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Congress to Investigate the FCC over Comcast Investigation
Confused about why Congress would investigate the FCC? No worries… let me explain: Comcast starts blocking and shaping user traffic quietly and denies it when asked about it. The block and shaping is independent confirmed by techies and researchers The Associated Press finally confirms it and publishes their findings The FCC takes notice, and announces they will investigate Comcast *MY [...]
Continue reading...Google Poised to be the Infrastructure for ISPs
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Todd Swarthout sent me one of the more interesting reads I’ve gotten a chance to take a look at recently. This is a piece by Robert Cringely over at PBS.org and is exactly 1 year old today, but just as fascinating today as it was a year ago… and IMO, surprisingly insightful. The premise of the article [...]
Continue reading...Get Depressed about Politics in the US Fast!
Sunday, January 6, 2008
You having a good day today? Things are going along pretty well? Got some extra time on your hands and want to get depressed as hell over the political situation in the United States? Sweet, then read on… Scientists agree the US is “doomed” if a pro-creationist president is elected (e.g. Huckabee or any other right-winger [...]
Continue reading...New RFID Passports: Staging for the NAU
Thursday, January 3, 2008
We have blogged in the past about the desire of the international bankers to create the North American Union (Canada, United States, Mexico) along with a common currency: The Amero. Now you can watch for yourself as the first steps towards creating this reality are set into place, regardless of the outcry against it. First Step: Create [...]
Continue reading...Mass Effect Mini: Some Glaring Annoyances
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Chris Hunkele sent in a mini-review of his experience with Mass Effect so far and I thought it was important to share it with the group because it helped quelled the “I must have that!” fire in me. The Good Player conversation immersion very cool You select responses in conversation which ultimately effect the path of the game Defiantly [...]
Continue reading...Zeitgeist: Christianity, 911 and The Federal Reserve
Monday, December 31, 2007
NOTE: This post may offend people that are religiously oriented, in the military or otherwise find yourself aligned with the policies of the Bush administration. … a few weeks ago we blogged about the Bilderberg Group and World Domination. To summarize, the Bilderberg group is a private, highly secretive group of 100 or so of the [...]
Continue reading...Rumor: GameSpot Insider Responds to Firing
Saturday, December 1, 2007
Kotaku reports on the “gamespot” insider giving the scoops over to Valleywag on what the firing of GameSpot’s leader editor, Jeff Gerstmann, meant to the GS team. More specifically, that over the last few years, the separation of the sales team (that lands the huge advertising deals) and the editorial team (that writes the reviews) [...]
Continue reading...BioShock 2 Team Boots Levine, Piss Off!
Friday, November 30, 2007
For more drama in the gaming sector, the brains behind the original BioShock game and story, Ken Levine (above), looks like he’s getting the boot from making BioShock 2. Destructoid has the scoop, and the quote isn’t very nice: 2K Boston is still recovering – a good chunk of the BioShock team did not want to [...]
Continue reading...Evolution of Water in Games, Best is Halo 3
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Laurence Hartje sends in a link to 2 interesting stories (Games Radar, PC Games Hardware) that cover the history of water in games. This is actually something that I have always loved and used as a benchmark to “feel” how real the world was. The first thing I would do is run over and [...]
Continue reading...2/3 of NYU Would Sell Right to Vote for Scholarship
Thursday, November 15, 2007
The full quote is they would give up their right to vote in the next election for a scholarship. I wonder if that stat is that surprising? Two reasons I can think of this not being that surprising is: A lot of people felt the last 2 elections were bullshit with all the shenanigans that ensued [...]
Continue reading...Adobe Captivate Review and Screencasting Alternatives
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Adobe Captivate (Buy $699, Upgrade $299) I met Captivate 3 years ago when it was RoboDemo 5. At that time I thought it was slick as hell to have a piece of software that would essentially capture your screen as screenshots as “slides”, and then capture any mouse or keyboard input as actions done during that [...]
Continue reading...Video Game Violence, AO, Manhunt and More, Part 2
Friday, October 19, 2007
Continuing from Part 1 of Video Game Violence, AO, Manhunt and More… As I mentioned this whole topic was initiated by an email from Noah Jacobs-Andresen that discussed a core point to the issue that I hadn’t considered before and one that I think made it much easier for me to think about this subject, and [...]
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Friday, January 11, 2008
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