Console prices in real dollars, 1976-2006

CurmudgeonGamer has produced a fascinating chart of inflation-adjusted game console prices starting with 1976's Fairchild Channel F to the PS3. Lots of interesting stuff here including Wes Felter's observation that in real dollars, every Nintendo console has been cheaper than the last one. Link (via Hack the Planet)

Poker app steals your logins

Posted May 16th 2006 10:45AM by Victor Agreda, Jr.
Filed under: Business, Fun, Security, News, Windows

When will they ever learn? Poker blogger and self-avowed geek Wil Wheaton has a note about Rakeback calculator, which F-Secure says contains a trojan. Apparently when RBCalc.exe is run, it drops the payload on your machine, which then proceeds to snatch your logins to familiar poker websites. The distributor, Checkraised.com, has disavowed any knowledge, and put up a welcome how-to for removing the suspect payload. Looks like this was the work of a lone coder, but will online poker ever carry the same feeling of comfort and safety ever again? I hope Checkraised is a little more careful in the future...

Yahoo launches new homepage (also, it looks like they're changing the size of the left-hand navigation links based on your own personal activity)

Drupal quote de Jour from Download Squad. News and announcements · robertDouglass - April 24, 2006 - 05:37. In an article titled Roll your own Bill Gates ...