Symantec's Norton Confidential Internet phishing and identity fraud protection software is now Safari-compatible, according to the company.

Graeme Divine speaks to us about the story and campaign of Halo Wars.

Glaring Omissions reproduces tips received from readers in the last week that weren't covered on Gawker, either by accident (rarely) or design (almost always). Feel free to remark on these items' relative worthiness for coverage and/or relative stupidity. And, as ever, we're open to suggestions for future posts either via email or in the comments below.

• "poetry is wack!!! i am stoned and emailing gaeker because that is how f'dup i am. please redact my email for my parents' sake. a gawker joke: i just went to choire sicha's website and all i could think was that his real name sounded like corey!!!!"
• "Anna Wintour's New Assistant???? Hi, WHERE did you get this info? And, where do I sign up. She may be hard to work for, but WHAT an experience!! Please send me details!!!!"
• "Don't know how to reach this Judith Regan, but if this is a message center for her, I am hoping she will read this note. How could you publish his book? Are we such sick people that you would want to publish something like this? Shame."
• "Those Columbia bitches ain't shit. 3 days? My friend and I would gladly undertake that 'challenge' for a week for some better blog (hint) as long as alcohol is allowed. NYU RULES!"

"I tested out 'twatwaffle' on Yahoo Answers' censoring software this weekend ... and guess what! It escaped unscathed AND got 5 thumbs up! Note: Yahoo Answers is usually very strict. it won't allow blowjob OR blow job ... Also, I'd like you to consider the word 'twunt' as a suitable substitute for 'douchebag'. It's my favourite portmanteau ever and again, passes the YA test with flying colours."

"Why did Absolute magazine fail? What must they do to succeed when they relaunch?"

"Not sure if it's even news anymore, but the maple syrup smell is coating my office at 19th and 6th."

"Just a heads-up that Citysearch's blog Fashion Geek has just published the automated response from Waverly Inn's email reservation request. Plus, a little bonus info about the Thanksgiving dinner."

"this makes me crazy. 'Real Simple' magazine is anything but. It weighs more than I do, and the ad on the back cover is always for something simple - like a Rolex or a Cadillac."

"Keeping in mind that I think 'Perez Hilton' is vile, shouldn't there be some mention of the fact that Jossip's editor just happens to be the boyfriend of Perez's main blogging rival? Just askin'. Love the video, though. This guy's a twatwaffle if there ever was one. Too bad that just draws even more people to his blog and increases his ad revenue..."

"Adrienne Shelly foundation. thought you guys (or your siblings at defamer) might be interested in this."

"Giuliani in Drag. Yes it's as creepy as you think it is."

"please do a story on this ..."

"English-language version of al-Jazeera is listed as an available channel at the Park Lane Hotel, although the cable television and internet were not available the week I stayed there in October (10/1 through 10/5)."

"I'm from England and have only recently started reading Gawker, so am intrigued by this '30 year old virgin' you have been reporting about, who writes about her dates. Because its a complete and total rip off of a blog written by an Oxford University psychology undergraduate in the summer of 2005. The Virgin Student claimed to be a young woman who had never had sex because she hadn't found the right man. She started blogging a number of her dates, including one with a lesbian. The entire university was hooked on the blog for a good couple of weeks until she finally blogged her decision to have sex and how she had been used by her chosen partner. Eventually, the author came clean and admitted the whole thing was a hoax."

"The Jolie lass is creating one clusterfuck here. Know what I mean. Y'day her bodyguards roughed up some parents at a school where she was shooting. That's not the extraordinary part. The fun part is that the school (children plus parents ecosystem) is predominantly Muslim. And one the bodyguards said: 'You bloody Indian. I will cut your...'Now, the muslim gentlemen at the receiving end of this jibe were confused. They were already circumcised, weren't they. So, like, what is this guy gonna cut? Bewilderment turned to consternation, and finally to rage when they realised the bodyguard meant no good. And then, everyone got enraged, wanting to cut the offender's whatever. Traffic was stalled for a good three hours in peak hour. The cops tried to sort the traffic mess first. That done, they arrested three bodyguards, and locked them up for the night. Story is here. Now the guards face 10 years in jail after 20 year court proceedings. The hot piece of twat faces 30 years in jail for harbouring such twatwaffles, and another 30 for generally being a douchebag. Ok just making that up."

"Oh man, I was trying to imagine how the snarky wits at Gawker might make hay with this one. Psychedelic huckster Peter Max works in Manhattan, but is raising New York's methane levels by trading his paintings for fugitive cows in Cincinnati. And starting a foundation named after a dead bull that escaped from a parade."

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Ex-Spy editors give freewheeling interview to ... Bergdorf Goodman magazine. [Michael Gross]

The new Adderall? [NYT]

Waverly Inn reservation update, part XXVII. [Eater]

Former New Yorker scribe, current BU prof Renata Adler: easy grader, pretty hot for an old lady. [Media Mob]

New land area, dungeon and quests - video inside.
Funcom's updated the Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures live servers with the largest gameplay content addition since launch.



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Viva Pi?ata is game that can be enjoyed by players of any age and certainly shouldn't be dismissed because of its colorful visual style.

Super Mario Galaxy's average review score tops the charts.
The world loves Super Mario Galaxy more than any other game out there at the moment.

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The donkey tries to become one of the great Clydesdales.

What can we say? This is Nintendo Sixty Fooouuuurr Kid, the Next Generation. After unboxing it, powering it up for the first time, and checking out its nunchucks, we're still only starting to get excited about it. Ben, get your ass back to work. –Brian Lam

All Things Nintendo Wii [Gizmodo]
Nintendo Wiimote Controller Impressions [Gizmodo]
Nintendo Wii First Startup + Surprise! [Gizmodo]
Wii and PS3: Complete and Synchronized Unboxing [Gizmodo]
The Original Nintendo Sixty-Fooour Kid [YouTube]

Basic design elements were still undecided a few months ago.

Wal-Mart and Goldman Sachs may have delivered the good news Tuesday, but the tech sector scored the biggest gains with its best day in four years.

The format war has been ongoing for over a year, and despite the fact there is no clear winner, Blu-ray has gone so far as issuing press releases in the past to declare itself victorious.

But it seems Sony has now realized it's not in the ring with a push-over, and winning the format war is not going to be as simple as the cocky Blu-ray camp has boasted it to be.

Going into the all-important holiday season, Toshiba has been hawking its players for as low as $200 in the U.S., while the cheapest Blu-ray players are twice as much.

Furthermore, Sony seems to be suffering from, er, Blu-balls, after Paramount Pictures announced it was going to put out to HD DVD exclusively.

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Vladimir Palaniuk, better known as Jack Palance, passed away from natural causes today, as the Monterey Herald reports. The AP sites his age at 85, although his family has said his age was 87. Regardless, Palance had an air of immortality. Everyone loved when he dropped down and did one-armed pushups at the Academy Awards. And it wasn't the last time he did them. Well into his 80s, Palance showed everyone his health and strength behind the worn skin and warm smile.

Palance was born February 18, 1919 to a Ukranian family in Pennsylvania. In the 1930's he started his journey into the spotlight as a professional boxer with the name Jack Brazzo, however his successful career was cut short to enter World War II. After an injury took him out of service, Palance got an AB in Drama from Stanford University and made his Broadway debut in 1947. From there, he quickly acheived two Oscar nominations for his work in Sudden Fear and Shane. Over the years, Palance racked up a number of professional successes, which culminated in his Academy Award win for City Slickers.

He was a great man, and his talents and strength will never be forgotten.

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Mobile e-mail company Visto has announced a new service that delivers corporate mobile e-mail access on the iPhone to European business users.

Here is a behind-the-scenes look at Beowulf and voice actor Ray Winstone!

I am – Hercules!! That wily eye network!! They’re gone all...

This paper outlines strategies and gives you specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and timely advice on how to: assess your situation; address the problems; automate change processes; and more. Download the "Effectively Managing Change Across the Data Center," white paper, compliments of BMC.

Movie and TV giant continues its push into games.

If, like me, you've ever had severe back pain or found yourself bedridden, a portable PC device can help you avoid tons of disconnected downtime.

Microsoft released an upgrade of Windows Embedded CE that gives device makers full access to the software’s source code and increases the number of processes it can run simultaneously from 32 to 32,000.

Gaming Today explains why Nintendo should have held off on announcing Sonic's appearance in Smash Brothers Brawl.

Strong sales of Intel's low-end Atom processors helped boost PC chip sales to a record third quarter, according to IDC.

Details and a price for Sony-exclusive Challenge Rooms.
PS3-exclusive BioShock DLC that will add Challenge Rooms to 2K Games' shooter will be out on November 20.

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Fox is switching grooms at the altar when it comes to Spring weddings and Spring programming. It's just pulled the rug out from under the announced series The Wedding Album, which would have starred veteran Latin TV heartthrob Bruno Campos, and replaced it with a David E. Kelley rewrite they''re calling The Wedding Store-- for now.

Fox was reworking The Wedding Album when Kelley got wind of a potential opening, and blew the dust off an old project that ABC had rejected a couple of years ago. The DeMarco Affairs, another series that Kelley wrote in longhand on a yellow legal pad, became The Wedding Store.

This is a shorter version of a guy which is hitting the crossbar 5 times in a row. This is not fake, enjoy! 5 soccerballs - 15 yards - 15 seconds. Hit the crossbar 5 times in a row. Do it like Ronaldinho..!?! Ranked 5.00 / 5 | 434 views | No comments

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Pro-G writes: "The rendered cutscenes are as high a quality as the movie, and the cel-shaded art direction looks great, especially on the next-gen versions of the game (less so on PS2). It's even got loads of voice acting from the real voice actors, too. If you walked in on the game during one of the cut scenes, you'd think you were watching Sky One in the evening."

One of the best antispyware products out there adds a version with virus protection.

A call for help from a kid at a 6th grade talent show.

Take a look at the soldier in Mass Effect.

Beware of any e-mail claiming to come from "frauddep@ftc.gov"--it carries a nasty payload.

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Command & Conquer has had a long history of great moments and the Red Alert games have probably been responsible for most of them. The latest Red Alert tries to emulate its lofty predecessors, but gets bogged down on some curious design choices and the archaic gameplay may turn away some.

THE BOTTOM LINE: Red Alert 3 is a good RTS, but lacks some of the zest of its predecessors.

In under 20 minutes of screen time, Jeanne Moreau supplies One Day You'll Understand with an otherwise absent emotional weight of reconciliation to the anguished history of WWII France. by Bill Weber

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Love it or hate it graffiti will still be up with every generation.

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A camera and printer apparently all it takes.

North Carolina studio puts devs close to NASCAR nation.

I need to record sound from a live source. I would just go with the first thing that came up on google (or, god forbid, windows sound recorder), but I have some special requirements. First, the operators of the system will be ameture sound techs. So while it needs to be full-featred, a clean, straightforward, and stable interface would be nice. Second, it needs to be able to output to mp3 straight from the program.

Headline: "VP Cheney Nods Off During Meeting on California Wildfires". Video here.

SEATTLE -- Amazon.com Inc. made more money in the third quarter than Wall Street had expected, but investors must have been looking for perfection.

Japanese gamers who pre-order Silent Hill Origins (or Silent Hill Zero as it is known over there)for the PSP will get a creepy Butcher figure thrown in for free.

A guy gets out to fill a gas can and lets his SUV to roll in a creek.

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(S05E11) Tom opened the results show by noting that this week of Dancing With The Stars was meant to be sexy, but ended up being full of drama. I was disappointed that the footage of Marie fainting was shown again (and again and again). Nothing terrible happened to Marie, but does that justify playing the footage several times more? I thought it was insensitive. Tom added a teaser for the Jennifer Lopez performance (for which I was totally psyched), and warned viewers that "nothing can be taken for granted."

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Jigsaw sticks a man's head in a box, and turns on the hose.

Famitsu have posted new interviews with Nomura and co. about the Kingdom Hearts compilation in their website. Each article also features new images from the games.

· Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep

Some important information that Nomura gave in this interview are that the secret ending of Kingdom Hearts II: FM+ will play an important role in the PSP title, and that it takes place before the original Kingdom Hearts. Because of that, a new type of enemies has been created due to the fact they came before the Heartless and the Nobodies.

Nomura also gives a hint on what the new level up system is like. He first says the system will feature a new idea that one man came up with, and then Yasushi, Battle planner of FFXI, comes in and says: ".....The level up is like growing".

The developers of the game are also thinking about featuring two multiplayer modes: One will let two players compete against each other, while the other one lets you co-operate in order to achieve goals.

· Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days

Nomura was first asked about the name of the game, and if that has any secret meaning. He replied and said that it is a code that will only be understood once we have finished the game. The game is all about the Organization XIII and their daily routine. Nomura has also explained that he chose to use a red color for 358/2 Days' logo in order to represent the sunset of Twilight Town, and he believes the game will make us a bit sad. Nomura says that Namine is not the 14th member of Organization XIII, and she will be revealed during this game. She is a key character, he adds.

This game will not fully use the controls of the DS, Nomura says. He wants people to complete the game, not just "touching their way through".

Riku and Sora will make an appearance in this game, including the famous Riku vs. Roxas scene. Nomura also says that during multiplayer mode we will be able to play using all Organization XIII's characters.

· Kingdom Hearts: Coded
Nomura compares this game to "Disneyland", where there are many attractions. He wishes to do the same, just with content added up to it. Hajime Tabata, Director of Agito XIII, then comes in and says that Nomura first began to explain the idea behind the game during midnight while he was drunk.

Samsung also included this puntastic entry into its offerings at London's Smartphone Show. The INNOV8, Samsung's first 8MP camera phone, comes with a 2.8-inch 16 million color LCD, 8GB or 16GB of flash memory (with an eternal SD card slot), an optical mouse, HSDPA and WiFi connectivity and a GPS navigation and geo-tagging service. The camera part of the mobile utilizes smile shot, blink shot and face recognition, and you'll also get a couple media editing programs thrown in for good measure. No word yet on price or availability, or whether the lens is good enough to make the 8MP sensor worth it.

Samsung Reinforces Its Leadership In Smartphone Market

With Extensive Product Portfolio

Samsung offers a variety of Symbian smartphones at the Smartphone Show 2008

The Smartphone Show, London, UK, October 21 2008 - Samsung Electronics, a leading provider of mobile phones and telecom systems, showcases an extensive portfolio of Symbian smartphones at this year’s Smartphone Show (Oct. 21~22) in London, United Kingdom.

Samsung sees a great growth potential in the open Operating System based smartphone market, and has invested a lot of R&D and marketing resources in this market for past several years. Consequently, Samsung plans to offer a wider range of open OS mobiles this year, demonstrating significant progress in open OS and smartphone technology. Your browser may not support display of this image., the ultimate mobile entertainer with an 8-megapixel camera and Symbian OS, was recently launched and extremely well received by users and industry professionals all around the world.

Geesung Choi, President of Samsung’s Telecommunications Business, said: “I’m sure that we will see more and more demand for smartphones with open Operating Systems thanks to the increasing need for flexibility and customization on mobiles, and the introduction of various mobile applications. Samsung’s new Symbian OS-based smartphones such as Your browser may not support display of this image. shows our strategic focus on the open OS phone market.�

“We will reinforce our open OS and smartphone leadership not only by providing more products, but also by opening our new developers collaboration program ‘Samsung Mobile Innovator’.� He concluded.

At this year’s Smartphone Show, Mr.Ho-Soo Lee, Executive Vice President of Mobile Solution Centre, Telecommunication Business of Samsung Electronics, will deliver the keynote speech, ‘Eight Reasons to Innov8,’ on Tuesday, October 21.

Samsung’s newly announced Symbian smartphones at the Smartphone Show include:

Samsung INNOV8

Recognized as Samsung's first ever 8-megapixel camera phone, the
Samsung INNOV8 is perfect for users for capturing and storing precious
memories in style. It comes with the Symbian OS V9.3, S60 3rd Edition
Feature Pack 2, which helps users to easily download various
ready-made applications for Symbian mobiles.

Using the latest in imaging applications such as smile shot, blink
shot and face recognition, memorable moments can be stored at the
highest quality. Users can enjoy personalizing and editing their
photos, videos and music with Movie Maker and Story Board
applications. The handset also acts as a digital photo frame, allowing
users to display their favorite images. A 1200mAh battery provides a
long enough battery life to enjoy all the multimedia experience
without worrying about limits on size and time.

Samsung INNOV8's crystal clear 2.8" 16M color LCD, is perfectly
designed to provide users with the best possible photography, video
and gaming experience on-the-go. The 8GB or 16GB Flash memory and
external memory slot up to additional 16GB provides sufficient
contents storage.

Samsung INNOV8 offers the best ever mobile web browsing experience.
With an optical mouse and 4-way navigation key, users can enjoy
PC-like browsing experience. The 7.2 Mbps HSDPA high speed Internet
and WiFi connection deliver a convenient and seamless internet
experience wherever users are. The phone is equipped with A GPS
technology, offering navigation and geo-tagging service.

Samsung INNOV8 Specifications:

Network HSDPA 7.2 Mbps (900/2100), EDGE / GPRS (850/900/1800/1900)
OS Symbian OS V9.3, S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2
Display 2.8" QVGA 16M TFT LCD
Camera 8 Megapixel CMOS with AF and Dual Power LED
Smart Reader, Image Stabilizer, Auto-Panorama Shot, Smile Shot,
Blink Shot, Wide Dynamic Range (WDR), Face Detection
Video Video Player (DivX / H.263 / H.264 / WMV / MP4)
QVGA 120 fps Video recording, VGA 30 fps recording
Video Editing
Audio FM Radio with RDS
DNSe 2.0
Music Player (MP3/ AAC / AAC+ / eAAC+ / WMA / AMR/ RealAudio)
Bluetooth Stereo Headset (A2DP)
3.5pi output
Value-added Features A-GPS
Optical Mouse, Accelerometer
Embedded 3D Games : FIFA 2008, Asphalt
Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA)
Connectivity Bluetooth 2.0 / USB 2.0 / Wi-Fi
Memory 8GB / 16GB Flash + External Memory slot : microSDHCâ„¢ (up to 16GB)
Size 106.5 x 53.9 x 17.2 mm
Battery 1200 mAh
Talk time: up to 300 / 510 min (3G/2.5G)
Stand-by time: up to 330 / 310 hrs (3G/2.5G)