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Comment Re:As usual, only CONSOLE games (Score 1) 364

by Fiztaru on Friday December 07, 2007 @05:10PM (#21617559) Attached to: Twelve Game Music Tracks Worth Keeping

I think Harry Gregson-Williams' opening theme for Metal Gear Solid 2 could give it a run for its money. That was an AMAZING theme-I'd just stick the game in my PS2, and let it run through the opening over and over just to listen to it.

Submission + - cheatneutral - carbon offset parody, film+website

Submitted by

Carl Williams

on Friday May 11, 2007 @08:46AM

Carl Williams writes: "If you can offset your carbon emissions, why not your other indescretions?

The film (trailer here: http://www.scenewon.co.uk/scene_movie.php?movie=48 5) includes interviews about the film-makers' website, www.cheatneutral.com. It's a very pithy send-up of the carbon-offset industry, cited by Alan Simpson (labour MP) in the British parliament to explain why "carbon offsetting" may not be quite the green panacea it's sold as.

In a masterstroke of irony, the film's author appears to have entered it into a film competition sponsored by Global Cool, a campaign charity which promotes carbon offsetting.

I think the contact address (beth@cheatneutral.com) is a forward to that of the film's writer/director, Beth Stratford.

Usual disclaimers apply — no affiliation with 'em etc, just thought this was a rather nice application of a website just about on the plausible side of absurd, and I was tickled by the "biting the hand that feeds" element.

Cheers,

— Carl Williams"

Submission + - Star is found to be 13.2 billion years old

Submitted by raguirre on Friday May 11, 2007 @08:45AM

raguirre writes: Physorg.com reports that a star is found to be 13.2 billion years old . Recent cosmological studies show that the Big Bang occurred 13.7 billion years ago. The metal-poor star HE 1523 formed in our Milky Way galaxy soon afterwards, cosmologically speaking: 13.2 billion years ago. The primitive star contained the radioactive heavy elements uranium and thorium, and the amounts of those elements decay over time, each according to its own half-life. Today, astronomer Anna Frebel of the the University of Texas at Austin McDonald Observatory and her colleagues have deduced the star's age based on the amounts of radioactive elements it contains compared to certain other "anchor" elements, specifically europium, osmium and iridium.

Submission + - 1.6 million TPB accounts on the loose

Submitted by on Friday May 11, 2007 @08:40AM

An anonymous reader writes: According to the Swedish branch of IDG, The Pirate Bay has been hacked. The previously known group Arga Unga Hackare, AUH (roughly Angry Young Hackers) discovered a bug in TPB's blog leading to the leak of all user accounts on the site. This has just recently been confirmed by the team behind TPB on their now repaired blog.

Submission + - Love and chemistry

Submitted by Scott Walker on Friday May 11, 2007 @08:31AM

Scott Walker writes: I found the following article, and thought it was really interesting:
http://www.seductionlabs.org/2007/05/08/the-bioche mistry-of-love/

It's all fairly self-explanatory really; it talks about how real Chemistry is behind why people feel attracted to one another, and how scientists are starting to discover what makes people fall in love.

Submission + - Stupidest DMCA Threat Ever

Submitted by

Mike

on Friday May 11, 2007 @08:27AM

Mike writes: "Media Rights Technology, a DRM vendor, has launched what what is probably the most idiotic DMCA threat ever. They're threatening to slam Adobe and Real with cease and desist lawsuits for failing to buy their crap-ass technology. Forbes says that Media Rights Technology advanced the theory that since the DMCA makes it illegal to break DRM, companies with broken DRM have to buy someone's DRM. In other words, "Buy our product or we'll sue you!"."

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