Duke Nukem Forever - news

Duke Nukem Developer 3D Realms Shuts Down (Update 3) - Shacknews - PC Games, PlayStation, Xbox 360 and Wii video game news, previews and downloads

Update: Apogee Software and Deep Silver have issued a statement to Shacknews, confirming that the situation at 3D Realms has not affected the development of Frontline Games' upcoming handheld Duke Nukem Trilogy.

"Deep Silver and Apogee Software are not affected by the situation at 3D Realms," a representative for the companies told us. "Development on the Duke Nukem Trilogy is continuing as planned."

Terminator in Toronto subway

io9 - Your Morning Commute Is Terminated! - Terminator Salvation

Background on the situation in Sri Lanka and Tamil

Sri Lanka's hollow victory: Why hammering the Tamil Tigers will not bring peace | rabble.ca

New True Blood trailer with Bob Dylan music

io9 - Bob Dylan Makes The True Blood Vamps' Clothes Fall Off - True Blood

Firefox Extension Wars

Mozilla ponders policy change after Firefox extension battle - Ars Technica

The NoScript Firefox extension faced a major backlash last week when users discovered that it was surreptitiously disrupting the operation of AdBlock Plus. The developers behind the two extensions turned the browser into a battleground as their conflict escalated. Mozilla has responded by proposing a new policy that sets boundaries for appropriate extension behavior.  ...

Mission to deal with the continent of plastic garbage in the Pacific

Mission to break up Pacific island of rubbish twice the size of Texas - Times Online

A high-seas mission departs from San Francisco next month to map and explore a sinister and shifting 21st-century continent: one twice the size of Texas and created from six million tonnes of discarded plastic.

Scientists and conservationists on the expedition will begin attempts to retrieve and recycle a monument to throwaway living in the middle of the North Pacific. ...

Night Owls and Early Birds

Night Owls Stay Alert Longer than Early Birds
(thanks Thor - reposted from April 24, 2009

The early bird may get the worm, but the night owl has more stamina, a new study suggests. ...

G.I. Joe movie trailer

io9 - Eccleston Shows Us How Supervillainy Is Done, In New G.I. Joe Trailer - G.I. Joe

This looks fun.

District 9 movie coming this summer!

io9 - The Anti-Alien Bigotry Begins, In District 9's First Trailer - District 9

Watch the trailer. This looks good!

Inject New Bones

io9 - Inject New Bones Into Your Body, Just Like Wolverine - Bone graft

Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters - movie

io9 - What Hansel And Gretel Did Next, Courtesy Of Dead Snow's Director - Hansel and gretel: witch hunters

The idea is, they've grown up and they hunt witches... It's a hybrid sort of old-timey feeling, yet there's pump-action shotguns. Modern technology but in an old style. We heard it and we were just like, 'That's a freakin' franchise! You could make three of those!'

The Province Of Toronto

TheStar.com | GTA | Toronto needs 'powers of a province'

Yes! Bring it on!
Read the link...

Unusual stools

Modern Stools and Unusual Stool Designs | Toxel.com

Alberta government want to deny kids access to evolution education in schools

Tiny Perfect Blog: Evolution clips on You Tube

Watch the videos

Bacon Cheese Pizza Burger

Bacon Cheese Pizza Burger - Info Barrel
(thanks Eyesore!)

Ignatieff = Harper...

blogging a dead horse: How far will Ignatieff take the Liberals into Harper's camp?

... But hidden beneath his rhetoric, Michael Ignatieff has already moved his party as close to the Conservaitve Party as any leader has in two decades. ...

Swine Flu Q&A

CDC - Influenza (Flu) | Swine Flu and You

Faith Fighter religious fighting game

“Faith Fighter” game unites religions in outrage | MediaWatchWatch

Global Warming Forces an Alaskan Town to Relocate

Global Warming Forces an Alaska Town to Relocate | 80beats | Discover Magazine

The 340 residents of Newtok, Alaska will soon be among the first “climate refugees” in the United States. Global warming has battered the tiny coastal town: As average yearly temperatures rise, coastal ice shelves melt as does the permafrost on which the town sits.  The Ninglick River has overtaken the town as the ground level simultaneously sinks [Backpacker blog]. As a result, the town’s scattered buildings are connected by a network of boardwalks across the mud. ...

A great wallpaper search site

This site is great for looking for wallpapers for your desktop.
Click on advanced search to enter your screen resolution (it may already be entered automatically)

Powerful Storms Map

Image:Tropical Storm Map.png - Global Warming Art

The Greatest Action Story Ever Told

YouTube - The Greatest Action Story Ever Told

(thanks DJ Shannon!)

Stephen Harper and the Rule of Law

Impolitical: Stephen Harper and the rule of law
... Harper was prepared to defy the Governor General and challenge her legitimacy if she hadn't permitted prorogation in December. Mind boggling. ...

The Federal Government and the Economy Today

Don't Blame The CAW for a Crisis It Didn't Create
... Rather than scapegoating the CAW for a crisis it did not cause, the federal government should focus its efforts on combating the pressures of wage-driven deflation, maintaining income and employment, and using public dollars to buy transformation of the auto industry away from gas-guzzlers to the low emission vehicles of the future. Industrial policies like this have been an important part of the development of the auto industry and are needed once again.

This is Just Getting Stupid

Still not getting the issues around the Omar Khadr case? Read the link.

Spikey shower curtain

Inhabitat » My Shower Curtain is a Green Warrior

Obama & Gitmo - what you might not know.

Obama: Gitmo Prisoners Aren't "Persons" - Dennis Loo - Open Salon

On-line photo fun

28 Online Photo Editing Websites To have Fun With

Meat business cards

MEAT CARDS: Business Cards Made From MEAT AND LASERS

I wonder what Patrick Bateman would think of these...

Richard Simmon's Bad Day

Your Day Can't Possibly Be as Bad as Richard Simmons' Day. - Boing Boing

Watch the video.
WARNING: not for children or polite adults.