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Archive | October, 2006
Clive Barker’s Jericho
VE3D gives the dirt on Jericho. This is a game I’m excited about. I loved Clive Barker’s Undying. It was a horror game with great story, good dialog, good cutscenes and a FPS perspective that allowed you to get “in the action”. Jericho looks like more of the same, but much much more visceral! [...]
Continue reading...Freedom of the Press Soon to be Removed
31. October 2006
In light of the attacks on the freedom of the press over the last few years and growing concern that all the “news” currently broadcast inside the United States is controlled by 3 companies that are in lock-step with each other, one can only see the latest out of Washington and wonder… how many days [...]
Continue reading...Windows Vista EULA: Shut Up, Sit Down, Do What We Say
31. October 2006
The Register has a great 3-page piece on the upcoming EULA (End User License Agreement) that will be in Windows Vista. If you don’t have a lot of time, click the link, load up the story and skim the bolded portions of it. Some of the more interesting features are: Benchmark results can only be shared if [...]
Continue reading...Giant African Land Snail
31. October 2006
About.com has a little gallery of Scary Exotic Pet Pictures, and while I didn’t really find most of them too scary… this one was a shocker: That, my friends, is a Giant African Land Snail… and they do this: Which would make me want to set that tree on fire then throw the whole thing in a [...]
Continue reading...1080p on XBox 360 Requires the VGA Cable
31. October 2006
The mini Blog spills the beans on 1080p on the XBox 360. It will require the VGA cable for the XBox 360 and a VGA (15-pin/dsub) plug on your TV to get it. The cable will run you $40 (gotta love proprietary hookups!) and looks like this: And for the folks (like me) that have [...]
Continue reading...Happy Halloween!
30. October 2006
Huge inflatable decorations are awesome… where else am I going to get an 8′ pumpkin that is internally lit?
Continue reading...nVidid 8800 GT/GTX, $800
30. October 2006
Ouch. This was covered before with some pictures, it’s not a small card by any means and is likely worth the $800… but wow, $800? So now to build the guts (no accessories) of a cutting edge gaming rig you are looking at: Intel Core 2 Duo 6800 Extreme: $900 ASUS 975-based Board: $300 nVidia 8800 GTX: $800 2-4GB Memory: [...]
Continue reading...Suggested SD/HD Device Input Configuration
30. October 2006
I recently found myself in an interesting situation. When I first got the Mitsubishi WD-65831 I thought it had too many inputs, especially HDMI. Now that I’m starting to look at more HD devices I’m running into the problem that my A/V receiver does not have any HDMI switching on it, and I seem to [...]
Continue reading...Mitsubishi WD-65831 Reordered
30. October 2006
Ok so I just re-placed another order for a replacement Mits. After talking to 3 different Costco customer service reps (trying to get a different story) I finally accepted their story: Replacements are not treated specially they basically consists of you returning the item then returning it online. You can return it to any warehouse [...]
Continue reading...Mitsubishi WD-65831, Drama
26. October 2006
*sigh* I don’t know how closely you guys have been following my ongoing TV drama but after putting in the replacement bulb and realizing that the set is screwed up, not the bulb, I’m pooped. I can’t trouble shoot this stupid thing anymore. To recap, this is what is happening: Watch TV Turn off TV Try and turn on [...]
Continue reading...nVidid 8800 GT/GTX Released (Next-Gen Graphics)
24. October 2006
Well it looks like nVidia’s next-gen part has been released and will be on sale shortly. Unfortunately this card is not going to be for the weak of heart. For those of you that have the mindset of “Chipset revision == new and smaller process”, you need to sort of throw out that expectation when [...]
Continue reading...Son of a Biscuit, Lamp Burned Out
24. October 2006
So I fired up the Mitsubishi WD-65831 to try out the TV Guide after a friend asked me to check it out and blammo… no picture. I thought the TV was taking a long time to warm up, turns out the bulb is dead. (Probably 3 hours of TV on it). I called the 800 number [...]
Continue reading...PS3 Screenshots
20. October 2006
Some shots of upcomming PS3 games, overall looks pretty good. Some of them look more run of the mill than others, but it seems on PS3 when something looks good, it looks great.
Continue reading...Physical Fitness is Import
20. October 2006
Just ask Frank: Or Mr. Very Large Cat: And we can’t forget Lardo-Pants:
Continue reading...Halo Movie Halted, Studios Pull Out
20. October 2006
Fox and Universal studios (funding and distrobution) have pulled out of the Halo movie product. Aparently the budget was getting ready to clear $200 million and the director selected to do the movie is a no-name with only some music videos (albeit good ones) under his belt. Even though Jackson’s name was attached to this, [...]
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31. October 2006
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