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Anonymous Takes on Scientology

Sunday, members of a group called ‘Anonymous’ gathered outside the central Phoenix Church of Scientology to protest.Wearing face masks, purple latex gloves and dressed all in black, members held signs in front of the church.

You know precisely of who they speak. They do things for the lulz.
ABC News (popup warning!) by way of Slashdot

Curt News on February 11th, 2008

Oslo New Year Fireworks

In Norway there’s no tradition for fireworks arranged by the city. It’s too cold in January to gather downtown for the celebrations, so everyone just goes out into their gardens or a nearby open spot, launches their rockets and then heads back inside. The result is a view like this, with fireworks shooting up from [...]

Curt News on February 8th, 2008

Leave it to the Americans to blame headlice on Africans

Head lice taken from 1,000-year-old mummies in Peru support the idea that the little creatures accompanied humans on their first migration out of Africa, 100,000 years ago, researchers reported Wednesday.
Genetic tests showed the lice are nearly identical to strains found around the world that have been dated to when humans first began to colonize the [...]

Joe News on February 8th, 2008

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Joe News and Technology on February 1st, 2008

Black Industries to stop making RPGs

Black Industries, the makers of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay and the just-released-but-already-sold-out Warhammer 40k RPG are going to stop making RPGs. This makes me a sad panda.
Black Industries regret to announce that Dark Heresy: Disciples of the Dark Gods out in September will be the final product to be released from Black Industries.
Kevin Rountree General Manager [...]

Curt News and Role Playing Games on January 31st, 2008

The Best Selling PC Games for December 2007

1. Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - Activision
2. World Of Warcraft - Blizzard
3. The Sims 2 Bon Voyage - Electronic Arts
4. World Of Warcraft: Battle Chest - Blizzard
5. World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade - Blizzard
6. The Sims 2 Teen Style Stuff - Electronic Arts
7. Crysis - Crytek/EA
8. Half Life 2: Episode 2 The Orange [...]

Joe News and Video Games on January 30th, 2008

Al Gore Caught Warming Globe To Increase Box Office Profits

Old news, but I couldn’t pass it up.
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Dozens of eyewitness reports indicated that former vice president Al Gore deliberately attempted to raise the earth’s temperature in order to boost box office receipts for An Inconvenient Truth, his documentary film about global warming that was released in May.

Joe Humour and News on January 30th, 2008

The Lego Brick Turns 50

I had no idea! Hats off to the best toy ever, I must say.
http://cache.lego.com/2057/anniversary.htm

Curt News on January 28th, 2008