Hasta La Gadget!

Around a week and a half after we reported that the landfill dig for the E.T. game on the Atari 2600 platform was put on hold, the wheels of its “archaeological” dig continues to begin spinning – as the New Mexico Environmental Protection Division Solid Waste Bureau’s instructions to freeze the proposed dig is set to be rescinded. This dig happens to be sponsored by Microsoft and Lightbox Entertainment, and it has a scope of importance, too.

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The Quest For Atari’s E.T. Cartridges Continues original content from Ubergizmo.

Alt-week peels back the covers on some of the more curious sci-tech stories from the last seven days.

It’s not like we’re trying to out-weird ourselves, it just, somehow, keeps happening. At least one of this week’s offerings (we’ll leave it to you to figure out which) will possibly be the creepiest thing we post all year. As for the rest, well it’s slightly more palatable. We’ll get uncharacteristically pumped about cycling, meet some extra-terrestrial quasicrystals and enjoy some art with X-men credentials. This is alt-week.

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