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What if you want to chill and serve your favorite beer or wine -- instantly? How can you cool a keg of beer without a tub of ice?

The new KegPal will do all that in seconds! Just connect a keg or bottles to the KegPal and pump it. Then open the tap for your ice-cold beverage. All you do is open the tap to fill you glass! KegPal looks like a classy wood beer keg. You can use it to cool bottles of beer, wine, liquor and even soda. The hand pump, which is included, or an optional CO2 air tank pressurizes the system.

Twenty-five feet of super-fast cooling coil. Every drop of warm liquid that enters KegPal travels through this frigid cooling coil spiral. What entered warm comes out icy cold.

For more info on this amazing product, check out KEG PAL!

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"Nuff Said"
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Wocka, Wocka, Wocka: Pac-Man celebrates 25th birthday

		Pac-Man has certainly grown from the original, top, to Pac-Man World 3, coming out in October.
		Courtesy Namco

But there was more to Pac-Man's broad appeal than eating dots and dodging on-screen archrivals Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde.

"This was the first time a player took on a persona in the game. Instead of controlling inanimate objects like tanks, paddles and missile bases, players now controlled a 'living' creature," says Leonard Herman, author of Phoenix: The Rise and Fall of Videogames. "It was something that people could identify, like a hero."

It all began in Japan, when Toru Iwatani, a young designer at Namco, caught inspiration from a pizza that was missing a slice. Puck-Man, as it was originally called, was born. Because of obvious similarities to a certain four-letter profanity, "Puck" became "Pac" when it debuted in the U.S. in 1980.

Its success spawned a romantic interest (Ms. Pac-Man), a child (Junior Pac-Man), a cartoon show and hundreds of licensed products. The phenomenon even reached the pop music charts when "Pac-Man Fever" by Buckner & Garcia drove us all crazy in 1982.

Billy Mitchell, the first and only person known to play a perfect game of Pac-Man (he racked up a score of 3,333,360 after clearing all 256 levels in more than six hours in 1999, according to video game record keepers Twin Galaxies) says Pac's popularity was in its nonviolent simplicity.

"The fact that it's cute, it's almost like a hero running around the board from bad guys. It's not an appeal based on violence," the 39-year-old from Hollywood, Fla., said. "Whether it was an 80-year-old lady or a kid, everyone could adapt to the Pac-Man world."

Billions of quarters later, Pac-Man's influence continues.

As part of a final project for a class in New York University's Interactive Telecommunications graduate program last year, students with cell phones and Wi-Fi Internet connections mimicked the game, tracking their movements on a grid spanning several city blocks.

They called this analog re-enactment, where four people dressed as ghosts searched for Pac-Man on the streets around New York's Washington Square Park, Pac-Manhattan.

"We never had anyone clear the entire board," said Frank Lantz, a game designer who taught the course.

Namco, which can't offer an exact date for Pac-Man's birth, sold 293,822 of the arcade machines between 1980 and '87. It shows no signs of giving up on the franchise.

The company has several new games this year, including Pac-Mania 3D, Pac-Man World 3, Pac-Pix and Pac-Man Pinball. It even began making a special 25th anniversary edition of the old arcade machine.

"People say, 'Who buys Pac-Man?' It's one of the few games where the answer is, 'Everyone,'" said Scott Rubin, general manager of Namco America.

Herman said Pac-Man's place in video game history is forever secure, saying: "It was a milestone of video game history."

Computers And School

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If you look hard enough, you can even text message your buddies. You might even find a little bit of school help thrown into this "Banner Farm"!

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Cats use fax as toilet, spark house fire : TOKYO: (Reuters) - Two kittens picked the wrong place to relieve themselves when they urinated on a fax machine, sparking a fire that extensively damaged their Japanese owner's house.

Investigators in the western city of Kobe have concluded that the fire in January was caused by a spark generated when the urine soaked the machine's electrical printing mechanism.
The fire damaged the kitchen and living room before it was put out by the house's owner, who was treated for mild smoke inhalation, said Masahito Oyabu, a fireman at the Nagata fire station in central Kobe.
The kittens quickly ran to safety, he added.
'If you have a cat, or a dog for that matter, be careful where they urinate,' Oyabu said. 'Especially keep them away from electrical appliances and wires.' "

Barberman

Salem Sue - World's Largest Cow, New Salem, North Dakota
Well this just about takes the steak, i.e., the cake, if you know what I mean.
"Her presence shows that New Salem grows
With milk-producers' yields;
We've got the cow, world's largest cow
That looks across our fields."

I guess I don't need to say anymore, read about this and other amoosing stories right here.

Barberman

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