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My friend Tom Simpson forwarded me this link today from ThinkGeek.  As the title of this post describes, for $14.99 you can buy a mini-joystick keychain that includes actual Atari games.

• Joystick 1 – Asteroids and Millipede
• Joystick 2 – Centipede and Yar’s Revenge
• Paddle – Pong, Breakout, and Warlords

Plug an included cord into a TV and voila, you have some classic Atari games your fingertips.  Very cool….

Today’s WSJ has an important article on the rise of wine counterfeiting (of the likes of Sassacaia, Lafite Rothschild, Penfolds Grange). The sad part may be summed up by the last line in the article:

Claudio Gufoni, a 59-year-old wine enthusiast who lives in Santa Croce sull’Arno, east of Pisa, was the client who was duped into buying more than 100 bottles of the bogus Sassicaia. Although prosecutors confiscated most of his fake bottles as evidence, a few were left behind. Mr. Gufoni says he now serves them to unsuspecting guests: “No one has noticed the difference.“

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