Michael Bay, acclaimed director of smash hits Pearl Harbor and The Island, has never had love for HD DVD, (though it seemed like he got reasonable). Now he says HD DVD is all a giant conspiracy being bankrolled by $100 million checks from Microsoft to slowly kill both HD formats: "Microsoft [officials] want both formats to fail so they can be heroes and make the world move to digital downloads." He's probably right, but we don't think Microsoft is really all that JFK-conspiracy brilliant. Bill Gates yes, Microsoft not so much. Happy accidents. [Electronista]

Its not a lingerie pillow fight, but its still pretty funny.

Personal Trainer: Cooking is a game that was just released for the Nintendo DS. Now wait! Before you turn away going "psssh, not another Cooking Mama" I suggest you take another look at what could be your window into the wonderful world of food.

Hey guys, is it next week already? I just woke up from a turkey coma, so I apologize for the severe tardiness of this recap. I got gravy all over the first draft, then it got tossed out with the Christmas decoration wrapping paper and I had to start all over. Excuses excuses, I know.

This week the previews promised us a hostage situation. I'm betting it's going to be Episode Formula #2: House vs. A Worthy Adversary. Instead of the usual Patient of the Week intro, we open on the hospital. Inside, we're treated to a Slo-Mo Cam of Impending Doom™ shot of people in the clinic. 13 is soothing a typical exasperated ER patient. You know the drill: "I've been sitting here for 56 hours bleeding all over the floor, don't you have any doctors working?" These people should know better than to go to a hospital that only has one surgeon. Seriously.

Foreman comes in for a chat with 13. Remember the drug trial he's working on? Just so happens that it's for Huntington's disease. Shut up! I know, right? He offers 13 a spot in the trial. She says no thanks. Eric, if there's anything I've learned about Dr. Remy Hadley in the last year, it's that a helping hand is not the way into her pants. Anywho, hey, look who else is here--it's Zeljko Ivanek! If you don't recognize the name (because I know you get all your Zeljkos mixed up), you'll recognize the face. His IMDB rap sheet helpfully says "he is frequently cast as political or business middlemen of corrupt, shady natures who often end up stabbing somebody in the back." In other words, any run-of-the-mill baddie on 24. He's doing his shady thing now, peeping through the door of Cuddy's office. Who should be in there but House--up to no good, I bet. Besides, how much fun would a hostage faceoff with Cuddy be? (Something I've always wondered: why does a hospital bigwig like Cuddy have her office down in the clinic?) Zzzyzx goes in and asks to see Cuddy. House, messing with Cuddy's desk drawer, blows him off in typical Housian fashion. Zczrycwz walks out, pulls the gun you knew he was packing, and herds 13 and a bunch of random patients into Cuddy's office. "What seems to be the problem?" House deadpans.

"Doc, I have a bad case of typecast."

arms and core using an exercise band with a partner. This fitness routine can be done at home, no gym required. All you need is an exercise band with handles.

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kev009 writes to recommend his editorial overview of the past, present and future of Linux file systems: ext2, ext3, ReiserFS, XFS, JFS, Reiser4, ext4, Btrfs, and Tux3. "In hindsight it seems somewhat tragic that JFS or even XFS didn't gain the traction that ext3 did to pull us through the 'classic' era, but ext3 has proven very reliable and has received consistent care and feeding to keep it performing decently. ... With ext4 coming out in kernel 2.6.28, we should have a nice holdover until Btrfs or Tux3 begin to stabilize. The Btrfs developers have been working on a development sprint and it is likely that the code will be merged into Linus's kernel within the next cycle or two."

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Seems we were a little premature in declaring Nintendo's latest Virtual Console release as a "slow-play" of their classic library. Two new Genesis games -- Ecco the Dolphin and Golden Axe -- are now available for download at 800 Wii points each.

We can't be sure that these games didn't go up some time after Super Star Soldier late last night, but it seems that they actually hit sometime earlier today. Combined with last week's late launch of TurboGrafx-16 games on the Virtual Console, this makes two times that Nintendo has released new VC content on a day other than Monday.

Is this a sign that we should now expect Virtual Console launches to come at any time throughout the week, or is Nintendo just running into some early technical glitches in its "Virtual Console Mondays" plan? You'll know the answer as soon as we do.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in.]

[Update: Second paragraph edited to clarify the Monday vs. rest of week point.]

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The 2008 Sundance Film Festival today announced its full line-up of films in competition at the festival, which runs from January 17 - January 27, 2008 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Sundance and Ogden, Utah. 121 feature-length films were selected from the 3,624 submissions, with roughly 55% of those coming from the United States.

Could be a direct sequel or something new entirely.

simoniker writes "Over at GameSetWatch, Kevin Gifford has been talking about the history of the video game company newsletter, explaining it as '...a concept that's likely completely alien to people who began their game careers anytime after the SNES. During the classic era, and especially during the NES years, free newsletters were a common way for third-party software makers to build a mailing list and advertise directly to consumers.' He then shows off some scans of some of his own collection, including newsletters from Acclaim, FCI, and even Natsume."

Acer is going to release a 10-inch version of the Aspire One netbook in February or March 2009, DigiTimes reports. The company is also going to launch a 14.1-inch notebook with LED backlight display in Taiwan by the end of 2008, as well as 12.1-, 13.3- and 15.6-inch LED-based laptops next year, according to the report. DigiTimes [...]

XtremeMac has begun taking orders for Luna, an iPod-compatible alarm clock that includes an on-screen menu system.

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Zero-day flaw threatens OS X.

Exploit code for a "highly critical" flaw in Apple's operating system, Mac OS X, has been published on the Net, security experts have warned.

Another TV trailer for the upcoming thriller.

Attorneys in a shareholder lawsuit against Apple over its backdating of stock options said Tuesday they plan to refile some of the claims. The shareholders claimed in the June 2006 lawsuit that company directors and officers committed fraud when they backdated some awards made between 1997 and 2001 to time the options when prices were low and boost later payouts.

IThe ClassI, based on the memoir by Francois Begaudeau, who also stars, isnt exactly interested in turning that traditional narrative on its head. Instead it starts from the only world Begaudeau knows-- reality-- and creates a loose narrative as fascinating in its specific details as it is enlightening on a grand scale. Though it tackles very specifically French ideas of race and identity and education, IThe ClassI is a universal story of the joys and horrors of the classroom

An early rally on strong results from HP turned negative on Tuesday before stocks recovered to close in positive territory.

We loves it!!! "Top Model" alum and wannabe musician Lisa D'Amato did a little impromptu performance for us at the opening of Anchor Blue's LA LA LAnd boutique at the 3rd St. Promenade on Friday, November 16th. Featuring cameos by Cisco Adler and Schwayze

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One year after the landmark deal it's not clear if anything in the marketplace has really changed or has it?

Microsoft's Office for Mac 2008 adds new features and a revised user interface to the standard suite of productivity applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage. Scheduled for release in January 2008, the upgrade will be the first n...

Australia's big game conference is gathering executives from all over the world.

Heroes of Might & Magic V: Hammers of Fate (PC)
Australian release date for Hammers of Fate.

There have been a lot of rumors regarding the Paramount/Hasbro-produced live-action G.I Joe movie, and we've had fun discussing many of them -- but Hasbro, apparently, hasn't been enjoying the gossip as much as the rest of us.

gumnut is a text based client for creating, moderating, and displaying comments over a decentralized communication network (currently gnutella). Comments are text files with a simple naming convention that uses the filename to describe field attributes (such as topic and geographical location). A discussion tree is read by searching on one or more of these fields and then downloading and reassembling the individual comments in order.

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An HTTP Web frontend GUI has been added. It can be accessed at http://localhost:5634/. The treedepth field "_tD" has been removed and replaced with a user defined cascading topic list "_tO1topic1_tO2topic2". A README.developers file has been added to make the modified code easier to find. Multiple small bugs were fixed.

Sandee Westgate is at it again, and this time she's taking on our webbed friend Spider-Man. Can Peter Parker and his Spidey senses match up against Sandee and her weapons of mass seduction? Find out here. You don't want to miss this epic battle of good vs. absolute hotness. Sandee Westgate's Super Sexy Spider-Man 3 DVD [...]

This month America's first baby boomer, Kathleen Casey-Kirschling, signed up for the Social Security benefits she will start to collect in January. The new phase of life that she and her generation are entering is creating demand for new industries that affect everyone, one of which involves "brain fitness." Brain fitness is exactly what it sounds like -- a workout program for your mind.

First b-roll of three for Madagascar: Escape to Africa. B-roll offers a compilation of behind the scenes footage from the film.

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Like every year, this holiday season brings more huge (and hugely hyped) games than most of us can even handle. This fact makes it awfully easy for some lesser-known games to slip through the cracks. But never fear! 1UP is here to remind you of five good-looking games for each system that you may not have heard much about.

A video filmed from the cockpit of a Boeing 747, showing the approach, landing, and taxi in heavy rain on the Hong Kong airport. Don't try this at home! Ranked 3.04 / 5 | 200 views | No comments

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My take on the Underworld movies is a lot like my take on the Resident Evil movies: The first one is fun trash, the second one ... meh. Not so much. But (forgive me) seeing as how I kind of enjoyed Resident Evil 3, I suppose this inevitable piece of news (from The Hollywood Reporter) should be met with semi-open arms. (Maybe.)

Anyway, here's the key points: Underworld 3: The Rise of the Lycans will be a prequel that is "set in the Dark Ages and traces the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires and their one-time werewolf slaves, the Lycans." (Maybe they argued because "Lycans" gets capitalized and "vampires" does not?) Returning from previous Underworldings are Bill Nighy (as the old-but-dangerous Viktor) and Michael Sheen as Lycan Lord Lucian. (Ditto screenwriter Danny McBride.) NOT returning: Kate Beckinsale and Scott Speedman.

Len Wiseman, who directed the first two movies before graduating (?) to Die Hard 4, will stay on as producer. The director's chair will be occupied by production designer / FX master Patrick Tatopoulos, whose work is all over the first two movies. New to the series will be the lovely Rhona Mitra, who will play daughter to Viktor and lover to Lucian.

Production gets underway in January. Nowhere in the Hollywood Reporter article are the words "direct to video" mentioned.

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Thought we'd scare our daughter a little, ended up scaring her into panic! [nothing like scaring your children to tears!!]

Both an homage to and a re-imagining of the original 1968 film, this update has a group of survivors fighting a horde of zombies -- In 3D!

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Korean publisher's free-to-play massively multiplayer games will feature shills courtesy of San Francisco in-game ad firm.

Team 3D puts Sabin and Shelley through tables and announce they are on a mission to destroy the X Division.

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Revolution Health Group will lay off 60 employees starting this week as part of a broad restructuring at the health-care business launched two years ago by AOL founder Steve Case, the company said yesterday.

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How's this for a brilliant idea: a cigarette that will still give you all the cancer, but without any of that sweet, sweet nicotine! You get no pleasure from smoking it beyond the satisfaction of committing yourself to 10 minutes less of life. Former FDA policy director David Adams sees a world where kids finally get their own cigarettes, so they can continue to "fit in" and "look cool" while not worrying about becoming addicted or enjoying the entire chemical point of smoking. And eventually nicotine will be banned anyway and only wealthy assholes will be able to afford antique cigarettes smuggled in from Cuba or something. [NYT]

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Two hunters looking for moose in the northern part of Sweden film as they are suddenly attacked and mauled by a bear, and miraculously survive. The bear escaped but was later found and killed.

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D3's popular puzzle franchise finally comes to XBLA!

Tuesday morning at ShowEast in Orlando, DreamWorks Animation’s Jeffrey Katzenberg told an audience full of theater owners that there is expected to be 12 to 18 full 3D movies by 2010. (...)

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NBA Live 09's gameplay has again seen some improvement, but there are still a few rough edges.

TalkPlus has announced compatibility of its services with the iPhone. These include global virtual numbers, advanced call-management features and low-cost international calling. The virtual phone-number service enables subscribers to create additional phone numbers on their mobile phones for placing and receiving calls. Each number comes with its o...

30 Days of Night artist Ben Templesmith is blogging for book retailer Powells this week, in anticipation of the upcoming big-screen adaptation of the vampire comic: 30 Days of NightWhere to start. To cut a long story short and bring people up to speed: A wee few years ago, I had the luck and good fortune [...]

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