Hookay. So, you all know the Large Hadron Collider by now, the oh-so-pretty particle accelerator thingamajig that will implode taking the whole planet with it. Yeah, that one. Well, it is now T minus 24 hours from ignition. The end of the world, people. In fact, you have less than 24 hours to do everything you wanted to do before dying. Right now. Make a list and start right now. I did mine already. Update: apocalypse delayed again. New date is September 10. - First, give a long hug to all my friends. - Learn to sail. - Fish a salmon and eat the whole thing as sashimi. - Call Addy and tell her I love her. - Call Ana, my first wife, and tell her that she’s still a damn lying bitch with a fat ass. - Get in bed with the hot, big-boobed Swedish bartender in front of me—I’m in a cafe in Hunnebo, Sweden, right now. - Get the hot Swedish waitress in bed too—trust me, I have reasons for this. - Steal the Harley parked outside the café and drive at 125MPH to Gothenburg’s ...
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PS3 HD Video on Demand Service Crashes Into Japan Next Year [The Slow Lane]Post Date: 2007-11-30 18:47:00
The PS3’s still got a long ways to go to catch up to the Xbox 360 in the online space, and their next step toward it with an HD VOD service seems kind of lackluster. It’s launching next year in Japan only. And the launch content seems pretty anemic unless you’re into cars and racing: "motor-racing vids" and a BBC car documentary. Sony’s hoping it’ll get people’s motors running for Gran Turismo 5. Uh, vroom vroom? [Variety via Game|Life]
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Upside-Down XBox 360, Sofas Kill Fat Children [Gaming]Post Date: 2007-11-30 18:47:00
According to the Health Care System Foundation, a lack of diet and exercise combined with a sedentary lifestyle (that includes playing an upside-down Xbox 360) leads to childhood obesity and an untimely death. Yeah, the kid is definitely fat --but if I were his parents I would be more worried about the fact that he is playing games with a controller that isn’t plugged in. Could it be that an abundance of fat and Xbox 360 playing leads to insanity? [Kotaku]
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The FCC Cuts Comcast Off at the Knees [No More Flintstones Vitamins]Post Date: 2007-11-30 18:47:00
Comcast is pissed. Per the FCC’s latest vote, it can’t provide cable to more than 30 percent of the country. It has a 27 percent market share right now with 26.2 million subscribers. With the FCC’s 30 percent market cap, it can add fewer than 3 million new subscribers before it hits the wall, pretty much ruling out acquisitions of other cable companies or any major growth.
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin’s proposal to limit the growth of cable providers had been floating aroun...
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