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Digitizing Old Magazines?

"I have a lot of old video game magazines, they're nice for playing 'classic games' because a lot of classics are impossible without the manual, and hard without a magazine (the magazine obviously negates the need for a manual usually). But they'd get damaged with a flatbed scanner, and digital cameras are hard to set up right for capturing old magazines. I know that old documents are digitally archived with very high-res cameras..." So, the question is, what is the best way to capture all the information in old magazines in digital format? Does anyone have a home-built rig taking after the angled-pair-of-scanners setup that Project Gutenburg uses?

How Old Am I? Star Cluster Perplexes Astronomers

Ever have one of those moments when you can't remember how old you are? A group of astronomers may have felt they were having a "senior moment" when they couldn't seem to figure out exactly the age of stars in the open star cluster NGC 6791, located in the constellation Lyra. Conventional thinking among astronomers is that stars in open clusters form at the same time, but in this particular cluster, researchers found stars at three different ages: one group of white dwarf stars appeared to be 4 billion years old, a second group of white dwarfs seemed to 6 billion years old, while the other regular stars were calculated to be 8 billion years of age. The astronomers say this dilemma may fundamentally challenge the way astronomers estimate cluster ages.

61-year-old travels on son's passport

SINGAPORE (AFP) - A 61-year-old man checked in, passed Singapore immigration control and flew to Vietnam on holiday using his 39-year-old son's passport, a newspaper reported Tuesday.

19 year old elected mayor of US city

WASHINGTON (AFP) - It's certainly a good start: a 19-year-old political science student who dreams of becoming US president was elected mayor of Muskogee, Oklahoma, beating a 70-year-old for the job, the city hall announced Thursday.

Girl, 9, 'robbed at knifepoint by 10-year-old boy trying to steal her games console'

A 10-year-old boy allegedly pulled a knife on a nine-year-old girl after she refused to give up her games console.

Girl, 9, 'robbed at knifepoint by 10-year-old boy trying to steal her games console'

A 10-year-old boy allegedly pulled a knife on a nine-year-old girl after she refused to give up her games console.

3,500-Year-Old Mummy To Get DNA Test

In this Jan. 13, 2005 photo, a mummy of a man, believed to be at least 3,500 years old, lies in a wooden coffin. Egyptian scientists plan to DNA test another mummy, also believed to be 3,500-years-old to determine if it is the remains of King Thutmose I. (AP)

What To Do With Old Laptops?

An anonymous reader writes "I've recently acquired a few old P2/P3 laptops. Most either work properly but are slow, or have various problems with power supplies and/or batteries. Attempting to sell them would probably earn less than the cost of shipping, so that's out of the question. I was hoping the Slashdot crowd could give me some ideas on what to do with these old computers. As somebody who already has ~10 computers lying around the house there is certainly no need for an additional computer to 'experiment' with, so I was hoping for some more creative suggestions."

Knights of the Old Republic MMO Confirmed

Zafsk writes to tell us Gamespot is reporting that in a surprise move from E3 2008, EA's CEO John Riccitello announced that the long debated BioWare MMORPG is going to be a Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic sequel of sorts. Currently the KOTOR MMO is slated for a 2009 release. "BioWare's first Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic game was released in 2003 for the original Xbox and PC, and was named the year's top RPG by GameSpot. An Obsidian Entertainment-developed sequel was released in 2004 and 2005 on the same two respective platforms. Both critically acclaimed games are set several thousand years before the events of the Star Wars films, and cast players as adventurers who eventually become powerful Jedi Knights."

What Should You Do With Your Old 401(k)?

(EMAILWIRE.COM, June 26, 2008 ) (EMAILWIRE.COM, Cincinnati, OH -- If you have changed jobs several times during the course of your career, you probably have an interesting collection of retirement savings accounts from your previous employers. In fact, according to the Department of Labor, Americans move to a new employer once every four years and our collective trail of old 401(k) and 403(b) plans totals in the trillions of dollars. While leaving your retirement account with a former employer is a better decision than cashing out your account and splurging on a boat, it may be more beneficial to consolidate your retirement savings by rolling your old 401(k) or similar employer-sponsored retirement plan into an IRA. A Rollover IRA offers you four major benefits: • Increased Investment Options.

Identity Theft Hits the Root Name Servers

aos101 writes "The Renesys blog has an interesting story about networks advertising the old address space of the L root name server after ICANN changed the IP address last November. These networks were also running root name servers on the old IP address of the L root name server up until last week, so any DNS servers still using the old IP address might have been getting their answers from these bogus name servers. A very cursory examination by Renesys of one of these bogus servers found that it appeared to be providing correct responses, which might be why no one noticed the problem. As Renesys points out, the volume of traffic to a root server is staggering, so the people running these bogus root servers must have had a reason. What did they get out of it?"

CRICKET : Old Trafford snubbed

Old Trafford is one of England's oldest Test grounds, a stage steeped in tradition and one of the world's great venues for watching cricket.

Wax Museum - Old Goa's new attraction

Old Goa, dotted with several world heritage monuments including churches of the colonial Portuguese era, has got another international tourist attraction - ''Wax Museum''.

Old ferry terminal to be maritime museum

What used to be the old ferry terminal of the Trasmediterranea building in the Moll Vell is now the preferred site for a new maritime museum in Palma.

Old Computer Game Covers - Collectible, Or Just Nostalgia?

zentechno writes "While cleaning out some very old boxes in a long-untouched closet, I discovered my first supply of PC games, some of which came out when 386s were new. While there's almost zero use for these, I still think the cover art is quite cool. I found the original Zork, its sequels, Enchanter, and Sorcerer from InfoCom, Star Trek: 'The Kobayashi Alternative' from Simon & Schuster, Pool of Radiance and Eye of the Beholder from SSI, Loom by Lucas Games, Nuclear War from New World, Annals of Rome and FireZone from PSS, Sidewinder from EA, and Defender of the Crown from Mindscape, to name many. I loved these games, and wonder if there's any sort of serious collector's market out there as exists for vinyl album art — or is it just a personal thing?" I know I'll always hang on to my copies of Star Control II and Think Quick! from wh

Old Trafford factor boosts England

England are aiming to continue their fine run of form at Old Trafford when they take on New Zealand in the second npower Test.

Old Trafford International Twenty20

Less than 2,000 tickets remain for the NatWest International Twenty20 featuring England v New Zealand at Old Trafford on 13th June.

Old News

Is John McCain too senile to be president? The quotes used by the AP’s Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar to contextualize a new AP-Yahoo News poll, in which 38 percent of voters said the Arizona senator is “too old,� certainly suggest that this is the question on voters’ minds.

Players' Old Trafford views should matter more

Much talk at Old Trafford about the fact that now there will be no Test match there for three years. Not a comfortable time for a former Glamorgan cricketer like me, actually.

Do Old Glass Windows Sag?

If you look at glass in old windows, it can look distorted, apparently because the lower part of the pane is thicker than the upper part.

Strong's old testament dictionary for Windows Smartphone

The Strong's Old Testament Bible Dictionary for Windows Mobile® smartphones is actually an index. Each word from the original Greek script was given a unique number by Dr. James Strong over 100 years ago. It is still in use by many followers today and the numbers are called Strong's numbers.

12-year-old W.Va. girl stung by scorpion at store

A 12-year-old girl picking up a seedless watermelon from a bin was stung Sunday by a tan, inch-long scorpion that had apparently stowed away in a shipment from Mexico.

Why old media is running scared of Google

Talk about missing the forest for the trees. With everyone and their mother-in-law predicting a coming wave of acquisitions of so-called new media companies by old media outfits, that future's already snuck up on us.

Sync Old Settings After Upgrading from Original to 3G iPhone

You've made it through the line, finally foisting the iPhone 3G upwards like the captain of a hockey team with the Stanley Cup. If you're upgrading from an original iPhone, here's how to transfer your old settings to the new device.

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