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Exile on Love Street (Time Magazine)
A town filled with Christian refugees is the romance capital of Iraq

News of the Weird: The matchmaking service with a nose for compatible couples (News of the Weird via Yahoo! News)
The matchmaking service with a nose for compatible couples

GDC '08: APB out on Dave Jones (GameSpot)
GTA and Crackdown creator runs down his contemporary-themed PC, 360 MMOG, says that player personalization, high visual fidelity, and removing "the grind" are a top priority.

Swab Your Cheek To Find Your Perfect Match (CBS4 Miami)
CSI fans know that DNA tests can catch criminals, but one dating service says it can help you catch your perfect mate by your DNA.

Travel questions (Salisbury Post)
Q: When's the best time to go to ... ? A: There are, at minimum, three questions embedded here: When will I find the best weather? The lowest prices? The smallest crowds?

GDC 08: Blizzard's Approach to Multiplayer Game Design (1up.com)
The importance of paying attention in math class.

GDC: Dave Jones Talks APB, Emergent Behavior (Gamasutra)
Realtime Worlds CEO and original GTA creator Dave Jones opened his talk at the 2008 Game Developers Conference with a question: "If you were given a clean sheet of paper, and offered the chance to design an MMO, what would you put in there?" The first question might better be, what is an MMO, anyway? "That's a problem for the industry," said Jones. "MMOs were originally RPGs." Therefore, he ...

The Top 10 Websites You Never Heard Of (Fast Company Magazine)
The Internet is even more useful than you think. As more and more programmers and developers race to create the next killer app, some end up gaining momentum while others haven't quite caught on yet. We've slogged through the undiscovered masses to bring you ten websites that are informative, handy, or simply downright cool -- before they enter the zeitgeist. CrazyBlindDate read ...

Matchmaking, Via Satellite (Arab News)
JEDDAH ? The business of matchmaking ? where potential brides and grooms use an intermediary to find a spouse ? has gone high tech in recent years. For a fee of SR8, a spouse-seeker can send an SMS to a person registered through services offered through satellite television.