How to wake up your kid, first-person-shooter style

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So you think you can tell your dad "no" eh?

Children of gamer parents be warned: You do not want to cross us.

For a look at precisely why we are not to be defied, see the below video for one gamer dad's creative solution for waking a sleepy, rebellious child. It's called the first-person-shooter alarm clock.

"My son decided that he wanted to sleep in till 9:30 a.m," explained the dad's post on YouTube. "When I asked him to get out of bed he told me, 'no.' No one tells me 'no' especially when they are four years old."

And so Dad busted out the Super Soaker Thunderstorm, the first-person perspective and the theme song to "Doom." Problem solved.

Though I appreciate the creative parenting, as the mother of a 4-year-old myself, I have one important question: What kind of twisted parent doesn't want their kid to KEEP SLEEPING?! Is there a Super Soaker that makes them go back to sleep? That's what I want to get my hands on.

(Thanks to Gizmodo for the heads up.)

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Winda Benedetti writes about games for msnbc.com. You can follow her tweets about games and other things here on Twitter or join her in the stream here on Google+.  And be sure to check out the In-Game Facebook page here.

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‘Us Girls’ Hails Style and Beauty Royalties in August Awards

The country’s premier lifestyle magazine show on TV, “Us Girls,” will recognize the local scene’s most influential personalities in fashion, entertainment and beauty in “Us Girls August Awards 2011.”

Now on its third year, join Iya Villania, Chesca Garcia-Kramer and Angel Aquino as “Us Girls” hails the country’s most gorgeous and stylish icons tonight, August 18 at Amber, the Fort in Taguig City.

Anne Curtis will accept the prestigious Icon of the Year award, which was brought home last year by Angel Locsin.

Vying for the Face of the Year award are television princesses Maja Salvador, Julia Montes, Jennylyn Mercado, and Marian Rivera, while stylist Liz Uy, models Isabelle Daza and Georgina Wilson, and TV stars Kim Chiu and Bianca Gonzales will compete for the Most Fashionable Female title.

Broadcaster Gretchen Fullido, host Bianca Manalo and model-actresses Cristine Reyes, Regine Angeles and Solenn Heusaff are up for the Sexiest Female title.

Meanwhile, actors Sam Milby, John Lloyd Cruz, Gerald Anderson, Dingdong Dantes and entrepreneur Hayden Kho will compete for the Most Fashionable Male award, while the Sexiest Male nominees are Daniel Matsunaga, Derek Ramsay, Xian Lim, Phil Younghusband, and Matteo Guidicelli.

Not to be outshined are the people who glam up our favorite celebrities, including Steven Doloso, RB Chanco, Ricci Chan and Albert Kuriniawan – contenders for the Make Up Artist of the Year. Fashion royalties Bang Pineda, Patty Yap, Kim and Boop Yap and Geolette Esguerra are the nominees for the Stylist of the Year.

The “Us Girls”’ staff and Studio 23 management’s choice will determine the winners, as well as the viewers’ votes.

The glamorous event will be televised in a two-part airing on August 25 and September 1 at 9:30 PM on Studio 23.

Here are the nominees for “Us Girls August Awards 2011”:

Make Up Artist of the Year

Steven Doloso
RB Chanco
Ricci Chan
Albert Kuriniawan

Stylist of the Year

Bang Pineda
Patty Yap
Kim and Boop Yap
Geolette Esguerra

Most Fashionable Female

Liz Uy
Georgina Wilson
Bianca Gonzales
Kim Chiu
Isabelle daza

Most Fashionable Male

Sam Milby
John Lloyd Cruz
Hayden Kho
Gerald Anderson
Dingdong Dantes

Sexiest Male

Daniel Matsunaga
Derek Ramsay
Xian Lim
Phil Younghusband
Matteo Guidicelli

Sexiest Female

Gretchen Fullido
Cristine Reyes
Bianca Manalo
Regine Angeles
Solenn Heusaff

Face of the Year

Maja Salvador
Julia Montes
Jennylyn Mercado
Marian Rivera

Icon of the Year

Anne Curtis

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How to Make Digital 8-Bit Style Corners Using Only CSS

A recent project of ours brought up a bit of discussion on whether to use images or try and develop a CSS method for creating a digital 8-bit style effect for corners. Since we always like a challenge we decided to go the 100% CSS route and the result was beautiful quick rendering 8-bit style corners requiring zero images. There is only one drawback to using this method; you must use a solid color background in your design. We decided that since there are no tutorials that we could find teaching this method we would release it to the design community; we know it’s a very specific style for specific projects but hopefully one day you might find a use for it.

The first step is to create the basic generic DIV that will house each section’s content. This is all pretty basic CSS and XHTML and pretty self explanatory. The only item to pay special attention to is the relative positioning used on the main DIV, this is needed because we will be absolute positioning our corners inside our main DIV.

.section{width: 500px;float: left;border: 10px solid #FF6600;background: #fff;position: relative;}.section_content{display: block;padding: 25px;overflow: hidden;}

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The next step is to create the corners and position them. To limit the markup we will use the same class for all corners and then position them using a 2nd unique class for each specific corner. You still won’t be able to see any difference from the previous step, so don’t freak out when nothing changes.

.corner{width: 15px;position: absolute;z-index: 9;}.tl{top: -10px;left: -10px;}.tr{top: -10px;right: -10px;}.bl{bottom: -10px;left: -10px;}.br{bottom: -10px;right: -10px;}

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The next step is to add 3 DIVs to each of the main corner DIVs, these 3 DIVs will be our building blocks for creating the 8-bit effect. After you finish this step you will notice there are a lot of alignment issues and things look out of whack, no worries this will be fixed with only a few lines of CSS in the final step.

.corner .a{width: 5px;height: 10px;float: left;display: block;background: #fff;}.corner .b{width: 5px;height: 5px;float: left;display: block;background: #fff;}.corner .c{width: 10px;height: 10px;float: left;display: block;background: #FF6600;}

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Step 4: Fixing Alignment
The last and final step will fix the alignment issues from the previous step, since the XTHML markup is complete all you need to do is apply the CSS and you’re finished.

.tr .a, .tr .b,.tr .c, .br .a,.br .b, .br .c{float: right;}.bl .a,.br .a{border-top: 5px solid #FF6600;}

.section{width: 500px;float: left;border: 10px solid #FF6600;background: #fff;position: relative;}.section_content{display: block;padding: 25px;overflow: hidden;}.corner{width: 15px;position: absolute;z-index: 9;}.tl{top: -10px;left: -10px;}.tr{top: -10px;right: -10px;}.bl{bottom: -10px;left: -10px;}.br{bottom: -10px;right: -10px;}.corner .a{width: 5px;height: 10px;float: left;display: block;background: #fff;}.corner .b{width: 5px;height: 5px;float: left;display: block;background: #fff;}.corner .c{width: 10px;height: 10px;float: left;display: block;background: #FF6600;}.tr .a, .tr .b,.tr .c, .br .a,.br .b, .br .c{float: right;}.bl .a,.br .a{border-top: 5px solid #FF6600;}

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If anybody has any questions or knows of a way to simplify this method please let us know in the comments. Also if you have used this method on any project please leave a link in the comments, we would love to see it in action.

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