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Online dating is becoming as big of a commitment as a serious relationship. The applications and endless profile-building keep you chained to your computer when you could be out meeting The One or at least adding to your repertoire of Hell-Date stories. Crazyblinddate.com, which is launching today in Boston, New York, and San Francisco, strips the online-dating process down to its bare bones. Crazyblinddate.com promises to get you interacting with as many people as...

Geeks rejoice. The One Laptop Per Child initiative (or OLPC) has some working prototypes rolling off the production line. Of course before the hand crank power supply, productivity software, or usability for children worldwide is tested someone had to figure out if could be used for the feature everyone needs in a computer – killing time. Doom, which ran like a dream on DOS machines, has been loaded up on a prototype and video evidence (thanks YouTube) has been provided to show that the device runs the game. We're still waiting to hear if NIN will be preloaded on the iTunes that comes with these machines. Not surprisingly, the news hit the geek news meme on the tubes pretty hard the past two days. We always knew something good would be coming out of the Cambridge-based nonprofit. Now the world will know the wonder of the first person shooter.