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- The Spanish-American team is investigating incidents involving ''megacryometeors,'' great balls of ice that fall out of the clear blue sky, possibly because of global warming. Weird!! |
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- Dean's Band of Outsiders... |
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- Geographical fun: being humourous outlines of various countries, with an introduction and descriptive lines. |
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- The Barren Lands Digital Collection. J.B. Tyrrell's expeditions for the Geological Survey of Canada, 1892-94. 'This site documents two exploratory surveys of the Barren Lands region west of Hudson Bay, in northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan and the area now known as Nunavut. |
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- From The Corner we have a report that the NRA is thinking about getting in to the media business. Why... |
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- Shauna Rohbock, the driver for the U.S. womens' bobsled team, has been called to active duty by the National Guard. This will cause her to miss the World Cup competitions beginning next month, and may keep her out of the 2006 Olympics in Torino. |
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- Rasheed Wallace speaks his mind ... and says the NBA is drafting young players out of high school because they are "dumb and dumber." Wallace also talks about his run-ins with the law and what he feels is his duty as a Portland Blazer. |
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- F1 takes on Airforce:Michael Schumacher takes on an Italian Eurofighter Typhoon in a series of drag races. With top speeds of 229 mph and 1,521 mph, it was a very tight race....for about 5 feet. The Ferrari did manage to squeak out a victory on the short track. |
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- I attended a colloquium at BYU's CS department today by Saul Greenberg from the University of Calgary on "Enhancing Interactivity with Groupware Toolkits." |
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- Within the past 2 weeks, I have climbed up Maslow's pyramid like I had private access to an escalator that lets you skip over all that "Self-Esteem" and "Love" crap and head straight to Self-Actualization. Here's why: 1) Dog 2)... |
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- From the Random Links department: Consider yourself a grammatical genius? Test yourself, with Are You Grammatically Incorrect?. Ten out of ten, here. Not what you might expect from reading the blog, but I assure you, I know what is right. |
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- Forget dance mats and joysticks, even trance vibrators: biofeedback is the cool interface on my Christmas wishlist. Slide three rings on your finger, pay $150 (or a little less) and play The Journey to Wild Divine, Steven Johnson writes in... |
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- Steam News has details on the latest weekly update to the broadband content delivery system. The post describes fixes it provides for all games as well as specific changes to Day of Defeat as well as tweaks to Counter-Strike and TeamFortress Classic. |
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- Following their purchase of Sega stock, it seems Sammy is now giving Sega some advice. According to an interview by Bloomberg Japan (I didn't know they had Bloomberg over there), Sammy will urge Sega to focus their efforts on arcade games over hom... |
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- A great article is up at 1UP tonight, chronicling their recent trip to Konami of Japan, where they met with Hideo Kojima and other members of the Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes teams. There are some new detai... |
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- A new column up over at Team Xbox speculates that despite the announced participation of IBM in the Xbox2 development process, Microsoft's next console may have an Athlon64. Just to be clear, this is pure speculation, and there hasn't been anythin... |
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- Namco of Japan announced today Xenosaga Freaks, a special bonus disc for fans of Xenosaga. The disc will contain two mini-games, a playable demo of Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Bose and a database (which is likely similar to the in-ga... |
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- The first installment of the Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight SDK is now available for download. Here's the deal: "The Flight Simulator team is publishing this reference for developers and enthusiasts who want to customize and ... |
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- That's right, Unreal Tournament is upon us. Well, at least the all new website UnrealTournament.com is. The official website is the official site for Unreal Tournament, Unreal Tournament 2003, and Unreal Tournament 2004. There is a new, improved l... |
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- Ubisoft, coming after the release of the game on Xbox and PlayStation 2, have today shipped the GameCube version of Beyond Good & Evil. Set on the planet Hillys, players take on the role of Jade, an action reporter, as she’s hired by rebel o... |
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- America Online has announced a partnership with the venerable site Case's Ladders to provide PS2 ladders and tournaments for AOL subscribers. There are ladders for Madden 2004, SOCOM II, Tony Hawk's Underground and lots more, although since these ... |
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- Speaking of Microsoft's XSN line, Microsoft has announced a new tournament that will have gamers competing in six games for a grand prize of $25,000 and a trip to Los Angeles to attend the finals. |
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- Activision officially announced last week that Robert Kotick, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), would be speaking at the UBS 31st Annual Media Week Conference. This morning, with the presentation finished off, a bit of interesting inform... |
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- A trailer from Wars and Warriors: Joan of Arc is now available, showing off Enlight's upcoming action/strategy game based on the famed Maid of Orleans. The movie is a 104 MB download, available from The Adrenaline Vault and mirrored on Gamer's Hel... |
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- Nintendo of America has used its Nintendo.com website for quite a few things over the last little while, including the special Zelda disc deal. This morning, Nintendo of America’s once again put their site in the spotlight, this time by anno... |
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- Shrapnel Games has this morning announced that Stormcloud Creations' gladiator title, Coliseum, has achieved gold status on the PC platform, and will be shipping later this month. Coliseum is a text-based sports management title, in which players ... |
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BC Q&A (Dec 11 2003 20:48 GMT) - A new Q&A with Joe Rider of the BC development team at Intrepid Computer Entertainment is up at Computer and Video Games tonight, talking with him about their upcoming game of a stone age family. |
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- Also at CVG tonight is a brief Q&A with Yuji Naka and Takashi Lizuka of Sonic Team, talking with them about their upcoming cross-platform title Sonic Heroes. |
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- Thrustmaster and Ubisoft, coming not long after the Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 deal, this morning announced a PC bundle agreement covering Prince Of Persia The Sands Of Time. The deal will see Thrustmaster and Ubisoft bundling an exclusive Dual An... |
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- PC.IGN kicked up a preview of Knights of Honor, the real-time strategy game from Black Sea Studios:The game is played on a map of Europe divided into over 150 zones called "realms." (That's how it works currently, at least; the team is considering... |
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- Today, Square Enix U.S.A. and Verizon Wireless announced a deal that will see Square Enix U.S. |
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- The next-generation of console systems isn’t too far off, with companies such as Climax and THQ already commenting briefly on next-generation projects. Recently, while checking out the official website for Factor 5 (developers of Pilot Wings... |
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- A playable demo of WWII Pacific Heroes is now available, offering a sample of CITY interactive's upcoming World War II arcade air combat game. The demo features a pair of levels featuring air and ground targets for a 50 MB download, available on 3... |
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- A new package of six new multiplayer maps for Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is now available from Raven Software, though the pack is provided as an unsupported "as is" release. Here's the word: "Included in this map pack are 6 new MP maps (1 Duel, 1 C... |
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- Lost Levels has posted a new spotlight article, looking at the English translation of the original NES Final Fantasy II which was abandoned. It's a great little bit of gaming history here, and it's cool to read about how close we came to seeing it... |
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- The Shadowbane Website has word that The Rise of Chaos, the Shadowbane expansion pack, is now available in North America, and that the MMOG update has now gone live. Here's a bit: The expansion for Shadowbane®, the critically acclaimed massively m... |
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- The synergy between the videogame and movie industries has grown over the years, with many game to movie and movie to game adaptations. One of the larger adaptations in recent years has been Electronic Arts’ Lord Of The Ring videogames, whic... |
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- A patch for Medal of Honor Allied Assault Breakthrough is now available, updating the World War II shooter expansion to version 2.40b. The update adds some new skins, while addressing several bugs. The patch is a 34 MB download, available on EA Eu... |
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