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Evening Reading

by Brian Leahy, Aug 31, 2010 5:00pm PDT

That Xbox 360 wireless controller with the transforming d-pad looks like a nice improvement over the original design. I'll definitely try to check it out at PAX this week.

Gaming News o'the Day

First Mafia 2 DLC hits next week.

Final Fantasy XIV's open beta has been post-poned.

WoW will stop working on PowerPC Macs soon..

BFBC2 gets an "Ultimate Edition" on consoles.

Links from Morning Discussion

Very cool HTML5 / Music concept video. And it's interactive.

Pancake Humper got his SC2 tourney sponsored by SteelSeries!

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Wow. I just got a book from 1856 called "Logarithmic Tables of Numbers and Trigonometrical Functions" by Baron von Vega.

I love free book give-a-ways that college departments do sometimes.

Aug 31, 2010 6:57pm PDT

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  I've got an early edition of this beauty on my book shelf: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Million_Random_Digits_with_100,000_Normal_Deviates
  
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