ABC News: $67 Million Lawsuit: Lawyer Sues Dry Cleaners for Lost Trousers - Firefox

Seeded on Wed May 2, 2007 8:08 AM EDT (ABC News)

Either you have to laugh, or be scared that this guy has been allowed to continue this lawsuit for more than 2 years over (at most) an $800 pair of pants.

odd-news, legal, pants, stupid-lawsuits, dry-cleaning, washinging-dc

xkcd - A Map of Online Communities

Seeded on Wed May 2, 2007 8:02 AM EDT (xkcd.com)

Don't worry if you're not a regular reader of Randall Munroe's webcomic "xkcd"; if you've spent any time on the net in the last year, you'll definitely appreciate his latest comic, displaying a map that fantasizes what the geographical world of the Web would look like with some r …

entertainment, web-2-0, funny, webcomics, xkcd, randall-munroe

Sam and Max Season 1 - Review

Sat Apr 28, 2007 4:09 PM EDT

When LucasArts canned Sam and Max Freelance Police back in March 2004 (as well as a sequel to Full Throttle) despite the team making good progress on the game, many fans feared that killed off any hopes for the adventure game genre.

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entertainment, review, video-game, sam-and-max, gamevine, telltale-games

Review - God of War 2 (PS2)

Sat Mar 24, 2007 3:33 PM EDT

God of War, developed and produced by SCEA, made a large impression on the gaming community when it came out 2 years ago (nearly to date), bringing life back into the stale genre of combat action games.

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entertainment, review, video-games, god-of-war-2, gamevine

"Gears of War" Patches Raises Issues of Rank Play vs Team Play for XBox Live

Thu Jan 11, 2007 2:05 PM EST

Recently, Epic Games released a new patch to the highly successful XBox 360 game, "Gears of War". The patch (Details of patch) fixes several bugs, but one change has lit up forums and the fanbase: • Removed host name from Ranked match server browser

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entertainment, microsoft, xbox-360, video-games, halo-3, bungie, halo-2, saints-row, gears-of-war, epic-games

Okami (PS2) - Review

Fri Sep 29, 2006 7:00 PM EDT

There's something about games from the Legend of Zelda series that can be very hard to duplicate. There's a certain level of game balance between action and RPG elements that nearly every Zelda game gets right but that those that try to emulate it fail.

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entertainment, review, video-game, ps2, okami, clover-studio

Extreme Microtransactions Plan in Store for Gran Turismo HD - or the Death Knoll for Online Console Gaming

Seeded on Thu Sep 21, 2006 10:21 AM EDT (CNET News.com)

The story is across several boards, but this site has a good summary of the issue (second item in the list).

entertainment, sony, video-games, playstation-3, console-games, gran-tursimo, microtransactions

Sen. Ted Kennedy supports Net Neutrality - By posting video to YouTube

Seeded on Sat Sep 16, 2006 9:43 PM EDT (YouTube)

Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) is backing Net Neutrality - and explains his position in a video specifically made to be distributed through YouTube.

politics, internet, youtube, ted-kennedy, neutrality, net-neutrality

'Bully' gets name change

Seeded on Fri Sep 1, 2006 9:52 AM EDT (eurogamer.net)

Rockstar Games has announced that it has changed the name of the upcoming PS2 open-field game from "Bully" to "Canis Canem Edit" (Latin for Dog Eat Dog).

entertainment, name-change, video-games, jack-thompson, rockstar-games, bully, canis-canem-edit

Microsoft on Xbox 360 Zombification: Nuh Uh

Seeded on Thu Aug 31, 2006 11:44 AM EDT (Kotaku)

While prior to July, there's been a good handful of XBox 360 failures appropriate for a relatively new system, the numbers of dying 360's have increased ever since the release of zombie-hacking game and demo "Dead Rising".

technology, xbox-360, video-games, capcom, ea, dead-rising, hardware-failure

Weird Al's Latest Single - "Don't Download This Song" - Available free

Seeded on Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:46 AM EDT (Space.com)

"Weird Al" Yankovic has released another free single (it will be on his upcoming new album "Straight Outta Lynwood" in mid-September), this one called "Don't Download This Song", a style parody of "We Are The World" but taking a rather good swipe at RIAA's recent tactics.

music, odd-news, mp3, riaa, weird-al-yankovic

Microsoft Invites the World to Create Its Own Xbox 360 Console Games for the First Time

Seeded on Mon Aug 14, 2006 9:48 AM EDT (CNET News.com)

MS plans on releasing a $99/yr 3rd party developer kit called "XNA Studio" that will allow anyone to build and release games for the 360 using a Visual-Studio based tool for WinXP. A beta version will be freely released on Aug 30, with the final available by Christmas.

technology, microsoft, xbox-360, video-games, consoles, xna-studio, game-developers

Court Says Fantasy Baseball Games Can Go On

Seeded on Wed Aug 9, 2006 9:40 AM EDT (ksdk.com)

In what may be a rather critical ruling across major technology areas, a federal court has ruled in favor of a company using "unlicensed" statistics from Major League Baseball for a fantasy league, despite claims by the MLB that they owned all the stats and thus required licensin …

technology, court, copyright, major-league-baseball, legal, facts, fantasy-leagues, cbc-distribution

Pensioner is new knife-wielding Crocodile Dundee - Yahoo! News

Seeded on Mon Jul 24, 2006 3:24 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Grabbing a giant carving knife, she told the startled intruder "You call that a knife? This is a knife" in an echo of the famous scene in the Crocodile Dundee film when actor Paul Hogan confronted a New York mugger.

odd-news, good-news, funny, positive-news, stupid-crooks, crocodile-dundee

Judge dismisses [Kinderstart] suit over Google ranking

Seeded on Fri Jul 14, 2006 12:52 PM EDT (ZDNet)

A judge through out Kinderstart's case against Google which alleged the search engine was denying Kinderstart's free speech rights and business abilities through the PageRank system.

google, technology, lawsuit, legal, pagerank, kinderstart

The Incredible Shrinking Video Game

Thu Jul 13, 2006 11:49 AM EDT

Last night, I just finished the video game "Prey", a first-person shoot for the Xbox 360 (in my case) and the PC. That wouldn't be newsworthy except for two things: - This game came out the day before. - This game cost me US$60, being a next-gen title game.

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entertainment, video-games, next-generation, consoles

To Google or Not to Google

Seeded on Thu Jul 6, 2006 9:34 AM EDT (fool.com)

The Oxford Enlgish Dictionary has officially included the word "google" as a verb as part of latest entries in their online version.

google, technology, fedex, tivo, xerox, adobe, trademarks, oxford-english-dictionary

CD format gets a "reboot" from Universal Music

Seeded on Wed Jul 5, 2006 9:16 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

In a move that suggests that someone in the music industry actually "gets it", Universal Music is going to use three tiers of CD packaging with various pricing; the top tier being deluxe editions of big albums, the middle tier similar to what we have now though with an improved j …

entertainment, music, itunes, online-music, universal-musc, cd-music

The Monster Arrives: Software Patent Lawsuits Against Open Source Developers

Seeded on Fri Jun 30, 2006 10:21 AM EDT (technocrat.net)

Bruce Perens writes... ...thousands more are possible as software patent holders turn to enforcement as an income producer and away from the patent cross-licensing détente exercised by large companies until the mid-1990s.

technology, patents, legal, red-hat, open-source-software, bruce-perens

Loco Roco - Cute Overload, or Racist?

Seeded on Fri Jun 30, 2006 10:01 AM EDT (1up.com)

Arguments revolving around potential or intential racism from the upcoming PSP title, "Loco Roco". While the game has the potential to be the next "Katamari Damacy", the representation of the enemies may be too close to racial stereotyping, as argued by the author of the blog.

entertainment, racism, video-games, psp, loco-roco

PSP Emulation of PS1 Games - Sony claims to have "up to 7,000" titles by end of 2007

Seeded on Thu Jun 29, 2006 11:31 AM EDT (psp.advancedmn.com)

Sony is continuing to work on developing PS1 games playable on the PSP, though a recent comment to the UK based PSP Magazine claims they will have "up to 7000" titles out by the end of 2007. Mind you, they fairly use the "up to 7000" qualifier here.

entertainment, sony, video-games, psp, emulation, ps1

Take-Two could face criminal indictment, says analyst // GamesIndustry.biz

Seeded on Thu Jun 29, 2006 11:27 AM EDT (gamesindustry.biz)

Take-Two, makers of the Grand Theft Auto series, recieved a grand jury summons, possibly indicating that criminal indictments are in store for them, all likely over the Hot Coffee incident.

entertainment, legal, video-games, take-two, grand-theft-auto, hot-coffee

CO2 case before US Supreme Court

Seeded on Mon Jun 26, 2006 3:02 PM EDT (BBC News)

SCOTUS will hear arguments between states and the federal government that may require CO2 regulations to be put in place by the federal government.

scotus, global-warming, supreme-court, legal, emissions, us-news, co2, regulations

No 360 Price Drop By End of 2006

Seeded on Mon Jun 26, 2006 11:00 AM EDT (gamerscoreblog.com)

Despite plenty of post-E3 rumors that a price drop of the XBox 360 would be pending before the end of the year (possibly to take sales away from Nintendo and Sony), Microsoft's 360 team has claims that no such price drop is going to happen.

technology, microsoft, xbox, xbox-360, video-games

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