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House backs federal investigation of Rockstar Games - PlayStation 2 News at GameSpot
( http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/07/25/news_6129723.html )

Hot Coffee scandal intensifies as legislators vote 355-21 to support a Federal Trade Commission probe seeking answers from the Take-Two subsidiary.

This is definitely not good. The cold hand of Uncle Sam is coming down on Rockstar and Take-Two.

Sims 2 content “worse than Hot Coffee” - PC News at GameSpot
( http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/07/22/news_6129609.html )

In the statement, Thompson says, \”Sims 2, the latest version of the Sims video game franchise … contains, according to video game news sites, full frontal nudity, including nipples, penises, labia, and pubic hair.\”

What the fuck is going on here? Read on if you want to get a headache.

I just thought I’d share…

http://www.coolidge.org/s_mid_may05.html#buffy

“The return of our one-of-a-kind Sing-A-Long production of everyone’s favorite monster-fighting cult TV show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer! We’ll give you “Something to Sing About” at this special screening of Joss Whedon’s classic musical episode, including goodie bags full of interactive activities (and plastic vampire teeth, of course), subtitles so you can sing-a-long with Buffy and the gang, our ringleader cast from Queer Soup (creators of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s High School Reunion”) who will guide you through the night… and bunnies! Ahhhhh!
After the singing, stick around for an ultra-rare screening of the original Buffy pilot episode, featuring a totally different Willow and vampires that turn into chalk! Buffy parties like this are popping up all over the country, but it originated here at the Coolidge in a stunning sell out show last year. Don’t miss out on the fun!”

Here’s a nice review of the Nikon D70 compared to the new Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT. ( http://www.digitalreview.ca/cams/NikonD70versusRebelXT.shtml ) I might have to sell my 300D to buy the new model…

On the 6th slackware dot org ( http://www.slackware.org ) has released a new build of Slackware Linux, version 10.1 for those keeping track. Slackware has long been my favorite distro so it looks like I’ll be pulling angstridden dot net off-line tonight to rebuild it with the new release. angstridden is currently running version 9.1 so it’s a bit behind. I’ll post my thoughts sometime tomorrow I guess (if I get a chance). Download slackware from bittorrent ( http://www.slackware.org/getslack/torrents.php ).

I don’t think anyone who looks at this site actually cares (or follows this type of thing) but darkfader ( http://darkfader.net/ds/ and http://hackds.blogspot.com/ ) has been working his magic on the Nintendo DS ( http://www.nintendo.com/systemsds ) much to the delight of the homebrew (and rom communities). He was the first person to actually run homebrew code on the DS as well as the first to dump the Metroid DS Demo and Mario DS game carts. He is currently working on fully cracking the DS encryption scheme and if you want to help him out he’s made a distributed client ( http://darkfader.net/ds/stats.php ) to work the numbers. Currently the 1st test is at 63% done with some 290 different clients running his program. So, if you’ve got some spare CPU time (and trust me you had better have a good CPU fan since this code pushes it up to 99%) download the client and join the fun.

That’s all for now back to my day off.