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IL-2 Sturmovik Expands Again (Dec 23 2004 22:23 GMT) - Matrix Games now offers online purchase of The Last Days, the second of their two add-ons for IL-2 Sturmovik, the World War II combat flight simulator. True to its name, the add-on is set in the... |
Blue's News
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Morning Previews (Dec 23 2004 22:23 GMT) - Battle Mages: Sign of Darkness on FileFront. NASCAR SimRacing on IGN. Pathologic on FileFront. |
Blue's News
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Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory Limited Edition (Dec 23 2004 22:23 GMT) - The Splinter Cell Website has word on plans for limited edition versions of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, the upcoming continuation of the stealthy action series. There will be special versions of the... |
Blue's News
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WoW Patch (Dec 23 2004 22:23 GMT) - A manual edition of the new World of Warcraft update is now available for those unwilling or unable to have the MMORPG automatically update itself. The version 1.2.1 patch is a 56 MB download,... |
Blue's News
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Morning Tech Bits (Dec 23 2004 22:23 GMT) - Thanks Mike Martinez. Mozilla's Lightning to strike Outlook? Technology and Happiness on Technology Review (thanks Ant). We're techier, but no happier. Internet Name Firm Now Hears The Call Of Cell... |
Blue's News
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Morning Consolidation (Dec 23 2004 22:23 GMT) - Thanks Mike Martinez. Gizmondo limps to launch. Sony Distributes GT4 Keys. Meqon Creates Real World Physics For Xbox. Darkwatch Q&A on FileFront. |
Blue's News
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Half-Life 2 ARGG Mod (Dec 23 2004 22:23 GMT) - Version 1.0 of the ARGG modification for Half-Life 2 is now available. The mod allows objects held by the gravity gun to be rotated, permitting easier manipulation of the environment and removing the... |
Blue's News
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Game Guidance (Dec 23 2004 22:23 GMT) - There's a Half-Life 2 Deathmatch Guide on the VIA Gamers offering tips on multiplayer play in Valve's shooter sequel. Also, there's a Neverwinter Nights: ShadowGuard Walkthrough on GameBanshee along... |
Baseball Musings
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Rays Rant (Dec 23 2004 22:23 GMT) - A Devil Rays fan writes: I just read on ESPN.com that the D-Rays are considering signing free agent SS Alex Gonzalez. TO PLAY 3B! Am I missing something. |
Console Game News - Consoles Communique
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Love of Games vs. Love of Woman (Dec 23 2004 22:23 GMT) - The BBC has a new article up chronicling the life of "game widows" or women whose significant other plays games. On the one hand, it brings up the important point of balancing game time with hanging out with your loved ones, on the other it also shows that some people don't want to understand their loved one's hobby. |
Horsefeathers
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THE SHARON-BUSH PLOT THICKENS (Dec 23 2004 22:21 GMT) -        appears the Arab world has a new delusional system to explain its failures: The U.S. and Israel are secretly... |
meryl's notes
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Marqui Console and Events (Dec 23 2004 22:21 GMT) - Time for a visit Marqui’s CMS specifically the Console and Calendar Events tabs. I logged into the demo account as an administrator. It thinks I’m some guy named Dave, but... |
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Moving Image Contest Finalists (Dec 23 2004 22:21 GMT) - The finalists in Arts Project Moving Image Contest have been announced. The contest asked entrants to create short films demonstrating some of the tensions between art and intellectual property law,... |
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Carcassonne (Dec 23 2004 22:21 GMT) - Despite growing up playing TV video games, computer games, and handheld electronic games, I still love the old fashioned board game. The newest addition to the Snave family cabinet is... |
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Buzzing Products (Dec 23 2004 22:21 GMT) - Stephen King, President and CEO of Marqui, asked about BzzAgent and how is it similar / different to Marqui’s blogosphere program. Like Marqui, BzzAgent is controversial, but it is all... |
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Tom Peters' Project04 (Dec 23 2004 22:21 GMT) - I’ve learned a lot from Tom Peters especially from The Pursuit of Wow! Compared to this and past books, Project04: Snapshots of Excellence in Unstable Times is disappointing. In it,... |
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Testing, Marqui, 1... 2... 3... (Dec 23 2004 22:21 GMT) - I went into Marqui’s communications management system this morning and played with it for a couple of hours. Right off the bat, I discovered it won’t work with anything but... |
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Troubleshootin' Word (Dec 23 2004 22:21 GMT) - Sometimes I just want to shoot darts at MS Word. It crashes often mostly due to the normal.dot file becoming corrupted. This file has the default settings for Word including... |
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Comments Revived (Dec 23 2004 22:21 GMT) - I dumped the security code plug-in. It was hopeless. Instead, I found this excellent article that explains the different types of comment spam and provides 10 ways to fight it.... |
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Comment Crash (Dec 23 2004 22:21 GMT) - Comments are off as I can’t figure out what has gone wrong and spammers managed to crashed the server spamming my blog. Luckily, my host is fabulous and immediately put... |
Easily Amusing
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positive pessimism (Dec 23 2004 22:20 GMT) - Current conventioal wisdom tells us that being optamistic is better than being pessimistic. But, is this always true? I have come to believe that sometimes it is better to be pessimistic so you can see the impending trouble and then do something about it. Any thoughts? |
Easily Amusing
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classic (Dec 23 2004 22:20 GMT) - so yeah, as i said, i was hanging out with john last night, and so i dashed on over to his livejournal, to read his answers to a quiz. see why this cat is so funny? hehehe a homunculous, hehehehe |
Easily Amusing
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it's like train wrecking - only different (Dec 23 2004 22:20 GMT) - so last night i very nearly did it again. I have a copy of The Streets' "A Grand Don't Come For Free" and of course the Peas' "Let's Get Retarded", with the mandatory instrumental version. when i first got the latter, i accidentally mixed the B2 from the former into it, and i tried to again last night... now, i know this works, but it sounded terrible... think of the words to Hotel California mixed into the music for Zeppelin's Four Sticks, just about 2 measures off and a tad too slow... |
Little Green Footballs
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The Islamic War on Christianity (Dec 23 2004 22:20 GMT) - Christians in Indonesia Move Underground. JAKARTA, Indonesia - Fearing bombings and shootings by Islamic militants, some Christians in Indonesia are abandoning traditional churches in favor of more unorthodox but secure confines, such as hotel ballrooms and office blocks. With foreign governments warning of holiday terror attacks, tens of thousands ... |
Zim Observer News - Zimbabwe
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Chiyangwa held in CIO probe (Dec 23 2004 22:20 GMT) - ZANU PF Mashonaland West provincial chairman Philip Chiyangwa and several other high-profile individuals whose whereabouts have been shrouded in mystery this week are said to be in the custody of stat |
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