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MacGyver is Back!, Peter Jackson visits Bungie, 1GB Nano, Sleeping bag man, Gmail Adds New Chats Feature, Firefox 2.0 Aplha 1, iPod+iTunes = Monopoly Suit, Google’s Gbuy, and Halo Creator Wants To Work On Revolution.

AP - The director of the Los Angeles Zoo on Saturday disputed game show host Bob Barker's comments about the condition of the zoo's three elephants.

Al Davis had grown sick of watching his rivals beat up on the Oakland Raiders, outplaying, outcoaching and even out-toughing his team.

AP - Conan O'Brien, who endorsed the re-election of Finnish President Tarja Halonen with mock ad campaigns, said Saturday he expects to be rewarded with a Cabinet position as inspector of saunas.

lubricated writes “According to the San Fransisco Chronicle, in an effort to one-up AMD, Intel will be coming out with 4 core cpu’s in 2007.” From the article: “Chips with two cores have been the latest rage, with both Intel and AMD selling those microprocessors as their high-end offering. Apple Computer Inc.’s new iMac, which started selling last month, uses the dual-core chip … Not to be outdone, Randy Allen, AMD’s corporate vice president of server and workstation division, said Friday that his firm is working its own quad-core processor for release next year.”

MacGyver is Back!, Peter Jackson visits Bungie, 1GB Nano, Sleeping bag man, Gmail Adds New Chats Feature, Firefox 2.0 Aplha 1, iPod+iTunes = Monopoly Suit, Google’s Gbuy, and Halo Creator Wants To Work On Revolution.

AP - Former federal disaster chief Michael Brown, the face of the government’s listless response to Hurricane Katrina, said Friday he told top Bush officials the day the storm howled ashore of massive flooding in New Orleans and warned “we were realizing our worst nightmare.” [Yahoo News]

Hungary’s most famous fan of Hugh Grant has taken his enthusiasm for the British actor to new heights.

AP - A look at NBC's coverage of the Winter Olympic games from Turin:

The ball was thrown perfectly, but it went right through Jeff Hartings’ arms.

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/>Nintendo portable hardware revisions are perennial (or, was it… annual?) best sellers–especially in Japan–but
now we have some poll numbers to show how popular href="http://www.joystiq.com/2006/02/08/its-alive-nintendo-ds-in-the-flesh/">the first DS redesign is proving to
be.

Gamasutra breaks down the translated survey figures from Japan as follows: "63% overall spoke of
their intentions to purchase the new hardware revision. 27% of the respondents already own a DS but say they will
upgrade when the system is released, and 36% said they don’t own a DS but the Lite version has convinced them to
purchase one. Only 35% of those polled did not own a DS and had no plans to buy the system, in either variety." />
There you have it, folks: the DS lite is gonna sell like hotcakes (or href="http://www.japan-guide.com/r/e100.html">okonomiyaki, if that’s what you prefer). Sure, a lot of people
might already own DSes, but a smaller size, href="http://www.joystiq.com/2006/02/10/nintendo-co-jp-reveals-ds-lite-colors/">shiny new colors, and href="http://www.joystiq.com/2006/02/08/behold-the-ds-lite-power-switch/">a wisely moved power switch can go a long
way in increasing a system’s appeal. Anyone here gonna buy a lite, and if so, do you already own a DS?

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