Throwing Its Weight Around
Microsoft Throwing Its Weight Around
12/19/2004 02:57 PMYeah, I know. What's new about that?
MS lawyers jumped all over the administrators of digital.forest demanding that they
immediately shut down the MacSlash site because someone
posted what appeared to be a valid Longhorn serial number in a comment
to a post there. (Story here.) From the logs, the MacSlash guys figured that that
comment was accessed exactly once in the eight months it was there. By
MSN's own search bot.
Chuck Goolsbee, head geek at digital.forest, responded to the
hounds:
A short lesson in human nature... Try asking nicely. I realize that
owners of intellectual property feel the need to enter into
discussions with lawyers blazing, but I know from long experience that
attack begets defence, whereas courtesy begets respect. If you look at
this situation objectively, I'm sure you will realize that the site
owners have not acted in any malicious way. The content in question
was posted to the bulletin board by some anonymous user. So, rather
than using terms like "Demand for Immediate Take-Down" why don't you
try something like "Please remove copyright infringing content".
You will likely be amazed at how much better it works.
(I've always liked that Chuck!)
Of course, Ben from MacSlash edited the serial number out of the
comment as soon as he realized it was there. The funny thing is that
now that it's gone from MacSlash, it can still be seen in Google's cach
e of the page. I wonder how many people have seen it now.
Lockheed's Weight Problem
Lockheed's Weight Problem
06/18/2004 07:54 AMProblems with Lockheed Martin's JSF program may leave investors
feeling vulnerable.
Poll: Many in U.S. in Denial About
Weight (AP)
Poll: Many in U.S. in Denial About
Weight (AP)
05/28/2004 03:21 PMAP - Many Americans are in denial about their weight problems,
according to an Associated Press poll, although more than half say
they have been on diets at some point.
3G Phones Are Losing Weight
3G Phones Are Losing Weight
09/09/2004 09:48 PMThe Feature Sep 10 2004 1:41AM GMT
Spy Report: Worth Their Weight
Spy Report: Worth Their Weight
03/22/2005 04:58 PMRebelspies have uncovered more of Hasbro's plans for 2005, this
time revealing several case assortments for their
new Titanium
Series.
Need to lose weight? Here's a
prescription for DDR
Need to lose weight? Here's a
prescription for DDR
04/04/2005 03:43 PMCould a popular videogame be an answer to the problem of juvenile
obesity? If the game is DDR, then the answer may be "yes"
Waiting for Weight Watchers
Waiting for Weight Watchers
07/29/2004 11:35 AMAfter tackling the fatty five, Tim Beyers looks at another low-carb
outcast heavy with potential.
Cellphone Weight Watcher
Cellphone Weight Watcher
06/24/2005 04:02 PM
The Technical Research
Centre in Finland has developed a technology to assist all of the
health nuts in the world. It is a camera phone that scans barcodes at
grocery stores and gives all of the nutritional information. This
device also gives a purchase history and estimates how much exercise
it will take to burn off calories contained. In this day and age,
turning the package over and looking at the printed nutritional
content is way too hard.
M
obile Phone Healthy Living [TreeHugger]
Weight Watchers Recipe Cards
Weight Watchers Recipe Cards
03/13/2003 06:16 PM Weight Watchers Recipe
Cards, circa 1974. For fans of
The Gallery
of Regrettable Food, another selection of hideous food choices. I
laughed so hard my throat cramped. I recommend the complete slide
show.
Intel puts its weight behind Centrino
Intel puts its weight behind Centrino
12/15/2003 08:10 AMZDNet Dec 15 2003 7:52AM ET
Finding the Right Balance Between Power
and Weight
Finding the Right Balance Between Power
and Weight
01/03/2005 10:09 PMElectronics manufacturers are designing products that are smaller and
lighter, yet offering more and more gadgets that travelers feel
compelled to take with them.
feathers hit the ground before the
weight can leave the air
feathers hit the ground before the
weight can leave the air
01/04/2005 06:16 PMI love that I can look out my office window, and watch a steady
curtain of rain fall gently into my backyard. It looks like the
powdered milk they used in Singin' In The Rain.
Occasionally, it knocks a leaf off this old maple tree that is in
one corner of my yard.
The opposite corner is flooding.
There are about a dozen finches hopping around on my chinese elm
tree. The rain doesn't seem to bother them.
It's chilly out, but I opened the window a bit so I can listen to
them sing.
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