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The Vault contains every game ever released in the US for the Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Genesis, Nintendo 64, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance. Each game has detailed information, screen shots, codes, user submitted ratings and reviews, and more! Nothing beats the feel of a real controller in your hand, so now you can purchase games and consoles here at Vimm's Lair and have them shipped right to your door! Hundreds of used NES and SNES games are currently available, and all proceeds go towards the continued maintenance of Vimm's Lair. Need help?
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Ocean Marketing: How to self-destruct your company with just a few measly emails
Update: A representative for the Avenger Controller (a new one, obviously) has released an official statement regarding Ocean Marketing’s involvement with their product and the actions of Paul Christoforo. Original story: Strap yourself in, you’re about to witness the most outlandlish PR blunder in video gaming history. And trust me, there have been many… Starting earlier this morning with a post on Penny Arcade , co-founder Mike “Gabe” Krahulik brought to light a series of emails between Dave, a customer politely inquiring about the status of his Avenger PlayStation 3 controller order, and Paul Christoforo of Ocean Marketing, the PR lead for the product. I’m going to repost the emails in their entirety, then we’ll continue much, much further down the rabbit hole afterward.
What is the "Invisible Web", a.k.a. the "Deep Web"? The "visible web" is what you can find using general web search engines . It's also what you see in almost all subject directories . The "invisible web" is what you cannot find using these types of tools. The first version of this web page was written in 2000, when this topic was new and baffling to many web searchers. Since then, search engines' crawlers and indexing programs have overcome many of the technical barriers that made it impossible for them to find "invisible" web pages.
Invisible Web: What it is, Why it exists, How to find it, and Its inherent ambiguity
Color Wizard - Color Scheme Generator - Colors on the Web
The Color Wizard is a color matching application for anyone who wants to create designs with great looking colors. The color wizard lets you submit your own base color, and it automatically returns matching colors for the one you selected. It returns a set of hue, saturation and tint/shade variations of your color, as well as suggests color schemets to you, based on your color's complementary color, split complementary colors, analogous colors and other variations.
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