Busy Day Ahead...

    My Sweet Gal and I have an afternoon appointment to keep, so we'll hopefully be spending the evening together quietly at home afterward. Have to head back to work tomorrow, unfortunately, but fingers crossed for it to be a quick week. Should feel like a fast one, since it will be a post-shutdown bring-up at work, and that is always challenging.

      A curious thing happened yesterday while playing Call of Duty: Black Ops hardcore bots. I accidentally shot an AI team-mate, and he turned around, looked at me for a couple of seconds, then killed me. It was an eerily human moment for some otherwise inhuman AI. Moving on...

 

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 'Escalation' DLC available on Xbox Live.
• Call of Duty 4, Modern Warfare 2 voice actor hints of Modern Warfare 3 announcement. 
• Microsoft warns of Modern Warfare 2 'phishing' attacks. Gee, is anyone still playing Modern Warfare 2?

• Red Faction: Origins trailer.
• Tribute or wretched excess? The complete Medal of Honor collection.
• 'Too Human' trilogy to be completed.
• IGN to buy 1Up parent UGO. 
• SOE (Sony Online Entertainment) says up to 101 million PSN accounts may have been compromised. And some industry wags have nailed it: 'Sony Offline Entertainment'.
• [Images] AcidCow's Beautiful Girls of World of Warcraft.
• 3DS fan gets Augmented Reality tattoo. (YouTube link embedded below.) 

• First 3D map of 14,000 quasars to reveal effect of dark energy on early universe. 
• Behind the scenes at SpaceX's launch complex.
• How to watch a meteor shower. Apparently, going out in the night and lying on a blanket under the stars just doesn't cut it anymore.
• Your smartphone knows everything about you - and it tells tales.
• Leaked emails from Google show how important location data is to Android.
• Facebook in Communist China: The Little Red (Face)Book.
• Peter Jackson recasts the role of Fili in The Hobbit. Luckily, it looks like the Elrond role is still firmly Hugo Weaving's.

 

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