John writes that he’s having a problem with the ST Online Pre-Orders

“Well I had a little problem with the ST Online Collector’s Edition pre order. Originally I’d ordered it from Amazon, because of the cool extra features including open beta access, and a borg bridge officer. After that, I realized that there’s ANOTHER bonus item out there that I want more! If you pre order from game stop, you get a constitution class ship as a part of your account (way better than a borg bridge officer)

Any idea if there are yet more bonuses lurking out there for ST Online pre orderers?”

Geek Speak

• Geeky Tattoos (Cole)
  • Star Wars Tattoo Book and Star Wars Tattoo Images
  • Steven -DarthVader crossed swords, Hyrule stained glass, one ring inscription, wolverine on my little pony, winner winner chicken dinner

• Vaporware and Overhype (SM)
  • Apple Tablet
  • Crunchpad Tanks – Specs here
    • 12″ screen, light browsing on the web, email, wi-fi enabled, ~$300
      • After much public posturing by Fusion garage CEO and former “Partner” Michael Arrington
      • It’s actually morphed into JOO JOO
      • for a mere $500 problem is… it only runs an ereader and browser (built in to the custom OS developed by maker Fusion Garage) for that kind of cash it should do a heck of a lot more
  • L4D2
    • Despite being hyped as ridiculously better, delivers less or par to L4D1
    • Feels like an expansion not a whole new game to pay $60
    • Some complaints out there that the AI director is now fatally flawed and is harder than needed
    • Still fun with friends but so was L4D1… would have been just as happy with an XPack for the first
  • SF IV
    • Really? Just a re-skinned Streetfighter II with 3D graphics
    • Can’t we just all play SF II or Turbo? Cheap end boss, with all the SF out there, why but one 3 gens back?

Tech,Gaming, and Geek News

• DARPA Looking to Create “Zombie” Soldiers (JP)
  • Holy Hell!
  • How this will work, an injection will put you in hibernation, effectively stopping your heart (think squirrels and bears)
  • When you get back to the aid station, a antidote will be administered and all your vital signs will come back. TADA! undead.
  • Already testing this on rats and small animals
  • All kidding aside, a majority of the deaths on a battlefield come from the inability to stop the bleeding and evacuate the wounded
• Comcast Buys NBC from GE (SM)
  • Acquiring %51 for 13 Beeellion dollars
  • Comcast finally has a stake in the over-the-airwaves market
  • C$ also owns Versus, E, Golf, and G4
  • One thing that could be effected is Hulu.com, which is owned partly by NBC Universal
  • Comcast has promised to leave that business model alone
  • (Lets talk worse case scenarios – Hulu only available to comcast subscribers, hulu taken down, limited choice field, considerations to in-house networks)

• Nook has arrived, is it a Kindle Killer? (JP)
  • Pretty much same specs with the screen – e-Ink and gray scale
  • However – small color touch screen instead of keyboard at bottom, ePub support (open book format), loan feature (only once)
  • A bit buggy but at least its competition
  • Won’t be able to find it in the brick and mortar stores until probably February

• Microsoft and Yahoo Finally Execute their Search Agreement (SM)
  • This ball was started 6 months ago but finally takes effect
  • Yahoo will use the Bing tech for searching but maintain majority of its ad revenue
  • Kind of useless really? Microsoft was stealing their market share from Yahoo anyways
  • Google still king
• Mobile Phones Not Related to Brain Tumors (Cole)
  • Some tinsel hat pundits have pointed at cell phones as possible cancer factories
  • 30 year study of almost everybody in Scandinavia
  • Despite the soaring use in the 90′s of mobile phones, no significant rise in brain tumor occurrences (1998-2003)
  • Denmark, Findland, Norway, and Sweden all have very good cancer registries with over 60,000 ppl having brain cancer

• America’s Army Costs Military $32 Million Dollars (SM)
  • This over 10 years, anywhere between 1.5 million and 4 million dollars a year spent
  • Was pitched to congress as a 5 year 7 million dollar project
  • Used as a recruiting tool, its one of the ways they stave off the draft and garner volunteers
  • This last game they just released was crap, when we have things such as COD: MW2
  • Just buy the MW engine already…

Intarweb Goldmine

• Crazy Spiral in sky reported over Norway?? Hoax or Russian Rocket out of control???
  • I find it very odd how quickly government scientists created 3d models of how this could be explained…
  • it may just be my tinfoil hat talking at this point… but I smell a cover up!
• Crazy Triangular Snowflakes found and then study explains them
  • Turns out our air is so dirty that snowflakes can’t hardly hold shapes…

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