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Jaws turns 35, still looks fake

It was on June 20, 1975 that audiences first bore witness to perhaps the greatest opening sequence in cinematic history: that of Christine Watkins taking her drunk boyfriend down to the shores of Amity Island for a little moonlight skinny dipping. We all know how that turned out, and audiences became so horrified and fascinated [...]
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Rock Band 3: Rock Out with your Natural Talent Out

Remember when Rock Band first arrived on the scene? It, along with the venerable classic Guitar Hero, proved that it is possible to get up off the couch and interact with a game in a way that no Wiimote could ever hope to deliver. And the world lost its friggin’ mind. Suddenly people who had [...]
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NASA captures solar flares, confirms human insignificance, all in glorious HD

What you’re looking at above is awe-inspiring for two reasons; one, it’s a Gizmodo story that has nothing to do with a leaked iPhone, and two, it’s some of the first imagery and data sent back from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). In it, NASA was able to capture a full solar flare (or “prominence [...]
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Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow, nor Cylons, nor old Jimi Hendrix songs…

It’s been done before, countless times; people with more time and money on their hands than they know what do do with turning cars into iconic movie props. Sometimes the results are spectacular; sometimes, not so much. This latest contender is from Dean Shorey, the master ride mechanic for Seabreeze Amusement Park in Rochester, NY. [...]
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An rgbFilter review: Ryan’s hands-on with the iPad

When I came into the office this morning, the very last thing I expected to see on my desk was a shiny, new, 16gb, Wi-Fi-only iPad. Right about the time I was thinking to myself what I’d done recently to deserve such a gift, the owner came by to pick it up and apologize for [...]
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New Photoshop features get demoed, drooled over

Adobe has released a video showing one of its new features, the “Content Aware Fill” tool. Similar to the Healing Brush tool, Content Aware allows users to paint over parts of an image to a point that they appear to have never existed at all. The video above shows this impressive new feature in a [...]
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Portal 2 becomes a reality, and OSX support is not a lie.

In 2008, on Doug’s suggestion, I picked up a copy of the year-old Orange Box for the 360 on a whim. (Said whim was spurred on by Doug’s claim that if I didn’t buy it, there was something seriously wrong with me.) Turns out, he was right, as Orange Box was my first foray [...]
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Walt Mosspuppet’s hands-on with a certain tablet computer you may have heard about.

As has become the norm on Applemas Eve, speculation and rumours have reached a fever pitch leading up to tomorrow’s Apple event at which the company’s tablet device is rumoured to be unveiled to a wide (and, likely, teary)-eyed world. The blogging, speculation, and mock-ups have been pouring in from bloggers and “insiders who prefer [...]
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Transformers: War for Cybertron is the Transformers video game you might actually WANT to play

Not since Hot Rod opened up the Matrix of leadership to the haunting tune of “You Got the Touch” have I been so moved by anything Transformers related. It’s not because I’m some kind of callow emotionless jerk-bot. It’s because anything transformers-related since 1986 has, um, sucked. But the Transformers: War for Cybertron game trailer looks [...]
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Bing to potentially replace Google as the iPhone’s search engine of choice

According to an article in Business Week, Apple and Microsoft have been making plans to bring The Find Engine to the iPhone, replacing Google as the search engine of choice on the rapidly aging Apple device. This move would exacerbate the already touchy relationship between Apple and Google, and would more distinctly define the two companies [...]
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Wacom Bamboo Fun Pen & Touch Tablet: A re-review

Back in November, Dave was able to satisfy his desire need to be able to multi-touch everything by plunking down $230 on the Wacom Bamboo Fun Pen & Touch tablet. He was kind enough to review it for us, and his reactions were decidedly favourable; so much so that Doug was convinced enough to pull [...]
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Bye bye, Big Bop

Yet another Toronto institution is closing its doors forever. In January of 2010, the iconic Big Bop will be no longer. Located at Queen and Bathurst, the Bop is the home of Kathedral, Holy Joe’s, and Reverb, and is known to many as a favourite venue for Toronto’s indie music scene. A cold wind seems to [...]
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