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Raving Rabbids to Invade Your Television, Wii, DS
Ubisoft today announced Raving Rabbids TV Party, a sequel to the minigame series due out this holiday season on Wii and Nintendo DS. The game will make use of the Wii balance board in "surprisingly unexpected" ways, according to Ubisoft president Yves Guillemot.
Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point'
windowsBobJacobsen writes "CBSnews.com has an article about Bill Gates and Steve Balmer answering questions at the "All Things Digital" conference. When asked about "high points" in his time at Microsoft, Gates replied "Windows 95 was a nice milestone". The article continues "He also spoke highly of Microsoft SharePoint Server software, but didn't mention Vista." Was there really nothing else that Gates considered a high point?"
Soul Calibur XBLA: First Footage
Namco Bandai just released the first gameplay footage from the Xbox Live Arcade port of the original fighter classic Soul Calibur. Based on the Dreamcast version of Soul Calibur, the downloadable title is expected to arrive sometime later this summer.
HMS San Domingo
royal navy ship namesOne ship of the Royal Navy has borne the name HMS San Domingo, after the Battle of San Domingo, whilst another was planned but never completed:
- 6 was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1809 and sold in 1816.
- HMS San Domingo was to have been a Battle class destroyer. She was laid down in 1944 but was cancelled in 1945.
Longhaired Redneck
1976 albums | david allan coe albumsLonghaired Redneck is an album released by country musician David Allan Coe. It was released in 1976 on Columbia.
Bogus Adventure
1992 singles | techno dance songsBogus Adventure/Fuck the Law is the name of the debut single and first double A-Side by the British rave group, The Smart E's. The single was released in 1992. The single was limited to 500 copies. "Bogus Adventure" samples "Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure" during the scene talking about "Wyld Stallions." The sample is found at the start of the track. The singles second A-side, "Fuck The Law," samples the movie "Nightbreed".
Rout 66 Rendezvous
san bernardino, california Route 66 Rendezvous is the largest classical car show held in downtown San Bernardino, California.It is held in September every year, this year its going to be the 19th year. It is in honor of mother road historic Route 66 Highway.
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Wavelet Noise
Wavelet Noise is an alternative to Perlin noise which reduces the problems of aliasing and detail loss, that are encountered when perlin noise is summed into a fractal.
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Sino-Bhutanese relations
foreign relations of bhutan | foreign relations of the people's republic of chinaPeople's Republic of China Bilateral relations between the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan and the People's Republic of China have been traditionally tense and strained and they do not maintain official diplomatic relations. A New Bhutan Calling Bhutan-China relations India and the upcoming Druk democracy China shares a contiguous border of 470 kilometres with Bhutan to the north and its territorial disputes with Bhutan have also been source of potential conflict. Since the 1980s, both governments have conducted regular talks on border and security issues aimed at reducing tensions. A New Bhutan Calling Bhutan-China relations India and the upcoming Druk democracy
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Throughout history, Bhutan has strong cultural, historical, religious and economic ties to Tibet, but Bhutan's ties with British India caused a degree of tension with both Tibet and China. Bhutan - China relations The occupation of Tibet in 1951 by Communist China caused considerable tension within Bhutan, which feared Chinese aggression. Bhutan - China relations Institute of Peace and Conflict StudiesIts border with China has never been officially recognized and demarcated and the popular uprisings against Communist China in Tibet in 1959 and the Dalai Lama's escape to India made security from China a key priority for Bhutan. An estimated 6,000 Tibetan refugees fled to Bhutan. Bhutan - China relations1993 Stanley Cup Riot
1993 in canada | 1993 in sports | 1993 riots | montreal canadiens | riots and civil unrest in canada | sports riotsThe 1993 Stanley Cup Riot occured in Montreal, Canada after the city's beloved Montreal Canadiens won their 24th Stanley Cup. Fans poured out of the Montreal Forum and began to commit acts of vandilism and violence while their team was celebrating inside.http://www.macleans.ca/culture/entertainment/article.jsp?content=20051222_140516_2124
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Stolen Car (Bruce Springsteen song)
1980 songs | bruce springsteen songs"Stolen Car" is a song written and performed by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. It was originally released on his fifth album, The River. The version released on The River was recorded at The Power Station in New York in January 1980. >
Higher education in Newfoundland and Labrador
The higher education system in Canada consists of universities as well as community and technical colleges. Newfoundland and Labrador has had the same growing pains as other provinces of developing its own form of education and now boasts a very strong, although relatively small, system. The direction of Newfoundland and Labrador’s policy has evolved rapidly over the past 10 years with increased funding, participation rates, accessibility and transferability. Many of the directives the government has been acting upon in the past 3 years have been a result of recommendations that stemmed from a 2005 white paper: Foundation for Success: White Paper on Public Post-Secondary Education > It set the course for furthering the strategic directives of the Provincial post-secondary education sector. Some of the recommendations aimed to:
- Strengthen the base of the post-secondary education system
- Improve the capacity of the university and college
- Provide greater support services to students
- Maintaining adequate and stable funding for the students and the institutions
- Improve accountability and collaboration within and between the post-secondary institutions
Import Pandora to your Facebook Mini-Feed
The fine engineers over at Facebook have done something pretty neat. You can now "import" all your Pandora activity (station creation, bookmarked songs and artists) into your Facebook news feed. Setting it up couldn't be simpler -- just visit your Facebook profile page and click the "import" link at the top of the Mini-Feed section, select Pandora, enter the email address you used when you registered with Pandora and Facebook will fetch your most recent station creations as well as your recent bookmarks and add them to your mini-feed. Better still, from that point on, any time you create a station or bookmark something on Pandora those events will automatically be added to your mini-feed also. It's a great way to keep your Facebook friends up to date on your latest musical discoveries.
Sony CEO Says PS3 Back on Track
Sony USA chief executive Howard Stringer described the company as having turned a page with the PlayStation 3's market woes at this week's D: All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, California.
Daylight saving time
Daylight saving time (DST; also summer time in British English; see Terminology) is the convention of advancing clocks so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less. Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour near the start of spring and are adjusted backward in autumn.
Private Donor Saves Fermilab
usasciencehabit writes "In what has to be an embarrasment for the U.S. Department of Energy, an anonymous donor has ponied up $5 million to keep the country's only remaining particle physics laboratory operating efficiently."
Android Interface 100% Shock and Awe
googleAfter seeing the pictures of Android Interface all I can say is that Steve Jobs probably has a upset stomach. Android is open and will have all the features of the iPhone, along with a very similar interface and it is not going to be locked to AT&T
Evening Reading
Just when I think messing around with computer hardware is starting to get easy enough where I would feel comfortable suggesting a non-geeky friend give it a try I run in to some insane nonsense dealing with bios updates and all that other crap.
Lala bets that consumers want to rent music for mere pennies - Ars Technica
Lala bets that consumers want to rent music for mere pennies
Google Ap Engine Bandwidth prices Amazing
internetOne of the challenges we have had at RawVoice is getting bandwidth at reasonable prices. So I was pretty blown away today when I saw the pricing of Google Ap Engine bandwidth prices.
We have been using Amazon S3 for some services like media backup but it is pretty obvious that Amazon is going to have to get their game on and bring prices down to compete with Google.