Gawker on Microsoft’s Decision to Hire Jerry Seinfold as a Spokesman for Vista (6)
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Ryan Tate: Yes, because if there’s one surefire way to convince everyone Vista is cool, cutting edge and not liable to get frazzled by life’s minor complications, it’s hiring a 1990s sitcom star and professional kvetcher! Who, um, very visibly owned a series of Macs on his show. ★
Mobile Computer Compares Web Browsing Speed Between BlackBerry Bold and iPhone (5)
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Julian Prokaza: Unfortunately, as excellent as it is in delivering a desktop-like web browsing experience on a small screen, the BlackBerry Bold’s web browser is just far too slow to be a serious alternative to the iPhone. The Bold is the first BlackBerry with 3G support, but even over a more reliable Wi-Fi connection, our iPhone 2G repeatedly finished downloading a web page several seconds before the Bold had even got past a blank screen ...
No more hiatuses: The Shield will be over in three months (1)
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Filed under: Programming, OpEd, The ShieldAlready announced was that the seventh and final season of the amazing The Shield will premiere on September 2nd, but now comes word that it will The Shield finale will air November 25th. I know that gives us the full thirteen episodes promised but as it's been more than a year since we've had a new episode to chew on, forgive me if this suddenly feels like a really short-lived ...
Compact Disk (CD) Turns 26 and It Still Won't Die (2)
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Another birthday for the CD has come and gone and yet the damn things just won’t die. On Aug. 17th, 1982, the Compact Disc was born into an age of rampant consumerism that was the 1980s. Big hair was in, big vinyl and the big snarls of tape from cassettes was out.The CD of course wasn’t without its drawbacks.
Emily Isn't Real, But Would You Have Guessed? [Cgi] (18)
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The woman above is not real. I mean, she was real once, when real actress Emily O’Brien provided Image Metrics (you know their work from GTAIV) with 35 facial poses in front of a pair of digital cameras. From there, O’Brien was dismissed so the animators could go to work. Apparently "ninety per cent of the work is convincing people that the eyes are real." And the results—while not always perfect—are pretty extraordinary. Here's Emily's ...
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Freaky. Not quite across the uncanny valley...
What makes for a good blog? (5)
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Merlin Mann lists some attributes of good blogs. Good blogs try. I've come to believe that creative life in the first-world comes down to those who try just a little bit harder. Then, there's the other 98%. They're still eating the free continental breakfast over at FriendFeed. A good blog is written by a blogger who thinks longer, works harder, and obsesses more. Ultimately, a good blogger tries. That's why "good" is getting rare. Like ...
Red Alert 3 cast not likely to be taken seriously (3)
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Filed under: PC, Microsoft Xbox 360, Strategy The thing about camp, i.e. the utter failure of seriousness, is that it's often difficult to judge whether it's intentional or not. The live-action cutscenes populating EA's (and Westwood's before that) Command & Conquer games have always had an aura of sincere goofiness about them, the source of which can be traced to somewhat respected actors playing all-too-silly roles all too seriously. But is this done on purpose, ...
See Your Sexy New Red Alert 3 Cast [Clips] (3)
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As we previously posted, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 features the casting likes of Jenny McCarthy, JK Simmons, George Takei, Tim Curry, Peter Stormare, Kelly Hu, Gina Carano and Gemma Atkinson. Check the cinematic style trailer above. Thanks, Jelmer for the tip! Cinematic Trailer [EA]
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Words cannot describe how awesome this is!
Has your HP Mini-Note 2133 gone dark? (1)
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Filed under: LaptopsGenerally speaking, HP's Mini-Note 2133 is pretty well loved the world over. Sure, there are a few things that could use tweaking, but what good gadget couldn't use even a small dose of overhaul? Nevertheless, a few reports have been trickling in suggesting that HP's netbook is suddenly going dark and refusing to start back up. Folks are apparently being told that it's a motherboard power failure, though it doesn't seem to have ...
First thoughts: Biden walks it back (1)
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From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro*** Biden walks it back: Yesterday, all the signs pointed to the fact that Biden was emerging Obama’s likely VP pick -- until the Delaware senator quickly seemed to dash that speculation yesterday. “You guys have better things to do,” Biden told the reporters staking him out, as he was leaving his home in Delaware to play golf. "I'm not the guy." But upon his return, he appeared ...
Team Fortress 2: Meet The Sandvich (3)
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Filed under: Culture, PC, Action, OnlineMeet Team Fortress 2's "Edible Device" and shotgun replacement, the Sandvich. Valve really missed a good opportunity for a bad pun here by not calling it "Meat the Sandvich," but hey, it's still pretty damned funny. What's next in the series of loony videos? Meet the Bullet? Seriously though, we'd watch them all. Heck, just throw a TF2 cartoon on the air as part of Adult Swim and we'd be ...
Eureka: I Do Over (1)
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Filed under: OpEd, Eureka, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free (S03E04) "Ohh, dude." -- Jack Carter, on learning he would have to memorize a formula for the next time loop shift. Boy, I do loves me a Groundhog Day episode! No, I don't mean an episode of a show where they pull a helpless groundhog out of its hole in the cold of winter just to "predict" what's coming up in the next six weeks. I'm talking an ...
