Archive for December, 2003
I hope that everyone is recovering nicely from the holidays. Hope that santa was good to everyone and that you are also nice to santa as well. I seem to came down with a little cold or something, but nothing serious. It was good to take a couple of days off [...]
December 29th, 2003 | Posted in Gaming | Comments Off
Congratulations goes out to Hidalgo for his 500+ posts in the GamersCircle forums. Hidalgo has won himself a Logitech MX DUO cordless keyboard and mouse. Way to go!
December 29th, 2003 | Posted in Gaming | Comments Off
The updates will be thin during the holidays and while I am attending the GamersCircle LAN Party. Hope everyone has great holiday.
December 24th, 2003 | Posted in Gaming | Comments Off
Following the quick sell-out of Image Comics and Top Cow Productions’ Wanted #1, Top Cow has announced it is going back to press on the title with the Wanted #1: Death Row Edition, which is scheduled to arrive in stores on January 21, the same day as Wanted #2.
Featuring a redesigned cover by series [...]
December 24th, 2003 | Posted in Comic Books | Comments Off
TNI has additional images of the Battle Damaged 1701 Star Trek toy. It features battle ravaged warp engines, engineering hull, bridge and saucer section. Damaged sections are modeled after the battle damaged Enterprise Star Trek 2 and 3 filming miniature. Based on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek III: The [...]
December 23rd, 2003 | Posted in Toys | Comments Off
Lots of speculation that Cingular is weighing a merger with or acquisition of competitor AT&T Wireless. While we like the idea of there being more, rather than fewer, carriers (the cut-throat competition keeps prices down), some sort of consolidation in the post-number portability world is simply inevitable, and it’s really just a matter of who [...]
December 23rd, 2003 | Posted in Technology | Comments Off
Ain’t it Cool News is also reporting a list of the scenes to be added back into the film for the extended DVD. These include Gandalf confronting Saruman at Isengard, Merry pledging allegiance to Theoden at Edoras, Aragorn using the Palantir to reveal himself to Sauron, the Witch King confronting Gandalf during the battle of [...]
December 23rd, 2003 | Posted in Entertainment | Comments Off
Dark Horizons has the stinkers of ‘03 up:
1. “Gigli”
2. “The Medallion”
3. “Boat Trip”
4. “The Order”
5. “Darkness Falls”
6. “My Boss’ Daughter” & “Just Married”
7. “House of the Dead”
8. “Daddy Day Care” & “The Haunted Mansion”
9. “Malibu’s Most Wanted”
10. “Beyond Borders”
Dark Horizons
December 23rd, 2003 | Posted in Entertainment | Comments Off
There is a very famous scream in Star Wars (Episode IV) that occurs when one of the stormtroopers falls into the Death Star chasm. No doubt all geeks are familiar with this scream, but may not know that it has been used in dozens of other movies and even has a name - “The Wilhelm”. [...]
December 23rd, 2003 | Posted in Entertainment | Comments Off
Police cruisers these days come equipped with computers, that often have wireless connections back to various databases to make the whole “fighting crime” thing more efficient. Of course, some of those wireless connections are standard internet connections that have been set up specifically for the police - but could be used to access the [...]
December 23rd, 2003 | Posted in Technology | Comments Off