random-abstract.com - A Geek's Weblog

fun

2010-03-10T14:28:00.001-05:00

Do Liberals, Atheists Have Higher IQs? - BusinessWeek
"He also found that more intelligent people tend to stay up later than less intelligent people." http://bit.ly/bR4baM

PS3 3D update landing in June | Games Industry | MCV

AFP: Scientists tease DNA from eggshell of extinct birds

Warp Speed Will Kill You - Yahoo! News

Profiles of Justice: The Wonder Twins - Casey Schreiner

Three reasons to sell Apple - The Globe and Mail

Shanley Caswell on Twitter is AC TV Pilot daughter.
Twitgoo - shanley_caswell

I Really Dig This Lady, She's Cool - night note - Kotaku

Twitpic / todbrody
Twitpic / SoundOnline
Twitpic / Strappedinsilk [NSFW/Funny]
Twitpic / theMFdame [NSFW]

fun

2010-03-08T14:02:00.000-05:00

Microsoft's Courier 'digital journal': exclusive pictures and details - Engadget

Voltron Does Not Get Any More Adorable Than This - Cosplay - Kotaku

Human Giant | Full Episodes | MTV
Five Things You'll Hate About Final Fantasy XIII - G4tv.com

Adam Carolla, pod(cast) person - latimes.com

Vintage Ads
ClicksyPics
Auto Polo

Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome
Albotas
The Daily What
certified bullshit technician.

beepbeep

Iria - lj Artworks

Twitpic / xJanessabrazilx [NSFw]
Twitpic / chasepino [WTF NSFW Funny]

Fun

2010-03-05T13:59:00.001-05:00

Been playing alot of the Battlefield Bad Company 2 on the PS3. It got me thinking of my PC BF stats and I did some searching and I found some.

fun

2010-03-04T14:04:00.001-05:00

Sony Readies Gadgets to Rival Apple's iPad - WSJ.com

Ousted Infinity Ward Founders' Lawsuit Against Activision (The Court Documents) - Infinity Ward - Kotaku

‘Six Days In Fallujah’ Is Finished And Awaiting Release? » MTV Multiplayer

PS3 bug ‘baby boom’ predicted | Games Industry | MCV

Source: Killzone 3 is 3D, uses wand - CVG

Take-Two: More Borderlands DLC Coming - PC - Kotaku

Star Trek Online Spreads Infection

Comedy Central's Zombie Social Worker Wants To Get You Off Brains - Ugly americans

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

2010-03-01T14:29:00.001-05:00

Latest info on PlayStation Network Status – PlayStation.Blog
We hope to resolve this problem within the next 24 hours. In the meantime, if you have a model other than the new slim PS3, we advise that you do not use your PS3 system, as doing so may result in errors in some functionality, such as recording obtained trophies, and not being able to restore certain data.

Instant No Button! Star Wars funnies FTW!

Fun

2010-02-26T14:28:00.003-05:00

I was given an Original Xbox so now I can get my Favorite Xbox title..
Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball - Wikipedia

'Zombies' have free speech rights too, US court rules

BBC News - South Africa school dormitory closes after lesbian kiss

Deer-Sex Statue Leaves Lasting Impression on College Campus - Asylum.com

Real World Test: Does 1080p Truly Matter? - Reviews by PC Magazine

UK Immortalises Lara Croft in Tarmac

Taliban militants use PS2 controller as bomb detonator @ Gaming Target

Google warned by EU over Street View photos

Jay Leno's Garage of Cars & more Cars..

Twitpic / hayley_allen [NSFW]
Twitpic / Miss_Makepeace [NSFW]
Twitpic / DiamondFoxxx [NSFW]
Twitpic / biglilkim [NSFW Funny]

random

2010-02-25T14:19:00.000-05:00

YouTube - Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Day 1 Map Pack Trailer

LamesRadar presents: One letter off games | GamesRadar

The Escapist : Video Galleries : Zero Punctuation : Dante's Inferno

Killer Whale's Violent Past Includes Deadly Attack on Ultima-Obsessed Drifter - killer whale - Kotaku

Local billboard company rejects ad with muppet cleavage

PS3 Castle Crashers News Coming Soon

Twitter / The Behemoth : We will have some Castle C ...
Castlepedia - CastleWiki
Castle Crashers - Wikipedia
Castle Crashers
PlayStation LifeStyle » Castle Crashers Crashing Onto PSN This Year

News: Bungie quiet on PS3 development

PlayStation 4 and Xbox 720 Will Not Arrive Too Soon

First contact & SETI

Microsoft Takes Down Whistleblower Site, Read the Secret Doc Here | Wired.com

Shirt.Woot : One Shirt, No Shoes, No Service (SM)

H. P. Lovecraft - Wikipedia
Free ebooks by H.P. Lovecraft
Cthulhu Mythos - Wikipedia

Ceiling Cat - Encyclopedia Dramatica

Make your own Ceiling Cat! (Images & Pictures)
LOLCat Bible Translation Project
Amazon.com: LOLcat Bible: In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez an da Erfs n stuffs (9781569757345): Martin Grondin: Books

Random

2010-02-24T14:31:00.000-05:00

How a hobbit is rewriting the history of the human race | Science | The Observer

PS3 Update, 2/25 - Gearbox Software Community
YouTube - Borderlands: The Secret Armory of General Knoxx DLC Trailer

SheldonShirts.com - Sheldon T-Shirts from Big Bang Theory

NSFW: Kirsten Dunst Is Your Magical Nerd Princess - Hollywood - Kotaku

The Dalai Lama is now on Twitter.

PMC FAN - LJ
Sharp-End
Private military company - Wikipedia

Patch Alert: MAG v1.03

70MB of additional RAM unlocked for PS3 developers

YouTube - Remembering Modern Warfare 2 - The Rise of Battlefield Bad Company 2

NASA - Bursting at the Seams

Google Earth's View of the Boneyard, Where Planes Go to Die - The boneyard - Gizmodo

YouTube - LondonsScreenArchive's Channel

» Hillary Duff Teaches All Girls How To Handle Getting Engaged [NSFW?]

my-bodda - LJ [NSFW?]
businassman1 - LJ [NSFW]
AD NOCTUM - LJ [NSFW]

New

2010-02-23T14:28:00.001-05:00

Borderlands - PS3 Update, 2/25 - Gearbox Software Community
Balance adjustments:
- Chests in New Haven have been adjusted to contain more appropriate loot
New Haven chests now all white - Gearbox Software Community

Meet the Flintstones | The Texas Tribune
Nearly a third of Texans believe humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth at the same time.

‘Family Guy’ Voice Actor Says Palin ‘Does Not Have a Sense of Humor’ - NYTimes

BBC News - iPhone developers angry as Apple purges adult apps

Rumour: Killzone 3 Coming This Christmas - PushSquare.com
Resistance 3 scheduled for a 2011 launch
Hustle Gaming Blog > Killzone 3 set to support 3-D and motion controls

Kotaku-tan - Meat Bun :: Store
List of SingStar titles (PS3) - Wikipedia

The Old Republic: While we wait for The Old Republic: Trial of Han Solo

YouTube - tobin00's Channel
NooBTooB » Index

Nerdist Podcast #3: Adam Carolla
The Nerdist - podcast episodes by Chris Hardwick on iTunes

Bigpicture.ru

belyi-mitia - LJ [NSFW]

Twitpic / somgun [NSFW]
Twitpic / SexyHornyBiSlut [NSFW]
Twitpic / MsMandyMay [NSFW]
WTF is this? - Twitpic [NSFW]

fun

2010-02-22T13:59:00.000-05:00

The Dan Band
Dan Finnerty - Wikipedia

Dan Finnerty's 40th Birthday Bash in Las Vegas

YouTube - the wedding singer "Total Eclipse of the Heart" from OLD SCHOOL
YouTube - Candy Shop by Dan Finnerty scene from 'The Hangover"

YouTube - DAN FINNERTY Feel like makin love
YouTube - Starsky and Hutch - I feel like making love
YouTube - The Dan Band - "I Wanna Rock You Hard This Christmas"

YouTube - Tic Tac Toe - Warum
Warum (Tic Tac Toe song) - Wikipedia

Twitpic / jujulovesboobs [NSFW]
Twitpic / hitomisugoi [NSFw]
Twitpic / bqeg [NSFW]
Twitpic / mika_tan [NSFW]
Twitpic / buxombbws [NSFW]

2010-02-18T14:31:00.001-05:00

I've been reading up on Squad/Platoon Tactics for MAG. I know, what a geek.

Platoon Tactical Movements - GS.org

Army Intelligence and Security Doctrine

FM 3-21.8 The Infantry Rifle Platoon and Squad PDF in .rar file on a Chinese website.

wiki.defence.org.cn - Powered by HDWiki!

Fun

2010-02-17T14:25:00.000-05:00

Sony to charge for cross-game chat on PSN? | News | TechRadar UK
Sony PS3 Arc launching next month | Electricpig

‘Bad Company 2′ Rewards ‘Battlefield 1943′ Owners With M1 Garand » MTV Multiplayer

‘Battlefield Bad Company 2′ Features ME2′-Style DLC Access Code, In-Game Store » MTV Multiplayer

Difference Between Nerd, Geek, And Dork | Going The Wong Way

demotivational posters : newest photos photos 1-20 of 47471 photos

Modern Warfare 2: Freedom isn’t Free-for-All | PLAY Magazine

Sony: PS3 Winning Third Party Support | Edge Online

THQ CEO: Saints Row and Red Faction at E3
You'll be seeing more of Homefront. We've been talking about it, but we'll actually show some of our Warhammer 40k MMO, and I think people are going to go, 'Oh my God. They've got their stuff together.'" And Saints Row 3 will evidently cause some to remark, "This is not your father's THQ."

Homefront -- Joystiq

Homefront (video game) - Wikipedia
The game is written by John Milius the writer of Apocalypse Now and Red Dawn.

YouTube - PlayStation 3 Commercial - "Montage"

Atheist Group Files Suit to End Tax Break for Ministers

Fun

2010-02-16T14:28:00.000-05:00

Perfect World Entertainment –Free to Play MMORPG I need to play this one again.

PS3 motion controller will be at GDC (March 11th, 2010)

Justin Webb - Two Thumbs Way Down - MMORPG.com

DealExtreme: Cool Gadgets at the Right Price
Friend order some cool stuff from them.

Want to Help Find Aliens? Now, You Can - AOL News
Wait what have I been Boinc'in then?

The Hot Tub is Full [NSFW?] via Twitpic / Chaos4lyfe [NSFW]
Another WTF?! product: Behold The Nipple Bra! on Twitpic [NSFW]
Twitpic / MistressAnne [NSFw]
Twitpic / HillaryHooterz [NSFW]
Twitpic / hitomisugoi [Very NSFW]
Twitpic / marcaum [Random NSFW ETC...]
Après le gif du requin en 3D qui fait mal aux yeux [NSFW 3D]

Twitpic / MsMandyMay [NSFW]
Hotness just got a new definition | Ms Mandy May [NSFW]

bizarre

2010-02-16T14:23:00.002-05:00

I just find the shooting in Alabama tragic and extremely bizarre. There aren't really many cases of female shooters and the only one that really comes to mind is the Brenda Ann Spencer I don't like Mondays Shooting.

Survivor: Ala. prof in slayings shot methodically
Ng said the meeting had been going on for about half an hour when Amy Bishop "got up suddenly, took out a gun and started shooting at each one of us. She started with the one closest to her and went down the row shooting her targets in the head."

2010 University of Alabama in Huntsville shooting - Wikipedia
Amy Bishop (born April 24, 1965) is the mother of four children. Bishop had been denied tenure in March 2009 and expected not to have her teaching contract renewed after March 2010.

snopes.com: I Don't Like Mondays

Fun

2010-02-15T13:48:00.001-05:00

‘Obscene’ U.S. Manga Collector Jailed 6 Months | Threat Level | Wired.com

The Escapist : News : EVE Online: GoonSwarm Disbanded

Kevin Smith 'Too Fat' to Fly Southwest - Kevin Smith

Apple Bans iPhone Hackers from App Store | Redmond Pie

Curate outrages congregation by telling women to 'be silent and submit to your husbands'

Links to Spirituality Found in the Brain - Yahoo! News

Three Bayonettas, And Dueling Pikachu Girls - Cosplay - Kotaku
My Life In Home, Vol. 4: The Definition Of Beta - G4tv.com

Funeral Humor on Twitpic
I was like WTF, but then I saw the Boom Mic.

Nemesea | Home
Nemesea Profile - hyves.nl
Nemesea (Nemesea) on Twitter

todays NSFW picture is...OK wait it's a little safe... on Twitpic
WTF Historical [NSFW] - Twitpic LOL

News Bits

2010-02-12T14:19:00.000-05:00

Dad of Palin grandson bares all for Playgirl cover - washingtonpost.com
John McCain´s Daughter: Tea Party Movement is Racist

Poll: Tea Party candidates come in last - USATODAY.com

China Warns US On Dalai Lama, But Tensions To Cool

Adviser to Detained Americans in Haiti Is Investigated - NYTimes.com

FOXNews.com - Fox News Poll: Most Voters Say Allow Gays to Serve Openly

Fun

2010-02-11T14:17:00.002-05:00

Borderlands New DLC Trophy/Achievement List

Pro Tips with Tsquared: Modern Warfare 2 Loadout Tips - G4tv.com

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Tactical Field Manual
Type the Gamertag SFU Lord Apx in the first area to gain access. Lots of #BFBC2 info!

How To Play The Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Demo - Battlefield: bad company 2 - Kotaku

MAG Developer Tips: Domination

Rumor: Firmware 3.20 to Enable 3D on the PS3 on VGChartz.com

Rumour: Final Fantasy XIII set to go 3D | News | TechRadar UK

The WoW Player's Guide to Star Trek Online - Massively
Star Trek Online Review | Eurogamer
Engage! Star Trek Online Review - G4tv.com

News: Killzone 3 details in "next few months"

Japanese murder exposes world of hired marriage wreckers

YouTube - Sir Patrick Stewart #dig_nat

Low IQ among strongest predictors of cardiovascular disease -- second only to cigarette smoking in large population study

Hamsterfly on deviantART

Twitpic / mirrorpics [NSFW]

Fun

2010-02-10T14:24:00.000-05:00

YouTube - Jailbreak iPhone/iPod Touch OS 3.1.3

MAG Developer Tips: Acquisition – PlayStation.Blog

MAG Wiki - Weapons, Gear, Raven, Valor, S.V.E.R. and more!

Why the Army Doesn’t Train on Xboxes | Wired.com

Netflix Streaming Getting a 1080p Upgrade (Update: Or Not?)

IMDb | Road to the Oscars 2010 | Academy Awards

“Study”: Kids that play FPS games are less empathetic

Farmville Releases $40 Unwither Ring | Social Game Central

adidas - Star Wars
star wars :: Search Results on FootLocker.com
StarWars.com | The adidas Originals Star Wars Collection for 2010

Gamestop.com - Buy Yakuza 3 - Playstation 3
Peruse Yakuza 3’s Pre-order Bonuses – PlayStation.Blog

Golden Age Comic Book Stories
Retrofuturism

Titty_Ru - LJ [NSFW]

misc

2010-02-08T14:15:00.000-05:00

5 best PlayStation 3 media streaming apps | News | TechRadar UK

Bad Company 2 Features A World War II Section - G4tv.com

Le développement de Tom Clancy's Endwar 2 en pause

Capcom Teases Monster Hunter MMO for West - Shacknews

BBC - Giant bizarre deep sea fish filmed in Gulf of Mexico

Beer is a rich source of silicon and may help prevent osteoporosis

mr-barmalei - LJ

Fun

2010-02-03T13:57:00.001-05:00

Sony to Sell 3-D Versions of Archived Movies as Early as 2010 - BusinessWeek
The company plans to start selling 9 models of 3-D Bravia televisions and a Blu-Ray disc player this summer, when it will also enable PlayStation 3 machines to run games in 3-D by updating programs.

End Bosses: Sony's Peter Dille - PS3 feature - at IGN

Brink (video game) - Wikipedia
YouTube - Inside Gaming Exclusive: Bethesda's Brink Interview

YouTube - Brink Container City Gameplay Part 1 [HD]

Alien vs Predator gets demo tomorrow, new shots released

Star Trek MMO Log, Stardate 2010.02 - Star trek week - Kotaku

PS3 MAG In-Game Ribbons

2010-02-02T01:22:00.002-05:00

Grim Reaper Ribbon - Killing 35 enemies in one battle.
Purple Heart Ribbon - Dying 30 times in one battle.
Mr. Badwrench Ribbon - Destroying 5 vehicles in one battle.
Butterfingers Ribbon - Killing yourself 5 times in one battle.
Bunker Buster Ribbon - Destroying 3 bunkers in one battle.
Gold Field Engineer Ribbon - Repairing 3 bunkers in one battle.
Mortar Demolition Ribbon - Destroying 3 mortar batteries in one battle.
Gate Keeper Ribbon - Repairing 3 gates in one battle.
Party Crasher Ribbon - Destroying 3 gates in one battle.
Bronze Field Engineer Ribbon - Repairing 3 roadblocks in one battle.
Wrecking Crew Ribbon - Destroying 3 roadblocks in one battle.
Silver Field Engineer Ribbon - Repairing 3 bridges in one battle.
Mortar Support Ribbon - Repairing 3 mortar batteries in one battle.
Total Blackout Ribbon - Destroying 3 sensor arrays in one battle.
Network Support Ribbon - repairing 3 sensor arrays in one battle.
Marauder Ribbon - Planting 10 explosive charges in one battle.
Bomb Squad Ribbon - Disarming 5 explosive charges in one battle.
Master Engineer Ribbon - Repairing 250 units of Damage.
Combat Mechanic Ribbon - Repairing 5 vehicles in one battle.
Golden Cross Ribbon - Reviving 15 allies in one battle.
Silver Bullet Ribbon - Killing 10 enemies with headshots in one battle.
Longshot Ribbon - Killing 3 enemies at over 120m in one battle.
Purple Sidekick Ribbon - Earning 15 assists in one battle.
Silver Cross Ribbon - healing 250 units of damage.
AAA Demolition Ribbon - Destroying 3 anti-aircraft batteries in one battle.
AAA Support Ribbon - Repairing 3 anti-air batteries in one battle.
Combat Assault Ribbon - Killing 30 enemies with an assault rifle in one battle.
Combat Fragger Ribbon - Killing 10 enemies with a grenade in one battle.
Combat Melee Ribbon - Killing 15 enemies with a knife in one battle.
Combat Machine Gun Ribbon - Killing 30 enemies with a MG in one battle.
Combat SMG Ribbon - Killing 30 enemies with a SMG in one battle.
Combat Sniper Ribbon - Killing 30 enemies with a sniper rifle in one battle.
Combat Sidearm Ribbon - Killing 30 enemies with a sidearm in one battle.
Combat Shotgun Ribbon - Killing 30 enemies with a shotgun in one battle.
Combat Launcher Ribbon - Killing 5 enemies with a rocket launcher in one battle.
Miner's Ribbon - Placing 30 mines in one battle.
Armchair General Ribbon - Killing 30 enemies with a bunker turret gun in one battle.
Rocket Man Ribbon - Killing 5 enemies with a bunker turret rocket in one battle.
Road Rage Ribbon - Awarded for running down 5 enemies in one battle.
Screaming Eagle Ribbon - Parachuting 15 times in one battle.

Fun

2010-02-01T14:01:00.001-05:00

MAG on the PS3 is flawed, imperfect... still a gem

Wes Clark Jr.

MAG developer on player griefing, using XP as a "carrot"

YouTube - PS3 Players FREAK OUT When Betrayed on MAG

APOD: 2010 January 31 - The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript APOD: 2010 January 31 - The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript

Voynich manuscript - Wikipedia

How to Suck at Facebook - The Oatmeal

YouTube - "American Body Shop" Series Montage

Lastpic - LJ [NSFW]
kliq4z - LJ [NSFW]

"Vampire Sex Diaries": Because Writers Are Sexy - Vampires - Fleshbot [NSFW]
Cat (Burning Angel) - burning angel - Fleshbot [NSFW]

Fun Fun

2010-01-25T14:22:00.003-05:00

Medal of Honor (medalofhonor) on Twitter
Guess the cat's out of the bag...
Medal of Honor's multiplayer will be using the Frostbite engine.

As many of you may have read, we are using a heavily-modified Unreal 3 Engine for Medal of Honor's single-player campaign.
Frostbite Engine - Wikipedia

DICE Dev spills the beans on the Multiplayer Engine - CONFIRMED

Hands-on: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 single-player
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Hands-on

PS3 Just Cause 2 to have YouTube clip upload feature

BBC News - PlayStation 3 'hacked' by iPhone cracker
George Hotz - Wikipedia
On the PlayStation 3
George Hotz (geohot) on Twitter

Re: Fishing Game - GUIDE - PlayStation®Home Forums
Geoff Keighley: Mass Effect 2 Will Come To PS3, EA Just Can’t Talk About It Yet

Cindy McCain comes out for gay marriage, poses for anti-Prop 8 ad
Bouska on Cindy McCain's NOH8 Shoot | News | Advocate.com

fun

2010-01-22T14:14:00.001-05:00

Viddler - MAG TV Spot - Uploaded by sceablog

Battlefield Bad Company 2 Blowout - Gametrailers TV with Geoff Keighley

Facebook | Limit Access to Friends List

Classic Adam Carolla & Dr. Drew Loveline! - Loveline-2002-08-22cf.mp3

Sleep Talkin' Man
YouTube - Sleep-talking man who is an internet sensation - 18 Jan 2010

aff_inity4you Mostly Artistic/Photod SFW

Multiupload.com - upload your files to multiple file hosting sites!

Atheist Moral Code & Prison

2010-01-21T21:28:00.001-05:00

Penn mentions that in Prison only 0.21% of prisoners are Atheist but that in the US 10-15% of the total population is considered Atheist.

Prison Incarceration and Religious Preference
The results of the Christians vs atheists in prison investigation.

Percentage of religious ppl in prison as opposed to Atheists . . .? - Yahoo! Answers

Religion in the United States - Wikipedia

Even smaller numbers from this MA State site...
MA Department of Correction 66 out of 10,132 prisoners are Atheists
http://www.mass.gov/Eeops/docs/doc/research_reports/112008.pdf