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'News Games' Spark Hits and Heat Online

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(Newser) – Readers who find Newser too challenging can rest their brains with online games that play out major news events. Often linked via social networking sites, millions of Web surfers are killing pig-like viruses, tossing shoes at President Bush, or landing a plane in the Hudson River in popular Flash games. It's also fairly easy to make one, and even sell it on eBay, CNET reports.

Sock and Awe—yes, the Bush shoe game—sold online for $8,000 and earned that much in 2 days with online ads. But game-makers must prepare for hate mail, as Sock and Awe's buyer discovered. "They're virtual shoes," she protested. "Even the real shoe that was thrown didn't hit him." But when the shoe-throwing Iraqi journalist faced legal problems, she took it more seriously, adding news updates to the game "so people would be kept aware of his plight."

Sock and Awe.
Sock and Awe.   (Sockandawe.com)
Sock and Awe.
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DavePA
May 8, 09 11:54 PM CDT
Newser is pretty hard to understand. These summaries are way too long. Is there a way to get the AP feed directly into my brain? Reply
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shonangreg
May 9, 09 5:36 AM CDT
Sure, just join the Republican Party, watch FOX News, and listen to Rush. They take all the strenuous thought out of the issues, add in some crying or railing against the liberal bias (that has people actually question their orders), and then they give you an easy opinion to flash to everyone else when an issue or an election comes up. It is all so simple ;-) .......................... But there are trolls in their midst. This creature doesn't listen so closely to the parroting line and actually engages in independent thought. If you meet someone calling themself a Republican, but you don't understand what they say, stop! Don't listen; their words are like posoned apples. Just mutter "RINO" to anyone else caught in their web of words, roll your eyes, and ignore them. If you follow these rules, it's always a Grand Ole Party! Reply
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nick
May 9, 09 8:15 AM CDT
Foxspeak, Doublethink = 2009, GOP Newspeak, Doublethink = 1984, Oceania ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Doublethink is crucial to the Party's control of Oceania, because it enables the Party to alter historical records and pass off these distorted accounts as authentic. The brainwashed populace no longer recognizes contradictions. Instead, it accepts the Party's version of the past as accurate, even though that representation may change from minute to minute. Reply
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Robert_Dada
May 9, 09 11:58 AM CDT
Well, "If the shoe hits..." Reply
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