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MTV´s Stephen Totilo has a cool set up up on the lengths some retro Nintendo gamers will go to scratch their collectors spoil Some cart hounds buy and re-sell rare games on eBay, some sell set ups of wood struck by lighting—a lost oppotunity to become the nerd successor to Robert Redford´s The Lifelike I call it.

Those of you considering getting into the game of collecting games should read up. Despite sounding like a very glamorous existance of cataloguing your recent aquisitions and spending your early weekend mornings at flea markets and garage sales, keep in mind that a copy of the 1990 Nintendo World Championships is probably going to set you back over seven grand.

Look, you can´t have everything. Sometimes you have to choose between owning a factory sealed copy of Stack Up for your R.O.B. and having a normal life. Michael McWhertor

The Madness Of Nintendo Collectors: Will Sell PS3, Wood To Fund Habits

1983: Nintendo releases Donkey Kong, Jr. Math for NES in Japan. "See, your kids aren´t become stupefied by playing Donkey Kong! They´re just a brief more special."

1996: Microsoft releases Microsoft Golf Version 3.0 for PC in the US. It´s hard to believe that golf existed at all before Golden Tee and Tiger Woods.

1999: Interplay releases Planescape: Torment for PC in the US. It´s an acclaimed RPG that focuses on speech and plot as much as battle This is one of those games that slipped through with the cracks for me. Tranquillise worth a go? Keep in mind my lazy ass never finished Oblivion. Mark Wilson

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According to the New York Times, "2 Bombs Kill 57 in Central Baghdad."  According to CNN, "Suicide truck bomb kills at least 45 in Baghdad."  Maybe 148, maybe 151 people were wounded.  Maybe there were two bombs, maybe there was one.  It might have been a pickup truck, or maybe a minibus.

And we probably won´t learn the final total, because by the time it´s known, there will be a new tragedy to report.  This will be one more in a string along of bombings and killings that all, ultimately, blur together for those of us reading the changeable reports as they come forth  

But hold it in your mind for a moment, even if the details fluctuate.

Many of the 45 killed and 148 wounded by a suicide truck bomb blare in central Baghdad Tuesday morning were unemployed Irakis lured toward the explosion by an offer up of work, according to an official with the Iraki Interior Ministry.

A pickup truck, loaded with about 200 kilograms (440 pounds) of explosives, pulled into Tayaran Square at 7 a.m., a time when hundreds of unemployed Irakis were gathered with their picks and shovels seeking a day´s work.

The driver signaled to the would-be workers that he had jobs for them -- causing a crush of people around the truck -- and he detonated his bomb, the official said.

In the 11 brief paragraphs CNN gives to this, several other tallies of violence are offer uped: two roadside bombs killing four American soldiers and wounding three.  Three bombings in Baghdad killing three; an Iraki Army Colonel killed.  "Fifty-one bullet-riddled bodies" in the not-a-civil-war occurring in Iraq.

You have not yet had a situation also where you have two clearly defined and opposing groups vying not only for power, but for territory," White House press secretary Tony Snow said. "What you do have is sectarian violence that seems to be less aimed at gaining full control over an area than expressing differences, and also trying to destabilize a democracy - which is different than a civil war, where two sides are clashing for territory and supremacy."

You can be blown up just for trying to get a day´s work, and the details of your death pass by too quickly for people in the country occupying yours to fully register them.  But at least it´s not a civil war.