10x the votes to count, but maybe it would be worth it. If you can mark an X, you're my kind of people.

You can even put it in a corn maze! :P
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/story/2012/07/27/edmonton-video-qr-code-corn-maze.html

Hmm.. My 3DS is kaput for repairs atm (R button broke from Find Mii.... :P), but I was going to buy this game pretty blindly. Responding to your comment directly because I love FFXI's music.. But looking at their track list.. Yeah.. Not so good. Ronfaure is good, but the others are skippable. They should have had more of the unique songs from it and they have 5 discs minimum from the extra OSTs to choose from. Looking at my iTunes ratings for songs, best are - regional songs (eg. San D'Oria/Ronfaure), battle songs and a handful of songs from the later expansions: Wings of the Goddess, Aht Urghan.
Looks like they picked: Ronfaure (good), Vana'diel March 1/2 (Ugh), Awakening (poor song from the original OST.. should have been a battle theme easily especially since that's what it's supposed to be for that category.. it's actually a cut scene song) and the intro song is fair enough. Could have been some better choices, but Ronfaure is great.

I guess I'm at least in the right demographic for the game if nothing else. I've spent $40 on worse things too, but hopefully I do find enough enjoyment in this.

Can't this be a good thing? Because implementing the same system in other TV service would need licensing which would be money which would be skippable then. Time Warner customers are boned, but hey, better for the rest of us

I had spoken to a university IT department on how sweet Adblock was to smoothing out the web browsing experience. Their response? Effectively that ads are essential to the internet in that their revenue allows websites to stay up..

http://jalopnik.com/5559767/i-sold-everything-to-buy-a-lamborghini-and-drive-across-the-country

Interesting story I read quite awhile ago.. 91000 miles on a lambo :P

I live in Calgary and there is a business park that is Telus only - no Shaw. They won't run the lines out unless it is at cost to the business. Considering the normal situation is free install for residential, the infrastructure is obviously in place for that, but it would cost them thousands of dollars to have them lay cables for let's say a block away. The word from the complex owner about internet is "too bad" and no other businesses wanted to split the cost across all of them for something better than Telus there. I don't know the details on both provider's service map, but a city of a million should have each block lit up...

Just like how every legislator who ups the ante against child pr0n is guilty of it too...

I have a 2008 Civic Hybrid in Calgary and the update was applied in January 2011 iirc. I was getting 46.6 mpg on a good tank (the mission was to always get the L/100km to read 5.0 not 5.1).. Now it's around 33 mpg with winter, new tires ( http://www.goodyear.ca/tire/assurance-fuel-max/ which you would think would be good...?) and the firmware update all worked in. It went in for a B12 service a month or two ago and after that, the car now revs to 2500 rpm pretty frequently. Thought it was another update like that, but they explain it with just a replacement to air filters.. Ugh..

Although there's also this story: http://ca.autoblog.com/2011/12/21/honda-extends-2006-2011-civic-hybrid-warranty-over-gas-leak/ which I don't know if that helps.. When asked about that a couple days after that was posted, the Honda service rep I had didn't know anything about it. Could be a Canada difference too. (For whatever reason [sales], only the US got 2009-2011 Civic Hybrids.. I'm still waiting to see about test driving a 2012 Civic Hybrid. My car is paid off though so no need to do anything)

I thought you trusted that Nintendo didn't release hardware just for the sake of releasing hardware. The 3DS is a speed bump, but does add 3D, a gyro from the wiimote tech and a pedometer from the pokewalker. The play coins are a cool feature and improves upon the chances of finding someone to streetpass which is also a cool feature. No one knows the feature list of the next home console (being more important than the spec sheet) and so no one can really say. That said, it is disappointing to know that there are games that are still in development for Wii (like Dragon Quest X) and will look outdated after a new console comes out..

And I had a dream to build a mechanical setup to control a 360 controller to "TAS" Trials HD. That game begs to be demonstrated as a perfect play. But alas, I don't have any skills like that so the dream is dead.. I suppose it would be easier to try to take apart a controller, learn the signalling and basically have a minute long macro button. Any takers?

Obviously, one drawback is the cost, but another is that it only works on black vinyl. Between 1/4 and 1/3 of my collection is clear or coloured which adds to the list of problems.

"I saw a billboard for the lottery. It said, "Estimated lottery jackpot 55 million dollars." I did not know that was estimated. That would suck if you won and they said, "Oh, we were off by two zeroes. We estimate that you are angry!""

You're right about that part.. What I don't get is why enforce a curfew on a subset of youth? If you're going to try to straighten out youth, I would figure that you would want to target teens who would be more likely to commit crimes rather than a group that is less likely to do so.. To punish people for not committing a crime? Bad form imo..