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Katrine likes to use a shimmery white eye shadow to apply her lash line and below her brow to make her eyes look more awake.
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with a pair of test screening reviews of...
ValleyWag reports that Eidos is "freaking out" over l'affaire Gerstmann; top management there, an insider says, sincerely believes they didn't prompt CNET to fire Gerstmann, but fears they'll get the blame anyway.
Enchanted wins - no shocker there.
I didn't watch last week's episode, as I was back home visiting the fam. But I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess that DMo Popo did something underhanded (while overchewing his nicotine gum, natch) and House was an ass. Then, at about the 51:00 minute mark he had an epiphany from an unrelated clinic case that helped him discover Cartman's mother was also his father. Yay hermaphrodites!
Unfortunately, this week's episode didn't feature any hot hermaphrodite action, but it did feature some hot laser pointing, a couple who hate each other almost as much as I hate tea, and finally the emergence of a Judas to House's Brian of Nazareth.
Filed under: Culture, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, First Person Shooters, Business
It appears the
Gears of War "Mad World"
advertisement has done more than just augment sales of the game. The somber 2001 Gary Jules and Michael Andrews cover of Mad World, originally released by Tears for Fears in 1982, hit number one on the iTunes top sales charts yesterday, according to fan site Gearheads of War. As of this writing, the song is number 12 (
direct link) on the iTunes charts. The only other
prominent placement of the song currently is an episode of CSI that premiered in late September.
Did a gaming commercial really have that much influence on download sales? The use of licensed songs in video games has a long background, with many unknown bands seeing spikes in record sales due to their placement in games such as
Madden NFL. How might this coerce music industry big wigs to court game developers into using their songs?
Recorded for the mind-screwing film
Donnie Darko, the cover of Mad World was the 2003 UK Christmas number one single. In a sad twist of irony, the Tears for Fears song never hit number one. But no worries, they
did pretty well for themselves.
[Via
Gaming Bits]
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As long as your television blog reachers at least 50 people, the great people who work public relations for various networks and studios start to get to work. By the time you get to be the size of TVgasm, reaching millions of people a month, keeping track of all of the press releases is more difficult than riding the teacups after a bottle of gin, or doing anything after a bottle of gin for that matter. The people trying to get the word out know this and try to come up with creative ways to get our attention. In recent weeks, the most creative team of individuals are the folks over at TBS trying to get the word out for two new comedies,
My Boys, premiering Monday, Nov. 27th at 11PM EST and
10 Items Or Less, premiering one day later, Tuesday, Nov. 28th at 10PM EST.
Everybody sends the DVD screeners and the press kits, but TBS upped the ante when trying to think of ways to make sure
My Boys and
10 Items or Less were not far from our minds. This all culminated last week when we received an entire Thanksgiving dinner (if you like all your stuff to come out of a can or box), which I promptly donated to a local food drive. Read about both of these new shows after the jump.
The folks on the space station send their Thanksgiving greetings.
This flipbook is pretty short, but it's also pretty advanced. 3-Dimensional!
Ben Seberry writes "It appears Dell has been caught red-faced by yet another pricing mistake on their Australian website. Many customers thought they had spotted a fantastic deal when they came across a 55%-off offer. Dell later denied that this was a valid special and telephoned customers to offer them a choice of the standard price, or a cancelled order. Dell's senior manager of corporate communication came out and apologized for the mistake, promising processes would be reviewed to prevent it from happening again. In the days after the original 'incorrectly priced' offer was fixed, Dell made a different error leading to an even cheaper price being advertised. This time, on many user forums and blogs, users are debating Australian contract law as it applies to this matter — it is not as clear-cut as many originally believed."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Screw the backlash to the backlash to the backlash! This must be said: Britney Spears's Blackout is an astounding music record. Go put it on now, and just try to argue that "Heaven on Earth" isn't so much a better faux-Joy Division song than anything in years—and these are the same years that every person with a Y chromosome has been busily trying to write faux-Joy Division songs. (If the great switch-ending of the barely aspirated verse "Your touch / Your taste / Your breath / Your face / Your hands / Your head (: o!) / You're sweet" doesn't count as syllepsis, I'm burning every book I own by Quintilian.) But I'm not here to discuss the recent Joy Division biopic Control; I'm here to discuss the recent Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not Here. Or rather to suggest a user-participatory way to get us the Britney Spears world tour we're all starving for, since Britney Spears the woman seems rather out of commission right now.
Because, as smarty-pants semiotician and
Not There director Todd Haynes has
shown us, performance (or was that performativity?) is all about having multiple people play the same "individual" even if that individual is really famous Bob Dylan and those people are little kids or black or Cate Blanchett.
Thus, because new single "Piece of Me" deserves to be lip-synced to in the middle of an elaborate Cirque du Soleil–style stage show, I propose that some prestigious, and less hazardous, stars take the road as Britney surrogates, each doing a few songs a night. Just like in the movie, different performers will embody her various essences (or is that non-essence?).
But who?!
This is the fun part. I'll start.
As "Baby, one More Time" Britney, Zac Efron!
As "Stronger" Britney, Michele Williams. (Yeah, Heath's Dylan was the lamest one anyway)
As "Gimme More" Britney, Philip Seymour Hoffman. (Great character actor; all about the craft.)
As Umbrella-Bayonet Britney, Delores O'Riordan. (Because Sinead O'Connor is too obvious and even though "Zombie" made the world safe for Rihanna's "Umbrella", who laughed at Brit once like a lunch-period mean girl.)
Who has the je ne sais quoi (or coif) to play the last decade of Britney? "Toxic" Britney? Crossroads Britney? Mrs. Jason Alexander Britney? This (broadly speaking) is really not as hard as it looks. Go on, try.
Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons today criticised the lack of concern being
shown by Finance Minister Michael Cullen about the chronic inability of Treasury,
the Reserve Bank and MED to accurately forecast the price of oil, or even whether ...
Kotaku writes:
"After last week's exciting new hardware debuts, the Japanese hardware sales charts calm down a bit. Sure, the Nintendo DSi is still selling like gangbusters, but the PlayStation 3 starts its journey downward into more normal territory, moving less than half of what it did the week prior. On the flip side of the hi-def console war, the Xbox 360 doubles its week-to-week sales in Japan, making this pie chart a lot less red and a lot more lime green."
• Nintendo DSi - 104,897
• PSP - 43,726
• Wii - 24,726
• PlayStation 3 - 18,354
• Xbox 360 - 12,759
• Nintendo DS - 8,381
• PlayStation 2 - 5,743
Kanawha HealthCare automates data mining, saving clients millions and improving care.
Release Candidate 2 of version 6.0 also updates the OS's ability to manage video telephony, pluggable font engine support, and thin-client technology.
China's second biggest mobile operator would be open to talks with Apple about selling the iPhone there.
I tried to find some negative ones, but it was tough.
Mika Reini, the office manager at Remedy Games (developer of Alan Wake,) has confirmed in the official forum that the rumor of a "big Microsoft's first-party title" getting cancelled has nothing to do with Alan Wake. The official forum moderator's announcement:
"Moderator Note:
Alan Wake is NOT the Xbox360 game rumoured to be cancelled. Please see the comment by MikaRMD at the bottom of this thread.
Also please note that Microsoft still has exclusive publishing rights to Alan Wake (regardless of the fact that Remedy is a third party developer and owns the IP) and as such Alan Wake is NOT going to appear on the PlayStation 3. It is a PC and Xbox 360 title."
MikaRMD (Miki of Remedy) wrote: "This rumor has nothing to do with Alan Wake as we're busy developing the kick-ass game you've been waiting for (unless someone forgot to tell us about it... )"
Ah,
Prison Break. I've never actually recapped this show before, but because Amanda is literally stuck in the Netherlands with various occupational obligations hanging over her head (don't get any ideas) and because Umnata has been sacked with a double dose of
The OC, I figured I'd step up and take the baton for an episode or two. I actually was kind of excited to sub in. I've been enjoying my own interior monologue of snark all season long, and now I can share some of it. I mean, is this not the most ridiculous show on TV right now? That doesn't mean I don't enjoy it. Heck, I love the way Agent Mahone can miraculously appear in different parts of the country in a blink of the eye. I'm starting to think that maybe he has a bit of that
Heroes mojo going on. And let's not overlook his brilliant powers of deduction. Nor can we forget T-Bag, the medical miracle of the Western World. Yes, so many plot holes, so little time.
One of the most powerful lines in iCandyi comes from Geoffrey Rush as a heroin addicted chemistry professor warning the scripts protagonists about the perils of drug-abuse: When you can still quit, you dont want to, and when you want to, you cant. Apparently, that theory applies to movies about drugs as well, because iCandyI is intriguing for the first forty minutes and by the time it goes downhill, you have already spent too much time in the theater to justify bailing.
The story is ultimately touching and bittersweet.
Groundhog Day meets LOST, but with Diggs.
ScoreKeeper here with news I regretfully must bear.
The world of...
Infinity Ward and Valve bring you Call of Duty 4.
Unlock lethal guns in Vice City Stories such as the Shotgun and the Scorpion SMG by collecting balloons!
Thin File Putter is an HTTP PUT method file
uploader. Though HTTP's PUT method is superior to
the POST method when it comes to file uploading,
it is not widely supported by browsers. This
program can easily overcome this limitation and
carry out very large file uploads over an HTTP
connection.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Source
Changes:
A new progress monitor has been added, and
configuration data can be directly embedded into
the Web page that contains the applet (instead
using a configuration file). Perl server side
handlers have been improved.
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Card Games, from Crave Entertainment
LinuxWorld: "PC vendors haven't been eager to know how many users run Linux when it's preloaded on their low-end PCs, and how many replace it with an infringing copy of Microsoft Windows..."
Several financial institutions hit by the professionally maintained Trojan.
Japan is going to start tracking their defense officials through hi-tech, James Bondish means—GPS-enabled phones. After a retired defense official admitted to playing hundreds of free rounds of golf (bought by a defense contractor) while on the job, officials of the officials have gotten upset, and decided that members of the defense ministry need to be accounted. For now, the compromise is that defense officials will carry special phones in times of emergency only, which seems like a fair compromise. But that's not stopping those crying over spilt golf.
One anonymous official went on record saying:
We're not children.
And then he totally didn't add:
But the baby leash is acceptable, because you can still golf in it. It's just tough to play with a clunky cellphone in your pocket.
[
reuters]
Quad Hill Climb Gone Hillariously Bad
According to market watcher iSuppli, Nintendo has surpassed Sony as the leader in the video game software market in the third quarter of 2007 on the strength of new titles for both its Wii and DS.
Worldwide revenue for Nintendo DS and Wii gaming software amounted to $1.2 billion in the third quarter, up 31.4 per cent from $943.6 million in the second quarter and more than double the $611 million from the third quarter of 2006.
Sony?s third quarter game software revenues were $1 billion for its PS3, PS2 and PSP.
Microsoft posted revenues of $317.8 million for Xbox and Xbox 360 software.
(via Electronics Weekly, Oct. 30)
Filed under: Action & Adventure, Thrillers, Deals, New Releases, Newsstand
British director
Ken Russell has always had a pretty strange reputation -- I mean, this is the guy who made
Tommy and
Altered States. Russell was known for his bizarre use of religious and sexual imagery in his films -- anyone who has seen
Crimes of Passion can attest to that. In spite of his status as a pioneer of the 'X' rating, Russell is considered one of England's great directors.
Production Weekly announced that Russell has been attached to direct
Kings X, starring
Ray Winstone and
Kevin Spacey. The director also must be feeling sentimental, as he has also cast 60's icon
Twiggy, who he worked with on his first American film (
The Boy Friend).
Kings X is currently in pre-production in the UK.
The Chris Cleverly script sounds like your typical crime fare with low-level thugs, drugs and hookers -- oh, and don't forget a pretty girl in danger. Although, it does have the added kitsch of a protagonist who has a thing for recording his life on a cell phone camera, so I would expect some fancy camera tricks on Russell's part.
[via
ComingSoon.net]
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Three new scans of Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days from Japanese magazine Nintendo Dream have surfaced online. The scans do not feature new information or images, but are still worth a look due to their very high quality.
A sorta-Halloweenie 1UP Show in disguise!
Saxnet has introduced a major upgrade of its Debian Linux-powered Meshnode wireless mesh-networking router. The Meshnode III boasts increased WiFi transmit power and a self-organizing four-radio transmission system, among other enhancements.
Variety reports that Tom Cruise is looking at three films for his next project: two from major studios (Warner Bros. Pictures and 20th Century Fox), and one that's being mobilized independently.
This is why you dont stand behind the manure sprayer.
First, Intel decided to go with Linux for its MIDs, and now it's giving the bird to Microsoft again by revealing a contender to the Zune's social music aspect. TuneWiki, a “social media player” software based on Intel's Atom processor integrates music and video with synchronized lyrics and a social network.
Besides using a wiki-based community to contribute content, TuneWiki also displays real-time music popularity lists, the locations of other TuneWiki users based on your favorite songs and artists, and the ability to check out music from other countries with translated lyrics. It's an interesting new app for the (MID-using) international crowd, but will it take off States-side?
TuneWiki brings its Next Generation Social Media Player
to Intel-based Mobile Internet Devices
TuneWiki for Moblin revealed today, at a keynote speech for the Intel Developer Conference in Taipei. TuneWiki successfully ported its award winning software to the MID, based on the new Intel® Atom™ processor.
TuneWiki's social media player is the first to integrate music and video with synchronized lyrics and a social network. The lyrics data and synchronization are contributed by the community, using wiki technology. TuneWiki MusicMap displays the location of users based on songs or artists. LiveCharts allows consumers to access a real-time music popularity list by country or state, and listen to music from other countries with lyrics translated to their preferred language.
“Mobile Internet Devices are projected to have hundreds of millions of users,” said Rani Cohen, founder and CEO of TuneWiki. “We offer the experience of social playback anywhere, and our integrated music solution allows consumers to enjoy music in a completely new way. TuneWiki is committed to becoming the leading media player for Linux powered devices, with current offerings for Android, iPhone, Moblin, Windows and OSX, and with the MID we use a great open source platform developed by SongBird.”
“Mobile Internet Devices represent an innovative platform that enables users to take their entertainment media, social network and Internet with them,” said Pankaj Kedia, director of global ecosystems programs in the Ultra Mobility Group at Intel. “With TuneWiki’s media player optimized for MIDs based on the Intel® Atom™ processor and Moblin-based Linux OS, mobile users will be able to create and share lyrics with their friends and family while on-the-go.”
With TuneWiki and the ‘connect anywhere’ capabilities of the MID, enjoying audio or video will no longer be a solitary activity, but a shared social experience among friends, and the worldwide music community. TuneWiki’s built-in translation capabilities enhance this experience and are an engine of discovery and expansion of outstanding music in all languages.
About TuneWiki
TuneWiki Inc, is the first social media player for mobile and PCs, with the community enhancing the experiance. Additional information about TuneWiki is available at www.TuneWiki.com
1sockchuck writes "Microsoft and Google have opened a new front in their battle for global domination: data center energy efficiency. Just weeks after Google published data on the extreme efficiency of its previously secret data centers, Microsoft says it has achieved similar results with shipping containers (despite Google's patent) packed with up to 2,500 servers. The geeky benchmark for the battle is Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), a green data-center metric advanced by The Green Grid. Microsoft says its containers tested at a PUE of 1.22, while Google reported an average PUE of 1.21 for its data centers, which apparently are also now using containers."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Castlevania series producer Koji Igarashi has a lot to talk about. There's a live-action movie. A new game for PSP. Another new game in the works for DS. And he finally figured out why Simon Belmont whips candles to get items.
Originally aired on the Cartoon Network, Ashley Eckstein (the voice of Ahsoka) hosts this tour of Skywalker Ranch and Lucasfilm Animation, as she goes behind the scenes of The Clone Wars.
A Russian firm, SUP, has purchased the online social networking site LiveJournal for an undisclosed sum. The news caused great rejoicing among angsty 15-year-old girls with poorly-trafficked e-diaries, whose readership will now double to include their very own personal government censor. [NYT]
