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It?s official. Tina Fey?s show-within-a-show ?30 Rock? will roll on for a full season on NBC. Despite its initial struggle in the ratings war, last night?s episode rose from its season average by 25%. With ?Rock?s? season-long engagement, NBC may be on the verge of crafting the first ever ?TGIT??Thank God It?s Thursday.
In a four-hour interview with Entertainment Weekly (and honestly, if that's not a sign of career demise in and of itself, we don't know what is), Mel Gibson responds to an interviewer's oblique reference to Michael "Kramer" Richards' recent bout of racist Tourette's at the Laugh Factory with a declaration of sympathy. Apparently, he sort of understands what the dude is going through.
I felt like sending Michael Richards a note. I feel really badly for the guy. He was obviously in a state of stress. You don't need to be inebriated to be bent out of shape. My heart went out to the guy. Poor f---er, he's getting it now. They'll probably torture him for a while and then let him go. I like him.
Being crack fedora wearing investigative reporters here, we've obtained the note that Mel sent Michael -- it's after the jump. It kind of shocked us, to be honest. Also, we think that Mel might have been spending some time with Lindsay Lohan. Maybe he's thinking of casting her in Apocalypto 2 or something.
The Year of Living Dangerously [EW]
Earlier: Michael Richards Also Hates the Seinfeld Target Demo
Dear Michael,
I hear you hate black and jews. Me too. Let's hang out sometimes.
Your friend,
Mel Gibson.
PS: BE ADEQUITE
Heidi leads me to my second favorite moment of the episode when she says she would not let her husband go out like that. Michael asks, “Seal’s not going purple?” Kevin says Seal would look great in it, but Heidi replies that “it’s more David Beckham” with such a look of disgust that I’m pretty sure 3000 miles away, David Beckham is crying in the shower and has no idea why.
OMTP wants operators and suppliers to speak the same language. A consortium of mobile operators has produced a new conformance scheme to make mobile data services easier and safer to use.
Jeff Rubenstein of the Playstation Blog
"Hey gamers! Response to this here PlayStation.Blog has been so impressive, that SCEA decided that someone needed to be brought in to help keep an eye on it full time. I?m that person. Really, I?ve been lurking behind the scenes here for over a month, but it?s time to come out and say hello.Among other things, it?s my job to help connect those who create software, hardware, and peripherals for PlayStation systems, and those of you who play them. And I can?t do it without you, the faithful and passionate readers. So keep those comments coming ? we?re reading them! Also, please feel free to utilize the Contact Us section (on the right side of the blog) if what you wanna say is off-topic. We read that too, even if we don?t necessarily have enough hours in the day to write back to each of you."
Jaikoz is a powerful tag editor that allows you to organize, edit, and correct thousands of audio tags with ease. Jaikoz has powerful automation features. Jaikoz uses MusicBrainz and MusicIP, online databases of over 5 million songs, which can match your songs automtically based on the actual music as well as the metadata. Jaikoz uses a convenient spreadsheet view to allow you to edit information very quickly and provides many autoformatting tasks which do most of the work for you.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
Changes:
Artwork auto-formatting for Musicbrainz and
Discogs now supports an option to only populate if
new artwork is of a higher resolution, ensuring
that artwork is only overwritten if a higher
resolution image can be found. Also, an option was
added to only overwrite if the existing value is
empty or on the genre blacklist, allowing genres
to be overwritten if they have a blacklisted
genre. An option was added to change the base
folder for a set of folders using a file dialog.
Various bugs were fixed.
Independent market research organization GfK Australia has confirmed that the Wii has reached the milestone of 750,000 units sell through in 102 weeks, making Wii the fastest selling console to hit that mark in Australian history.
Woops, sorry. I didn't check and it seems to be a fake. My bad. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Any kind of mods created for the PC version, including player created mods and customizations, can be loaded in the PlayStation 3 system which will bring a level of creativity, innovation and replayability not previously seen on home consoles.
All the technology behind the Unreal Engine 3, used in the PC version of the game, is said to be fully optimized for the PlayStation 3 system, which means that the game developers can take full advantage of its power and creativity. With mods and maps already available for the PC version of the game and with others announced, this feature is definitely not just dust in the wind. And it should allow the developers to start working on future releases, too.
The PlayStation 3 Version of Unreal Tournament 3 will be released to North American manufacturing and could show up in stores starting December 11th.The European release will occur later, though, because of some unfinished localization-related tasks. This means that early 2008 (January or February) is the best guess for European UT3 fans regarding the PlayStation 3 release.
Fishing, Sports, from Activision Minneapolis
The first TV Spot for Marley & Me which is due to hit theaters this Christmas, December 25, 2008.
Axiomatic Multi-Platform C (AMPC) is a C to Java
class file compiler suite for the development of
platform independent applications. AMPC can also
be used to integrate C and Java programs since
AMPC's C functions can directly call numerous Java
methods and vice versa. AMPC supports a very large
subset of ANSI C (1989). It can be used to develop
new applications using C as well as port existing
applications written in C to run on JVM enabled
devices. A JNI (JVM Native Interface) feature is
available for calling native C or C++ functions.
The asm() directive can be used to embed Jasmin
assembly code within C source code. Support for the SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit) based graphics API is available. J2ME CDC 1.1 for mobile devices is also supported.
License: Other/Proprietary License
Changes:
A bug related to the handling of very long function names was fixed.
SmartSVN is a feature-rich and easy-to-use Subversion client. It runs on Linux, Mac OS X, OS/2, Unix, and Windows. In addition to the normal SVN commands like checkout, update, commit, merge, etc., it provides tag and branch handling (no need to deal with URLs just to switch to a different tag or branch), a built-in file compare and conflict solver, and much more. There is no need to install additional tools for handling SVN working copies, like a command line SVN client or a file comparison tool.
Where has all the research gone?
Square Enix opened up the official site for Blood of Bahamut today, sharing new details on the game, and also providing a first video trailer. It also shared official screenshots and artwork.
Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter believes a contributing factor to lower-than-expected software sales was a preponderance of bundled games for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation Portable. "In the aggregate, these bundles represented over 600,000 units of games that were purchased by consumers and which were not counted in the NPD software numbers for the month because the software was included 'inside the box' as part of the bundle," he said.
However, prediction market the simExchange also noted that sales were lower simply because some titles did not perform to expectations. In particular, Insomniac Games' high-profile PS3-exclusive title Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, which released October 23, hasn't thus far lived up to sales expectations.
"Ratchet & Clank Future sold only 74,500 units in October, well below an already low market expectation of 129,000 units," said simExchange analyst Jesse Divnich. In comparison, Insomniac's PS3 launch title Resistance: Fall of Man sold nearly 71,000 last November, with lifetime-to-date sales at nearly 700,000, according to NPD.
Divnich believes that continued lackluster performances from PS3-exclusive titles are having a negative impact on hardware sales for the Japanese giant. As such, Divnich believes a lot is riding on Naughty Dog's Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. "Sony does have one last chance to prove itself in 2007 with its first-party titles with Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, which the prediction market expects 286,000 units sold in December." Uncharted officially ships out November 19, though some retailers appear to already be stocking the anticipated action adventure.
Clichés are found in everything from music to movies to anything where creativity finds a home. This is no different with the video game medium which mimics past ideas to no end. Why tamper with a formula for success? Repetition has been the basis of our great civilization, and so it comes as no surprise that there are numerous clichés in the video game medium. Some of the clichés we can do with. Some of them actually make us happy when we see them all the time. Others however are just plain annoying and we will go through these in this list. Here then are the top 10 most used clichés in video game history.
U.S. sales of the PlayStation 3 more than doubled in the weeks after the company slashed the video game console's price $100 and launched a low-end model, Sony CEO Howard Stringer said Wednesday. Sony said it sold more than 100,000 consoles of all types in the week ending Nov. 11.
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Juiced 2 - Hot Import Nights trailer. Now available on Xbox 360 !
Filed under: Features, Misc. Gadgets
So just what
is a
Chumby? Well, it's a Chumby, of course: a plush ball with a touchscreen, WiFi, accelerometer, squeeze sensor, and USB ports. Any attempt to shoehorn this device into an existing category of consumer electronics will be met with at least some amount of resistance. The basic idea is to combine some of the best ideas in glanceable information and entertainment -- an alarm clock, digital picture frame, bite-sized web clippings, and an iPod dock, for example -- with an utterly unique design (when's the last time you wanted to hug your alarm clock?) and an open, hackable architecture. Like
other projects of recent memory, the success of the Chumby will depend as much on the participation of the user community in creating, rating, and discussing widgets as it will depend on Chumby Industries' own efforts -- not to downplay the importance of the hardware, naturally. Read on for some quick impressions.
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Continue reading Hands-on with the retail version of the Chumby
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
F-ab is a browser for Flash movies. In this
browser, Flash movies are accessed by channels
instead of URLs. The Netscape plugin is used to
play movies. Apache Derby is used as the internal
database. Therefore, it requires Sun Microsystem's
Java runtime environment J2SE 1.4 or later when
used on Windows.
License: Freeware
Changes:
In F-ab 2.0 or later, FLVPhone can be used. FLVPhone is a
video conferencing telephone using the Flash movie. In
FLVPhone, instead of a telephone number, an email address is
used to specify a person to be called. Red5 is embedded in F-
ab to communicate with the remote FLVPhone.
Super Mario Galaxy, Assasin's Creed and Crysis lead the pack of new releases for the week of November 12, 2007!
There's a scene in the 2004 movie "Mean Girls" in which the most popular girl in the film's fictional high school finds out that a friend who now is a fast-rising social rival plans to throw a party without inviting her. "Who does she think she is?" sniffs the suddenly threatened clique leader -- or "Queen Bee," in the movie's parlance. "I, like, 'invented' her, you know what I mean?"
Here’s the latest Girls Next Door calendar. It’s a definite must-have for all you single guys. Because nothing says you don’t get laid like a calendar with hot chicks on your wall.
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An ongoing travelogue of one editor's time in Final Fantasy XI.
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Nicholson says there were three films planned.
Here’s Jessica Alba on the set of An Invisible Sign of My Own. Here’s another case of a hot celebrity playing an ugly character in order to be taken seriously as an actor. We saw Charlize Theron win an Oscar when she played a serial killer in Monster because it was such [...]
The fix to the eBay auction app adds templates and squashes scheduler bug.
I guess people aren't happy with just jumping out of planes anymore... they gotta walk along the wing and show off beforehand...
F-Secure's upgrade doesn't look too different from last year's edition, but internal tweaks such as the DeepGuard behavior monitor are a welcome change.
The South Carolina real estate developer who Anna Nicole Smith slept with can't be her baby daddy, because he had a vasectomy. [TMZ]
Jay-Z may have made a Polish joke in his interview in Life magazine. We're more surprised that Life magazine still exists. [Complex]
Scientologists get their panties in a bunch over an episode of 48 Hours. [Public Eye]
Marilyn Manson's art show is just as creepy as he is. [Paper]
Washington, D.C. (November 1, 2007) -- Sony Electronics President Stan Glasgow says Blu-ray player prices will likely not fall under $399 this holiday season.
?(The player will be) in the $399 range...I don?t expect it to go much lower than that," Glasgow said today, according to TWICE Magazine.
Glasgow made his comment today following an announcement from Wal-Mart that it will sell the Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD player for $98 as a special pre "Black Friday" sale starting tomorrow.
An anonymous reader writes "Red Herring has an in-depth analysis interviewing industry experts on what the future of Linux distributor Red Hat will likely be now that Oracle is offering cheaper support and services essentially identical to Red Hat Linux. Will Oracle purchase Red Hat? Or is it not yet too late?" From the article: "Mr. Dargo countered that Oracle's move indicated a lack of understanding of the value that Red Hat's support and service provide. But he noted that Red Hat could be vulnerable if Oracle manages to provide better service. 'If the strategy at Oracle works out, Red Hat is going to face some serious issues, but I don't think it is going to work out,' he said. 'There are lots of opportunities for Red Hat to do some aggressive and creative things to turn around.'"
Fan feedback on the previous version of Football Manager was, as always, taken very seriously by the
A little bout of tennis just the thing to cause granny to make a racket.
Nintendo's Wii Sports has been has proved rollicking fun in the sun (a bad joke that'll become relevant any second) and has scooped The Sun Family Game of the Year 2007 at this year's Golden Joysticks. Geddit? Geddit?
Click here to read the full article
Discriminav...the world's first fully racist GPS navigation system. From TALKSHOW with Spike Feresten (Saturday Nights at Midnight on FOX).
Runtime: 1 min 17 sec
Wall Street sees some upward momentum with jumps in companies working with chips, the Internet, networking, software, cable, and satellite services manufacturers.
DEFCON (PC)
Flush the bombers. Get the subs in launch mode. We are at DEFCON 1.
Next March, the genre's most unique entry is back.
All it needs is naked mermaids!
Hey man; it's not all groovy melting rainbows and sparkly magical muffincakes that taste like yellow. Sometimes it's demons and spiders and hellfire and free fall and other shit that is totally fucked up and leaves you shattered and shaken. Yes, we're talking about a bad trip down the lysergic acid diethylamide highway, soon to be the subject of a forthcoming book from authors Cliff Hengst and Scott Hewicker.
Good Times: Bad Trips hits shelves later this month courtesy of
Gallery 16 Books. The 138-page, hardback tome collects firsthand accounts from some fifty folks who took the bad acid-- musicians, artists, writers, and the like-- rendered in words and (you guessed it, trippy) visuals.
Musical contributors of note include Devendra Banhart, Matmos' Drew Daniel (also a Pitchfork contributor) and Martin Schmidt, and Vetiver's Andy Cabic. WAIT A MINUTE, DEVENDRA DOES DRUGS!??!
In conjunction with the book's release, Gallery 16's actual San Francisco gallery space opened an exhibition today (October 15) featuring work from
Bad Trips. It runs through November 3. And while we're on the subject, let us take a moment to remind our readership to please trip responsibly.
Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Thrillers, Deals, DIY/Filmmaking, Newsstand
The director of films like When a Stranger Calls (2006) and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is looking to jump onto the pirate ship with his next film, although something tells me Johnny Depp will not be involved. Simon West Prods. (and if you haven't guessed by now, Simon West is the director in question) has just optioned Mark Haskell Smith's novel Salty, which West intends to produce and direct.
Smith has taken on adapting duties himself, and is almost finished with a first draft. The story is an odd one, as it revolves around a reformed sex-addicted bassist who's forced into a trip to Thailand by his ex-supermodel wife. However, once there, all hell breaks loose when she's kidnapped by a gang of pirates looking to raise money for a new boat. Says West, "It's just the thing I was looking for. It's smart, slightly twisted, slightly dark, and above all really funny with great characters." Heck, I have no idea how the main character's recent addiction to sex will come into play when his wife is kidnapped by Thai pirates, but my curiosity is definitely peeked. How about yours?
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