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What Are We Playing?

Jeremy – been crazy busy, but still found time to play Peggle on my iPhone
Steven – Overlord II. Absolutely the most funny game I’ve ever played

Tech, Gaming, and Movie News

• Gandalf, Elrond, and Gollum to reprise roles in “The Hobbit”
• Microsoft to un-bundle IE from Windows 7 in Europe
  • Windows 7 E will come with NO WEB BROWSER
  • Answer to EU’s continuing anti-trust case against Microsoft
  • EU is crying monopoly because Windows Media Player and IE came pre-bundled with OS, giving it leg up in competition
  • XP N, and Vista N was Microsoft’s response. Unbundled Windows Media Player. Big flop commercially with few being purchased
  • Did you know? Third Party PC Makers can unbundle and re-bundle whatever components they want? They do this all the time with advertising and filling your pc with junk
• Iran Elections coincide with SMS / Twitter / Facebook blocking
  • Right after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad re-election, reports from UK that Iran has blocked the popular social mediums
  • SMS is how a majority of the young Iranians communicate nowadays
  • BBC satellite signals were jammed by very expensive equipment
  • Twitter Uprising – Go read the #Iranelection hashtag
  • Proxy servers were being set up for Iranians, huge outpourings of supports
  • Guide for Iranian support on twitter
  • Amazing pictorals of half a million ppl peacefully protesting their rights to vote

• Myspace Tanking, Facebook and Twitter put on notice
  • Myspace has lost a 1/3 of its traffic year-over-year (this exempts their video traffic)
  • Founder pushed aside by Fox Interactive Media, 420 ppl laid off (33% workforce cut)
  • Q: Are social media sites just fads?
• Twitter on Commodore 64
  • Twitter client is now even on a 1982 OS
  • BREADBOX64, loads from a 5″1/4, View Friends Timeline, updates every 2 minutes, post 140 char updates
  • May NPDs show UFC 2009 Undisputed as the winner
• Call of Duty: World at War Sells 11 million units

Geek-Speak

• New XBOX Rumors!!!!
  • CPU and GPU on the same board, each 65nm
  • Project Natal
  • Smaller, More Wii-esque
• Archie Marries Veronica (SPOILER ALERT)
  • Began in 1939
  • Archie, Veronica, Jughead, Betty
  • Totally unexpected ending promised
  • Archie spurns Betty and marries the rich girl Veronica
  • Total History

Intarweb Goldmine (Whatever the Internet brings)

Man Dresses up like Dead Mom to run scam on Govt
Really Sick, 49 year old man concealed his mothers death in 2003 to continue getting her govt checks.

Man Ticketed 170 Times f or ‘Nothing’

Chicago man receives 170 Tickets when users tested the new ticketing system using what they thought was a random plate entry ___0___ but it was somebodies personalized plate.

“Weird Al” Yankovic Mocks Doors, Casual Encounters in “Craigslist”

Using Strange Days‘ “When the Music’s Over,” Yankovic mocks Jim Morrison and the Doors