http://news.brokencontrollers.com How many controllers have you broken? Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:49:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Broken Controllers Central is closing down; feel free to browse the content that was put up in the short-lived lifespan of this section of Broken Controllers. You can also visit MadBlogz.com, a free blog-hosting website. http://news.brokencontrollers.com/breaks-the-walls-down/ Source: Yahoo! Buzz Yahoo! - Many folks who looked up at the sky last night were greeted with a very bizarre sight: a luminous ring surrounding the moon. Were aliens coming? Was the end of the world at hand? Fortunately, no. Though it looked ominous, the shiny ring around the moon last ... http://news.brokencontrollers.com/what-was-that-ring-around-the-moon/ Source: WIRED WIRED - All around the world, blue whales aren’t singing like they used to, and scientists have no idea why. The largest animals on Earth are singing in ever-deeper voices every year. Among the suggested explanations are ocean noise pollution, changing population dynamics and new mating strategies. But none of ... http://news.brokencontrollers.com/new-blue-whale-song-mystery/ Source: Yahoo! Sports Yahoo! - Leave it to Ron Artest to try and steal a little of Tiger Woods and Allen Iverson's headline thunder. In a lengthy and candid interview for the upcoming issue of Sporting News magazine, Artest — best known as the central figure in the infamous Malice at the ... http://news.brokencontrollers.com/ron-artest-admits-he-used-to-drink-hennessy-at-halftime/ Source:IGN Those who recently purchased some of this holiday's biggest titles for Xbox 360, such as Left 4 Dead 2 and Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, probably noticed something a little different about their game cases. The circular-style holes behind game discs and instruction manuals are not production errors. It's ... http://news.brokencontrollers.com/going-green-with-new-video-game-cases/ Source: CNN CNN - President Obama is sending 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan but has a goal of concluding the war and withdrawing most U.S. service members within three years, senior administration officials told CNN Tuesday. The president is ordering military officials to get the reinforcements to Afghanistan within six months, White ... http://news.brokencontrollers.com/afghan-war-could-be-over-in-3-years/ Source: Yahoo! Yahoo! - WASHINGTON – After months of debate, President Barack Obama will spell out a costly Afghanistan war expansion to a skeptical public Tuesday night, coupling an infusion of as many as 35,000 more troops with a vow that there will be no endless U.S. commitment. His first orders ... http://news.brokencontrollers.com/obama-to-detail-big-troop-increase-in-afghanistan/ Source: BBC News BBC - The US dollar has hit a 14-year low against the Japanese yen with low interest rates in the US making the greenback less attractive to investors. The dollar fell to 86.28 yen in early Thursday trading, it's lowest level since 1995, before recovering to 86.61. The US ... http://news.brokencontrollers.com/us-dollar-falls-to-14-year-low-against-the-yen/ Source: BBC News BBC - The next generation of computers may make use of the "spin" of electrons instead of their charge. Spintronics relies on manipulating these spins to make them capable of carrying data. The technique has been shown in a number of materials at low temperatures before. But researchers writing ... http://news.brokencontrollers.com/spin-based-electronics-gets-boost/ Source: CNN CNN - President Obama will go to Copenhagen, Denmark, next month for a climate change summit, the White House said Wednesday. According to a news release, Obama is prepared to set a goal of reducing emissions to 17 percent below 2005 levels over the next decade. The White House also reiterated ... http://news.brokencontrollers.com/obama-to-attend-climate-change-summit/