Engadget: Wii Fit: the 30 day test starts today

This guy is six feet fall, 174.5 pounds. Put simply, he's scrawny. His goal is to lose five pounds in a month using Wii Fit. No, I don't think he's Nintendo's ideal customer.

How about someone who's actually... I dunno.... NOT fit?

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Victoria Times Colonist: Obituary: Tony Eng lived a magical life

So sad. :-(

Tony is a legend in Victoria. I went to school with one of his nephews (if I rembember correctly, it might have been his son, but I'm not 100% sure) and I remember going to Tony's Trick & Joke shop downtown with my him to buy tricks.

The one I remember most vividly was the little plastic pellets that were meant to go in cigarettes to give the smoker a terrible taste. I put them in my mom's cigarettes when I was about 14 or so... man, did I get in trouble! Mom said her taste was screwed up for weeks, LOL!. I guess that was my guerilla warfare tactic for getting Mom to stop smoking at the time. ;-) Didn't work then, but she did eventually stop.

R.I.P. Tony, you were amazing, and we'll miss you.

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Yahoo! News: Myanmar survivors emerge desperate for help

Where is the international appeal for help for Myanmar? When the tsunamis hit in December 2004, the media attention was huge and instant, and the international aid was just as big. I remember Apple's home page had a big Red Cross symbol on it appealing for its customers to donate. Amazon.com was also helping collect donations. Right now neither company's site has any reference to this event.

Now there are 60,000, maybe 100,000 dead in Myanmar and nobody is talking about it. Have we become so desensitized to human tragedy that even something of this scale can cause the world to shrug its shoulders and carry on with whatever they were doing?

Do I have to say it... this is at least twenty 9/11s, in terms of death-toll?

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