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The Humble Indie Android Bundle

As if Android users didn’t already have enough to distract them while on the go, there’s now a Humble Indie Bundle just for them. In the usual Humble Indie Bundle state of things, they’re offering some great indie games, free of DRM, that works on multiple platforms, and costs you exactly how much you want it to. Yes, you can pay $0.01 if you really want to. This time around, the games involved are Anomaly, Osmos, EDGE, and if you pay above the current bundle average price (as of this post, it is $4.97), you get one of the best indie games in recent memory, World of Goo, along with the rest. Along with the games, you’ll also receive the games’ soundtracks, which is another one of World of Goo’s strengths. Head on past the break and check out the trailer, and head on over and grab your Android bundle.

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Controller-Mounted Hot Pocket Holder is Either the Best Thing Ever, or the Worst

As many of you may already know, eating something while playing video games is one of the hardest and most frustrating things in the history of mankind. Unless you’re playing a Metal Gear Solid game — where the cutscenes are long enough for you to eat a five course meal — you find yourself floundering between controller and foodstuff, losing lives in-game and hygenine points in real life. Now, there’s finally a solution to the problem, a controller-mounted Hot Pocket holder; it’s so convenient, you could probably use it during competitive online play.

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Report: Microsoft to Discontinue Microsoft Points

Inside Mobile Apps reports that a “source with knowledge of the company’s decision” claims that Microsoft will be phasing out Microsoft Points, its system of currency, by the end of the year. Affecting developers of Xbox Live, Windows Phone, and the Zune, Microsoft Points will be replaced by a system in which the user makes purchases with real money, rather than paying real money to buy points, then using said points to make purchases.

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You are at Your Most Creative When You’re Tired

You know how you keep a notebook next to your bed because you have all these great ideas all the time whenever you’re trying to fall asleep, or when you wake up in the middle of the night because your cat doesn’t have to get up for work in the morning and wants to play? A new study suggests that, no, life isn’t trolling you and making you creative when you’re too tired to do anything about it but say you’ll remember it in the morning even though you know you’ll forget, but people are actually more creative when they’re tired.

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How to Access Wikipedia During Its SOPA Blackout

If you’re a person who feels the need to use something right when it turns out you can’t, or you’re the type of person that must know everything about everything when it comes up in conversation, then the Wikipedia SOPA protest blackout is probably an obnoxious inconvenience, though it is happening in the name of all that is good. Fortunately for Wikipedia enthusiasts who can’t live without learning all they can about Bruce Willis and his studio albums, Wikipedia is still accessible during its blackout protest. Head on past the break to find out how.

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Tree Extract Holds Promise as an Antidote for Drunkenness

There’s no doubt that an antidote for drunkenness would have a wide range of uses. Take a pill and all of the sudden, calling Shelia and confessing your undying love for her and her sister doesn’t seem like such a great idea anymore. Decide not to get plastered on a Friday night, take a pill, and not be able to go back on your decision later. Take a pill and then not have a hangover. The possibilities are endless and now, a study lead by Jing Liang of the University of California, Los Angeles suggests that these possibilities might also be possible.

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Feel Trapped at Work? Researchers Create Virtual Sky for Office Workers

Sitting at your desk at work, looking up, all you might notice is a flat, offwhite panel with holes in it. Looking behind you, you may notice a wall, and looking across the room, you may notice that the only window is what seems like miles away, and just so happens to have a shade pulled over it. Feel trapped? Never fear, the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering is here. Emulating why cool college teachers have been taking their students to the chemistry green for ages, the German researchers have created a ceiling with fluctuating lighting that acts as a virtual sky, simulating the light patterns and cloud cover that one may see if they can ever get a seat by that window with the shade.

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Finally: The Official Zelda Timeline Releases, is Not One Single Line Like We Always Knew

If anything has consistently been in contention regarding The Legend of Zelda series, it is if each game coherently fits into one single universe. Nintendo always said yes, gamers always said there is no possible way. Nintendo never really gave us many hints, but an accepted working theory was that Ocarina of Time was supposed to be the first in the timeline, and the original NES The Legend of Zelda (and its sequel) was supposed to be the last. Working with this information, and the fact that a few games in the series (Wind Waker and Majora’s Mask, to name two) were directly related to other games in the series, gamers came up with the working theory that if you split the Zelda timeline in two, everything fit into place. Now, with the release of a new Zelda art book, Nintendo has released the official timeline for the series, both satiating our thirst for chronological Zelda order, and also really bugging us that Nintendo has regularly said all these years that everything fits into one timeline when this official timeline shows that, what do you know, there are three separate timelines.

I don't care if Nintendo lied to us, I want to know how it all fits together!

It Turns Out You Can Post to Twitter With Siri

There are a lot of things Siri can’t do — understand anything anyone says if it is only slightly noisy in the background, for one. However, Siri not being able to post to Twitter, even if you speak very slowly and loudly and in a room void of noise, isn’t something that defines Siri anymore. It’s a workaround more than Siri actually being able to just post to Twitter itself, but the workaround is a quick setup and configuration, so those that really can’t be bothered to open up their Twitter app and type out a tweet now have a quick and easy way to tell the world what their sandwich is like in 140 characters or less.

Instructions after the break.

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How To Make Rage Faces on Facebook Chat

Simply type the above code that corresponds to the appropriate rage face into Facebook chat, and the image of the rage face you chose will appear, emoticon-like in its existence. Facebook didn’t suddenly become hip to the Internet and add rage face emoticons (something from which Google Chat would greatly benefit), but the ability to add rage faces to Facebook chat is more of a hack than anything else, and something to which you can add.

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