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MaxPayne 3

Rockstar have released the first batch of screen for its upcoming Noir themed action title Max Payne 3. They did mention the scenes in the game would take part during the day in contrast to the previous two iterations of the series which all took part in the depths of night. We’re not complaining, in fact we like what we see.

The screens give us a clearer picture of howMax has aged, not gracefully by any means, sporting a bulging tummy, a big scare around his right eye and it looks like he hasn’t bathed in days, can’t blame him though, too many bad guys to kill and too little time.

Fuel: Screenshots of upcoming game from Codemasters

Here are some new screenshots from Codemasters’ up and coming potential Motorstorm slayer - due for release May 2009. Will Codemasters be able to rise to the hefty challenge of creating a better game than Motorstorm 2? What do you think?

Cluth (PC) Racing Game:



Features include (taken from a press release):

• High speed destruction, heaps of broken bones and wrecked cars
• The LHC campus is a complete city open for exploration, sandbox style
• An engaging storyline with 20 story missions
• 6 modes of racing and combat
• Advanced collision and damage physics
• A multitude of drivable vehicles and upgrades
• Over 20 types of artifacts that affect the player and rivals

JustCause 2

“Post-GTAIV there is clearly room for a free-roaming game that offers the chance to interact with the game world on an overblown level,” the PSW post said, “Mercenaries 2 promised this but failed to deliver.”


The original Just Cause was pleasantly received, scoring a respectable 74 at Metacritic, with many of the quoted review comments noting that a few more options in game play could’ve turned it into a “GTA-killer.” If the screens below are any indication, Just Cause 2 might have the engine upgrades and new gameplay options it needs to finally threaten that GTA throne.

GTA IV

Nostalgia - A Fresh Take on DS RPGs

Also known as Winds of Nostalgio in Japan, Another fresh new RPG coming to the DS developed by Matrix Software (Final Fantasy III and IV DS, Final Fantasy IV: The After Years), Nostalgia is an RPG said to be created by "veterans" of designers from various development crews. The crews includes staff key members behind great RPG classics, such as Sakura Taisen, Grandia, and Tengai Makyo.

Set in the 19th steampunk century, the player will take control of the main character Eddy, supposedly a son of the legendary English adventurers, and Eddy, with his airship crews; sets off London and takes on an adventure across the globe. The interesting recurring theme that will be present in this game is the use of airships, where Eddy, our ain character, will travel across the globe with a completely customizable aircraft that can also come into play during battles, as the addition of fighting using the normal cast of characters.

Metromorph Vehicle Becomes an Elevator and Balcony for Your Apartment

Metromorph Vehicle Becomes an Elevator and Balcony for Your Apartment

Metromorph Vehicle Designer Roman Mistiuk came up with an interesting concept that could help avoid the never-ending problems such as lack of parking space and not enough space at home. He developed this amazing vehicle which he dubbed "Metromorph", which can play several roles: besides being a car, it can turn into an elevator that takes you right to your apartment and it can increase your living space, turning into a balcony.

When you come home, the vehicle rides up just like an elevator and as soon as it arrives to the necessary floor it becomes a balcony. The designer provided specific features that explain how everything works.

Laptop Plus USB Hub Plus Cassette Player is the New Transformer
May 25, 2009
Transformer USB HUb This is a pretty cool transformer that is more than a simple toy. The gadget transforms into a small laptop computer, a sort of netbook, if you wish, that sits on top of a USB hub with 4 ports.

When the transformer turns into robot it can store a cassette tape, which you can insert in its chest - reminds me of the old cassette player I was given on my birthday about a decade ago.
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Greeting for the Chinese PMP Dubbed Shinco SK622plus
May 28, 2009
Shinco SK622plus This Chinese wonder is only 8mm thick, featuring a 3.5-inch screen. It is called SK622plus and it was developed by Shinco.

The device can boast the ability to support a long list of formats, including the audio files WMA, MP3, WAV, OGG, APE, FLAC.
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Wristwatch Gaming Gadget that Uses Motion Capture Technology
Jun 30, 2009
Wristwatch Gaming Over the past several years, devices got smaller and handier. If you need evidence, simply observe this particular hand-held video game/wristwatch.

The device is called "Samsung WM". It has earbugs and pen, both clipping instinctively into the gadget's back panel.

Because the gadget has a flexible screen, the user can attach the device to their wrist and wear it as a slap-bracelet popular back in the 1980s.

Conspiracy Theories and the 'Smoking Gun'
Monday - June 29, 2009
Linux bloggers are never shy about laying blame at Microsoft's door, but in recent days the accusations seemed to be flying faster than ever. First, Groklaw published a post entitled, "Linux on Netbooks: The Smoking Gun." "Microsoft continues their predatory ways," lamented Anonymous in the Groklaw comments.

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ICC 2009 Twenty20 World Cup Winners – Pakistan

Sri Lanka 138/6 (20/20 ov)
Pakistan 139/2 (18.4/20 ov)

Pakistan won by 8 wickets (with 8 balls remaining)

Pakistan are the ICC T20 World Cup 2009 winners. The team beat Sri Lanka by 8 wickets with 8 balls remaining. Shahid Afridi and Shoaib Malik steer the team to victory with 8 balls remaining. Earlier Sri Lanka made 138/6 thanks to some wonderful batting by Kumara Sangakkara after the top guns failed to fire. Much hyped Tilshan went out for a duck and so Jayawardene after scoring 1. Although Jayasuriya scored 17, he looked uncomfortable against Pakistani attack and all credit to Abdul Razzak who took 3 wickets in a match that is so important.

As Pakistan started to chase things never looked good for Sri Lanka. Kamran Akmal went firing and scored quick fire 30+ and he laid the pillars for Shoaib Malik and Shahid Afridi to take forward. Afridi scored a 54 from 40 deliveries 2 fours and 2 sixes in his score. At no point in their innings the two batsmen looked defocused and they went on to give victory for the team. Afridi scores the winning shot and sported we-done-it-this-time expression.

Highly recommended novel

J.G. Farrell's "Troubles," a comedy of futility and decay set in Ireland in 1919.

Dinosaur poem I once wrote

The duckbill herd had drunk its fill
Thought Raptor Red: "It's time to kill."
Her sisters three were close at hand
And by the grove they made their stand
The duckbill herd was acting shy
And sticking close as they went by
A flash of claws, a snarl of teeth
The sisters leaped, and pinned beneath
A duckbill chick, who soon was still
The herd all honked and fled downhill
And stomped beneath their thundering feet
An acrocanthosaur who'd planned to eat
The raptors' kill as stolen meat
The raptors stretched and ate their fill
And lay down in the grass until
Another acro spied their prize
But by that time no meat was left
Except some for the pterodactyls and the flies.

End of the semester

I have just completed teaching my last Tax I class of the fall 2008 semester. I'm always ambivalent when this happens. Certainly, having more free time until the next semester is welcome; teaching has elements of being a chore and isn't necessarily the main reason one goes into this line of work. But a semester-long class is kind of a living thing that the professor & students share and that can be fun; you really get to know each other though just in this formalized setting. And I felt we had pretty good relations and some fun together plus a sense of shared enterprise. I enjoyed teaching this class, and the next time inevitably will be different; possibly not as good since these things inevitably vary each time around.

As a parting gesture various students brought in items of fruit on the last day. This referred in part to a couple of early twentieth century Supreme Court tax cases that (following Marvin Chirelstein) I mocked for their labored and unhelpful metaphors about "fruit and tree": Eisner v. Macomber, saying that only the fruit is income; and Lucas v. Earl, saying that the fruit can only be taxed to the tree on which it grew. Other references behind the gesture: someone brought in an apple earlier in the semester, and when I forgot it he brought in a persimmon the next time; also, I've mentioned my mania for the Union Square farmer's market when fresh fruit is in season. So the gesture was literarily rich; multiple layers of reference.

Anyway, here was my net haul: 4 bananas, a persimmon, a few lychees, a pomegranate, a kiwi, a pineapple, a mango, an orange, a tangerine, a Clementine, an Asian pear, a Comice pear, and a potato (perhaps because in French it's a "pomme de terre"?). Plus an NYU canvas bag so I can carry my loot home.

Luckily I do not plan to respond by asking them on the exam whether this haul is taxable income. Detached generosity? (I'd like to think so.) Might section 102(c) apply? (No, they aren't the employer.)

Final chapter of the class saga, other than the exam, is recruitment to the lifestyle. We tax profs are all alike. We are hoping people will be interested enough to take more classes in the subject, and perhaps to give more thought than they had expected to tax policy as a subject or tax practice as a career. I'd certainly be happy to see people from this class again over the next few semesters. On this angle, on verra.
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Reasons to be cheerful

1) I've finally gotten to the end of a huge to-do list that's been hounding me, and frequently growing faster than I could cross things off it, since mid-July. While a new to-do list, possibly a lot worse than the last, is starting to loom and will be having its malign way with me by early January, for the moment I can't or shouldn't do most of those things yet.

2) Expanded 2-CD reissue of Pavement's Brighten the Corners. I got in the mood by spending a few days with the reissue of Wowee Zowee. So far the added material sounds pretty good.

3) Today I was hitting better on the tennis court, and my suspect elbow didn't fall off. My once-reliable forehand, no less than the elbow, has been playing nasty tricks on me lately.

4) Creative gift ideas for certain others, suitably restrained but nonetheless (I hope) thoughtful, have recently occurred to me.

5) I could be in a jury room right now if the case I was picked for hadn't settled.
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Cat pandering

Couldn't resist posting this shot of Buddy, a.k.a. the "bad little bunny."

Elmer Fudd wouldn't have liked him, nor Yosemite Sam nor Marvin the Martian, but we actually cherish his foibles.

Life versus the movies

On Christmas Eve we watched the 1951 Alastair Sim version of A Christmas Carol. Scrooge as portrayed by Sim (pre-redemption) forcefully, unremittingly reminded me of Cheney. But Cheney is both far worse and utterly irredeemable.

Someone (me?) should write a satirical Christmas Carol knock-off starring Cheney. Rumsfeld as Marley? Casting or plot ideas, anyone?
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FRIDAY (1995) (***):




Post BOYZ N THE HOOD and MENACE II SOCIETY, urban black films were smokin’. So Ice Cube decided to write and produce a stoner comedy set in the hood. F. Gary Gray, whom had grown up not far from where Ice Cube grew up in South Central L.A., got his first shot at directing a feature film, after having cut his helming chops on music videos. He’d go on to direct the wonderful thriller THE NEGOTIATOR. But this cult hit is what most people remember. And whether you think it’s good or bad, the film made a star of Chris Tucker.

Written by Ice Cube and DJ Pooh, whom both take roles in the film, the story is set over one Friday. Craig Jones (Ice Cube) just lost his job the day before and his friend Smokey (Tucker, RUSH HOUR) is determined to get him high for the first time. While there is a plot involving a drug dealer named Big Worm (Faizon Love, IDLEWILD), the crux of the movie is simply Craig and Smokey hanging out and interacting with the folks in their neighborhood.

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This Weekend’s Film Festival Celebrates The Best Stoner Flicks
7 01 2009

Someone says stoner flick and you think about high people acting dumb. But not all stoner flicks are dumb. With PINEAPPLE EXPRESS arriving on DVD this week, This Weekend’s Film Festival takes a look at the five best stoner flicks. We have something fruity. We have something served up with Ice Cube. We have two heterosexual life partners. We have a whole high school class. And no stoner party would be complete without The Dude.

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Lennon’s MBE discovered in royal vault
Wednesday, January 7, 2009 at 2:01 am
The symbol of one of the final acts of ‘Sixties’ rebellion has been discovered, almost 40 years after John Lennon returned his MBE to the British Queen. The appointment of the Fab Four as MBEs in the 1965 led to several people returning their own awards, complaining that they felt the honour had been demeaned. Lennon decided that he had sold out to... Read more »

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