Evening Reading
by Nick Breckon, Sep 10, 2009 6:00pm PDTMaking my way to the California Academy of Sciences tonight to have some fun at the Morrison Planetarium, the largest digital planetarium in the world. EA held a Spore event at the place last year, three weeks before it opened to the public. Will Wright and Frank Drake (of Drake Equation fame) were in attendance. It was pretty amazing.
What's nice about the Morrison is they've incorporated a ton of NASA data and images from beyond the Milky Way galaxy. The software can push in on Earth, and pull all the way back to the outer-reaches of the known universe. I can't imagine what kind of impact that would have had on me as a child. The Moon is crazy enough.
Space News:
- Cobain's Guitar Hero 5 cameo angers Courtney Love
- First screenshots of Funcom's new MMO The Secret World
- New Elemental screenshots illustrate scale
- Six minutes of Assassin's Creed 2 footage
- The extended cut of Halo 3 ODST's live action trailer
Chatty: Diablo III, Dragon's Dogma
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
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssOq02DTTMU
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http://hg101.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=games&action=display&thread=5729
she also completely crushed my score on R Type Dimensions :(
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Arenas#.22Gilbertology.22
He also described his ideal shoe commercial like this:
“You know how I always throw my jersey into the stands after a game? In Washington, they just go crazy for it. So in this commercial, that's what I'm gonna do with my shoes. I've just hit a game winner, and I throw these shoes. Everyone starts to react, and you see everything in slow motion. Everyone's pushing, shoving, doing whatever it takes to try to get to these shoes. People from the 400 level, they're jumping off the ledge, they're missing the pile, hitting nothing but chairs, and you can just see in people's faces like, Ooooh, that hurt. While all this stuff's going on, one of the shoes pops out of the crowd, and a little girl gets it and she takes off. A couple of people see she has it, and they start chasing her, and she's looking back running—and then she gets clotheslined by a kid in a wheelchair. So he picks the shoe up and says—he's gonna have the only line in there—"They said I couldn't get it. Heh. Impossible is nothing." And then he rolls off.
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http://lite.facebook.com
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssOq02DTTMU
More happy is coming!
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http://twitter.com/SonyPlayStation
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I thought the cash would be better spent on a SLI setup but if anyone wants to convince me otherwise I'm all ears and can likely change my order if I do it ASAP.
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Strapon
Horde
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj4RBmU-PIo
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http://www.pctools.com/firewall/
I'm sick of Comodo's bullshit, and Outpost is lame of late so i'm gonna give it a whir
Wassup bitches! I'll tell you what's up. What is up that i tanked another 120 PSR last night due to pubgames. Yes the lovely puggervirus hit me once again.
What happened? FEEDERS. Two fucking feeders in MY team every single game i player. Double digit death morons that have no clue how to play, yet feel they should join 1550+ games and wreck havoc... on their own team.
S2Jason, i demand better pugdices. Goddammit.
PSR SUX!
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I copied this simple bit of code to my .htaccess file and it's not working.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^old\.html$ new.html
If I go to old.html I get a missing page. I know old.html is there, because if I remove the rule the page works. The server dudes told me the rewrite engine is turned on, so any ideas what I'm going wrong?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNanKfY5T9A
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Some builder types apparently knocked it over while working somehow and just left it. Only reason I realised was because my internet randomly d/c'd followed shortly by the phone going nuts and ringing all the time without any callers. Just a load of static and crossed wire speak.
I went outside and the mast is literally leaning against a tree with all the wires entangled in its branches, wires that were once attached to this building. I keep getting intermittent net disconnections and the phone doesn't work at all lol.
http://worthplaying.com/article/2009/9/11/news/68319/
(Forza 3 demo is dated as Sept 24'th, how interesting, 2 days after the Elite price drop in Australia....!)
We should do this more often.
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My TV won't output Dolby (or any other more-than-2-channels sound format) if the sound comes from an external input. That's no good.
My 360 doesn't allow a separate sound output if you're using HDMI. If you use composite, you're allowed to have a separate optical sound output. But I'd rather use HDMI, and the one optical sound input on my speakers is being taken up anyway by the PS3.
If I could just send everything through HDMI to the TV, and then optical from the TV to the speakers, everything would be fine. But noooooo.
I'm tempted to take the 360's "HD" A/V cable and do something like this: http://www.warnockinc.com/www/?q=node/18 but it's been a long time since I've slung solder.
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http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2009/09/amds-next-gen-gpu-powers-crysis-on-an-iphone.ars
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Who just 2 faulted Inferno 2 and ran a 1:20 flat? One of them was completely horseshit
<(OO<) ^( O O )^ (>OO)> x 2
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The 9/11 NEVER FORGET facebook status messages are already flowing like water
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ATTN SOCCER MENZ
The UEFA Champions' League is about to start next week and i'm making a Fantasy Football League
register in http://en.uclfantasy.uefa.com/
after you made your picks go to "Leagues" and put 4431-2020 to join
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