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From: Crave “While the general public has taken kindly to the Xbox 360‘s dashboard, nothing inspires change more than last-minute panic. Perhaps sensing big things on the way from the Sony PlayStation 3 and the Nintendo Wii, Microsoft has an pretty hefty UI update (85 new features) ready to deploy tomorrow morning. The biggest new [...]
On: Xboxyde, GameSpot, YouTube, Google. HD version on Team Xbox
From: The Brussels Journal “From the desk of Paul Belien on Wed, 2006-10-25 20:57 The German author Henryk M. Broder recently told the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant (12 October) that young Europeans who love freedom, better emigrate. Europe as we know it will no longer exist 20 years from now. Whilst sitting on a terrace [...]
This from our friend Britt: “Two illegals abducted, raped, and carved-up the daughter of an old friend of mine. She was stabbed 15 times and left for dead. Someone told me they could just have as easily been American citizens; to that, I say, fact is they were two illegals, hypothetical’s aside. She has reported [...]
Ubuntu is a fairly new version of Linux, that is by far the most user friendly of any Linux version. For those who are novices and have no experience with Linux or are more technically savvy, I would suggest going to ubuntu.com and downloading the ubuntu .iso and burn the image to a CD. Ubuntu [...]
The Technology Liberation front has a very good post on the similarities between what we are witnessing in the fight against DRM and the stages of grief. If you are not aware of what DRM is and why it is bad check here.
“Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America is the nation’s first and largest group dedicated to the Troops and Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the civilian supporters of those Troops and Veterans. For more information, please visit us at www.iava.org.” Promotional Video (8 min)
From: The Daily Mail Codie Stott: The 14-year-old schoolgirl was arrested for racism and spent three-and-a-half hours in police custody A teenage schoolgirl was arrested by police for racism after refusing to sit with a group of Asian students because some of them did not speak English. Codie Stott’s family claim she was forced to [...]
Today the UN Security Council passed a unaninous resolution regarding North Korea. I don’t know how much faith I have in this, but it is a small step in the right direction.
The Entertainment Consumers Association is a new political action group designed to give gamers a voice in this new climate of video game legislation. Avid gamers everywhere should be jumping to join this organization where all thier voices can be gathered into one loud voice. Movie ratings are not governed by legislation and neither should [...]
From:Wikipedia “Paul Ray Smith (September 24, 1969 – April 4, 2003) was a United States Army Sergeant First Class who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for actions in Operation Iraqi Freedom while serving with B Company, 11th Engineer Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division in Baghdad, Iraq. Smith’s actions in Iraq were the most recent [...]
If you haven’t figured it out by now I am someone who likes to take in as much data as possible before I make a decision about anything. I love raw data. So here again is some more raw data: Military Commisions Act of 2006 This bill would put “alien unlawful combatants” through military type [...]
From Variety: George Lucas has decided to put less emphasis on producing big budget movies, and instead focus on television series and smaller pictures. He recently gave $175 million to the USC films school to help shine the light on film schools in general and urge more of his peers to do the same.
Many of Paris’s muslims are becoming increasingly violent toward police. “We are in a state of civil war, orchestrated by radical Islamists. This is not a question of urban violence any more, it is an intifada, with stones and Molotov cocktails. You no longer see two or three youths confronting police, you see whole tower [...]
From: Dallas Morning News “For about a decade, Ensemble has been making some of the best-selling battlefield simulation games for the PC. But its next big game will be built solely for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 game console, rather than the PC.” More