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I was telling Steve Doss about how cool Battlefield 2 is and how he should run out today and get it. His response was a link to this “gun toting bot” and a question “is THIS in your game????”

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Last night, nVIDIA held its launch event for the new GeForce 7xxx series graphics chips. Tim Sweeney (Founder of Epic games) was on hand to show a demo of the Unreal engine running on the new nVIDIA GPU chipset. Previous demos were run at 640×480, while the demo shown last night was running at 1280×1024 quite smoothly!!!! NUTS. On a side note, Sweeney perdicts that the G70 Nvidia Geforce 7800 GTX is actually going to end up better than ATI’s upcoming R520….

I was over gandering over at Philippe Niquilles’ website reading over some of his great Google Maps discoveries:

It’s amazing what people do (or google itself ) with google maps. For example add google maps to your website with this workaround (or this) or view Yahoo Traffic data on google maps.
I’m really looking forwad to 3d google maps. That seems to cool!

And last but not least yet another google maps “cool scenes” site

So I guess the rumors were true. Microsoft is suiting up to begin testing of their new antivirus offering they are now calling “One Care Live“.

OneCare is set to combine the anti-spyware software that Microsoft has already been publicly beta testing along with antivirus and firewall software. Microsoft has not announced pricing for OneCare yet but one can guess it will be subscription based like their competitors and will no doubt come bundled in Longhorn.

Okay, so I am on IRC last night and a couple of dimwits in #xbox post a couple of URLs which at first glance appearto be fake.. The scary thing is, they’re not.

What’s this world coming to…

Man eats dead wife, dies choking
Newcastle - Two KwaZulu-Natal girls have been left traumatised after seeing their father eat the flesh off their dead mother’s face on Friday morning, said police.
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Charges Against Teen Upgraded After Dog He Allegedly Raped Dies
SPARTANBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA (FOX Carolina News) - A Campobello teen is accused of raping one neighbor’s dog and another neighbor’s two little girls. Now the dog has died and charges against the teen have been upgraded.

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David Breyer pointed me to a very cool and addicting web (search) site that is sure to take off quickly. After doing a bit of research it appears YubNub is billed as a “Social command line for the web” created as the result of a “program like hell for 24 hours” project. In fact, it came out of one guy’s attempt to win a contest around the new Ruby on Rails framework.

The idea of search as the command line for the web is well established, this takes the idea one step (or more) further, letting you set up commands in the search line itself. You can use the search line as a single point of reference for searching just about any web resource, and you can add your own:

I was tired of setting up the same Firefox keywords on each of the 5 computers that I use. By putting my keywords into YubNub, I can hit “am mark twain” for an Amazon search, or “gmap vancouver” for a Google Maps search, no matter which computer I’m on.

But on a bigger scale, YubNub is the realization of a very big idea: the URL command line of the web OS.

Web applications were once considered slow and unreliable, compared to their desktop counterparts. But these days, people are increasingly choosing web applications over desktop applications. Amazingly, GMail is found to be faster than desktop email programs. The snappy Google Maps interface feels as responsive as a desktop application. The web is morphing into the desktop, and today we are witness to the command line making its appearance in this new world, as YubNub, the (social) command-line for the web.

The beauty of YubNub is that anyone can help to extend it. If there is an existing web service with a submit form, they can add it pretty easily (like I did with the Amazon example above). But even more interesting is the adding of complex data-processing services (like validating an RSS feed, or converting webpages to audio using text-to-speech).

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Microsoft has a cool Web site that can help answer the question “Will this game run on my system?”. The latest version of the Windows Game Advisor will scan your system and let you know how it stacks up against others.

You can also search for specific Windows-based games from many companies, not just Microsoft aaadennyand find out if your machine meets that game’s minimum criteria.

The crappy part about this is it requires Internet Exploder And looking at it further it appears to load an ActiveX control virus that links back to Futuremark. Soooo I wonder if it’s using a 3dMark component…

I came across a very cool app today called Orb from a company called Orb Networks. After you register on their website and install the small download it enables you to send media over the Internet from your PC to any connected computer for free. It basically turns your Windows computer into a restricted Internet media server. You can use another PC or certain PDAs and smart phones to access your music, photos, videos, or television signal, if your host PC has a TV tuner. All the receiving device needs is broadband Internet access, a browser, and a media player. You apparently can also schedule TV recordings remotely via a browser too. I wonder if we could program this to download podcasts and have that stream it to our phones…

TWIT episode 9 was delayed because of scheduling issues between Leo and Call For Help up in Canada. So this week they give us 2 (last weeks and this weeks) episodes for your listening pleasure.

A peer at work, Shane noted that a great fast torrent-free download site for TWIT is www.ourmedia.com

Direct Downloads:
TWIT Ep 9
TWIT Ep 10