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With retail XBox360, with all default settings and on first lap of race track on Project Gotham Racing 3, single player, crashed 3 times in a row.
So far haven't been able to play one track without crashing...

Here are some screenshots:

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With retail XBox360, with all default settings and on first lap of race track on Project Gotham Racing 3, single player, crashed 3 times in a row.
So far haven't been able to play one track without crashing...

Here are some screenshots:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65990154 /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65990156 /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65990158 /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65990159 /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65995966 /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65995967 /

With retail XBox360, with all default settings and on first lap of race track on Project Gotham Racing 3, single player, crashed 3 times in a row.
So far haven't been able to play one track without crashing...

Here are some screenshots:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65990154 /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65990156 /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65990158 /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65990159 /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65995966 /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65995967 /

With retail XBox360, with all default settings and on first lap of race track on Project Gotham Racing 3, single player, crashed 3 times in a row.
So far haven't been able to play one track without crashing...

Here are some screenshots:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65990154 /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65990156 /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65990158 /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65990159 /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65995966 /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65995967 /

With retail XBox360, with all default settings and on first lap of race track on Project Gotham Racing 3, single player, crashed 3 times in a row.
So far haven't been able to play one track without crashing...

Here are some screenshots:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65990154 /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65990156 /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65990158 /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65990159 /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65995966 /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65995967 /

With retail XBox360, with all default settings and on first lap of race track on Project Gotham Racing 3, single player, crashed 3 times in a row.
So far haven't been able to play one track without crashing...

Here are some screenshots:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65990154 /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65990156 /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65990158 /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65990159 /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65995966 /
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65995967 /

(Palo Alto, CA. - DEVELOPING) The Buttes Foundation, a non-for-profit organization dedicated to empowering tomorrow through trolling today, announced victory over the Flock browser and the piddling company behind it. The announcement took place during a packed session at the Scientology center in Mountain View. Very important Buttes operative rolloffle said he found the air deliciously clear of thetans and other impediments in the pursuit of a good troll.

"Quite simply, Flock sucks," opined Buttes spokesman Khaled to an appreciative audience. "But not only does it suck; it is also a failure", he added to nods of agreement. On the wall was a complicated graph showing blogging activity regarding the dead-on-arrival "Social Browser". Khaled pointed to a sharp color change in the second quadrant which corresponded with the introduction of the Go Flock Yourself weblog, which has been detailing the worthlessness of Flock, its authors, and its fans since shortly after the introduction of the ill-fated application.

"As you can see here," said Khaled, "blogging activity about Flock turned decidedly negative after we began to expose its shortcomings". He then added "we also got Scoble to comment on our blog", pausing a minute before saying "lol". Shouts of "roflmao" and "you da man" erupted spontaneously from the crowd.

Rolloffle took over at that point, elaborating on the negative attention Flock has received, and finishing with Buttes's mea culpa, the eradication of the giant Flock advertisement from wordpress.com's front page. While the administrators of WordPress have not returned requests for comment at this time, it can only be assumed that the Go Flock Yourself blog (proudly featured on the front page since shortly after its inception) has made association with Flock a costly and embarrassing proposition.

During a busy Q&A session, the brainchild behind Go Flock Yourself, a diminutive Canadian who goes by the name "Screaming Eagle USA", offerred to clarify the role of the popular weblog now that Flock has officially failed. "Go Flock Yourself is designed to empower the sarcastic and trollish masses of the internet to drop a big, steaming turd all over Web 2.0 and all of its extravagances." Screaming Eagle displayed a slide of recent posts about say-so, yellowikis, Squidoo, demonstrating a pattern of hard-hitting journalism that leaves no worthless, dollar-stuffed startup with its "perpetual beta" web application untouched. "Our victory over Flock will allow us to leverage all of our core competencies, maximizing ROI across skill domains, in order to architect the synergistic folksonomies that will empower the anti-Web 2.0 revolution."

About Buttes:
The Buttes Foundation is a group of trolls and ne'erdowells that has successfully terrorized the Something Awful forums through its internet terrorist offshoot Team Barry. In recent years, Buttes has expanded the reach of its deadly ruyn-rays to the world's telephone networks and now the blogosphere. More information on Buttes is available at Encyclopedia Dramatica

About Flock:
Flock is an amateurish fork of Firefox which adds various extensions of marginal utility that integrate unaffiliated services (del.icio.us, flickr, etc.) directly into the browsing experience. Flock also includes a substandard blogging tool which even its most diehard users have had a hard time adopting. Flock is currently burning through approximately $1 million of venture capital, after which point it will promptly fold after failing to be at

Some guys from Yahoo Bangalore recently stalked google, apparently they came back quite unimpressed.

Yes, the 360 can read the playlist info right off the iPod. Heck, it even knows what you've named your iPod. I got to play with it back at the end of August, and everything was handled wonderfully with the iPod.

Manic Panic? Don't think so. I want my hair color to last more than a week. Which is why I use Special Effects. Then again, I get it done at a hair place in town, by a girl who's amazing with color. The color I had before I just got it done had patches of 5 different shades, each of those shades her own blending of color - I think she used 12 different colors total. I loved it.

And I find it makes me a lot more memorable at work, which I think is a GOOD thing.

Awesome to hear such things help a lot when fixing peoples' problems. :) I would have never thought of that.

Although I prefer Lego, the good thing about Lego and Mega Bloks is that you may mix them, keeping in mind that Mega Bloks only fit on top of Lego blocks.
A month ago, Jaime (my three and a half years old son) built what he called a train (don't look for wheels though), using almost every block available at home. The train was almost 2 meters long. I took some pictures of the train.

At least, unlike Sony, they actually passed on using the ones that looked like a grill.

As referenced: On Boing Boing!,
mentioning the 700 hobo names,
which were recorded with geek-folk-copyleft-rocker Jonathan Coulton,
as can be heard here,
or seen illustrated by a number of independent artists via Flickr,
and as was also mentioned with great humor on November 16th's Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

Basically, keywords + wiki = tags?

More like keywords + PageRank (e.g. votes for keywords) = tags. Actually contextual PageRank that Google uses (where they analyze the text around every link into a site) is akin the "tags".

Of course the folksonomy aspect of it isn't mandatory. Flickr is held up as one of the primary examples of tags, yet the vast majority of photo tags are added by the photo "owners" themselves, just like the days of old with webpages and meta keywords. So you end up with nonsense like this.

Tagging spaces (also called 'folksonomies') are interesting for information retrieval where well understood taxonomies (category hierarchies) don't or can't exist.

Tags aren't applicable to Amazon's domain because everyone knows how to categorize consumer products. Everyone knows to walk to the Electronics section in Target to pick up the XBox360.

Nobody goes looking for their XBox 360 in the "blackthings" section or the "overhyped" tagsection.

Leave folksonomies to categorize the web like http://del.icio.us/ photos like http://flickr.com/ or art like http://cafepress.com/

Its nice that the author assumes we know what tags are. It creates an article that only people who know whats going on already understand. Otherwise you go tag? What kind of tag?

Parent Post Tags: clueless "karma whore" "obvious question" :-)

Seriously though, tags are user-provided categorization (including multiple "categorizations" given that you can apply multiple tags) of content. e.g. Search on Flickr for all photos that are in the union of the tags Toronto and Girl and you'll get photos that have those two tags. The same concept applies to delicious. This is the so-called folksonomy in action, where us lowly serfs categorization content, rather than "the man" in a taxonomy like Yahoo.

However the tag thing is going way too far (as are most "Web 2.0" things) - tags are useful in the absence of a superior classification system. For instance we tag photos in Flickr only because the system can't, thus far, determine what the photo is about mechanically. If it could automatically classify photos, then this folksonomy would prove terribly dated, unreliable, and inaccurate. Look at Google - what is better: The META keywords technique of before, or actually contextually placing each page based upon its actual content?

By "low resolution" you are talking about something that isn't a >230dpi device, aren't you? The 770 is 141 x 79 x 19 mm - that's as thick as my mobile phone, although it is 2cm wider and larger. My phone has a 320x208 display, not an 800x480 widescreen display. A brief google found me this picture of it side-by-side with a PSP and a phone.

Ask and ye shall receive.

Their servers just choked (before being slashdotted).
(See http://flickr.com/photos/igonzalez/63231271/ -- That's the Message you get after logon on. )

If you are refering to GNOME, it has a perfectly usabe menu editor.

Screenshot as proof.

Until now we weren't sure that the Xbox 360 was going to support many games at all. Certainly not what model it was going to use. Now we learn that they will be making the emulators long after its release, and most likely ANY NEW XBOX game will come with a 360 emulator. This is a big plus for gamers.We should be happy to see the MODEL being used. I've seen too many 'that sucks' and complaints and it really surprises me... well... I guess its important to know the audience on this site.

The truth is it's also a blow to Sony; because recent rumblings have been they won't be 100% backwards compatible, and they already said they won't offer an XBox-Live style service.So how do you support more games after the release? Some type of system updater? In any case it won't be as familiar to people as Live is. Being able to jump on live and just download the emulator for your game is pretty easy for the end user. If any of you have seen the latest PS3 screen shot, well its pretty confusing layout (lets hope Sony changes it).

The bottom line is this a pretty good business decision for MS. They have the potential to be virtually 100% backwards compatible over time. I'm SURE they are going to crank out emulators like crazy after launch. 212 is allot, and if you look at the time-line since the 360 was finished (most likely around the time they started making the emulators), this was probably all they could get done by launch. I will take the bet that the majority of the Xbox games will be backwards compatible by Sony's PS3 launch in the US. In either case this is good news for gamers, not a "this sucks" kinda repot.

Not new at all - quite a few Rev. A iMac G5s had this problem. I bought this 17" in November, and the bad caps finally failed in March. Apple sent me a new midplane and I swapped it out myself, but from what I hear they're now requiring people to take their machines to an authorized Apple service provider to get the work done.

I took pictures of the midplane/motherboard replacement process, clearly showing the bad/bulging caps on the original system board.

For those folks who are interested in dressing up all nerdy, you could try making your own functional Rubik's Cube Costume. It appears to only have one axis of rotation, but I'm sure someone could work a way to get the other axis rotation working as well.

I think this is such an excellent idea. Let's award them a statue for all their hard work. I think we just need to give this guy a remote, and it will fit the bill... http://www.flickr.com/photos/kentbrew/60225257/in/ photostream/

I think this (from the same photo blog as the statue) highlights some of Yahoo's webdeveloping woes. (OK, so my keyboard looks the same...)

i think the point today is that people are free to use whatever they want to use. but with pics like this in this guys flicker account, i might we switching to yahoo!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kentbrew/16461649/in/ photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kentbrew/16461648/in/ photostream/

i think the point today is that people are free to use whatever they want to use. but with pics like this in this guys flicker account, i might we switching to yahoo!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kentbrew/16461649/in/ photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kentbrew/16461648/in/ photostream/

Direct link to actual photo.

Thanks to the new YAHOO! MAIL we can all give the competition something to kiss.

The New Yahoo! Mail is superior to GMail
Wall Street Journal

Boingboing recently had an article pointing to a Flickr Photo Set about the Bernal Heights Illegal Soapbox Derby. Lots of silly cars, and the one rule is that every car is required to have a beer holder. Usually Halloween, sometimes other weekends as well.

I'm in love with derby babe.

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I'm in love with derby babe.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/47167068@N00/59198403 /in/set-1280245/

I'm in love with derby babe.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/47167068@N00/59198319 /in/set-1280245/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/47167068@N00/59198347 /in/set-1280245/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/47167068@N00/59198403 /in/set-1280245/

I'm in love with derby babe.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/47167068@N00/59198319 /in/set-1280245/

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Forget Web 2.0, I've got Dish Soap 2.0 with AJAX and Ruby!

NetBSD Toaster

here's mine http://www.flickr.com/photos/21241962@N00/58680025 /

Click here to see

Well, for what it's worth... here's -my- entry.

I spent about 2 hours on it. The winner apparently had a lot more time on his hands ;)

Here it is(Flickr.com)

thanks to my fren rohit.... today i registered at slashdot ..... i have following this site from many years tho :) ..... anyways here are some more screenshots of farcry and half life with HDR on ..... but the worst thing in farcry is u can't switch on HDR and AA toghether :( ..... also there is too much FPS hit with HDR in mine case its around 20-30 FPS @ 1280x960 ..... actually mine GTX is very limited by the processor i am using ..... enjoy the pics .....

One of my friends has a Geforce 7800 GTX. Here are some screenshots of Farcry with HDR enabled.

One of my friends has a Geforce 7800 GTX. Here are some screenshots of Farcry with HDR enabled.

One of my friends has a Geforce 7800 GTX. Here are some screenshots of Farcry with HDR enabled.

One of my friends has a Geforce 7800 GTX. Here are some screenshots of Farcry with HDR enabled.

A woman in London during the transit bombings went to a public webcam and used her cell phone to report her observations and feelings. She may be the first to step in front of the new mass media, by and for the masses.

I was personally awestruck by how Del.icio.us and Flickr became channels for democratized real time reporting during the London bombings. Bloglines and RSS connected everything seamlessly, essentially turning the entire universe of Blogs into one stream.

Phone cams at one end took pictures from practically everywhere during and after the attacks. Enough people posted pics to http://flickr.com/photos/tags/london to extensively cover what was happening on the ground. Bloggers close to the scene provided ongoing summaries and updates.

As fresh news rushed to the Web from everywhere, http://del.icio.us/tag/london offered real-time-most-recommended links.

A couple of interesting facts: Since Bloglines includes the number of total subscribers to any feed you have subscribed to, you can tell at a glance how popular that feed is. The Flickr and del.icio.us feeds went into the hundreds from only a few subscribers within a couple of hours.

Completely spontaneous emergent mass media, by and for the masses. The digitally connected masses have leached the mass from media, now adjusting to its rightful place as simply another niche. In short, viable grass roots media has arrived.

There are some photos taken this morning on flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/krp/sets/1255449/

Yeah. They couldn't possibly just be more tasteful than you, or more appreciative of aesthetic beauty. You're the smart one, after all, Linux boy.

If you actually search for "Apple" in Google, you're not a very good search user. In all likelihood, you'd refine the search as there's no way for the search engine to give you what you want with any high degree of certainty.

One of the ways around this however, is the Flickr cluster system. Try this search, for example, for apple. Flickr makes little groupings of photos with similar tags and puts them into dynamic groups based on similarities in tagging of content.

Ironically, your categories are three of those used -- the first two are the computer and the fruit, the last is new york.

Zombie Walks in Seattle - Boingboing seems to be a hotbed of articles on upcoming zombie mob activity and pointers to pictures of the events afterwards:
Vancouver Pictures San Francisco.