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Oct 24
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» Team records 'music' from stars

Sample this and use it in your next musical composition.

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» Flunking Spore

Some scientists come to the obvious conclusion that for a game that is advertised as science-based, Spore doesn’t have a lot of science in it. Spore is definitely not going to be the next Sims for EA. The Sims 3 will be.

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“ Your website contains irrelevant or insufficient content
— Apple’s Affiliate Marketing Team, in response to me trying to sign up to make links to the App Store that give me money. Can’t think of a better slogan, personally.
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Fable 2 is a fantastic, brilliant, wonderful game. Hillarious and deep, it is in many ways the actually fun version of The Sims.

Oct 23
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» Researchers developing cancer-fighting beer

Unfortunately, it’s American beer. (via Slashdot)

Oct 22
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Yes, I know you like Dead Space. I don’t like horror games. They frighten me.

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I’m gonna have a dog!

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NSFW Broken Pixels plays Playboy: The Mansion

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A great, but banned, Xbox 360 commercial (via whisper music, YCS)

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Nightmarish un-aired PlayStation commercial (via Anuv, YCS)

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Phil Hartman Bugs Out for Atari 2600: Activision Ice Hockey (via Dr. Ogeguri, YCS)

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Custom-made Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 puts Sony and Konami’s to shame

Custom-made Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 puts Sony and Konami’s to shame

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“ You know what? Fuck Microsoft.
— Jeff Green, former editor of the official Games for Windows Magazine.
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How to watch a DVD on your MacBook Air

So, you have a MacBook Air and you want to play a DVD. That’s difficult unless you have the external optics drive. But if you’re anything like me you might already have is another computer with Disc Sharing installed on the local network. This is how to easily make this happen.

  1. Turn on DVD or CD Sharing in the Sharing section of System Preferences.
  2. Stick that DVD in there.
  3. IMPORTANT BIT: Start DVD Player on your host computer, and play the disc, if only for a second, then quit it.
  4. Grab VLC for your Air. VLC is great, why don’t you have it already?
  5. File >Open Disc…
  6. Select VIDEO_TS directory and click Browse…
  7. Choose Remote Disc in the DEVICE list, the name of the computer, the name of the disc, and then the folder called VIDEO_TS. Click Open, then OK.

You are now enjoying your disc, streamed across the network. You might notice a pause when you use your DVD’s menu to go to a title, but it’s only a second or two while it buffers. Easy, wasn’t it?

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