Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Aug 14, 2008 6:00pm PDTTropic Thunder is worth seeing. Go see it.
- Netflix is hurtin on shippin
- Moon mission
href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/08/14/moon.mission.delayed.ap/index.html">delay
:(
- USB 3 finally resolved
- Convert your guzzler
href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/ptech/08/14/electric.cars/index.html">to electric
or get a Lotus!
- Sell your emotional baggage on eBay
- Open source protected by
courts
As for the the videogame news around these parts for today:
- Overlord 2 announced
- Crytek lied about Crysis Warhead
requirements
- Strong Bad is locking Wiis
- Empire: Total War trailer
- Activision firing dudes and
cancelling games
- Atari somehow made money
- Spore GONE GOLD
- PSP hardware update incoming
- 70% of developers working on PC
titles
- Capcom disses Steam for Bionic
Commando
- More TF2 update details
- PlayStation store gets Bionic
Commando
- Epic working on Gears of
Tournament Unreal
- Diablo 3 screenshots and artwork
- Latest game and hardware sales
numbers
Lastly, it seems that Hollywood cant keep a lid on upcoming TV shows as a bunch of them
are leaking on to the net before the TV season even starts.
FileShack: Unity of Command, Skyjacker
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
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MrsMelon and pointy elbows are very pretty. Dognose is nice MKCluney is funny, Sleepy is mr.sleepy, his girlfriend and her sister is awesome and pretty and laugh at all my dumb jokes, githyanki is super friendly, rigg5kthx told me he is half black, dynotaku is awesome and has a cool iphone that I want, and I think I got everyone. Oh sexninjase was pretty cool. He is also smart and funny.
I thought omnova was there so I sat in my car for 20 minutes before going inside because I did not want to start a fight in an ethiopian restaurant. Finally I went inside and there was no omnova. I was sad. :( The shackmeet was cool. Shackers are cool people easy to talk to.
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http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2008/08/14/vo.tx.car.chase.ktrk
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http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/08/4_pit_bulls_pay_the_price_afte.html
Why are people so fucking stupid? Why do stupid people tend to get pitbulls more then any other type of dog. PB's are fine if you know how to train them. The problem is people who shouldnt have them keep getting them
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HIS ATI 4870 512MB for $193 after MIR, possibly less with 5% off live.com rebate:
http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?t=896637
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My charging port on my blackberry broke today, so i had to take it to a sketchy apartment where a guy repaired it. He did a good job, though, from what i can tell. hopefully the thing won't fall apart in the next week.
On top of that, my work laptop died, so i'm going to be way behind going into a two week work trip in alaska. I hate being behind when i'm working out of state. Dammit.
So, since i can't work tonight and catch up, i just bought RE4 for the PS2 from a pawn shop.
Is this game good? i've heard good things about it. Hopefully it'll make me a little less pissed off.
Ugh
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http://www.break.com/index/whats-up-with-the-dark-knights-voice.html
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can somebody link that levitating ceo video that was posted here a few days ago. i want to giggle at it with a co-worker.
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So... what's up there?
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http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd181/NickyMexico0123/800px-Jesusclass.png
I pick JESUS!
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Agalloch, Anathema, Big Wreck, Black Mountain, Built to Spill, Candiria, Cog, The Constantines, Cult of Luna, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Don Caballero, Dredg, Filter, Firewater, Hey Rosetta, Holy Fuck, I Mother Earth, Incubus, Isis, Low, The Mars Volta, Mastodon, Melvins, Minus the Bear, Mogwai, Nine Inch Nails, The Ocean, Oceansize, One Day as a Lion, Onesidezero, Opeth, Pelican, Pink Floyd, Plants and Animals, Porcupine Tree, Portishead, Primus, Queens of the Stone Age, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Refused, Russian Circles, Screaming Trees, Sigur Ros, Sleater-Kinney, Slint, This Will Destroy You, Thrice, The Twilight Sad, Wintersleep
I feel like my list lacks some variety and may be too angsty for fishing and drinking beer by the lake. Give me suggestions!
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080815-mccain-plans-to-crack-down-on-global-epidemic-of-piracy.html
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I have advised my workplace not to create fancy web apps and keep it simple, but no.... they want "desktop app-like" behaviour.
Sigh.
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http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/womens_olympic_fencing.html
As a fast reader, I sometimes find myself skimming over some parts of a page if my mind wanders a bit but I normally don't backtrack since contextual clues will normally reveal whatever insignificant points I missed. This time, I'm trying to slow my roll and enjoy every sentence because it's gonna be a year before I can enjoy more of this series.. and on top of that, the past events of this series are sort of blurring with the events of Glen Cook's Black Company series :S
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I have so much respect and pity for you. I don't know how you can make these beautiful towers of code only to watch IE (6 or 7) come in and go "fuck you, I do what I want" and start kicking over all your blocks. I don't know how you put up with languages like Javascript which coming from a Ruby, Python, and SQL background might as well be gibberish to me. Web design to me just seems like such a futile uphill battle compared to any other programming, I don't know how you guys do it. I'm going to go back to my IT scripting and report writing and stuff :(
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http://ps3.ign.com/dor/objects/14240391/baja-edge-of-control/videos/baja_middle_race_071608.html
This looks fun! Definitely considering getting it. (Release date is September 8 I think).
The vast landscapes and huge tracks is definitely a big selling point for me.
4 player split screen even :o
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This sound worth it? 4 GB isn't that much space
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