Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Oct 25, 2007 6:00pm PDTSo I think I managed to derail the podcast enough today that they wont let me back on for a bit. I guess we'll find out tomorrow if Remo edits out my questions about grocery shopping and boobs.
- States sue US Government over gases
- Facebook + RIM
- FAA 2.0
- This story will blow your mind
- Halle Berry has big ass rack
- Sweet sweet bureaucracy
Daily Filter: Planetside 2, Deadlight
Weekend PC digital deals: strategy-o-rama
38 Studios, Harry Potter Kinect - Shacknews Daily: May 25, 2012
Minecraft for Xbox 360 dev working on 'Adventure' update
Demon's Souls servers extended again
http://www.nflight.com/files/portalcakecookieisahugesuccess.jpg
Bonus peeg image: http://www.nflight.com/files/portalcookieforpeeg.jpg (He didn't like the cookie too much, but ate the napkin.)
The page on how to make them is here - http://www.snackordie.com/2007/10/portal_cake_cookies.html - but these pictures sum it up pretty well:
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http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/131036/Peace_Propaganda_The_Promised_Land.html
http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/131069/Real_Time_with_Bill_Maher_New_Rules.html?page=2
What is incredible, in America, is that you have to pretend you are a comedian - like Bill Mayer, Jon Stewart or Colbert - to say the truth because nobody want to heard it or believe from a "real" person... like a politician.
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http://jbooth.blogspot.com/2007/10/ps3-misconceptions-and-spin.html
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I need to test something :(
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I hope wish that I don't have to get a robot replacement hand. :(
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Connery: 6 (+ the unofficial Never Say Never Again)
Lazenby: 1 (shame)
Moore: 7
Dalton: 2 (shame)
Brosnan: 4
Craig: 5
I'm down for this.
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Your team has taken the intel and dropped it at the bottom of the stairs. It has now been 45 seconds, and will return to the intel room in another 15 seconds. You have infiltrated your way to where the intel has been dropped. You see that it is guarded by a hwguy, and an engineer. YOU DO NOT LEAVE THE GODDAMN INTEL LAYING THERE.
You be a man, and you touch that fucking intelligence so it doesn't respawn back in the room with the big scary fucking sentry guns and coverage and shit. You touch the fucking intelligence and you fucking die, because that's what your suppose to be doing. You're suppose to focus on capping.
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first impressions:
so far, the freaky translucent menu bar and the 3D dock are better than I thought.
iChat has some much nicer display options (buddy groups! tabbed chats!)
slight wonkiness: Front Row locked up browsing movies, and I had to re-import some custom folders using the Archive and Install upgrade (they weren't deleted from the system, just left in /Library/Mail/Mailboxes).
CS3, Firefox, and Adium are okay. nothing has really blown up yet!
so you're probably safe, if you've got a reasonably modern system and you've been updating your apps.
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GG'Z LOL
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/2076/theamazingrandoislookintv7.png
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And I don't find it to be boring or dry really. And it's completely free. And there's a ton of stuff to learn.
Amazing stuff.
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EA Mythic layoffs :( Who didn't see this coming from a mile away? This will happen to Flagship, to Bioware and any other company EA taints.
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The only store in town that sells new rdram is charging like $179 for a 256mb stick. 512mb is ~$400 with tax. You can buy a new computer for $400.
So anyways, do any shackers have some old unused RDRAM lying around that they'd be willing to sell to me for a reasonable price? :D
It's a Dell Dimension 8100, P4 1.3ghz. Not sure what speed of RDRAM it takes, if there are different speeds? The ram sticks themselves have no information.
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I think I'm finally starting to get a hang of this medic thing: http://lemurpants.com/images/dustbowl_medic.jpg
Only my second time as a doktah, and I gotta say it wouldn't have been nearly as easy or fun if I wasn't playing support to some awesome guys (both skill and personality) like NastyJack, edgewise, fireman, Maddog, and others.
Though, I do have a bone to pick. This is basically what I was looking at all night in some form or another: http://lemurpants.com/images/i_hate_cpttrips.jpg
I hate CptTrips. The man is a killing machine. He had my number tonight just like he did Tuesday night. However, did you know that he confided in me that he likes to smoke cock on a regular basis? Like, a ton. He can't get enough. I don't know if that helps or hurts his TF2 playing, though.
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http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=news&id=12301
It's all happening agaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaain!!!! D:
http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2007/10/25/turn-10-hears-community-drops-forza-2-dlc-price/
I'll probably buy it now, just to show my support.
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seriously the best mainstream hip hop song i've heard since flirt from r kelly. and the awesome video has a gallardo and a duc 1098 to boot. thanks guyz.
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http://www.rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=159
Haha. They actually like it!
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Faced with a public image in freefall, an artist has two options. One involves making music that harks back to your golden, pre-tailspin days with lyrics underlining your complete normality: the hope is that the public will fall for the ruse that nothing is actually wrong. The other is to throw caution to the wind: given your waning fortunes, what's the harm in taking a few musical risks? Happily, Blackout - an unfortunate choice of title, given the nature of Spears' recent travails - opts for the latter course, unleashing a torrent of ferociously distorted synthesizers, electronically treated vocals, snapping drum samples and bovver-booted glam rock beats. The results are largely fantastic.
http://music.guardian.co.uk/pop/alexispetridis/story/0,,2198891,00.html
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Know what though? It doesn't matter because I'm dialing down on my expensive point and shoot digital small format camera purchases and will be getting a regular P&S like a Ricoh R7 in the near future.
Still, would be nice to know what surprises Ricoh has in store for their cult classic. If any.
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/10/white-house-glo.html
i can't even begin to describe my feelings on this. i mean it's like a really really bad joke. but its not, its real :(
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:-D
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Being far away means in emergency you're completely out of the range of being helpful. Granted, emergencies aren't a common thing... but it sure sucks that if anything were to happen they'd be a plane flight (or 7 hour drive) away.
Such is life. Nothing worthwhile is ever easy.
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that point where you're too tired to sleep, too tired to do anything useful or fun
I SHALL ALERT THE SHACK
also, hellgate makes me want to punch kittens with giant oversized boxing gloves
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