Ahead of its much-hyped one-day post-Thanksgiving sales event at its retail and online stores, Apple has posted its holiday shopping hours for its retail stores, noting that its Apple Store SoHo will also be open 24-hours during the peak shopping season. The company's flagship Fifth Avenue Store in Manhattan, which open earlier this year, is alread...

Two new names join the cast of Heroes and they are excellent!

Despite its rather flimsy (but eco-friendly) packaging, Pixar pulls out all the stops for this three-disc special edition of WALL-E. by Ed Gonzalez and Sal Cinquemani

Via Ripten:

"Did Ubisoft Montreal intend for the above image to resemble the fearless leader of the Autobots? Flickr website user Supernova3688 posted an image which oddly enough resembles Optimus Prime, had he been made out of twelfth century wooden window shutters. Pretty interesting."

A love triangle: Sean Bateman (James Van Der Beek) is a student at Camden College. Sean is attracted to Lauren Hynde (Shannyn Sossamon), a stuck up female, while Lauren is infatuated with Victor (Kip Pardue), a handsome ladies' man.

Sequel to the great animation.

A trilogy to serve as his LOTR.

The donkey tries to become one of the great Clydesdales.

A Lebanese woman who worked for the FBI and the CIA pleads guilty to computer crime and immigration charges.

There goes the fear... Oh, wait, it's back again.
One of the commonest questions we get asked is: "What makes Halo 3 so much better than all those other FPS', anyway?" It's a question that we'd struggle to answer if you accosted us in the chocolate éclair aisle of Morrisons. But if you caught us while we were struggling through an inferior FPS that doesn't do the basic fundamentals that Halo nails so well, we could rattle off reasons all day long. Let's look at exhibit A: F.E.A.R. Files.



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Interarchy 8.2 is a powerful and versatile FTP program. The program’s new look may at first throw Interarchy 7 users a curve, but the new interface significantly enhances what is already a first class FTP application.

Actress is openly political, so we'd expect her to have a lot to say.

Even though Sony's said that they will replace dead SIXAXIS controllers once the battery life is gone—there's actually a note that the battery has a limited life-span in the manual—they also give you a method for removing the battery. All you have to do is unscrew 5 screws on the back of the controller, pull the casing up, and disconnect the connector to the battery. In the above picture, you can see the connector and the battery (that may be exchangeable without getting an entirely new controller).

Our guess is that Sony, or perhaps third party companies, will sell these batteries and you will be able to replace them yourself with 15 minutes and some screwing. – Jason Chen

SIXAXIS Autopsy [Gizmodo]

Lost in the furious run-up to the November elections was a Kentucky court ruling that could unravel a long-established legal argument supporting basic e-commerce activity: namely, that local or state governments cannot extend their reach into cyberspace to impose their own laws on a Web site.