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Virgin Media, Worst Than Comcast?

16. April 2008

In the recent past it seems that Comcast has become the favorite ISP to hate with their constant manipulation of your traffic, illegal traffic tampering (OOPS, wait, nothing is illegal under Bush admin if done by a big enough corporation, full pardons all around!) and a general all around level of shit service… but it [...]

Seagate Plays the Douchebag Card (Stymies SSD)

16. April 2008

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Well it happened… a few months ago it was rumored that Seagate held some IP that was essentially infringed upon by all existing solid state drive (SSD) designs. There were rumors that Seagate would pull that card just as the market was exploding in order to either kill off competition in the space or seriously [...]

Blue Jeans Cable Pwns Monster Cable

15. April 2008

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Grant Gochnauer send in this badass piece of news… it looks like Monster Cable company, the world champions of bullshit-priced cabling (that have no real-world performance edge), served Blue Jeans Cable with a cease-and-desist motion targeted at their Tartan line of cables (something having to do with the connectors being “confusingly similar” to what Monster [...]

GameSpot Video Reviews Suck

13. April 2008

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If you are familiar with the drama that unfolded around GameSpot 6 months or so ago, then you know that there was a mass-exodus of their senior talent that all left in response. Since then the site has been scrambling to keep operations going, reviews churning, etc. For the most part I’ve always liked watching the [...]

Netflix Recommendation System Snafu?

11. April 2008

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So I was looking on Netflix to see how I scored Hitman after a friend asked me about it, and noticed down in the “More Like This” section where Netflix recommends more movies to you… it was telling me if I liked Hitman (Action movie, gore, full frontal nudity) that I might like Cesar Milan: [...]

Turok Review (PS3)

10. April 2008

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Summary [6.5 out of 10] Turok is a perfect example of a next-gen game almost being good, with close-minded, repetitive and sometimes punishing try-die-and-try-again game design dragging down some of the impressive technical accomplishments. Introduction The premise of Turok is that you are John Turok and ex-member of the super-elite Wolfpack group and now a member of the [...]

MySpace Douchebags

10. April 2008

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Brad Agdern sent in a website to keep the internet-awesome-rolling. Welcome to MySpace Douchebags, a site where you can submit any douchebag to be reviewed in complete douche-baggery. You have a friend on MySpace that posted a ridiculous picture of them self trying to look cool? Or maybe you see a page of someone that just [...]

Trigun Movie In the Works (for 2009)

10. April 2008

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I ran across this new somewhat by accident… but then again I tend to do awesome things by accident. One time I accidentally grew 3″ taller… and another time I accidentally smashed a tiger and a lion together so hard that I made a Liger. Anyway, if you are an anime fan or even have just [...]

The Internet Makes Awesome People

8. April 2008

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This is why the internet is fucking awesome… cause of the people it gives birth to: What? Not that awesome? Then how about these super-badasses? You really have to appreciate the puckered girl-libs and overtanning… oh and the way-too-open-shirts. For some celebrity awesome, check out some other good ones: Paris Hilton’s Never-Changing Expression Lindsay Lohan’s Never-Changing Pose Update #1: Oh jesus [...]

New Dune Movie In The Works

4. April 2008

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This post is for all the Dune fans out there (tdod!), looks like a new Dune movie is in the works (IMDB Link): the producers have secured the rights to the Dune novel from Frank Herbert’s estate and are looking for writers to provide a screenplay that is true to the original text. So yea… if the [...]

Real Rendering Resolutions of Console Games

4. April 2008

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Robert Heron sent in a pretty cool link over to the Beyond3D forums where a list of popular games and their true rendering resolutions were given. For Reference: 1080p = 1920×1080 720p = 1280×720 Here’s a snippet as an example: Army of Two = 720p (no AA, downscaled to 685p with black borders, no adjustable border) Call of Duty 4 = [...]

Battlestar Galactica, Seasons 1-3 Summary Movie

4. April 2008

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For the fans of the show out there, this is an excellent (and funny) recap of Seasons 1, 2 and 3 of Battlestar Galactica titled “What the Frack?” Just in time for Season 4, thanks VE3D!

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Archive | April, 2008

Virgin Media, Worst Than Comcast?

Seagate Plays the Douchebag Card (Stymies SSD)

Blue Jeans Cable Pwns Monster Cable

GameSpot Video Reviews Suck

Netflix Recommendation System Snafu?

Turok Review (PS3)

MySpace Douchebags

Trigun Movie In the Works (for 2009)

The Internet Makes Awesome People

New Dune Movie In The Works

Real Rendering Resolutions of Console Games

Battlestar Galactica, Seasons 1-3 Summary Movie

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