Wednesday's a workday...

Bit of a thin update today, as the dreaded 4-banger work week is upon me. I'm literally minutes from hauling North to my home away from Home.
Mom was doing a bit better when we saw her last night. Her anticipated move to a nursing home for additional rehab has been forestalled by the need to resolve some of her outstanding medical issues. It didn't make any sense to us - someone who's too sick to do hospital setting rehab being sent to an even less monitored environment. You don't send people out sicker than when they came in - unless your hospital and priorities both suck balls. Doctors - Undertakers in White Lab Coats.
We're hoping that Mom's infection and weakness can be fixed so she can do some physical rehab and build up her strength again.
Today's featured Modern Warfare 2 vid is BAWB tearing up Terminal on a Barebones TDM match. We also have a Call of Duty: Black Ops trailer analysis from CoDBlackOpsHD. Moving on...

• Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer demo to start 1 September 2010.
• Sledgehammer Games' Call of Duty 8 story will 'blow you away'. CVG has a similar article with some speculation about CoD 8's content.
• Activision: Infinity Ward will 'rise from the ashes'.

• Operation Flashpoint: Red River promises crazy realism and four player co-op.
• Real yakuza evaluate Yakuza 3.

• Beat Takeshi hates games, computers, and email. Who is Beat Takeshi? Click here.
• Madden NFL 11 review: 1Up.
• 1Up also reports on Quake Live's transition from beta to subscription shooter. Info on the two subscription plans are in this Bethblog article.
• Gearbox Games may develop Duke Nukem Forever.
• Blockbuster to deliver game rentals by mail.
• Repeat story: Kinect will read sign language and read lips. Also, slice bread, cook breakfast, and take out the trash. Or maybe not....
• Kinect can't read sign language after all.
• GamaSutra op-ed: Glasses, or how Nintendo has already won the 3D war before it's even begun.

• Hawking: Man must abandon The Earth or face extinction. Well, anyone who's read SF already knows that's true. After all, Soylent Green is people.
• The Brain: More like the Internet than a Pyramid. In the sense that it's always thinking about pr0n.
• Robot to drill into 4,500 year old mystery chamber in Egyptian pyramid. I, for one, welcome our benevolent robotic archaeologist overlords.
• How to create a secure wi-fi home network.
• Canada: Online forum post leads to conviction for speeding, license suspension, and probation.
• Green machine: Don't burn plant waste, bury it.