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V.24 No.28 | 7/9/2015

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The Daily Word: Diseases Of The Future

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The fall of TV.

Youtube killed the TV star.

Blazed.

No Blame, No Shame.

The formulation of “Telepathy

An unfortunate event of nature.

Computer, what’s wrong?

Haha, what?

The great computer race.

Fuel of the future.

Diseases of the future.

V.23 No.5 |

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The Daily Word in Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Rob Ford and a leadership change at Microsoft

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And on the 44th day, it snowed.

Is it legal to drink O'Doul's while driving? Probably. Should you? Maybe not.

Albuquerque is no longer one of the top ten cities for film making.

The Southwest Chief may cease running through Northern New Mexico.

Phillip Seymour Hoffman died of a heroin overdose.

There is now a book about Rob Ford.

Bill Gates is no longer head of Microsoft.

Crazy in-bad-taste two minute long lawyer commercial that ran in parts of Georgia during Superbowl.

Some former members of Mao's Red Guard are apologizing for their actions.

Miyazaki Salt.

Ocular manifestation of electrical burn.

V.22 No.33 | 8/15/2013

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The Daily Word in John Mellencamp, Wayne Bent, Obama and Guillermo del Toro.

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John Cougar’s sons were sucking on chili dogs behind the Tastee Freez.

Now Japan has Pepsi flavored Cheetos to go with their dirty underwear vending machines.

Obama played cards during the Osama bin Laden raid. The intern kept losing, but wouldn’t take her bra off.

A shark ate a lady’s arm in Maui.

Death came calling for both troubled sitcom star Lisa Robin Kelly and Spain’s wealthiest woman, Rosalia Mera.

Area 51 exists.

Take a peek at Guillermo del Toro’s sketchbook.

Google yanked YouTube access from Microsoft’s Windows Phone app.

Shittens are now available.

Enjoy these pictures of animals wearing clothes.

Albuquerque programmer Sean McCracken wrote the first game for Google Glass. The game involves killing aliens.

Wayne Bent will remain in prison. The Alibi covered Bent’s case extensively.

Happy birthday, Robert Culp. I don’t believe I’ve mentioned I’m related to Robert Culp. Or perhaps I have!

V.20 No.19 | 5/12/2011

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The Daily Word with Southern Arizona Secession, Detroit Crack Pipes, Bin Laden’s Wives

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Now you’ll be able to get fast and convenient homeland security alerts, right to your cell phone!

Civil War II? Liberals in southern Arizona want to secede and form their own state.

No breakfast for you! These Chicago students were denied after wearing the wrong shoes.

You can conveniently buy crack pipes in Detroit gas stations and dollar stores.

A Northwestern University human sexuality class featuring a live sex demonstration is cancelled.

Microsoft to purchase Skype for a record-shattering $8.5 billion.

The United States has been granted access to speak to Osama bin Laden’s numerous wives.

APD officer shooting alert: One dead this morning near San Mateo and Menaul.

This Orthodox Jewish newspaper in Brooklyn edited out Hillary Clinton from the iconic “OMG we got bin Laden!” photo.

For those of you that care, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver split up.

For future reference, 911 is not to be used to make your beer runs.

Whoa! These conjoined twins in China have two heads but share a single body.

V.19 No.24 |

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This (Huge) Week In Games 6.18.10

Video games' biggest trade show, the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), was this week, and the vast majority of game news was centered around the announcement of upcoming titles or tech. It looks like there are some gems amid the rough, and it'll be interesting to see how things pan out in the impending hardware throwdown this Fall.


Microsoft
The upcoming Xbox Kinect will have a raft of (mainly family) games available for its Nov 4 release date, including Kinectimals, Kinect Joy Ride, Your Shape Kinect, Forza Kinect, and Star Wars Kinect. Here's to hoping the Star Wars game looks significantly less silly upon release. Oy.

A slimmer and higher storage capacity model Xbox was also revealed. It takes over the top price point, and pushes down the price of each of the other two models by $50. The Xbox Arcade model now costs less than either the Nintendo Wii or DS.

Halo: Reach: trailer (with space battle tease), and the single-player demo it was pulled from.

Epic Games' Cliff Bleszinski shows off Gears of War 3.


Sony
Here's the Playstation Move publicity trailer. Here's what it looks like when real people play it.

Killzone 3 gameplay demo.

Media Molecule's Alex Evans gave a demo teasing the huge variety of game types we can expect from Little Big Planet 2.

Gran Turismo 5 finally had a release date. And 1000 cars.

Original Twisted Metal developer David Jaffe is back for the PS3 version.

Sony says it will have at least twenty 3D games available for PS3 by the end of 2010, including both Crysis 2 and Killzone 3.


Nintendo
Kiddy though it may be, my game of the show is Kirby's Epic Yarn.

Nintendo rolls out the first modern game system with glasses-free 3D, the 3DS. One really interesting feature is its not-so-gamey ability to play 3D movies without glasses.

Donkey Kong Country Returns.

Play world savior Link (ach, again) in the upcoming Zelda: Skyward Sword.

Warren Spector and Adam Creighton of Junction Point give a live demo for Epic Mickey during the Nintendo keynote.

GoldenEye: 007 returns in a remake. Looks like it's a tiny bit too late.


Other cool stuff
Tetsuya Mizuguchi demos Child of Eden at the Ubisoft press conference. Here's a trailer for a bit broader of an overview, and an interview.

Isaac Clarke returns to dismember more Necromorphs in Dead Space 2.

Kayne and Lynch 2 looks like it's going to hit the heist gone wrong nail right on the head.

Valve's Gabe Newell announced Portal 2 coming to PS3 during the Sony keynote. There's a trailer, sure, but these gameplay demos are what have me chomping at the bit (1, 2, 3).

Bulletstorm, the new shooter from People Can Fly (Painkiller) and Epic Games (Gears of War), takes things a bit ridiculously over the top. This is a good thing.

Tron: Evolution, the video game.

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The Daily Word 01.07.10: Animals in the South Valley, brains in bags, Nick Cage

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Police search for baby mom left somewhere.

Rep. Stupak (D-Michigan) won't cave on anti-choice measures in health care bill.

Albuquerqueans sue funeral homes over being given relative's brain in a bag.

Microsoft something game controller something.

Missing Lotto winner may have been murdered.

Autism mostly found in children of older, educated whites. So, sorry about that, future babies.

Cockfighting ring busted in South Valley.

Pets found left behind in condemned apartments. Boooooo.

California judge OKs the YouTubing of Prop. 8 trial. White Ford Bronco still being negotiated.

Harold Ford Jr., whose previous run for the House was sunk by some pretty nasty (and racist) tactics, may now run for Senate.

It's Nicolas Cage's birthday.

V.18 No.40 | 10/1/2009

Windows 7 … by Ronco!

“Now how much would you pay?”

Mocking the squares at Microsoft for being so entangled in their corporate culture that they don’t know how square they really are—I swear sometimes it’s like shooting fish in a barrel. The blogosphere (hell, the Associated Press) has been mocking this Ron Popeil-style fake-u-mercial on how Microsoft fanboys and girls can best host a House Party™ to promote the glorious arrival of Windows 7. And oh, how easy it is to mock, with lines like: “In a lot of ways, you’re just throwing a party with Windows 7 as an honored guest. Sounds easy … and it is!” Already YouTube is full of video responses. Can a RiffTrax commentary be far behind?