And now for something completely different:
“I’m recording this message so that if I don’t make it, at least somebody- anybody who finds it will have an idea of what the hell they’ll face getting through this nightmare. Our original party was four: Bill, Francis, Zoey, and me, Louis. We were trying to make it to the top of Mercy Hospital, but I’m the only one left, and I don’t know if I can do this alone. Bill was the first to go. We had just cleared a horde of zombies and he stopped to patch himself up while the rest of us went ahead a bit to scout...a muffled scream was the only warning we had. By the time I blew the smoker’s head off its tongue had already crushed his windpipe. Zoey was next...she was a cute little thing. A boomer threw up nasty green liquid all over her and a hunter shredded her before Francis and I could clear the mass of Infected from around her. We made it into the subway tunnels alright, but Francis ran off into the dark when he heard a woman sobbing...thought it might be another survivor. I heard the Witch scream, but I didn’t turn around. Wait, I can see a heavy metal door at the top of this room...it’s a safehouse! I might actually.*thud thud thud thud*..wait...what’s that rumbli- Oh God noit’saTanknonoNONONO *ROOOOOOOOAR* *gunfire* *crunch crunch crunch*” - Audio recovered from a mangled tape recorder by unidentifiable remains.
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Apple and HBO today announced that the Apple iTunes service will sell episodes of popular HBO series such as, Deadwood, Rome and The Wire.
“We’re very excited to make these legendary HBO programs available on the iTunes Store,” said Henry McGee, president of HBO Video. “Whether catching up on ‘Sex and the City’ in anticipation of its upcoming movie release or reliving a favorite ‘Sopranos’ episode, we think viewers will love being able to watch these shows on their iPod or iPhone.”
Today Microsoft announced a Public Beta for their new WorldWide Telescope Software. You can download it by clicking here.
“The WorldWide Telescope is a powerful tool for science and education that makes it possible for everyone to explore the universe,” said Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft Corporation. “By combining terabytes of incredible imagery and data with easy-to-use software for viewing and moving through all that information, the WorldWide Telescope opens the door to new ways to see and experience the wonders of space. Our hope is that it will inspire young people to explore astronomy and science, and help researchers in their quest to better understand the universe.”
Today RIM announced the new Blackberry Bold, also known as the Blackberry 9000. The phone will be available exclusively from at&t wireless later this year. Blackberry nor at&t have announced pricing for the phone yet.
The Bold which is a quad-band phone and can be used anywhere in the world features a half-vga color screen which is said to be bold and beautiful, it also features a fast 624MHz intel processor and a gig of onboard memory. The phone will have wi-fi and bluetooth connectivity.
In other RIM related news, Microsoft announced that they have reached an agreement with RIM to bring their live services to Blackberry devices.
HP is having another huge sale, and this time you can save $400 dollars on any notebook priced at $1399 or higher.
That basically means you can get a 1400 dollar notebook for $1000, can’t really beat that. The coupon is good for any configuration on any system, be it the tx2000 or dv2700. The coupon is limited to the first 1000 people to use it, so if it doesn’t work for you, sorry. 
A New York Woman was robbed of her Mac, and the two idiots that robbed her well weren’t that bright.
The woman’s friend saw her online, notified the women and the women used a second computer and the “Back to My Mac” program to establish a remote connection with her Mac, snap a picture of the thief using the built in camera, and sent it a long to the police.
The police used the photo to arrest 23 year old Edmon Shahikian and 20-year-old Ian Frias. They also recovered $5,000 in stolen electronics.
Atari’s Alone in the Dark will hit Stores on June 24th, but is already available for pre-order over at GameStop. (You’ll get a free T-Shirt if you Pre-Order). The game will be available for the PS2, Xbox 360, and NIntendo Wii. There will be a Playstation 3 version but the release date for that console hasn’t been announced yet.
From some trailers I have seen the game looks to be pretty intense, and hopefully as fun as GTA. The game kind of reminds me of Resident Evil, it has that scary feel to it. I can’t wait to get my copy!
I’m sure I’m in the majority when I say that I want as few applications on my system as possible, and periodically delete those which I believe have similar functionality to other applications on my computer.
I recently came across a blog post, where someone argued their case about why Quicksilver (QS) is not a useful app. He wrote of Quicksilver (I will refer to this as QS from now on) as purely an application launcher, and considered it redundant since Tiger’s introduction of Spotlight. Here I will ignore this basic launcher feature, and write about other uses of QS, which you may or may not have known about.
A Los Angeles US District Judge has ordered TorentSpy to pay $100 Million for infringing copyrights of thousands of films and TV Shows, and also issued a permanent injunction against the site which shut down back in March.
MPAA CEO Dan Glickman told News.com “The demise of TorrentSpy is a clear victory for the studios and demonstrates that such pirate sites will not be allowed to continue to operate without facing relentless litigation by copyright holders.”
The judge ordered TorrentSpy to pay $30,000 per copyright infringement--for 3,699 films and shows. That works out to be worth $110,970,000.
If you like to download MP3 from various sharing services watch out, McAfee claims that over 360,000 of it’s users that report back to them have downloaded mp3 files in the past 48 hours that contain some form of malware.
In a Blog Posting Yesterday, McAfees Craig Schmugar said, “Detection of a trojan named Downloader-UA.h was added to the McAfee DAT files several days ago. Since that time more than 360,000 McAfee VirusScan Online users have reported detections, a whopping 32% of those reporting in the past 24 hours alone.”
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