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| The Top 10 Worst Games Based on Movies Posted: 16 Jan 2009 09:00 PM CST They're completely different mediums - lovely on their own - but they're used for different things and that often makes translation difficult or impossible. Games are about playing. Movies are passive. And the makers of these games have room temperature I.Q.s.  |
| Third-Party Wii game to Abandon Friend Codes Posted: 16 Jan 2009 08:50 PM CST A major third-party publisher will reportedly release an online Wii game in 2009 that is unrestricted by Friend Codes. The developers of the title discovered that it was possible to access the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection without them, and built a custom engine that did so.  |
| Posted: 16 Jan 2009 08:40 PM CST Sense: This picture makes none  |
| Posted: 16 Jan 2009 08:40 PM CST If 2008 was the year of the MMO Crash then 2009 is the year of MMO Doubt. It seems improbable, if not impossible, for most developers to put out a good MMO. And that is to say nothing of the finer points of game design such as balanced combat, stable economy and, you know, making the game fun to play.  |
| Jim Jarmusch: "Nothing is Original. Steal from Anywhere..." Posted: 16 Jan 2009 08:10 PM CST 'Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination...And don't bother concealing your thievery—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: "It's not where you take things from—it's where you take them to."  |
| Posted: 16 Jan 2009 08:10 PM CST From Saturn hiding its enormous rings to grand meteor showers to the longest total eclipse of the sun in the 21st century, you can bet on an exciting year in the night sky.  |
| Posted: 16 Jan 2009 07:50 PM CST * Freedesktop.org-compliant startup notifications. * Many fixes for 64-bit application support. * Improved graphics support in Internet Explorer. * Various Richedit improvements. * Better certificate manager dialog. * Various bug fixes.  |
| Posted: 16 Jan 2009 07:20 PM CST UK communications minister Lord Carter has drafted new regulations that will require ISPs to warn customers suspected of sharing copyrighted material, that they are acting illegally. Furthermore, ISPs will have to hand over details of repeated infringers to the entertainment industry and other rights holders.  |
| Strong Women Steer Battlestar Galactica's Final Voyage Posted: 16 Jan 2009 07:00 PM CST Returning Friday night for the beginning of the last half of its final season, the Peabody Award-winning television series that has so effectively woven current events and religion into its story lines also has conjured a gender-blind universe filled with female characters of genuine substance.  |
| Toxic Ash Buries the Myth of Clean Coal Power Posted: 16 Jan 2009 06:50 PM CST After the billion gallon toxic ash spill last month in Tennessee, coal may be considered many things — but it's hard to see how "clean" could be one of them. Even putting aside CO2 emissions and climate change, coal remains a highly polluting power source that has serious impacts on human health, especially among those who live near power plants.  |
| Colourful pigs evolved through farming, not nature Posted: 16 Jan 2009 06:20 PM CST Pigs evolved bright coat colours rapidly after domestication thanks to the human a penchant for novelty, a new gene analysis suggests. Farmers selected and bred the brightly coloured pigs to distinguish them from their brown and black wild cousins and probably also because they preferred the unusual colours.  |
| The 12 Most God Awful Tribute Albums Ever Recorded Posted: 16 Jan 2009 06:10 PM CST Welcome to the world of the tribute album, where bad musicians pay homage to their favorite music. By destroying it.  |
| Posted: 16 Jan 2009 06:00 PM CST That chocolate bar you've consumed won't only affect the way you fit your jeans, new Australian research shows it also has a lasting effect on your genes. Researchers are investigating the way human cells are known to have a "memory'' and they discovered that a cell, when given a one-off sugar hit, will carry a related chemical marker for weeks.  |
| Up next for OS X: An Apple gaming console? Posted: 16 Jan 2009 06:00 PM CST Apple's "OS X" (without the "Mac") trademark filing reveals an intention to distance the OS from the Mac realm, indicating Apple's desire to use OS X on a much broader array of gadgets in the future. Some Apple watchers are convinced we will see more OS X software platforms beyond current desktop and mobile OS X. Like a game console, for instance.  |
| 21 Game Characters you never knew had the same voice actor Posted: 16 Jan 2009 05:50 PM CST Such behind-the-screen crossovers are countless once you start searching for them. While a physical performer can be typecast or limited by looks, the vocalist is free to transform at will. Good guy or bad guy? Cartoon mascot or lethal assassin? Greek general or Jedi warrior? Human or lombax?  |
| New in '09: You won't go in to see the doctor Posted: 16 Jan 2009 05:50 PM CST In the midst of a frantic week in September filled with auditions and deadlines, New York casting agent Michael Cassara had zero down time. So one day, when he felt a sore throat coming on, Cassara had his doctor beamed into his office.  |
| Watch Obama's Historic Inauguration On Your iPhone Posted: 16 Jan 2009 05:40 PM CST Ustream is launching an iPhone app that lets users watch any Ustream channel, live, directly from their iPhone. The timing on the application is near perfect with the Obama inauguration coming up on January 20.  |
| A Sculpture of European Stereotypes [PICS] Posted: 16 Jan 2009 05:10 PM CST A new sculpture in Brussels, commissioned by the Czech Republic in honor of its stint as holder of the European Union presidency, has rankled some EU members. The artwork depicts countries using stereotypes, not all of them terribly flattering.  |
| Who is the bigger fraud -- Roger Clemens or You? Posted: 16 Jan 2009 05:00 PM CST From the Houston Examiner, another look at baseball's steroid era, saying fans are also to blame. Frankly, I think this decade-long scandal's a done deal, and MLB ought to move on.  |
| The Obama Inauguration: Lego-Style Posted: 16 Jan 2009 04:40 PM CST Obama fever has officially hit Legoland. The Carlsbad, CA, park has modified its U.S. Capitol model to illustrate the historic Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama. The display opens to the public January 16, and will stay on through Memorial Day.  |
| Posted: 16 Jan 2009 04:31 PM CST Thank you science! Mirror in comments.  |
| Will Obama say 'banana' in inaugural speech? Place yer bets! Posted: 16 Jan 2009 04:30 PM CST Betsson, a Swedish online betting site, has listed the odds of Obama using certain words during his inaugural address on January 20, with "banana" and "Angela Merkel" given 1,000 to 1 odds.  |
| Nasa Unveiled The First Global Hawk Aircraft System [PIC] Posted: 16 Jan 2009 04:20 PM CST ASA and the Northrop Grumman Corp. of Los Angeles have unveiled the first Global Hawk aircraft system to be used for environmental science research, heralding a new application for the world's first fully autonomous high-altitude, long-endurance aircraft. The debut took place Jan. 15 at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif.  |
| Bud Light Super Bowl Commercial Too Controversial for TV Posted: 16 Jan 2009 04:10 PM CST Apology-Bot 3000 saves the day again.  |
| 10 Greatest Canines in Cinema History Posted: 16 Jan 2009 04:10 PM CST There's Marley & Me, which strikes just the right balance of humor and emotion and Bolt which proves that not all non-Pixar made animated films have to necessarily suck. There's even another live-action canine caper in Hotel for Dogs. It's truly a good time to be a filmgoer and a dog person. To proclaim our appreciation of our furry companions, we  |
| The Top 10 Standout Macs of The Past 25 Years Posted: 16 Jan 2009 04:00 PM CST Back before Apple Inc. made computers that fit in your pocket, it made computers that fit on your desk. Some were big-box machines, others were not so portable portables and still others were -- literally -- cube-shaped. But the first Macintosh, the one that started Apple's rise to iconic status, is to the computer industry what the wheel was...  |
| Source of Moon's Magnetism Found Posted: 16 Jan 2009 03:50 PM CST Moon rocks delivered to Earth by Apollo astronauts held a mystery that has plagued scientists since the 1970s: Why were the lunar rocks magnetic?  |
| Posted: 16 Jan 2009 03:30 PM CST George Bush bought his "ranch" down in Crawford in 1999 shortly before he started running for president. And now that he's done with politics, he is moving out of there as soon as he possibly can. The Bushes have bought a new home in a tony neighborhood in Dallas. So, what happened to retiring down to the Ranch?  |
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| Olympic Archer Has 'Age of Empires'/Mother to Thank Posted: 16 Jan 2009 03:20 PM CST Ryan Tyack, 17, took up archery in 2001 at the urging of his mother, when she despaired at his obsession with computer games. He has since become a world junior champion. "I just sat around playing Age of Empires all the time and my mum wanted me to do a sport and meet some kids," Tyack said. "So I chose either fencing or archery."  |
| Tim Cook: The Man in Steve Jobs' Shoes Posted: 16 Jan 2009 03:10 PM CST Apple Inc. founder and chief executive Officer Steve Jobs is prone to fits of passion, table pounding and screaming.  |
| Carlos Sainz Smashes VW In Dakar Rally 2009 Posted: 16 Jan 2009 03:10 PM CST Carlos Sainz, Dakar 2009 race leader, crashed out of the rally on Stage 12 when his Volkswagen tumbled into a ravine, robbing the double World Rally champion of a likely victory. The Spaniard started the 12th stage with a 27-minute lead over his American Volkswagen teammate Mark Miller and was comfortably on course for a maiden win.  |
| Childbirth 300 times riskier in poor countries than in rich Posted: 16 Jan 2009 03:00 PM CST Women living in poor countries are 300 times more likely to die during pregnancy or childbirth than if they lived in rich countries, UNICEF said in a report released Thursday in Johannesburg.  |
| Obama's E.P.A. Pick Vows to Put Science First Posted: 16 Jan 2009 03:00 PM CST Lisa P. Jackson, chosen to head the Environmental Protection Agency, said at her confirmation hearing that her first task would be to restore scientific and legal integrity to the agency.  |
| Apple Approves e-book after Dirty Words Removed Posted: 16 Jan 2009 02:50 PM CST An e-book submitted to Apple's App Store has been approved after the author removed language that apparently offended Apple.  |
| Hey Plants, Say Hi To Your Mother For Me (COMIC) Posted: 16 Jan 2009 02:40 PM CST Say hi to your mother for me.  |
| The 10 Most Annoying People At The Gym Posted: 16 Jan 2009 02:30 PM CST Fourteen days into January, and most of us have probably spent more time at the gym this year than we have in our entire adult lifetimes. The resolutions, they are upon us, and we have decreed: this year we will lose the weight! At least until the free gym membership runs out, right? Or until we just can't stand that creepy guy at the ab machine...  |
| Hawaii takes closely watched digital TV plunge Posted: 16 Jan 2009 02:20 PM CST "The calls we're getting now are from those people who are waking up and saying, `Oh my God, what do I do?"...Hawaii was moving to all-digital TV before the Feb. 17 date set for the rest of the nation because of an endangered bird, the Hawaiian dark-rumped petrel. Broadcasters and park rangers want to take down analog transmission towers  |
| Bob Woodward: 10 Take Aways From the Bush Years Posted: 16 Jan 2009 02:10 PM CST There's actually a lot that President-elect Barack Obama can learn from the troubled presidency of George W. Bush. Over the past eight years, Bob Woodward interviewed President Bush for nearly 11 hours, spent hundreds of hours with his administration's key players and reviewed thousands of pages of documents and notes.  |
| Derek Lowe finalizes $60 million, 4-yr deal with Braves Posted: 16 Jan 2009 01:50 PM CST The Braves finalized their $60 million, four-year contract with Derek Lowe on Thursday.  |
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