Made it past the Sirens Sweetly Singing...

    If all is well, this robo-blog post finds me rocketing South, going back home for a 3-day rest. I say rest only theoretically because there's a lot of work to do at home yet. I'm trying not to commit to anything socially this week, on the short rest week.I'll try to get online and chat for a little while tonight. I'm really looking forward to relaxing, as next week is going to be a difficult week at work. I do have something really special to look forward to next Sunday, tho. I'm not posting anything about it until after the fact, tho. ;-)

    Today, we wish our friend Suzanne Natale Elwin a very Happy Birthday!! Enjoy your bday, Suzanne!!

    I've had a hankering to play some arcade-style Call of Duty 4. As you CoD4 players know, after completing the campaign, you unlock multiple special modes of play, including a score-driven campaign mission option. Unfortunately, there's no co-op play, unlike Call of Duty: World at War, so it'll just be me. And, frankly, those OpFor bastards mop up the floor with me on the harder levels...

    Moving on...

• Cnet: Call of Duty: Black Ops hits higher pre-order levels than Modern Warfare 2.

• Cliff Beszinski on Gears of War 3 beta, servers, more.
• Spoiler warning! Medal of Honor - First mission, 9 minutes of gameplay video.
• Homefront multiplayer preview: Mercury News.
• This is Epic. Gearbox Software, the new Duke Nukem Forever property developer, is trying to get DNF pre-orders honored.... Hmmm. I had a pre-order in for Team Fortress 2 back when it was Half-life 1-based military team shooter. Your move, Valve!
• Completed Minecraft Enterprise-A walkthru.

• Blues News has, well, news that Bioshock 2 PC DLC has been canceled. 
• Five video game situations which would suck in real life.
• More Xbox 360 Fall Update details revealed.
• Xbox 360 Kinect preview: El33tOnline; Cnet Asia. Meanwhile, Tom's Guide explains that you need six feet of space to play with by yourself with the Kinect... so to speak.
• WreckedGamer forum thread: Kinect selling out at GameStop already? O RLY?

 

Xbox Kinect for Halo: Reach (parody vid)

 

A red herring...

 

 

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 Cue The Ice Pirates!

 

• YouTube: Carl Sagan: The Gift of Apollo. 
• Hubble astronomers discover early universe was overheated.
• China's second lunar probe enters Lunar orbit.
• Water ice found on second Main Belt asteroid.
• Scientists and soldiers solve honey bee die-off mystery.
• World's largest living organism: Pando, the Aspen tree clone grove.
• Google cars drive themselves, in traffic.
• Frank Herbert's 8 October 90th birthday commemoration. 
• Disney abandons New Zealand studio.
• Hobbit actors 'political pawns'.