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Ryan Reynolds tells his daughter, Abigail Breslin, the stories of his three great loves and asks her to guess which is her mother, plus more sneak peeks.
A sneak peek at the upcoming film The Orphanage.
The sexy Canadian performs a soothing pop ballad while she gets wet on secluded beach.
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Here's more gameplay footage from Alone in the Dark: Inferno.
Zurich, Switzerland-based Neuronics has released an open-source embedded Linux version of its "Katana" robot." The Katana Robotic Arm runs Linux with Xenomai hard real time extensions on a Freescale MPC5200-based control board, and is aimed at industry, production, and research applications, says the company.
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The former purse snatcher gone car thief ends up getting what he deserves a face full of broken glass and baton hits
There are oh so many ways you can spend the holiday weekend: Gorging on stuffing, cranberry sauce and turkey tofu (mmmmm, tofu) till you can't possibly gorge anymore. Watching your snoring uncle try to balance that can of Schlitz on his belly while the Detroit Lions inevitably get pummeled by whoever they're playing in a game so boring you can't believe this is what you have to watch when there's a perfectly good 'Laguna Beach' marathon on MTV. Or my family's favorite: Reminiscing about a time way back when everyone in the family actually got along and spoke to one another. Sometimes we even get out pictures from that day.
But really, folks, is there a better way to spend Thanksgiving than gathering the family around the computer and engaging in a madcap contest of Insert Caption? I know, crazy question. Of course there is. But while you're here, wake up Uncle Fred, tell little cousin Sally to put down the gin already, and give us what ya got. First check out last week's winner for 'Casino Royale' (from zsxxx03, who I believe may be a porn star), then enter your caption for the photo below from 'Deck the Halls,' starring Danny DeVito and Matthew Broderick. Don't be afraid to ask the fam for help. We all know little cousin Sally is much funnier when she's drunk.
"This isn't where I parked my car."
-- zsxxx03
See full photo and more entries here
This week's challenge:
"Join the Big Brother program today and this could be you!"
--MoviefoneKevin
POST: Write your own caption
GET IT: Get 'Deck the Halls' trailer, clips and more
Tags: Deck the Halls, Insert Caption, Danny DeVito, Matthew Broderick
While Research in Motion continues to dominate the corporate smartphone market, new data shows Apple to be chipping awake at the BlackBerry maker's lead after having recently bludgeoned Palm to become the second leading supplier of advanced handsets to businesses.
Actress Mary-Kate Olsen is recovering in a New York hospital after undergoing emergency surgery for a kidney infection.
Cool business cards
Anyone who's been waiting in line all day in Times Square and looking forward to the launch party is out of luck. Due to some pretty shoddy planning, the stage for the bands and entertainment was set up around the corner from the front of the line, making it completely out of sight for everyone in it. While everyone in line was handed stickers that looked like passes that had an 8pm time on them, they were unable to see any of the party that started at 8. Their schedule looked more like this: wait in line 'til midnight, buy Wiis, go home. The store closes at 10pm for the employees to get all the Wiis out, then they'll open at 12 for sales. That's all the entertainment the line has to look forward to. Ah well, at least they'll all get Wiis when all is said and done, so that's one up on Sony. –Adam Frucci
Everything Wii [Gizmodo]
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Big Bumpin' (X360)
It actually looks good.
Stanford University computer scientist John Koza explains the National Popular Vote Bill, a plan that, if enacted, would effectively circumvent the role of the Electoral College in determining the President of the United States.
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The Electoral College was developed by our founding fathers and enshrined in the Constitution as a system of checks and balances to ensure a fair outcome in the choosing of our presidents.
However, the highly publicized 2000 presidential election, in which Al Gore may have won the popular vote but lost the contest to George W. Bush, galvanized those who wish to see the Electoral College scrapped in favor of a national popular vote.
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Parallels has officially released Parallels Desktop 4.0, the latest edition of its virtualization software for the Mac. The program lets users run operating systems such as Windows and Linux within Mac OS X, eliminating the need to dual-boot. The fourth edition is said to improve integration with operating systems, in particular Windows, as it now supports graphics technologies such as DirectX 9...
jbpisio writes with a link to this blog-post summary that the Canadian government has commissioned a pair of unmanned subs to explore the geology of two underwater Arctic mountain ranges; the subs' mission will be to provide evidence supporting Canada's claim to huge swaths of potentially petroleum-rich seabed areas. According to the linked article, "The submersibles, scheduled to be launched in 2010, would be sent on a series of 400-kilometre missions north and west of Ellesmere Island, Canada's northernmost land mass and the country's gateway to the open Arctic Ocean - the scene of an international power struggle over undersea territory and petroleum resources believed to be worth trillions of dollars." At least five countries (besides Canada, these are the US, Russia, Denmark and Norway) would like a slice of those trillions.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Your social life ends (again) in a few months.
FastFormat is a C/C++ output and formatting
library whose design parameters are complete
type-safety, efficiency, genericity, and
extensibility. It is simple to use and extend,
highly portable (to any platform or compiler), and
it upholds the C tradition of you only pay for
what you use. FastFormat supports output and
formatting of statements of arbitrary complexity,
consisting of heterogeneous types. FastFormat
writes to output "sinks", which can be of
arbitrary type.
License: BSD License (revised)
Changes:
This release consists of a number of small fixes along with changes that will support new features in forthcoming releases.
The Best Buy Black Friday ad held a couple deals in terms of reasonably priced TVs and a $399 Sony laptop that's sure to sell out before you even get in the store, but Circuit City has its own set of goodies for you to camp out for.
Here are only some the notables. There are actually tons of good deals in there.
Compaq Presario Laptop w/Intel Pentium Dual-Core Processor and 1GB RAM - $299.99
Toshiba Satelillite Laptop with AMD Athlon 64 X2 Duel Core - $399.99
HP Pavilion Media Center PC with AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor 5200+ - $499.97 AR
A bunch of digital cameras < $200
Fairly reasonably priced GPS units
Onkyo 5.1 Channel Home Theater Receiver - $149.99
Samsung 5.1 Channel 800W Home Theater System - $149.99
Kingston 1GB Notebook DDR2 Memory - $14.99
Wireless-G Router Free with Any Laptop - $0.00
Seagate 500GB External Hard Drive - $79.99
Western Digital 1TB My Book Essential External 3.5 USB Hard Drive - $199.99
XBox 360 Pro w/Free Wireless Controller & Two Games - $349.99
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Learn about the opening move of a paintball game, called "the break" - free paintball tips video.
The latest batch of financial results from Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo make for interesting reading. In this instance, however, the results reveal more clearly than ever just how different the business models and market positioning of the three players are.
What's arguably even more interesting, though, is the manner in which these results have been treated by the mass media - especially the business press. Being asked to commentate on the results for a couple of major news channels has granted readers an intriguing insight into just how the media perceives the current console race - one which it is following more intently than any previous development in this sector.
Despite Microsoft's success with the Xbox 360, the firm's entertainment efforts continue to be a footnote to the overall Microsoft story - with a profitable quarter for the Xbox division, driven by sales of Halo 3, being granted vastly less airtime than other developments such as the firm's investment in Facebook...
JasperAssistant is a visual report designer tool
for JasperReports, a popular open-source reporting
engine. It is built on top of the Eclipse's
plug-in architecture, and its main goal is to help
you create JasperReports report definition files
through an intuitive graphical interface.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
Changes:
This is a maintenance release that fixes several bugs.
Geoff Keighley, who is guest-editing Kotaku this week, has the official release from EA that their Chicago studio is closing. The 150 employees that used to work at the site are trying to be placed throughout the rest of the EA structure, while the games on tap for development there are currently on hold. The release is fairly terse when describing the reason the studio is being closed: "Each team is responsible for staying on a reasonable path to profitability. Sticking to that strategy is what gives us the financial resources and flexibility to take risks on new projects. Unfortunately, EA Chicago hasn't been able to meet that standard. The location has grown dramatically in the past three years while revenue from the games developed there has not. The number of employees has grown from 49 in 2004 to 146 people currently in the new facility in downtown Chicago. As it stands, EA Chicago has no expectation of hitting our profitability targets until FY2011 or later."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
We're still waiting for those financial results.
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Start your engines with a look at FlatOut: Head On for the PSP!
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Madonna is already considering adopting another child, despite the criticism of the way she gained custody of Malawian baby David Banda. The singer and husband Guy Ritchie have been accused of bypassing adoption rules and taking the 16-month-old away from a family who could care for him
Somehow, the state of Florida will have to assemble a jury of maybe-millionaire and probably-perv Jeffrey Epstein's peers—because Radar hears he's backed out of his plea deal arrangement and wants a jury trial on his prostitution charge! Oooooh doggie! The money manager has also been accused of frequent touching of teen gals as well. Not to be gleeful at other people's misfortunes—plus, how can prostitution be a crime in a whoretopia like Florida?—but this is gonna be AWESOME.
Epstein Shrinks from Plea Bargain [Radar]
BioWare and LucasArts have announced a new collaboration.
This can't be true... can it?
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Sony taps into the trading card market with the launch of EyeToy's successor...
The official word regarding the latest Wii system update and the Homebrew Channel is in. Those interested in adding the channel to their Wii might want to think twice before updating their system, as the latest update causes installation processes to fail...
Just in time for the EU launch of Metroid Prime 3, Eurogamer has a retrospective on the Metroid series well worth checking out. "The first Metroid presciently set the tone for the future of the franchise by appearing first on a struggling format and only reaching foreign shores after lengthy delays. Metroid was initially released only for the Famicom Disc System in 1986. The FDS was one of Nintendo's first attempts to monkey around with new storage methods, but its success was limited and it never made it beyond Japan. One year later, Metroid finally appeared on the plain old NES in North America and then, another year later, we pox-ridden Europlebs were deemed worthy of having a copy to call our own. Hmm. Sounds familiar."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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A group of Net neutrality supporters have asked the FCC to require AT&T and BellSouth to refrain from discriminating against third-party Internet traffic in exchange for agency approval of the firms' proposed merger.
This weeks episode of Ugly Betty marks the return of Linsday Lohans character Kimmie. Weve got a couple videos from the episode as well as some photos that will help reveal a bit more about Kimmies role in the episode. Spoilers ahead!
Jim and Conan appear on The Charlie Rose Show.
Offend Maggie isn't a huge breakthrough for Deerhoof, but it's a step toward coherence with which few fans should have a problem. by Jesse Cataldo
Peter Jackson pulls off another last minute replacement.
It's supposed to be completely dark in the auditorium, but instead all these little light shows are going on. FLICK! The face of the guy across the aisle is bathed in a blue electronic glow. FLICK! Another man two seats down regularly seems to blink on and off -- he's a neon sign in jeans and sports...
