This must be the craziest story I ever read. Best Buy refused to sell Assassin’s Creed (an M-rated video game) to a 21-year old guy just because he was buying it in front of his 15-year old brother and they believed he was buying it for him. Then he drove to another store and bought the game, again with the kid along, without problems! WTF?
On 1/8/08, 10 years after he placed a call to Microsoft tech support, they called Brian back to see if his problem had been resolved. Are they just that backed up? Latent Y2K error? Phishing attempt? The truth is much more banal, and potentially, more frightening. See if you can figure out the solution before continuing on to the answer…
Planning a trip using Google Maps just got a little easier and useful. Google teamed up with The Weather Channel to create interactive layers that overlay weather data and radar information on top of Google Maps.
To use the feature click on the Google Maps’ My Maps tab and select The Weather Channel feature to begin exploring.
In the so-called Flickrverse, inadvertently putting one naughty-esque photo in a comment thread will get you flagged and censored, maybe even having all your comments from the past, 10,000 in all, deleted.
Rockstar pays back Hilary for saying all those bad things about their flagship, the GTA series, by giving her a small part to play in the upcoming GTA 4.
Recently the BBC had a bit of a wake up call regarding numbers and how many Linux users were really out there. Why does any of this matter? It has to do with something the BBC provides called the iPlayer. Seriously, relying on ActiveX is so “1990’s” that it’s painful, and as luck would have it, the Linux users who wish to use this BBC player…
If the book is filmed in a single issue, no director will give part of his/her less than 180 mins of screen time to showing this segment of the book in depth, but will skim through it in an effort to get to the far grander special effects shots, yet this is the heart of the book and deserves to be shown.
“The folks at BMC (Black Mustang Club) automotive forum wanted to put together a calendar featuring members’ cars, and print it through CafePress. Photos were submitted, the layout was set, and… CafePress notifies the site admin that pictures of Ford cars cannot be printed.”…
The maker of the hit GameCube series Rogue Squadron is back. In a phone conversation with IGN Wii this morning, company president Julian Eggebrecht confirmed that the studio is underway with at least one all-new Wii project
Now that Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard’s been out almost three months, several apps, tweaks, and plug-ins have emerged that can customize (and sometimes re-Tigerize) your Mac.
A pretty creepy preview of the Condemned sequel!
The University of San Francisco School of Law, Intellectual Property Law Bulletin is sponsoring “The Toll Roads: The Legal and Political Debate Over Network Neutrality”
