Archive for February, 2010

New Final Fantasy XI micro-expansions revealed; Final Fantasy XIV beta begins in March Filed under: Downloads, Expansions, MMO Square Enix‘s long running fantasy MMO Final Fantasy XI was thought by some to be dying. Indeed there were a few Internet rumors running around recently that the game would be shut down this year to...
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Paul Greengrass Explains Why He’s So Over the ‘Bourne’ Franchise After filming the sequels The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum and the semi Bourne-y upcoming thriller Green Zone, you couldn’t blame director Paul Greengrass for needing a change of pace. Amid rumors that he and Matt Damon would re-team for a fourth Bourne...
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Why wait for the new TVR? Get one now… but not from TVR Filed under: Car Buying, Coupe, Performance, Etc. Just a week ago, the rumor was spread that new TVRs will be coming to the U.S. and that they’ll cook their tires with U.S. engines – but you’ll probably have to wait until...
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VIDEO: Naughty Volvos headed this way? Filed under: Sedan, Performance, Geneva Motor Show, Videos, Volvo Naughty Volvos are coming – Click above to watch video after the jump March 2, at the Geneva Motor Show, Volvo is promising us ‘naughty’ cars. We have no idea what they have in mind – Sinful sedan? Evil...
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Video: Traffic control in Pyongyang Filed under: Etc., Government/Legal, Videos A member of Pyongyang, North Korea’s traffic police on the job. Image by BryanH. Follow the jump to watch video. North Korea may be a totalitarian hellhole run by a lunatic with an affinity for women’s M.C. Hammer glasses, but we’ll at least give...
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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: Solar cars, solar boats, solar… gold? The Week in Green is a new item from our friends at Inhabitat, recapping the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us. This week Inhabitat peered into the future of green tech as we liveblogged the most exciting moments from...
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PlayStation Network down, so are lots of PS3s It’s unclear exactly what’s going on at the moment, but it appears that the PlayStation Network is down and causing a whole host of related problems for PS3 systems, including 8001050F error codes, game crashes, corrupted trophy info, and even the complete inability to launch certain...
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Capital Crescent Trail Still Covered in Snow. According to:  http://www.cctrail.org/CCT_General_Info.htm …The Capital Crescent Trail, connecting from Georgetown D.C. to west Silver Spring in Montgomery County, MD, is a hiker-biker trail running for 11 miles along the right-of-way formerly used by the Georgetown Branch rail line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The transformation from...
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Some Light Reading No one likes getting stuck in traffic, but some roadblocks are better than others. A few of the best: an exceptionally cute string of ducklings; an ice cream truck with a flat tire; a stunning spread of 800 LED-equipped books. Earlier this week, the books blocked traffic on Water Street...
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What Comes After the iPad? When the iPad was unveiled in January, everyone could agree on one thing: it did look a lot like a big iPhone. Begeek.fr extrapolates Apple’s design consistency to its logical conclusion in its next two revolutionary devices. I hear the iBoard’s going to implement twenty finger multi-touch and...
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