Unlike the others, this one is actually hosted on the Nintendo Japan site so I guess this is it. There are some specs but it’s all in Japanese.

It’s a good thing I don’t have a job yet otherwise I would have gotten the older DS already. This one looks friggen awesome. I did some calculations and it turns out it costs the same as the DS costs now, (although there’d probably be a price drop when it’s released), I think I’d rather get this than the current DS. If I ever get a job.

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This has been a problem I’ve started to notice with digg as it starts to grow, a lot of stories are sneaking through that aren’t tech related. There’s a whole bunch of anti-christian articles that pop up on digg for no apparent reason. For example:

Skate For The Lord - “Jesus Is Way Cool…., man”
submitted by yukevster 35 days ago
An Alabama church holds a “Fear Factor” youth ministry event, where teens swallow goldfish and try to escape a locked coffin… oohh, it’s just sooo cool! I wanna be a Christian too! Yay!……

Now there have been quite a few bash Christianity links lately, but this one, that I saw on my RSS a while ago, was the one that really bothered me. First of all, this has no tech related stuff whatsoever in the article. Second of all, the article itself is actually quite interesting. It talks about how Christian teens have become more prominent in the states. I recommend you read it. Third of all,

But back to my rant. There’s also something else: Just because some christians attack offensive movies and whatnot, doesn’t mean all of us do. I wouldn’t want to be put under the label of Jack Thompson for example. Keep in mind that the stories that say “Christians sue” and “Christains attack” don’t necessarily represent all of us.

And yes, fellow christians, we have been using digg for the wrong purposes as well. Digg is not the way to spread the word of god, unless it is tech related.

You may notice the above article was written differently. I hope to submit this to digg so that maybe some people would read it and stop doing this stuff.

I salute you.

(If you like this blog, please digg it)

You have until five oâ??clock p.m., Tuesday, January 17, 2006, to announce a recall from all retailers of all of the aforementioned three game titlesâ??The Warriors, Manhunt, and all versions of the Grand Theft Auto gamesâ??or I and others shall proceed to secure appropriate remedies against your company in these regards.

Allrighty then. Violent video games…are bad. I am warning you, take them away. I mean it. Take them off the freaking shelves. If you don’t…I’ll kill you with my bare hands.

Jack Thompson decides that after everything he’s tried, he might as well just try and ask.

Not much else to say about that. Shrugs.

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This site uses seemingly sound logic to prove absolutely absurd things. The first proof (that 1=2) is a classic and the error in logic is relatively easy to spot but for the rest of them trying to find fallacy could be frustrating ( luckily they also give the answer away if you get stuck ).

This is really interesting, but I suck at these. Dan - check out the first one. It sort of explains the 0/0 thing.

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Okay, so I was excited today. A new keynote at macworld was gonna be today. Yay. I thought, maybe they might unveil the intel mac. Or maybe (but luckily not) a new ipod. But they unveiled the intel imacs and powerbooks. And all I can say is, ouch.

I always heard that the intel macs would be cheaper, but I didn’t believe it. This new mac has an intel processor, a 2.0 Ghz dual core. Now, what I gather from this is, that since its dual core, there’s actually 2 Ghz processors on the same chip, making the clockspeed closer to 4 Ghz. I’m not sure about this, but the “2x-3x faster” logo on apple’s site seems to confirm this.

The price of this thing is $1499 Canadian. I can’t remember what we spent on the G5, but I’m pretty sure it was cheaper than that. The Apple store lists two imac G5s, one for 1.9 Ghz and one for 2.1 Ghz, and ours is 2.0 Ghz, so its neither. The 1.9 Ghz is listed for $1499. So ours was probably a bit cheaper than that.

So we bought this imac G5, and a few months later this imac comes out. Now when the intel runs PPC programs, its going to need to use an emulator, but the PPC won’t be able to run intel programs. Meaning eventually the PPC will be as obsolete as OS9. Plus, with the intel mac being twice as powerful, it probably won’t have any problem running PPC programs.

Here’s a recap:
1. The intel imac is cheaper or roughly the same price.
2. The intel imac is twice as powerful.
3. The intel imac will not go obsolete.

Yet we got the PPC imac. Again, ouch! I thought it might be a mistake to get this thing with the intel macs around the corner, but reasoning told me otherwise.

In conclusion,
ouch.

Linkingment
Linkee

-The movie is occasionally very, very funny. Tears streaming down the face funny. (This doesn’t mean it’s good. A good funny movie is a movie in which the spread between bad and good is relatively narrow and the movie is consistently funny. This one rollercoasters from high to low.)
-According to Joystiq’s very own Chris Grant, who granted us an exclusive post-movie interview, the movie “succeeded in one arena that almost every movie involving video games fails at miserably: it captured much of gaming culture pretty well to varying degrees of accuracy.” The actors used real controllers and played real games with them. Easier said than done, as so few movies get it right.
-The way we see it, there are two audiences for this movie. Potheads and hardcore gamers. If you’re the former, there are better ways to spend $10. If you’re the latter, there are better ways to spend $10. If you’re both, well, go see it. It’s not like you’ll remember to come back here and flame us for recommending it to you.

Overall rating within the entire universe of films: 4.0 / 10
Rating within the subset of movies significantly about video games: 9.5 / 10

-Via Joystiq
Original Article

I’m not sure what to think of this gaming movie. I’ve heard about it for a while, and apparently a lot of the shirts that are on it are from Jinx.com. It’d probably be an interesting thing to watch with Dan and Don when it hits the movie channel, but I wouldn’t watch it in theaters over V for Vendetta, Chronicles of Narnia or King Kong.

Hey everyone,

You’re probably wondering why I didn’t blog much in December. Well, frankly, not much really pissed me off in December. It’s Christmas. However, here’s something that really has pissed me off lately.

Since I am a Mac user, I use iTunes a lot. When the iTMS was introduced, I was excited to browse through all of the exclusives and there were a lot of good songs in there. One particular song was Less Than Jake - History of A Boring Town Acoustic Version. The Acoustic Version of what has been for several years, and is, my favorite song of all time. If you have not heard of this song, go download it. It’s part of the album Hello Rockview. I vowed that once the iTunes music store came to Canada, I would buy that song.

When the Canadian Music Store finally came, I was hit with a different problem. No credit card. I couldn’t convince my parents to use theirs but they said eventually we’d sign up. So I decide to hold off. When I check the music store in Canada, I see to my dismay that they no longer have Less Than Jake - History of A Boring Town Acoustic Version. I lose interest in the store. I see a few other exclusives I’m interested in - Sum41 and Yellowcard, and keep them in mind.

Just recently, we signed up to the iTunes music store. I was browsing through the music in this store when a thought suddenly occurs to me: what if the Less Than Jake song is only available on the American store? So I go check. Yes, it’s right there. The song I want. Just out of reach. And There’s no possible way to get it. As the end-user licensing agreement states:

Purchases from the iTunes Music Store are available only in the United States and are not available in any other location. You agree not to use or attempt to use the service from outside of the available territory. Apple may use technologies to verify such compliance.

In other words, screw you.

But here’s the crazy part. When I remember about the Yellowcard and Sum41 tracks on the Canadian Music Store, I look for the tracks and see that they’re gone! They have actually been taken offline of the store. This is stupid. SUM41 IS A CANADIAN BAND!!! And yet, they’re still online. On the American store.

So how many exclusives DOES the Canadian itunes music store have at this point?
I decided to try something: Search for the term “itunes exclusive” in the American store and then the Canadian store.
American Store: 79 album results
Canadian Store: 34 album results

And that doesn’t even begin to encompass most of the exclusives. For example. The three exclusives I was looking for above- Sum 41, Yellowcard, and Less Than Jake, did not even fall under the search “itunes exclusive”

Is there a reason why itunes is like this? Is Apple encouraging piracy in Canada? That is a long shot, but it is interesting to note that Canada doesn’t have a DMCA like the states and downloading (as far as I know) is perfectly legal here. Might the only way I am able to get this song is through piracy?

There’s another thing about the Canadian iTunes music store which is completely and utterly retarded. I’m sure you’ve heard of this thing called the iPod Video. Well, recently, the iPod video was released, and in the American iTunes Music Store, you could download TV Shows, Music Videos, and Pixar Shorts. Up here, no TV Shows for us.

All of us Canadians should bind together and form a protest group called “iTunes sucks, eh?”

I salute you all.