Here's a lose-lose proposition for Mac users

Fancy a way to kill time while you clean up your hard drive? Check out Lose/Lose, a video game reminiscent of the classic Space Invaders that comes with a sobering twist: Each time you destroy an alien, the game deletes a file from your Mac permanently. This is because each alien in the game is created based on a random file on your computer. If your ship is destroyed, the game deletes itself from your hard drive.

Created by Zach Gage, a digital artist in New York City, Lose/Lose appears to be more than just mindless entertainment for those with masochistic tendenciess.

"By way of exploring what it means to kill in a video-game, Lose/Lose broaches bigger questions," Gage writes on his site. "At what point does our virtual data become as important to us as physical possessions? If we have reached that point already, what real objects do we value less than our data? What implications does trusting something so important to something we understand so poorly have?"

Download and play at your own risk.

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How to take off your coat in style

You've seen how Holly Valance put on her bra in one swift motion in DOA: Dead Or Alive. Now, do the reverse and check out how one Chinese girl by the name of Wang Zifei takes off her glaring red coat in style during the recent town hall meeting with US president Barack Obama in Shanghai.

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Newcomer's dialogue

Here's a not-so-typical conversation that could take place at the pantry.

Current employee: So... how do you find the new place?
Newcomer: Well, I took a left turn...

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Real anime girl

So you love those girls with big eyes in typical Japanese anime? Here's one for you to relish.



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Croaking Crocs

I've worn my pair of Crocs for more than four years and they're still in pretty good shape. Not bad for a piece of rubber, eh?

It's a good thing I haven't run into these accidents...





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Dangerous Crocs

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Smoking!

在水下还能当呼吸器

情侣烟

有这个就不怕地板掉灰了

据说这么长的过滤嘴能减小危害

给大烟鬼过足瘾的装置

雨雪天气都不怕

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Natural sex

If you are looking for erotic stuff, I'm afraid you will be, shall I say, sorely disappointed.

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Illegal behaviours

This is a bilingual notice posted on the wall in the elevator of my apartment building. As you can expect, the translation is atrocious. But surprise, surprise! The original Chinese version includes the following flawed sentence:

"如发现电梯违法行为，请拨打12365投诉"

试问电梯会有怎样的违法行为？不听使唤吗？还是象恐怖片那样把乘客吃掉？

这句话应该改写成：

"如发现电梯内有违法行为，请拨打12365投诉"

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