We be jammin... Better late than never!

GungirlTM Sondra Locke from Sudden Impact. No apologies...

 

    As the daylight hours wane, so wanes the year. We're rapidly approaching the end of 2010, and the end of the first decade of the 21st Century. (BTW, as a purist, I still insist that the year 2000 was the last year of the 20th Century, not the first of the 21st.) What will the new decade bring?

    As Thanksgiving approaches, I'm thinking more and more about all the things I have to be thankful for. A year has made a tremendous difference, and God has blessed me bounteously. As I emailed to friends the other day, any one of several catastrophes since last year could have sealed my fate. I've been exceedingly lucky. I think of that every time I fire up my '96 Jeep Death-trap 'cuz I look up at the Saint Christopher medallion I keep on the visor and ask for his protection and intercession. That bad boy's been a busy bee these past six or eight months! And Saint Jude, Saint Rita, and Saint Anthony have been clocking in the overtime hours, too!  

    Tomorrow, Medal of Honor comes out. I've got the pre-order in, so it'll be coming in the mail sometime this week or next. Sadly, there's no co-op in the game, but I'll be eagerly playing the single player version and reporting on it here.

    Moving on...

• CVG first out of the gate with a review of Medal of Honor. 
• Halo: Reach co-op Update, Credit Cap Q&A.
• Closer look at the gritty Batman: Arkham City.
• StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm release date hint?
• The effect of destructive criticism on developers. O RLY?
• Gears of War composer on life support.
• ToplessRobot: Seven Terrible Things about PC-DOS Gaming.
• Imgur [pics]: Gallery of in-game video glitches.
• Homefront previews: GamePro; UGO; The Guardian (multiplayer); GameSpot (multiplayer hands on).

• Study shines light on Sun's impact on global warming effect...
• Scientists believe they have discovered another universe. I never did that without chemical assistance...
• Virgin Galactic's sub-orbital spacecraft Enterprise makes first solo test flight. Cool, even if it was only gliding.
• Babbages 'Analytical Engine' built for the first time. Alternate history mania! What would history have been like if computers had evolved earlier?
• Baby born from embryo frozen for 20 years.
• How close is a usable brain-computer interface? Jack me in...
• Gizmodo Windows 7 phone round-up.
• Social networking takes off globally.