The Heart is a Lonely Hunter...

    Apologies to all for crapping out yesteday, but, after a very disappointing day, I just didn't have the heart to do any blogging. Things are somewhat better now, tho. I'm hanging in and Charlie Mike (Continuing the Mission).     The time warp quality of my blogging sometimes causes some anachronisms. I usually prepare much of my blog, especially the Vent, about a day ahead of time. Sometimes the times and dates get all mixed up, since 'today' can refer to what's going on at the time the blog is being cooked up as well as the day that the blog sees publication. So, please bear with these little time glitches. The 'hobgoblin of small minds' is not one of mine...      Finished the astonishingly short Medal of Honor single player campaign. I'll be putting a first impressions review together over the next week.

    Moving on...

• Call of Duty: Black Ops code stolen? Wow. 
• Graphical bug spotted in Call of Duty: Black Ops pre-launch footage. 
• Lucky player records Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer action.

• Medal of Honor reviews: Telegraph UK; My Hot News; RipTen; PushSquare.
• Medal of Honor suppresses Halo: Reach.
• Duke Nukem Forever campaign takes 15-16 hours to complete. Of course, ten hours of that is swearing at the game.
• Steam surges past 30 million users. 
• Facebook's 'Farmville' gives advertisers access to personal info.

 

Halo: Reach Mythbusters - Episode 3

 

Old School Gaming Punkin

 

• Real pictures of alien worlds. Less impressive than it sounds.
• Scientists turn to stem cells for cartilage repair.
• Near scarless surgery coming soon thanks to new laser technique. 'Bones' McCoy was doing it in '66 - with salt shakers! 
• Ring forming on the surface of the Sun.
• Stone age humans liked their burger in a bun.
• How a statistical formula won the war.
• Researchers one step closer to a 'bootless' computer.
• Windows browsers benchmarked on Ars Technica. 
• Facebook applications privacy settings you need to know.
• Five reasons an avid book collector bought a Kindle and prefers it to real books - and an iPad.
• Cracked: How Xerox invented the information age (and gave it away).