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--GAMING: Wii Forecast Walkthrough Video (gmrblogs)

--HUMOR: Al Gore caught warming globe to boost box office (Treehugger)

--VIRTUAL EVENTS: NBC to host "jam session" in Second Life tonight (CNET News.com)

--GADGETRY: Asus Z801 Karaoke Phone (Gizmodo)**

--CONSUMERISM: DIY wrapping paper design (Information Aesthetics)

--CYBERLAW: CA legislator not liking in-game adware (Game|Life)

--THE INDUSTRY: Mobile gaming firm Glu Mobile applies for an IPO (PaidContent)

**I know of a few Cravers who probably want a karaoke phone.

--VIRAL INFECTIONS: iPod in a blender (YouTube)

--SECOND LIFE: The AvaStar: Second Life gets a tabloid (PSFK)

--APPLE: iPod Death Watch (CrunchGear)

--GAMING: CNN staffer nearly assualted over Wii (Game|Life)

--SOCIAL NETWORKING: MySpace's print foray: Marmalade (PaidContent)

--WEB 2.0: GeoBeats: YouTube meets the Travel Channel (Webware)

--GAMING: New Year's flOw: Evolutionary title delayed to January 2007 (IGN)

--ONLY IN DUBAI: Hydropolis: The world's first underwater luxury hotel (Gadgetell)

--ADVERTISING: Double Fusion draws $26 million funding round (CNET News.com)

--MICROSOFT: Zune 1.2 Firmware Update: Faster? (Gizmodo)

--GAMING: More LocoRoco games, confirms Sony (Joystiq)

Unlike the many mashups that use the Google API to aggregate news, 10x10 uses the RSS feeds from the BBC World Edition, New York Times International News and Reuters World News to create a visual mashup of the world's most popular news.

About every hour, the top 100 words from those feeds are chosen through 10x10's own linguistic analysis. Corresponding images for those words, used editorially from the news sites' own stories, are then displayed.

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--ONLY IN JAPAN: Japanese man makes Wii from tofu (Kotaku)

--GAMING: Amazon to sell Wii and PS3 on Tuesday (CrunchGear)

--APPLE: MacBook Pro batteries are inflating (Gizmodo)

--GREEN TECH: Reva Electric Car Company receives $20M funding (Treehugger)

--YEAR IN REVIEW: Top of the Tube in '06 (Webjunk TV)

--APPLE: Top 5 "I'm a Mac" parody commercials (Gizmodo)

--USB WTF: Firefly Squid USB flash drive (Plastic Bamboo)

--GAMING: Ron Jeremii (Wonderland)

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--APPLE: Microsoft takes a swipe at Apple's "I'm a Mac" ads (Engadget)

--GAMING: Major League Gaming gets $25 million funding (PaidContent)

--MEDIA: Amanda Congdon's webcasts are real, and they're spectacular (Gawker)

--DIGITAL HOME: Intel's Viiv low on holiday shopping lists (CNET News.com)**

--APPLE: Defend your MacBook with iSight (CrunchGear)

--NEWS: Boston transit system bans M-rated game ads (Joystiq)

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--GAMING: Fake wiinjuries: they're all the rage (Joystiq)

--JUICY GOSSIP: MacBook "Thin" Coming Soon? (CrunchGear)

--GADGETRY: New Nabaztag Tag (Information Aesthetics)

--GAMING: China cracks down on online games (Kotaku)

--ARTS & CRAFTS: Casting metal Legos (MAKE)

--ONLY IN JAPAN: Shark USB Mousepad Warmer (Tokyomango)

--POLICE BLOTTER: Guy wants PS3, gets box of floor tiles (Game|Life)

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--FUN & GAMES: Windows Blue Screen Error Generator (The Generator Blog via Eyebeam reBlog)

--MUSIC: "Studio 60" Christmas song free for download (CNET News.com)

--DESIGN: Moonwalker Digital Dance Shoes (Gizmodo)

--WEB 2.0: Chop, slice, and 'deep-tag' your YouTube faves with Gotuit's SceneMaker (Webware)

--WEB 2.0: Diggbait: Top 10 Tech Words of 2006 (Valleywag)

--GAMING: NES Wii Skin (Uncrate)

--MUSIC: Wi-Fi radio gathering steam (Listening Post)

--GAMING: Left-Handers (Might) Make Better Gamers (Kotaku)

--TV: Dutch TV goes digital (CNET … Read more

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--CAMERAS: Flickr camera meta data (Information Aesthetics)

--TVs: No One Cares About HD? (Gizmodo)

--GAMING: Take me out to the 'Counter-Strike' (CNET News.com)

--CYBERLAW: Creative Commons finds a commercial pal (Listening Post)

--CAMERAS: Absolut Lomography (Notcot)

--GAMING: Power Glove mod merges with Wiimote (Engadget)

--APPLE: "I'm a Commodore 64." (Cult of Mac)

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--VIRTUAL EVENTS: Meet IBM's new-tech guru in Second Life (CNET News.com)

--ONLY IN JAPAN: RoomRender renders rooms intelligent (Pink Tentacle)

--ENTERTAINMENT: Hollywood's dumbest depictions of code (BoingBoing)

--NEWS: Shocker: Kids swap music on their phones (PSFK)

--HOLIDAY GEEKDOM: Imperial AT-AT and Rebel Snowspeeder Ornament (Uncrate)

--GAMING: Nintendo ships new spaz-resistant Wii strap (gmrblogs)

--VIRTUAL EVENTS: Third Annual Second Life Winter Festival (Official Linden Blog)

--JUICY GOSSIP: Fun, obviously fake iPhone concept (Cult of Mac)