Sunday, January 30, 2011
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Torstein Horgmo makes X Games history with big-air triple cork
via grindtv.com
triple cork finally popped! congrats to torstein!
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Mortal Kombat: Brutal X-Ray Action Highlights
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holy chao! mortal kombat managed to top even THEMSELVES!
Exclusive Ride In Dalek
via youtube.com
Awesome! Would love to have a kid to culturally indoctrinate into this cultural phenomenon!
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
My Blackberry Is Not Working! - The One Ronnie, Preview - BBC One
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gotta love British humor! For the geeks out there!
Exclusive: Duke Nukem Forever Has A Release Date, New Trailer - News - www.GameInformer.com
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At long last! May 3 2011 - after over a decade in delays!!!
Monday, January 24, 2011
Contenders or Pretenders: Will These MMOGs Ever Launch? - Page 2 | Ten Ton Hammer
oting a free- to-play PVP arena game, Bloodline Champions, which launched January 13, 2011. With things on the TSW front quiet, the newly launched free-to-play has gamers w
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Details on the Secret World MMORPG by Funcom.
Shh, it's a secret- but I'll let you in on it...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
50 Best They Might Be Giant Songs
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Love They Might Be Giants! OVER 30 years of songs and still going strong! Enjoy!
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Buy Mass Effect 2
Buy Mass Effect 2 for PS3 -->Best Places to Buy Mass Effect 2 for PS3
Mass Effect 2 is an action role-playing game developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts. The game is a sequel toMass Effect, and the second game of the series. The game was released on PC and Xbox 360 in January 2010, and is due for release on PlayStation 3 on January 11 2011.
Why Should You Buy Mass Effect 2 for PS3?
If you are a PlayStation 3 owner you have had your share of shoddy ports this generation. Fear not says Bioware, when it comes to Mass Effect 2 on the PS3. Not only will you be getting a great version of one of the best games of 2010. You will be getting the best version that has been released. For starters, Mass Effect 2 on the PS3 will come with all of the available DLC packs out of the box. If that alone doesn’t entice you, Bioware announced that the game is built on the Mass Effect 3 engine. Which means improved graphics, among other things. Bioware announced in it’s latest podcast: ” One of the first things you’re going to see is improved graphics,” “We actually created the engine for Mass Effect 3 and used that to make Mass Effect 2 PS3. So we took the content, the story and all of the other assets that made up Mass Effect 2 and we put it into the Mass Effect 3 engine.”
Still not convinced? Ok, Bioware is throwing in a motion comic to smooth the transition from Mass Effect 1 to Mass Effect 2. So you wont miss a beat. Mass Effect 2 for the PlayStation 3 will be released on January 18th, 2011.
I'm excited to see how mass effect 2 on the ps3 will look. they claim it is using the mass effect 3 engine!
Friday, January 7, 2011
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie Deleted Scenes
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wow- a deleted scene from the mst3k movie! funny stuff!
Is the New Madrid Fault Earthquake Zone Coming To Life?
Is the New Madrid Fault Earthquake Zone Coming To Life?
What in the world is happening in the middle of the United States right now? Thousands of birds are falling dead from the skies, tens of thousands of fish are washing up on shore dead, earthquakes are popping up in weird and unexpected places and people are starting to get really freaked out about all of this. Well, one theory is that the New Madrid fault zone is coming to life. The New Madrid fault zone is six times bigger than the San Andreas fault zone in California and it covers portions of Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi. The biggest earthquakes in the history of the United States were caused by the New Madrid fault. Now there are fears that the New Madrid fault zone could be coming to life again, and if a "killer earthquake" does strike it could change all of our lives forever.
So exactly what events have happened recently that are causing people to take a close look at the New Madrid fault zone? Well, just consider the following examples of things that have been popping up in the news lately....
- According to the U.S. Geological Survey, more than 500 measurable earthquakes have been recorded in central Arkansas just since September.
- A magnitude-3.8 earthquake that shook north-central Indiana on December 30th is being called "unprecedented." It was strong enough to actually cause cracks along the ground and it was felt in portions of Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin and Kentucky.
- More than 3,000 red-wing blackbirds fell out of the sky dead in the Arkansas town of Beebe on New Year's Eve.
- Large numbers of dead birds were also found in Kentucky right around Christmas.
- Approximately 500 dead blackbirds and starlings were also recently discovered in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana.
- Approximately 100,000 fish washed up dead on the shores of the Arkansas River just last week.
So could all of these things have some other very simple explanation?
Possibly.
But the fact that they all happened in or around the New Madrid fault zone is starting to raise some eyebrows.
About 200 years ago, in 1811 and 1812, there were four earthquakes that were so powerful in the area of the New Madrid fault zone that they are still talked about today. All four of the quakes were estimated to have been magnitude-7.0 or greater. It is said that those earthquakes opened deep fissures in the ground, caused the Mississippi River to run backwards and that they were felt as far away as Boston.
The last major earthquake to hit the region was a 5.4-magnitude quake that struck the town of Dale, Illinois in 1968. Things have been strangely quiet in the region since then until recently.
If a true "killer earthquake" struck along the New Madrid fault zone today, cities such as St. Louis, Missouri and Memphis, Tennessee could potentially be completely destroyed.
Unfortunately, this is not an exaggeration.
The following video describes just how incredibly powerful the earthquakes along the New Madrid fault in 1811 and 1812 actually were....
So could such a thing happen today?
Well, that is exactly what many seismologists now fear. The following video news report from ABC News explains why so many scientists are so concerned about the New Madrid fault zone....
One interesting theory is that the "oil volcano" unleashed by the BP oil spill in 2010 may have sparked renewed seismic activity in that part of the world.
Jack M. Reed, a retired Texaco geologist-geophysicist, has been carefully studying the geology of the Gulf of Mexico for over 40 years. Reed is convinced that the Gulf of Mexico is currently tectonically active, and that the Gulf of Mexico is the source for most seismic activity along the New Madrid fault.
According to Reed, there is substantial evidence that the New Madrid fault zone is directly connected to "deeply buried tectonics" in the Gulf of Mexico....
"This entire zone through the United States is suffering some type of tectonic activity that I believe is tied to the deeply buried tectonics in the Gulf of Mexico."
So did BP disturb those "deeply buried tectonics" by drilling such a deep well and unleashing all that oil that flowed into the Gulf of Mexico?
Let's hope not.
If a truly historic earthquake did strike along the New Madrid fault the amount of damage that could be done to surrounding states such as Illinois, Kentucky, Mississippi, Indiana, Alabama, Missouri, Arkansas and Tennessee could potentially be unimaginable.
Jeremy Heidt of the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency says that life in the region would be instantly transformed in the event of a major earthquake along the New Madrid fault....
"All communications would be out. All air travel would be out as the FAA air control would go down. All rail travel would fail. Ports would shut down; oil and natural gas pipelines could be off line."
According to a recent study by the University of Illinois, a 7.7-magnitude earthquake along the New Madrid fault would leave 3,500 people dead, more than 80,000 injured and more than 7 million homeless.
So what would happen if an 8.0 earthquake struck?
Or an 8.5?
Or a 9.0?
Remember, an 8.7-magnitude earthquake would be ten times worse than a 7.7-magnitude earthquake.
There are even some who believe that if a powerful enough earthquake hit the New Madrid fault someday it could potentially alter the surrounding geography enough that it could actually create a new major body of water in the middle of the United States.
So, no, it is not just California that needs to worry about "the Big One."
Right now seismic activity has been dramatically increasing all over the globe. Just think of the unprecedented number of volcanic eruptions that we have seen over the past year. Major earthquakes have been popping up all along the "Ring of Fire." Just over the past couple of days a magnitude-7.1 earthquake hit central Chile and a magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck northern Argentina.
So to think that "it can't happen" in the United States is just being totally naive.
Let us hope and pray that a devastating earthquake does not hit the New Madrid fault any time soon, because such an event could completely wipe out our economy. The U.S. economy is already teetering on the brink of disaster, and all it would take is one major blow to bring the entire house of cards crashing down.
Just remember what happened in Haiti. A magnitude-7.0 earthquake killed 230,000 people and caused such horrific devastation that it is still hard to even try to put it into words. Let us hope and pray that nothing like that happens in any U.S. city any time soon.
Reprinted with permission from End of the American Dream.
January 6, 2011
Copyright © 2011 End of the American Dream
via lewrockwell.com
speculations on the various dead birds and fish in the midwest are associated with the new madrid fault becoming active. has merit.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Topless Robot - The 10 Most Regrettably Missing Movie Scenes of All Time - Page 2
5) “Satellite Storm Shelter” in Mystery Science Theater 3000: The MovieIn its ten years on the air, Mystery Science Theater 3000 was known for two things: expertly mocking awful films and getting fucked over by executives. Clueless studio mistreatment extended even to the MST3K movie, which had scenes yanked and endings changed, all in the name of appeasing test audiences who probably didn’t even exist.
While MST3K: The Movie’s target of ridicule, 1955’s This Island Earth, and its attendant quips were cut down, it was even harsher to pull out host sequences with Mike Nelson, Crow, Tom Servo and Gypsy. The film gave the MST3K crew a higher budget than usual, letting series fans see more of the Satellite of Love than a single set.
The best of these host scenes involves a meteor shower that sends Mike and his proverbial robot pals into the Satellite’s cellar. As they huddle among shelves of Tom’s precious canned hash, the air supply shorts out, leaving Mike unconscious and Servo and Crow ineffectually panicking. The bots’ attempts to resuscitate him, including a rocketing Servo and mouth-to-mouth from Gypsy, are perfect extras for any MST3K nut. They’re apparently not on the upcoming MST3K: The Movie DVD, but here’s a YouTube clip.
4) “The War Room Pie Fight” in Dr. Strangelove
Stanley Kubrick’s made film nerds cry many times, partly because of his penchant for destroying footage of deleted scenes from his movies. Yet we’re hoping that the most famous of his unused footage survives, even if it’s not on DVD.
Kubrick’s original ending for the satirical Dr. Strangelove was far more elaborate than the nuclear bomb montage he ultimately used. Instead of debates about mine-shaft gaps, the Russian and American delegates ended their meeting with a massive pie fight, with President Muffley (Peter Sellers) taking one full in the face while Dr. Strangelove (also Sellers) stands from his wheelchair and then falls over, starting a scene-long wormlike struggle to get back in the chair. The whole sequence was cut because it was actually too much fun for the actors, who were supposed to be serious about it. Kubrick hated the scene, but we’re betting it’s a lot more entertaining than, say, the entirety of Eyes Wide Shut.3) “Wesley Crusher’s First Alien Encounter” in The Last Starfighter
Wil Wheaton’s done a lot to defuse the enduring hatred Star Trek fans have for Wesley Crusher. For starters, he’s stayed close to nerd culture by writing about ancient arcade games for The Onion, releasing a few books, and maintaining a blog that we find hard to hate. And it would probably help if we could see more of Wheaton’s less annoying old roles, including his turn in The Last Starfighter.
Young Wheaton’s scenes were mostly inconsequential; he’s one of the trailer-park friends of the hero’s little brother. Though he’s visible in the background here and there, his speaking roles were edited out and never appended to any DVD release. It’s not quite the rumored Jawa village footage from Star Wars, but any hidden scenes from The Last Starfighter have geek cred galore.
Another snipped scene we’d like to see: the original ending, which had the film’s heroic arcade jockey Lance Guest congratulated by the bizarre alien leaders of the planets he just saved.2) “The Flaming Nips” in Blue Velvet
David Lynch’s weirdness doesn’t end with his movies; for example, the director seemingly dislikes releasing deleted scenes, even though headtrips like Mulholland Drive and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me spawned lots of them.
For Lynch’s trend-settingly odd Blue Velvet, the best we have are stills showing some lost scenes, including one bizarre little episode originally planned when the psychotic Frank (Dennis Hopper) drags Jeffery (pre-Showgirls Kyle MacLachlan) off to a pool hall. Their trip normally ends shortly after Frank’s now-famous endorsement of Pabst Blue Ribbon, but in Lynch’s extended version of the scene, Frank wanders among the bar’s patrons, meeting a woman who diligently removes her top and sets her nipples on fire. Let’s see Roger Ebert hate Blue Velvet with that added in.1) “Burke’s Baby” in Aliens
If there’s one disappointment in James Cameron’s masterful Alien sequel, it’s that Paul Reiser gets off way to easily. As Burke, the oily Weyland-Yutani rep whose corporate greed kills an entire town of settlers and half a battalion of Colonial Marines, Reiser is last seen fleeing a Xenomorph-Marine firefight and running straight into the double jaws of H.R. Giger’s greatest creation.
It seems too swift a fate for the man responsible for hundreds of deaths and half of My Two Dads, and Cameron apparently agreed. His original draft for Aliens included a shot of heroine Ripley finding Burke, cocooned and with an alien chestburster gestating inside him, during her frantic search for surrogate daughter Newt. Burke, true to character, whines about the alien fetus kicking inside him. Disgusted on two counts, Ripley hands him a grenade, puts his thumb on the primer, and keeps on walking.
The scene, shown only in still shots on DVD editions of Aliens, was reportedly cut because Cameron just didn’t like it, but there’s another reason: it doesn’t fit. By Aliens’ internal logic, Burke would still be wearing one of those face-hugger crabs. And while that might’ve marked Reiser’s most disturbing on-screen kiss until Mad About You, it would lose that all-important air of comeuppance.1 | 2
via toplessrobot.com
excellent article on top 10 deleted movie scenes that really should've not been excluded...
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Transcending the Human, DIY Style | Threat Level
BERLIN — Lepht Anonym wants everyone to know the door to transcending normal human capabilities is no farther away than your own kitchen. It’s just going to hurt like a sonofabitch.
Anonym is a biohacker, a woman who has spent the last several years learning how to extend her own senses by putting tiny magnets and other electronic devices under her own skin, allowing her to feel electromagnetic fields, or — if her latest project works — even magnetic north.
Since doctors won’t help her, she does it in her own apartment, sterilizing her equipment (needles, scalpels, vegetable peelers) with vodka. Good anesthetic is largely impossible to buy, so she screams a little, and sometimes passes out. But it’s worth it, for what’s on the other side.
“Bodily health takes a big fuck-off second seat to curiosity,” she says. “Though it hasn’t really changed my life, it’s just made me more curious.”
This is DIY transhumanism, the fringe of a movement that itself lies well outside the mainstream of philosophy, ethics, technology and science.
For decades, transhumanists have argued that science and technology are approaching (or have approached) the point at which humans can take evolution into their own hands. They can transcend limitations of sensation or movement or even lifespan that are purely the accident of evolution. Some thinkers focus strictly on the “post-human” physical body, while others write of evolved social systems, as well.
Anonym’s vision of the transhuman is rather different. Less visionary, possibly, but more realistic. What she does is “grinding,” with homemade cybernetics and an intimate familiarity with medical mistakes, driven by a consuming curiosity rather than a philosophical creed.
She does her own surgery, with a scalpel and a spotter to catch her if she passes out, and an anatomy book to give her some confidence she isn’t going to slice through a vein or the very nerves she’s trying to enhance.
“The existing transhumanist movement is lame. It’s nano everything. It’s just ideas,” she says. “Anyone can do this. This is kitchen stuff.”
Visiting Berlin to speak at this week’s Chaos Computer Club Congress, Anonym proves to be witty and articulate, a slender woman with spiky black hair and dark makeup around her eyes. She has a way of moving as she talks that suggests thought is a kind of physical thing for her too, like the electromagnetic fields she can sense with her modified fingertips.
She has tattoos and piercings on her face, but there’s nothing obvious to indicate her practice — even her fingers look smooth and unscarred, though the metal discs can be felt faintly under one pad.
The Aberdeen, Scotland, native got her start about two years ago, experimenting first with RFID sensors under her skin that let her do things like lock a computer specifically to her signature. That was a decent start, but didn’t scratch the itch entirely. (Anyway, she says now, RFID is crap as a personal security system, it’s really only a way to experiment with the implant techniques.)
She moved on to trying a transdermal (emerging through the skin) temperature sensor, which would show a variable level of brightness to indicate the temperature. It was a disaster, she says. Mostly she learned rather uncomfortably that waterproofing is not the same as “bioproofing” something. She gave up quickly on the transdermal idea, but not the broader project.
An American body-modification artist of a similar mindset has created small metal discs of neodymium metal, coated in gold and silicon, which give off mild electric current when in a electromagnetic field. When inserted under the fingertips, this current stimulates the fingers’ nerve endings, allowing the bearer to literally feel the shape and strength of electromagnetic fields around power cords or electronic devices.
Anonym had several of these implanted professionally, choking at the cost, and then learned it was possible to buy the metal herself in bulk, far more cheaply.
So she began experimenting with homebrewed sensors. The metal itself is extremely toxic, so she needed a coating to bioproof it, finding a solution ultimately in a silicon putty-like substance called Sugru. But hot-gun glue works fine too, she says. (“I have lots of things in me coated in hot-gun glue,” she says.)
The upshot was an affordable way to continue — all 10 fingertips for about 20 British pounds. She has one left to go.
She’s calling her next project the “Southpaw.” It’s based on the Northpaw, a wearable device created by the Sensebridge group of wearable-electronics hackers. The Northpaw is worn around the ankle and gives a constant gentle motor-derived vibration on whichever side is facing north.
It’s not finished yet, but Anonym is trying to give something internal the same function — a small compass chip, a power coil that can be charged externally, and output in the form of neural-grade electrodes, all to be implanted near her left knee. It’s a much bigger project than her others, and probably riskier. She doesn’t care.
She wants other people to share her DIY vision. It’s not the full transhumanist idea, it’s not immortality or superpowers — but even living without the gentle sensation of feeling the invisible is a difficult thing to imagine, she says. One of the implants stopped functioning once, and she describes it as like going blind.
But it isn’t for everybody, this cutting yourself up in your own kitchen. She’s the first to warn people that it hurts. A lot. Every time, you don’t get used to it. Afterward, people may not be inclined to understand, to put it mildly. (“Avoid normal people,” she warns. “They’re stupid.”)
The medical consequences can be both severe and likely to elicit hostility from doctors. She’s put herself in the hospital several times. She nearly lost a fingertip the first time she tried to implant a neodymium disc herself. Various experiments with bioproofing have failed, with implants rusting under her skin, or her own self-surgeries turning septic.
But if that list of horrors isn’t enough to scare someone off, she’s also eager to help others avoid some of the mistakes she’s made in learning.
“You just have to get deep enough to open a hole and put something in,” she says. “It’s that simple.”
via wired.com
biohacking- the next big diy opportunity for at least 20 years... i eagerly await international laws declaring such things illegal..
DC Universe Online Pre-Order Bonuses | Buy DC Universe Online
PRE-ORDER Bonuses -->What Kind of pre-order bonuses Are There In DC Universe Online?
There are many online merchant who are providing pre-order bonuses – for those who are not necessarily budget conscious, but prefer certain special exclusives.
Currently, the best price for the pre-order bonuses is still Amazon.
The pre-order bonuses fall under this simple principle
All levels get this:
Play as Batman in an exclusive two-on-two arena battle.
The Regular Editions Get
at least one special weapon determined by the vendor the pre-order is being made through (and some also get the Legends Issue #0 Online Comic Book).
Collector’s Editions Get
- ALL previously defined items above, plus:
- Exclusive Batman Figure from DC Direct
- The Joker’s Flying Jester in-game Weapon System for Villains
- Bat Drone &trademark; in-game Weapon system for Heroes
- Poster of the exclusive Legends Issue #0 variant cover by Jim Lee
- Exclusive ‘The Art of DC Universe Online’ book
- Exclusive Prestige comic book written by Geoff Johns
However, here’s a handy chart detailing what merchant is providing what weapon bonus:
Merchant Details Amazon.com
Weapon
Wield the power of Wonder Woman’s Amazonian Gauntlets, an exclusive in-game weaponEditions BestBuy.com
Weapon
Wield the power of the Bladed Batarang, an exclusive in-game weaponEditions Direct2Drive.com
Weapon
Wield the power of Mr. Freeze’s Zero Grenade, an exclusive in-game weaponEditions GameStop.com
Weapon
Wield the power of the Joker’s Confetti Bomb, an exclusive in-game weaponEditions GoGamer.com
Weapon
Wield the power of Deathstroke’s Draw, an exclusive in-game weaponEditions FrysElectronics.com
Weapon
Wield the power of Scarecrow’s Screamer, an exclusive in-game weaponEditions
- PC Regular
- PC collector’s
- PS3 Regular
Station.com
Weapon
Wield the power of the Bat Grenade, an exclusive in-game weaponEditions
- PC Regular
Steam.com
Weapon
Wield the power of Bane’s Venom Injector, an exclusive in-game weaponEditions
- PC Regular
Target.com
Weapon
Wield the power of Lexcorp Kryptonite Blaster, an exclusive in-game weaponEditions
- PC Regular
- PS3 Regular
Walmart.com
Weapon
Wield the power of Joker’s Trick Pistol, an exclusive in-game weaponEditions
- PC Regular
- PS3 Regular
Pre-order Bonuses Conclusion
So there you have it- the pre-order bonuses spelled out. Hopefully this information will help you determine which pre-order bonuses you like and will get. Happy shopping!
Handy little mini-guide about what pre-order bonuses are available for the upcoming MMO DC Universe Online Check it out!
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