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Correction: You do not get unlimited ping pong for $100 a month, judging from the membership info at www.spinyc.com. That membership price just gets you one free hour and then 50% off the regular table rental rate. They don't say what that rate is. MisterHippity  

Spin NYC co-owner and all around ping pong fanatic Jonathan Brecklin has achieved some great feats in the past few years. Not only did he and his friends raise $1.5 million to open a giant ping pong palace, he's also...  

Good old-fashioned American sports parenting meets immigrant drive at the India Community Center in the Silicon Valley town of Milpitas, Calif., which is churning out the country’s best young ping-pong players. Top coaches from India and China are schooling the...  

Globe and MailIs Jonathan Bricklin Susan Sarandon's New Boyfriend?ZimbioIs the co-owner a new NYC ping pong club Susan Sarandon's new main squeeze? He's certainly got what it takes: 2. He's co-owner of a ping pong club. ...Jonathan Bricklin: Susan Sarandon's New Boyfriend?Huffington Post (blog)all 928 news articles »  

(TrendHunter.com) If you have ever played a game of ping pong before, you may have once despaired over not being able to hit the tiny ball with the small paddle; despair no more, however, with the Brodmann Blades. Taking…  

Some enterprising pranksters at Willow Garage hid a ckBot robot in the ceiling of their office, then used it to shoot ping pong balls at an unsuspecting co-worker. Awesome! [via the-moment-is-right"> the-moment-is-right"> the-moment-is-right">gizmodo] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Robotics | Digg this!  

In fact, she's planning to avoid the open conference process and negotiate the Obamacare bill in a series of private backroom deals according to John Fund of the Wall Street Journal:When Democrats took over Congress in 2007, they increasingly did not send bills through the regular conference process. “We have to defer to the bigger picture,” explained Rep. Henry Waxman of California. So the children’s health insurance bill passed by the House...  

There's been a lot of moralizing about the holdout strategies of Lieberman and Nelson, but under some game-theoretic accounts it is a blessing in disguise, a blessing for Obama at least. For instance Rahm Emanuel can now say to the House: "look, we just can't renegotiate this any more or the coalition will fall apart. You'd better get on board with the Senate version of the bill" A lot of these legislative games don't otherwise have a...  

Should ping pong become the new liberal sport? That is, should the House just skip the conference committee on healthcare reform entirely and simply vote on the bill produced by the Senate?  This is, for some reason, known as ping-ponging, even though it doesn't really involve any kind of back and forth.  In fact, the whole point is to eliminate the back and forth. But whatever.  Is this a good idea? I suppose institutional pride will prevent...  

(TrendHunter.com) Pong Prom is the design that Ed Keeble developed for an art project with the goal of creating both a competitive and collaborative experience for two game players. The project uses the Lilypad Arduino…  

IN THE early 1970s, the US table tennis team, while in Japan for the 31st World Table Tennis Championship, received an invitation to visit China. Sports had always played an important role in Chinese diplomacy, and this first American sports ...  

Control your ping pong paddle and make a variety of shots by using the Wii Remote Play as Randy Daytona, Feng, or one of 18 other characters from the movie Experience intense ping pong battles as you follow key events from the movie in Story Mode Play against a friend in Multiplayer Mode to find the true ping [...]  

Ping Pong Club: ← Previous revision Revision as of 04:08, 13 December 2009 Line 57: Line 57: ===Ping Pong Club=== ===Ping Pong Club=== - Mayde Creek High School was the first school to have a ping pong clubm which was founded in 2009 by Joshua Yap, Hamza Rashid, Julie Le Pham, Dawn Yao, Usama Khan, Pulok Khan, Mohammad Khan, and Hatim Rashid. + Mayde Creek High...  

NEW YORK, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Entertainment Weekly's EW Holiday Gift Guide has cited the innovative BrodmannBlade(TM) ping-pong paddle as a great holiday gift idea. The guide helps readers "find the perfect presents" and introduces them to "pop-culture-inspired picks that span the range from "geek to tres chic". The new paddle is featured in the magazine's December 4th issue with 'New Moon' star Taylor Lautner on the cover.  

Guess who built this contraption? You’re right, college students. But as much as we like to make fun, the subject of Beer Pong is our addition, not theirs. The device uses an air stream that can be directed along two axis to control and sort ping-pong balls. Unlike the lethal ping-pong ball launcher, the goal here [...]