An obscure bit of local historical color from Rotten.com:
Jul 11 1997
Bodybuilder and wannabe actor Jonathan Norman is arrested for trespassing on Steven Spielberg’s estate in Malibu, California….
South Korean owned Lycos has announced the sale of Wired.com to Condé Naste for $25 million.
Lycos originally paid $83 million for Wired Digital, which included the Wired.com assets. However, Wired Digital also included a number of properties, including HotBot, Hotwired and Webmonkey, that are not being transferred to Condé Naste in this current acquisition. […]
An opening sentence containing a burrito, an angel and a shovel has been judged appalling enough to win the annual Bulwer-Lytton literary parody prize.
In praise of June Allyson, 1917-2006…
· Music round-up: Band Name of the Month nominee The Fuxedos at the Echo; Ozomatli/Jurassic 5’s Cut Chemist at Amoeba; Soul Asylum at the Troubadour (desire for audience intimacy or…
Heatseek is a pornography focused browser that quietly launched today. The point of this software is to make porn browsing more efficient and more secure. The browser is available on Windows machines only, and is built on top of Internet Explorer.
They’ve clearly thought this through. Every feature is aimed at either making porn consumption easier […]
News
New PGR3 content hits Xbox Live Marketplace
Next Oblivion download available Thursday
Zelda spinoff RPG to star Tingle, in a ‘pink-colored rupee land’
XBLA Wednesdays unveiled, SFII drops Aug. 2
Call of Duty 3 confirmed as PS3 launch title
Pac-Man creator leaves Namco to teach game developers
Confirmed free game with Wii pre-order down under
Culture
Sony pulls controversial PSP ads
Klosterman responds to “critic” critics
A Sony fanboy gone mad
UCSC adds video game major to its curriculum
CNET loathes Wii name change
The Zidane head butt game
Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Filed under: Digital Cameras, Gaming
We’re all aware that a digital camera/webcam for the Sony PSP is right around the corner, but how many of you knew that you could also snap photos with your Nintendo DS? Don’t feel bad; we didn’t know it was possible either until we spotted modder Kako’s handiwork on YouTube — apparently he’s taken a Treva CMOS chipset, done a bit of rewiring, and written software that allows the unit to output images directly to his DS Lite. We can’t vouch for the picture quality, and the frame rates are positively sluggish, but at least this mod gives Nintendo fanboys one less missing feature to defend when the PSP crowd goes into one of those regular, tiresome diatribes listing the many reasons why their product totally “pwns” the little dual screen console — in fact, you’ll probably catch a few examples of said diatribes right here in the comments section of this very post.
[Via DS Fanboy]
Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Filed under: Digital Cameras, Gaming
We’re all aware that a digital camera/webcam for the Sony PSP is right around the corner, but how many of you knew that you could also snap photos with your Nintendo DS? Don’t feel bad; we didn’t know it was possible either until we spotted modder Kako’s handiwork on YouTube — apparently he’s taken a Treva CMOS chipset, done a bit of rewiring, and written software that allows the unit to output images directly to his DS Lite. We can’t vouch for the picture quality, and the frame rates are positively sluggish, but at least this mod gives Nintendo fanboys one less missing feature to defend when the PSP crowd goes into one of those regular, tiresome diatribes listing the many reasons why their product totally “pwns” the little dual screen console — in fact, you’ll probably catch a few examples of said diatribes right here in the comments section of this very post.
[Via DS Fanboy]
Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Visit ESPN.com for the complete story.
Peter Forsberg has begun rehabbing his surgically repaired right ankle, seven weeks after the first of two planned ankle operations.
Former Fresno State basketball player Terry Pettis was sentenced to life in prison without parole for murdering a teenage woman in a botched drug robbery.