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Pasadena Texas - This brave neighbor notices two men robbing his neighbors house in broad daylight. He calls 911 and we hear a very intense conversation which ends with him going out and handling things himself. Much respect to this brave guy.
Evel Knievel, who had amicably settled a lawsuit with Kanye West earlier this week, died at age 69 from unknown causes.
'The Temptation' is due to strike the open-world RPG in the first half of 2008...
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Date Added: Crane tipped over 11/28/2007 11:19
Apple thanks users for helping to test Boot Camp, but tells them the free trial ends on December 31, 2007.
"The Top 100 Games of All Time!
Yes, friends, more than 30 editors located all over the world set aside their ages, allegiances and personal favorites to pick the hundred best video games that the planet has ever seen! There was fighting, there was mayhem, and there was pizza -- lots and lots of pizza.
Now, some of you may proclaim, "but your list is different from the rankings you guys did in 2005!" Well, of course it is people. Plenty of fantastic games have been released since then, and we have plenty of new folks in our ranks to throw in their couple of cents. We're also not afraid to admit that our tastes change over time too."
The recent Columbia grads have already garnered praise from the Talking Heads' David Byrne and hipster blogs across the Web.
The Wall Street Journal casts a regretful eye on the seedy world of stock photos, pointing out how often the images are recycled, even among competitors. Various banks love to use images of nonthreatening, multicultural folks smiling at laptops, or laughing together while relaxing on the sofa with their mutual fund paperwork. But sometimes, those same photos get used for different products, implying that their might be no actual connection between Stripey Shirt Man and Met Life and/or Pfizer! If you can't trust generically themed imagery of general contentment, stability, and success, how can one properly absorb media and marketing semaphores? How can you know whether that black guy and his kid are really checking their online statement at Bank of America, or Key Bank? Send more unqualified signifiers, please.
Mad Penguin: "Most of you reading this are likely doing so with the now popular Web browser lovingly known as Firefox..."
ATP New York, the festival hipsters young and old can enjoy together, is back. The 2nd annual fest is now scheduled for September 11-13, 2009 (instead of Labor Day as previously announced), taking place again at Kutshers Country Club in Monticello, New York. Although the co-curator will be announced in the coming weeks (hey, maybe it's us!), the first seven bands have already been announced: Friday, September 11 – Don't Look Back/Comedy: Dirty Three Performing Ocean Songs (...)
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Date Added: dogs in food costumes 11/27/2006 00:00
Welsh team not in the game, fans go mental.
Welsh football fans are venting their anger at being snubbed from the national team roster of EA's FIFA 09.
"We've already seen great games as the Microsoft Xbox 360 hits two years while the Sony PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii reach their first birthdays. Gamers have enjoyed countless titles, especially those who grabbed consoles during launch, but how can we say if those games are next-gen? It wouldn't be fair to say games haven't improved since the last generation, but some arguably don't step up much aside from having better graphics.
Fanboys talk about specs of their machines or what their consoles can do. But what is there that separates the new from old? Is it the surround sound audio? Online capabilites? Motion sensing controllers? With so many questions, we can at least be certain that game design plays a major role."
Community and web lead Ben Ward answers some The Club questions on the Bizarre forums.
1. Does this game really need to be multi-platform, and will the graphics be maintained in each version?
Ben Ward: Well it doesn't need to be multi-platform in the same way as you need food and water to survive... but each version will be identical in terms of graphics (obviously you'll need a meaty enough PC to make that version look the same as the Xbox 360 or PS3 versions though)...
2. Is there any prospect of downloadable content, throughout the game's lifetime?
Ben Ward: We haven't really decided yet. That said, we've bundled as much gameplay as possible into the game on the disc, so I don't think you'll be pining for DLC any time soon (at least I hope not!).
Happy Thanksgiving! Did you know that all the people running for president are big fatties? The Times today reveals that running for president apparently involves eating corn dogs and other unhealthy things. Mike Huckabee, whose primary qualification for running this nation is that he used to be a fattie and now he's skinny, "eats lightly,"and all the rest of the losers have to pretend to care about fitness. Just like you! The Iowa State Fair sounds awesome: Barry Hussein Obama ate "caramel corn, pork and a corn dog for the cameras." And Senator Clinton is v.v. close to Jesus: "At one campaign event, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said she prayed to God to help her lose weight." [NYT]
With families gathering together for the Thanksgiving holiday, we expect thousands of relatives to be exposed to the joys of Wii Sports for the first time this weekend. We have to warn you, though, that no matter how cute you think it is to watch your family members flailing around with the Wii remote, there's no way their performance will live up to this video of an extremely excited four-year-old Wii Sports boxer.
Think you can do better? Send us your embarrassing videos of family members trying out the Wii or PS3 for the first time and show the world that your genes come from a more mortifying source than anyone else's.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
One of the leading academic experts on databases has come out of retirement to help Microsoft scale SQL Server.
Tonight Leslie Collins runs from the long arm of the law while simultaneously giving you the best moments of the The Office and 30 Rock! It's the Best Night Ever!
Quinton writes "Around midnight Pacific time on the 17th, Sony updated their Open Platform website needed to install PPC Linux on the PS3. The FTP Site contains the CELL Linux ADDON CD image, which has the bootloader (kboot/otheros.bld) and instructions needed to install Fedora Core 5, PPC. A full install from DVD takes about two hours. Most all hardware is supported except for graphics accelerator support (framebuffer only, up to 1920x1200)."
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Date Added: "peeper spray" 11/16/2008 01:32
Brace yourselves, Dragon Ball fans. Twentieth Century Fox's live-action adaptation of your beloved manga has cast its leads, and some of you are about to start screaming bloody murder.
Fox has yanked the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced "Justice" from its lineup, effective immediately, reports Variety . Warner Bros. TV will finish out production on the series' 13th episode, but the show has been effectively canceled.
DaniWeb: "Firefox ticks many boxes, but the one big cross it has had to bear over the years is the memory leakage problem that many users have experienced..."
Date Added: GREMLINS WILL KILL YOU!!!! 11/11/2007 17:54
In a video Police Chief William Bratton has called "disturbing," two LAPD officers are caught on tape beating up alleged gang member William Cardenas.
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The PS3's menu fonts are almost impossible to read from more than 6 feet away on a 37-inch LCD running at 1080p. Most 1080p displays are larger, and most people who can afford this console at $600 bucks will have a large TV. But I think that most kids and lower end gamers who are traditional Playstation owners will have a hard time affording a bigger HDTV, yet will want to run in HD. Who wouldn't?
Either way, the fonts are too small.
BTW, I am not an eye doctor, and the comparison to the Snellen eye chart aren't literal or scientific measurements. It's a joke.
Saving money is of paramount importance for CIOs in today's economy, and renegotiating contracts with IT vendors may be one of the best ways to chop expenses.
Media mogul Oprah Winfrey has suffered another embarrassing setback--the author of a children's book she recommended on her Web site has been exposed as a white supremacist.
Publisher's other businesses make up for sagging game sales; Winning Eleven and Jikkyou baseball titles performing well.
As a devoted fan of the shooter genre, I really enjoyed the original Gears of War -- its in-the-trenches intensity was a shot of adrenaline for the entire action genre. Unfortunately, I was left somewhat disappointed by its too-short campaign and groan-worthy character dialogue, as well as its fickle online multiplayer. Despite my complaints, I knew that Gears of War was something special, with its ultra-violent presentation and intense cover-hopping action. Since its release, I've been proven right: literally dozens of other games have mimicked the style, if not the substance, of the original Gears of War.
THE BOTTOM LINE: The good news is that Gears of War 2 significantly improves upon the original game in every possible way, addressing several key shortcomings that kept its predecessor from being a bona-fide classic. Gears of War 2 is a terrific action game that deservedly resides in the upper echelon of console shooters, and is the best shooter to hit the Xbox 360 so far this year. Action gamers, you've found your next obsession.
Mac software developer Craig Hockenberry has never been very interested in creating applications for cell phones. "It's a lot of politics, and less money" to be made compared with creating software for computers, he says, explaining that programmers have always been forced to bow to a litany of requirements set by wireless carriers, handset makers and other software companies.
Despite flaws in its online and edit modes, Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 is incredibly addictive and still wins the title of football champion over FIFA, but only on penalties.
Pros:
* + Addictive gameplay
* + More licenses than ever before
* + Realistc player appearances
Another cancellation today? Nah. It's just a postponement for the Smashing Pumpkins, who've moved a handful of dates on their current tour due to the illness of drummer Jimmy Chamberlin. Experiencing chest pains, Chamberlin was taken to an Atlanta hospital Tuesday where he was diagnosed with a partially blocked artery. He was released yesterday, but due to his recovery, the band was forced to shelve their last two shows and the next three, all of which have been moved back a few weeks starting November 11. All tickets will be honored for the rescheduled dates.
Quoted on the band's MySpace blog, Chamberlin says, "the good news is that my heart checked out. No damage. Basically a small build up of plaque on one of my arteries. This combined with stress, fatigue, and all of the other good things that go along with being on tour was the cause of my pain. So obviously we had to postpone the end of the tour while I recover. It should only be a week or so until JC is ready to rock again." For a full message from, um, JC, go here.
Just to recap: Jimmy Chamberlin refers to himself in the third person, by his initials. Thisband, I tell ya. [MORE...]
Today's top gaming mags have changed quite a bit since their inception. Check out the first and latest issues of the industry's biggest publications!
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The hype starts here.
Microsoft has demonstrated Windows 7, the next major release of its OS, insisting that it will reflect on lessons learned from the widely-panned Vista.
In the latest fullmoon show from insomniac games, a couple of the crew discuss some reviews of the game. The crew are appreciative of the reviews after checking metacritic and gamerankings. They state that out of 21 scores, only 4 are below 90 with 3 perfect scores. They were concerned about critics to the "returning to roots" approach to the game, but people have received it very well.
One of the reviews had sticked out to them which prompted the crew to say "If you hate variety, than you've got a problem.", "play more sports games", and "we will not mention the media outlet".
After the discussion with their mystery guest, they speak to Ross Macintosh . The crew discusses their "gamespot resistance: fall of man tournament." Ross quickly reminded the rest of the crew that the tournament is now called "the resistance: fall of man tournament with the website whose name we shall no longer mention" in a jokingly manner.
If there's one thing we hate waking in the morning, it's our testicles climbing up into our abdomen to shield themselves from the frigid cold. NOT ANYMORE! This pair of Tri-Zone heated pants have two heat zones (shouldn't that be dual-zone then?), one around your pockets and one around your lower back. And by lower back, they probably mean ass.
The pants are controlled by a wired remote which goes into a pocket, and they're powered by a rechargeable li-on battery. The phrase "honey, did you recharge my pants?" will probably less awkward after you pick up a pair. – Jason Chen
Happy Thanksgiving! Did you know that all the people running for president are big fatties? The Times today reveals that running for president apparently involves eating corn dogs and other unhealthy things. Mike Huckabee, whose primary qualification for running this nation is that he used to be a fattie and now he's skinny, "eats lightly,"and all the rest of the losers have to pretend to care about fitness. Just like you! The Iowa State Fair sounds awesome: Barry Hussein Obama ate "caramel corn, pork and a corn dog for the cameras." And Senator Clinton is v.v. close to Jesus: "At one campaign event, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said she prayed to God to help her lose weight." [
The PS3's menu fonts are almost impossible to read from more than 6 feet away on a 37-inch LCD running at 1080p. Most 1080p displays are larger, and most people who can afford this console at $600 bucks will have a large TV. But I think that most kids and lower end gamers who are traditional Playstation owners will have a hard time affording a bigger HDTV, yet will want to run in HD. Who wouldn't? 
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If there's one thing we hate waking in the morning, it's our testicles climbing up into our abdomen to shield themselves from the frigid cold. NOT ANYMORE! This pair of Tri-Zone heated pants have two heat zones (shouldn't that be dual-zone then?), one around your pockets and one around your lower back. And by lower back, they probably mean ass.