On the road again... Back to work.

    Today is a travel day, as I start a 4-night work rotation. Not looking forward to a 4-night stretch, tho it's actually not that bad once I get started on it. Yesterday, Mom was able to stand largely unassisted for over 12 minutes. It's wonderful, and we're starting to think that there's some light at the end of the tunnel. And it's not an oncoming train, hopefully...

    Today's featured Call of Duty: Black Ops vid is a montage of gameplay by Circawest77. Seen before, but what the hey, there's not much new stuff to put up. The second vid is a really entertaining CoD4 Dom match with IIJERiiCHOII, loaded with post-wisdom tooth removal painkillers trying every weapon in the arsenal in a vain attempt to supress the Timmies. Moving on...

• BASHandSlash Bash 163: The Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer FAQ.
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 'Wager' mode preview from Gaming Target.
• ADAN News still flogging pageviews with Call of Duty: Black Ops beta 'news' re-re-re-stating that no beta is likely.

• Halo: Reach 'Legendary' bundle to feature campaign commentary.
• Fans seal Carmine's fate in Gears of War 3, but it's all for charity.
• Dead Rising 2: Case Zero sells a bundle.
• Brothers in Arms franchise to get reboot?
• August game sales expected to slump. Maybe that might be due to no good releases in August? No, it's because you're playing games you already bought, you rogue.
• Sony updates Playstation 3 USB security after console 'jailbreak'.
• Microsoft's game platform director leaves.
• Company of Heroes game dev Brian Wood gave life to save family in car crash.

• Two natural bridges on the Moon. 
• Scientists study which dance moves most attract women.
• Self-healing solar cells may have infinite life span.
• Dual-core CPU may bring 1080p to smartphones. On teensy little screens.
• Gizmodo's HTC Vision/Vanguard preview.
• Tumblr held back from competing with Twitter due to frequent crashes. Author obviously never heard of the 'Fail Whale'.
• 'At any moment, Justin Bieber takes up 3% of Twitter's infrastructure...' Hey, future guests of The Smoking Gun: World's Dumbest have to come from somewhere. 
• The Evolution of Zombies. No, not Justin Bieber, movie zombies.
• Terry Gilliam's Don Quioxte production melts down - again.