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quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sgt. Adam J. Plumondore, 22, of Gresham, Ore., died February 16 in Mosul, Iraq, when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. Plumondore was assigned to the Army's 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, Fort Lewis, Wash.Link May you rest in peace...

quote: The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Pfc. David J.Brangman, 20, of Lake Worth, Fla., died February 13 in Uvanni, Iraq, when a mortar round struck his vehicle. Brangman was assigned to the Army's 3d Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment, 3d Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sgt. 1st Class David J.Salie, 34, of Columbus, Ga., died February 14 in Ba'qubah, Iraq, when his vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device. Salie was assigned to the Army's 2d Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment, 3d Infantry Division, Fort Benning, Ga.Link May you rest in peace...

Link quote:RUSTON, La. - The way you type is as unique as your eye color or speech patterns and can be used instead of a password to protect your computer, researchers at Louisiana Tech and Penn State say. Their discovery will bring Louisiana Tech its first direct royalty income, university president Daniel D. Reneau said in signing a joint licensing agreement with BioPassword Inc. of Issaquah, Wash. Vir Phoha, associate professor of computer science, and former graduate student Sunil Babu worked with others at The Pennsylvania State University to create the technology over five years of research. "We look at the time between keystrokes, and the time it takes to press a key," Phoha said. A percentage of the royalties will be plowed back into the research program, Phoha added. BioPassword holds the rights to several patents on such software, according to its Web site. The company says its programs should not be used as the only security system but in addition to passwords and other measures.

VoidWar

Link quote:Scarlet Pruitt, IDG News Service Internet users are being threatened by yet another variant of the MyDoom mass mailing worm, which is spreading in part by using e-mail addresses found through popular search engines, security experts warn. The new variant was first spotted late Wednesday and reports from computer users suggest the worm is already circling the globe, according to Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos. The worm proliferates by e-mailing itself through its own SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) engine, according to Sophos. When it infects a computer it scans the hard disk for e-mail addresses and then takes the domains of the addresses it finds and queries search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and Lycos looking for similar addresses, Cluley says. If it finds the address [email protected], for instance, it will use a search engine to look for other addresses at the yahoo.com domain to send itself to, Cluley explains. A similar MyDoom variant appeared last July and managed to slow some search engines as it flooded them with queries. Cluley says he doubts the new variant will have the same effect since this outbreak is not as severe. Additionally, search engines have taken measures to prevent being crippled by the worm again, Cluley says. The latest worm was created by repackaging an older MyDoom variant in an encrypted "wrapper" so that antivirus software could not recognize it, Cluley says. The method is just one of the clever ways hackers use to hide their attacks and antivirus firms should be aware of the ruse, he adds. Internet users should make sure their antivirus software is up to date to avoid infection.

Link quote:GRAPEVINE, Texas - The owner of J.D. the Labrador may be wishing his dog weren't such a good retriever. Matthew Porter and two friends were playing Frisbee golf in a park Monday when a police officer who thought he smelled burning marijuana began questioning them. As the officer was checking for outstanding warrants, J.D. waded into a nearby creek and emerged with a plastic bag containing the drug. Porter, 25, was charged with possessing drug paraphernalia. Micah Hays, 24, was charged with marijuana possession. J.D. was turned over to the third person at the park, who faces no charges. J.D. also faces no charges, but may have a new job opportunity. "People have been asking if we're going to recruit the dog for police work," said Grapevine police Sgt. Todd Dearing.Ouch, Man's best friend doesn't like Matthew Porter.

Link quote:By BRIAN SKOLOFF, Associated Press Writer More than a year after Sarah Nome was deemed healthy and given her discharge papers, the 82-year-old woman stubbornly refuses to leave her hospital bed. Nome admits there is no reason she should be racking up unpaid medical bills ÔÇö which have now topped $1 million ÔÇö but says she has nowhere else to turn. Now Kaiser Permanente's San Rafael Medical Center in California is suing her for the cost of her stay and trying to show her the door. "The thing is, I have no medical problem. I've been here more than a year, never had any medication, never had any treatment, never had a fever, have a perfect heart, blood pressure is like a teenager," Nome said in a telephone interview from the hospital north of San Francisco. "It isn't that I'm not ready to go. I just have nowhere to go." Exasperated hospital officials persuaded a judge to approve her eviction. But because Nome is bedridden and cannot walk, they have no intention of wheeling her onto the street. Instead, they hope the ruling encourages her to pack her bags. "We're really not interested in her money," Kaiser attorney Stanley Watson said. "We just want her cooperation." Nome's troubles began, her daughter Jane Sands says, in 2002 when she broke both her legs while living alone. After several operations, Nome could no longer care for herself and was admitted to the first of several nursing homes. The most recent one, Nome claims, sent her to the hospital against her will. Hospital officials say she was admitted for a weeklong psychiatric evaluation, was deemed to be in good mental health, was then ordered released. But because she is suing the nursing homes where she lived before she was hospitalized, Nome and her daughter claim she has no choice but to stay put. Nome is suing the last home she lived in, Greenbrae Care Center, for sending her to the hospital. Watson said hospital officials have tried to find a suitable home for Nome, but Nome and her daughter insist on staying in Marin County, where Nome has spent her entire life. That puts Kaiser in a difficult position, given Nome's bedridden state. "If a patient were ambulatory, you could simply discharge them and say, `Have a nice day,'" Watson said. "But I can assure you that we don't plan on having the sheriff come in and physically remove her and put her on the street." Greenbrae will not take Nome back because she is suing the nursing home, said Bob Peirce, chief operating officer of Ocadian Hospitals and Care Centers, which runs the center. "She's suing us, and we obviously feel very strongly that she has no case," Peirce said. Anthony Wright, executive director of the health care advocacy group Health Access California, said Nome's situation highlights a larger, nationwide problem. "This issue is becoming more and more contentious because ... we don't have a long-term care policy in this country, so there is no set way that we take care of seniors who need ongoing care," he said. Meanwhile, Nome remains in her hospital gown. She said the doctors and nurses "couldn't be finer," but she has missed the news since her television and newspaper privileges were taken away. "I think Bush might still be president," she quipped. She passes the time by reading in bed and gazing out the window.They really found this woman to be sane but then again I really dislike hospitals. Could be b/c on one of my visits it really boosted my spirits to hear 12 times that night High pitched BEEP, followed by CODE BLACK!!! CODE BLACK!!!, people running, CLEAR!!, CLEAR!!

Link quote:By MAGGIE MICHAEL, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq - Top Shiite politicians failed to reach a consensus Wednesday on their nominee for prime minister, shifting the two-man race to a secret ballot and exposing divisions in the winning alliance. In a chilling reminder of challenges facing the winner, a videotape showed a sobbing Italian hostage pleading for her life. AP Photo AFP Slideshow: Iraq Deputy Governor in Iraq Escapes Car Bomb (AP Video) Latest headlines: ┬À Italian journalist begs for life, Iraq politicians jockey for jobs AFP - 31 minutes ago ┬À Iraq Conflict Feeds International Terror Threat -CIA Reuters - 1 hour, 5 minutes ago ┬À Iraq's Shi'ites Mull PM Choice as Hostage Pleads Reuters - 1 hour, 59 minutes ago Special Coverage After hours of closed-door meetings, members of the United Iraqi Alliance agreed to hold a secret ballot to choose between Ibrahim al-Jaafari and Ahmad Chalabi, most likely on Friday, said Ali Hashim al-Youshaa, one of the alliance's leaders. The contrast between the two candidates is stark and reveals a division within the clergy-endorsed alliance, made up of 10 major political parties and various allied smaller groups. Al-Jaafari, 58, is the leader of the religious Dawa Party, one of Iraq (news - web sites)'s oldest parties, known for its popularity and close ties to Iran. Although al-Jaafari is a moderate, his party's platform is conservative. Chalabi, 58, who left Iraq as a teen, leads the Iraqi National Congress and had close ties to the Pentagon (news - web sites) before falling out of favor last year after claims he passed intelligence information to Iran. A secular Shiite, Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress is an umbrella for groups that included Iraqi exiles, Kurds and Shiites. Much of the intelligence his group supplied on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction programs failed to pan out. Al-Jaafari was considered the leading contender Wednesday, though Chalabi's aides said their man had enough votes to win. Both candidates were expected to present their political agendas to alliance members before the secret vote, al-Youshaa said. The 140 lawmakers who will represent the alliance in the National Assembly, plus eight allied lawmakers, will decide who will be prime minister, al-Youshaa said. A close aide to Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the spiritual leader of Iraq's Shiite Muslims, said the alliance's leaders will visit the grand ayatollah's office in Najaf to get his blessing for their choice for prime minister. In the event they can't agree, al-Sistani will make the final decision, said the aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The alliance took 48 percent of the vote in the Jan. 30 national elections, but a two-thirds majority of the assembly is required for the most important decisions, including selection of a prime minister. Kurdish parties, who won 26 percent, have apparently agreed to support the alliance's candidate for prime minister in return for the largely ceremonial presidency. Sunni Arabs, who were favored under Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s rule, largely stayed away from the polls. But the Shiites must move cautiously if they want to reach out to the Sunnis to form an inclusive government and help quell a violent insurgency. A U.S. soldier assigned to the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force was killed in action Tuesday in western Iraq, a soldier died of a non-combat injury Wednesday at a base near Tikrit, and four soldiers died in vehicle accidents, the military announced. In addition, the bodies of eight Iraqis described as collaborators with U.S. forces were found in a desert area north of Baghdad. The case of the captive Italian journalist took an alarming turn Wednesday, as a videotape delivered anonymously to Associated Press Television News showed Giuliana Sgrena speaking in both French and Italian as she pleaded for the Italian government to withdraw its troops. "You must end the occupation, it's the only way we can get out of this situation," the 56-year-old journalist for the communist daily Il Manifesto pleaded. There was no indication when the tape was made, and the words "Mujahedeen Without Borders" appeared in digital red Arabic script on the video. The group was previously unknown. The video was released hours before the Italian Senate voted to extend Italy's troop deployment through June. Il Manifesto strongly opposed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and has fiercely criticized Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi's decision to deploy 3,000 troops in the U.S.-led multinational force in Iraq. At one point Sgrena broke into tears on the videotape, saying: "Show all the pictures I have taken of the Iraqis, of the children hit by the cluster bombs, of the women. ... Help me, help me to demand the withdrawal of the troops, help me spare my life." Sgrena was kidnapped Feb. 4 by gunmen outside a mosque in Baghdad. Conflicting claims about her fate have appeared on Islamic militant Web sites. In an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press, al-Jaafari said quelling the violence would be his first priority if he becomes prime minister, and that he would ask U.S. troops to stay as long as they are needed. Despite the Dawa Party's stated desire to impose Islamic law in Iraq, al-Jaafari said he supports guarantees for individual freedoms and women's rights. Chalabi has promised to cancel contracts the interim government has signed, form a strong intelligence service, and drop charges against Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who led two bloody revolts against U.S. forces and is wanted for the murder of a rival cleric, said Ali Faisal of the Shiite Political Council. Nevertheless, Hayder al-Mousawi, Chalabi's spokesman, said the differences were not a major problem for the Shiite alliance. "No way is there a division inside the alliance. Everybody agreed on adhering to whatever results the internal elections will reach," he said. If provisional results of the election stand, the alliance will have 140 seats in the 275-member National Assembly. Al-Youshaa said three other party coalitions, who won a combined eight seats, have joined the alliance bloc. Farid Ayar, spokesman for the electoral commission, said there have been 25 complaints about the election. "Most of them are asking for a recount of the votes and we are looking into those requests," he said. "You know, they just want more votes." He said he expected the commission to certify the vote totals Thursday, when the official allocation of seats in the National Assembly would also be announced. The assembly will pick the president, two vice presidents and draft a constitution. Once results are certified, the present government must set a timetable for installing the new government. There have been no indication how long that might take.

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of three soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. The soldiers died Feb. 13 in Balad, Iraq, when the vehicle they were riding in overturned. All were assigned to the Army's 5th Squadron, 7th Cavalry, 3d Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga. The incident is under investigation. The soldiers are: Sgt. Chad W. Lake, 26, of Ocala, Fla. Sgt. Rene Knox, Jr., 22, of New Orleans, La. Spc. Dakotah L. Gooding, 21, of Des Moines, IowaLink May you rest in peace...

quote: The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Lance Cpl. Richard A. Perez Jr., 19, of Las Vegas, Nev., died Feb. 10 as a result of non-hostile vehicle incident in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. He was assigned to Marine Forces ReserveÔÇÖs 6th Motor Transport Battalion, 4th Force Service Support Group, Las Vegas, Nev. The incident is under investigation.Link May you rest in peace...

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Icarus'Sin quote:Welcome to Icarus Sin's project page. Icarus Sin is an Elite style-space simulator, made for hobby. There is an alpha version of the project available in download section.

Lot's of good games on that list.

Link quote:By Stephen J. Hedges Washington Bureau The Bush administration asked Congress on Monday to provide $82 billion to cover unbudgeted costs in the global war on terrorism, but the request includes funds for a long-planned military reorganization and for activities such as tsunami aid that are seemingly unrelated to terrorism. The president's supplemental request seeks $42.5 billion that would pay for military activities in Iraq and Afghanistan through September, the end of the 2005 federal fiscal year, as well as $12 billion more to refurbish and replace worn-out vehicles, weapons and equipment used in those operations. The request includes $3 billion that is unrelated to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and $19 billion more that is not directly related to U.S. military costs there. "These funds will support U.S. armed forces and coalition partners as we advance democracy, fight the insurgency, and train and equip Iraqi security forces so that they can defend their sovereignty and freedom," President Bush said in a letter to House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.). Bush urged Congress "not to attach to this proposal items that are not directly related to these emergencies abroad." But the White House attached its extra spending request to a measure that is labeled "Funding for the War on Terror." Among the extras is $5.3 billion to pay for a restructuring of the Army and, to a lesser degree, the Marine Corps. The administration chose to not include those items in the $419.3 billion defense budget for 2006 that Bush submitted to Congress last week. That omission has raised bipartisan concerns among members of Congress, who criticized the president for using the supplemental request to further bolster an already escalating defense budget, and to fund programs that are unrelated to military operations. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told military leaders last week that the administration's annual defense budget concealed the true cost of its military spending. "It hides the true size of the overall budget deficit because it does not include the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan," Levin said of the defense budget. "It simply fails to include funding to pay for the incremental costs of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan." Others supported the White House request, including Rep. Jerry Lewis(R-Calif.), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. On Monday, he told The Associated Press that he would push the bill "quickly and cleanly through the Congress." Monday's supplemental request, if approved, would fund $7.4 billion to train Iraqi and Afghan security forces and $2 billion for Afghanistan reconstruction costs, as well as provide $2 billion to countries that have supported the U.S. efforts. The White House also asked for $658 million to build a new embassy in Iraq and $717 million for staff and related security operations. It also asks Congress to fund international aid and relief efforts that have nothing to do with Iraq and Afghanistan, including: - $950 million for the victims of the Dec. 26 Southeast Asian tsunami; - $342.4 million for those suffering in the Darfur region of Sudan; and - $780 million for the U.S. share of peacekeeping efforts in Haiti, Ivory Coast, Burundi and Sudan. Congress previously has approved more than $192 billion in supplemental spending for U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. If the new request is approved, the cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and other operations would jump to nearly $275 billion, far beyond the initial $200 billion estimate by Lawrence Lindsey, a former economic policy adviser to Bush. Currently there are about 152,000 American troops in Iraq, a number that is expected to drop by about 15,000 next month. U.S. commanders have not indicated when most of the U.S. forces might start returning home from the country, a consideration that is largely dependent on the ability of U.S.-trained Iraqi forces to take over security operations. Pentagon planners have prepared for military operations in Iraq through 2010. The latest supplemental request, according to White House spokesman Scott McClellan, "provides funding to make sure we are doing everything we can to train and equip Iraqi and Afghan forces in those areas. We want to make sure that Iraqi forces are going to be in position to ultimately provide for their own security so that our troops will be able to return home with honor." The Army has borne the brunt of the mission in Iraq, and the Pentagon contends that the Army's restructuring costs are an important part of its operations there. The Army is changing its organization to reduce its reliance on large divisions of up to 20,000 soldiers and instead aims to form 33 to 43 brigades of about 5,000 soldiers each. The new brigades will contain their own armor, helicopters, intelligence and other units that currently are drawn from within the larger divisions. The hope is that they will be more self-sufficient and modular so they could be sent to foreign lands without the support of a larger force. In the administration's 2006 Defense Department budget, the Army's overall budget actually drops by $300 million to $100 billion. But Pentagon officials, including Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, have pointed to the unbudgeted Iraq-Afghanistan spending to show that Army spending is actually increasing. Several military analysts have noted that more outside spending is creeping into the supplemental military requests, and more still may be added by Congress. "It seems as though they're using the supplemental as a standard part of the budgeting process and it is becoming institutionalized," said Loren Thompson, who directs the Lexington Institute, a Washington-area think tank. "It's partly because the administration isn't eager to admit that it's spending half a trillion a year on defense. But it's also because it has discovered that it will meet no resistance on Capitol Hill if it's spending that is characterized as being for the troops." - - - War budget request loaded with extras $5.3 BILLION Reorganizing Army and Marines to fight terrorism $950 MILLION Recovery funds for nations hit by South Asian tsunami $342 MILLION Aid to feed refugees and bolster peace accord in Sudan $200 MILLION Education and border security for Palestinians $60 MILLION Support for Ukraine's new reform government - - - Some $22 billion of the proposed $82 billion supplemental funding that President Bush has requested for the war on terrorism would go toward projects not directly related to U.S. military action in Iraq and Afghanistan. The bill is the fourth Bush has proposed since April 2003, bringing the total supplementary requests to $275 billion. Among the funds not directly related to U.S. military action: Bill not entirely for U.S. military action AMOUNT / REASON FOR FUNDING $7.4 billion: Training/equipping Iraqi and Afghan military and police. $5.3 billion: Restructuring Army and Marine units. $1.85 billion: Countering drugs, paying for security and supporting reconstruction in Afghanistan. $950 million: Helping areas affected by the recent tsunami in the Indian Ocean. $1.38 billion: Constructing/operating a new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. $400 million: Economically assisting nations that have taken political and economic risks to join the U.S.-led coalitions in Iraq and Afghanistan $342 million: Providing aid to promote peace for people in civil war-stricken Sudan. $200 million: Funding education and border security for the Palestinians. $300 million: Providing economic and military aid in Jordan. $150 million: Providing military aid for Pakistan. $60 million: Aiding Ukraine $780 million: Funding international peacekeeping activities Source: White House

Link quote:DETROIT - Detroit is a chilly town ÔÇö in more ways than one. The Motor City produces the most calls to the Rejection Hotline, a free telephone service that allows uninterested objects of affection to blow off come-ons. It works like this: You're asked for your telephone number by someone in which you have no interest. You might sound receptive by responding, "248-262-6861." When that number is dialed, this is what they get: "The person who gave you this number did not want you to have their real number. Maybe the idea of going out with you just seems as appealing as playing leapfrog with unicorns . ... Do your best to forget about the person who gave you this number because, trust us, they've already forgotten about you." The voice is that of Jeff Goldblatt, a 27-year-old Emory University student who developed Rejection Hotline in 2001. It now serves 29 cities in the United States. The Detroit line has logged more than 1.2 million calls since it was launched last year, making it the most dialed of the 29 hotlines. Cher Wardlow, who was given the number about a year ago, wasn't amused. "It was mean," said the 30-year-old store manager. "I was kind of insulted. I didn't think I was all bad. I thought he had lot of nerve."

quote:Originally posted by DocHoliday: From what I've read deja vu is a perfectly biological thing. One half of your brain being dominant, makes one eye also dominant. The picture that the dominant eye receives is processed slightly faster than the picture from the other eye (we're talking miliseconds).. Sometimes the left and right brain-lobes fail to coordinate properly which results in a feeling you've seen something before... Do you think deja vu can entail sight and sound?

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Link quote:By Mike Collett-White BERLIN (Reuters) - "Battleship Potemkin," Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 silent classic, has been restored and seen in its uncensored form for the first time in nearly 80 years. Cut by the Germans who bought the film, altered by the Soviets and banned in Britain and France for its revolutionary zeal, it nonetheless became one of the most important movies in cinema history. Restorers have worked for three years to insert scenes removed by German censors for their extreme violence and to correct translations of the Russian "inter-titles" which toned down the mutinous sailors' revolutionary rhetoric. "What we have restored now is more or less the version in which the film was screened in Moscow in January, 1926," Enno Patalas, the former director of the Munich Film Museum who led the restoration effort, told Reuters. Based on a true story, "Battleship Potemkin" dramatises a mutiny on a Russian ship and how it inspired a failed 1905 uprising against the country's Czars. Shot for the 20th anniversary of the event, seemingly minor incidents have bloody consequences, none more so than the shot by a Cossack that triggers a massacre on the steps of Odessa in the film's most famous passage. The scene, including a baby's pram hurtling toward the sea after its mother has been killed, is back to its brutal best, with close-ups of feet stepping on a child's corpse and a distraught mother holding aloft her dying son. A written introduction by Leon Trotsky, removed by the Soviets after he fell foul of Josef Stalin following Lenin's death, has also been reinstated. "The only censorship cut in the Soviet Union was the omission of the epigraph by Trotsky which we have restored now. That of course was taken away in the 1930s and replaced by a Lenin quotation," said Patalas. The most widely watched edit of the film is based on a sound version made in the 1950s, which includes the changes German censors imposed. Late on Saturday, as part of the annual Berlin Film Festival, a packed theater cheered after the restored five-act film was shown, accompanied by an orchestra playing an adaptation of the original score written by Edmund Meisel. Gunshots are accompanied by cymbals crashing, drums thunder for cannon fire and tension builds through gradual musical crescendo. The only flash of color is the garish red of the ship's flag, painted on to the negative. The film's overt Soviet propaganda means much has been made of its political agenda. But Patalas said it was also revolutionary artistically, relying heavily on acrobatics and caricature, and often ignoring logic. Eisenstein used a rush of images to intensify emotions in a style often likened to a newsreel, he juxtaposed shots in order to shock and his techniques have been copied well into cinema's era of sound. "Battleship Potemkin" had a huge critical impact when it was screened in Europe and in 1958 was voted the best film ever made by a jury of historians. His masterpiece was praised by James Joyce, Albert Einstein and American star Douglas Fairbanks, and yet Eisenstein was to struggle with Soviet censorship again and again.

Little blurb over at Gamespy.com quote:Electronic Arts and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment revealed today that they have secured the actors of the film Batman Begins for the upcoming video game adaptation. The game will feature Christian Bale as the Dark Knight, Michael Cane as Alfred Pennyworth, Liam Neeson as Henri Ducard, Katie Holmes as Rachael Dawes, Cillian Murphy as Jonathan Crane, Tom Wilkinson as Carmine Falcone and Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox. Developed by EA and Eurocom, Batman Begins allows gamers to fill the shoes of both Bruce Wayne and Batman, using stealth, intimidation, brute force and a assortment of bat-gadgets to combat criminals that appear in the movie including Scarecrow, Ra's Al Ghul and Carmine Falcone. Based on the film, Batman Begins is a new telling of Batman's birth, showing the transformation from an orphan to the champion of Gotham City. Batman Begins is due out in June for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube.mmm, not for the PC?

quote:friggin morons will try and sell anything nowadays...only if they think it will sell. If the Hummer is any indication, there are going to be a fair number of these things rolling around

quote: The Department of Defense announced today the death of an airman deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Staff Sgt. Ray Rangel, 29, of San Antonio, Texas, died Feb. 13 while performing a canal rescue mission in Balad, Iraq. Rangel was assigned to the 7th Civil Engineering Squadron, Dyess Air Force Base, Texas.Link May you rest in peace...

lol, I'm sure it does.

quote:Originally posted by Tac: *snip* that feeling that someone is watching you and most of the times it turns out to be right (there was even an experiment done on this about a decade ago where they put a person in a room full of see-through mirrors, each mirror could have 1 person behind it or not. the test had only one person choosing a mirror at random and standing there watching the subject intently.. in most cases and in most volunteer test subjects, they were able to determine which mirror the observer was behind after a few minutes of 'feeling' the stare out).It is part of the survival instincts, seems to me scientists have already studied this and figured out how it works? Maybe not....

Call me a skeptic. I like to see their results duplicated with other means of generating random numbers like through the measurement of radioactive decay.