Let's say you have a direct-recording electronic DRE voting machine. And it's been shown that it is insecure — you can't use it for voting anymore. What should you do with it? You'd turn it into a Pac-Man machine. Yes? A group of researchers from Princeton and the University of Michigan did just that. newVideoPlayer {"type":"video",&quo~ ; They took a voting machine used in Williamsburg, Virginia in the 2008 primaries. The city had switched to optical scan voting machines and sold off its DREs. But why Pac-Man? In celebration of the game's 30th anniversary, that's why! Pac-Man [Umich via Make] [Link] [Cache]

Every now and then, when visiting different parts of the US, I like to track down independent or small-chain game stores and report my findings to the Racketboy community. Usually, I like to do a video interview with the store owner and not only get a tour of the store, but also get their insights on the retro-gaming world. While in Oklahoma last month, I had the opportunity to visit a couple of locations from a regional chain of stores by the name of Vintage Stock. The not only sell games, but other used media goods as well such as ... [Link] [Cache]

SOME PEOPLES ASK ULAF THIS: HOW IS IT THAT MY MIND CAN CAPTURE THE SPEED? TO WHICH ULAF RESPAWN A SIMPLE WORDS: WITH THE SPEEDBOARDS OF COURSE. IT IS TRUE THAT THE SPEED OR THE BOARDS HAVE BEEN HARDEST TO TAME OF ALL ELEMENTS, SO THE MAGIC OF THESE DEVICE CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD. [...] [Link] [Cache]