• Barely anyone watches TV or movies online, but everyone has 30 seconds to see a guy kicked in the nuts, finds a new AP/AOL Video poll. [AP on Yahoo News]
• Every day, millions of workers, many of them children, toil at monotonous tasks in poorly lit rooms, wasting away their health while serving an international corporate machine based in Silicon Valley. This menace is known as World of Warcraft. [NY Times]
• Yahoo launches its biggest ad blitz in Britain since the boom to promote its social search, "Yahoo Answers" (motto: "For people who can't just Google it"). [Guardian]
• Holy cow! Shared desks! Nerf guns! Beer at the office! Okay, having beer is pretty awesome, because this is an office at Microsoft. [Seattle P-I]
• A German public prosecutor forced flash memory gadget maker SanDisk to pull the mp3 players from its booth at the huge IFA trade show in Berlin. [Digital-Lifestyles.info]

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