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* Caffeine May
Protect From Radioactivity
This is another reason to
drink that Mt. Dew... ;)
..according to scientists in India who have found that mice given caffeine survive otherwise lethal doses of radiation.
Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/cgi-bin/pageserver.cgi?/ns/19990626/newsstory3.html
* Philip and Alex's
Guide to Web Publishing
This is a Slashdot review
of this book which points out that collaberative web sites are the best.
I've been trying to convince this dumb girl to work on a site merger, but
she still is in denial. Think your site might want to merge with 11TH?
Email me, I'm also looking for news/editorial *cough Wayfarer* and other
contributors.
Read the review and see
why: http://slashdot.org/books/99/06/28/1432242.shtml
* Correction
Yesterday in my Dteam map
news
I went on the assumption that it was a CTF map due to it's being
on Captured (I posted the news quick since the email was sent while I was
computerless before checking it out). In fact it's a DM map, so go snag
it... http://www.captured.com/dteam/
* Kingpin Is In
Stores
Whoohoo,
it's hammer time!!! I've been looking forward to this one after playing
the bloody and nasty demo ;)
Here's
a snip from the press release:
Developed by Xatrix Entertainment, the 3D action game will include music from multi-platinum recording artists Cypress Hill whose raw sounds set the tone of Kingpin. With a team of hired bodyguards, players find their way through 27 levels and six varied episodes while a multi-player game invites up to 16 people over an online Internet server.
Powered by the enhanced Quake II engine, Kingpin delivers some of the most unbelievably realistic graphics as seen on the PC. Specific enhancements include 32-bit color, full alpha transparencies, goraud lighting of characters, neural net-based AI and a myriad of other advanced special effects including motion capture technology.
Read the whole thing on sCary's: http://shugashack.com/docs/press/062899interplay.htm
* Linux Installation
Wizard Screenshots
Troll
Tech, Linux gurus and makers of QT have posted screenshots of their new
GUI Linux installer, which also has Tetris to play as you install ;) Check
this out, this is a major leap for Linux as it will make installation sooo
much easier, which is newbies biggeast complaint. http://www.troll.no/announce/lizardshots.html
* ZDNET Rviews
Top ISP's
For
all of you stuck with crappy pings on Quake II servers, this might be of
some help, anything beats AOL ;) Read it: http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/reviews/0,6755,406529,00.html
* SDMI Standard
For Portable Devices
This
article explains the much discussed 'standard' that is planned for digital
music in the future. This is how the people with $$$ plan on getting more
$$$ while screwing all of us with no $$$. Read it here: http://www.mp3.com/news/281.html
* #120 WHAT ISN'T
FOR SALE?
Look
around, anything you can imagine can be sold. Hell I just sold Rine on
Ebay, he dosen't know his new owners are picking him up later this afternoon
:)
* RINE'S LINK
OF THE DAY
Formerly
a comic attached to Loonygames, Penny
Arcade has flown solo. If you aren't familier with Penny Arcade,
it's a well drawn comic about computer gaming, and it's funny too.
| MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1999 |
* Dteam Releases
New Map..
Sorry
for the sluggish post on this one, but my computer was.... melted (see
above).
Dteam's
gone and done it again. A total revamp and a new quake 2 map is ready
for
you!
Dteam is : http://www.captured.com/dteam/
+dolomite
It's on Captured so you figure out what kind of map it is... :P
* Hi (12:45 PM,
EST)
Well
I'm back in the saddle, I have the comic drawn but the scanned copy is
blah so I'm touching it up. I'll post it later, it explains where I have
been....
* @HOME *Secretly*
Sneaks In 128-kbps Upload Limit
Yup the bastards are capping
uploads to *help* bandwidth troubles caused by people using @HOME to run
web servers. Funny they never mentioned it to @HOME subscribers and actively
tried to conceal it... Read more: http://www.internetnews.com/isp-news/article/0,1087,8_144121,00.html
* New Eraser Ultra
What is Eraser Ultra?
Eraser ULTRA takes the best features from all the mods around, and adds them to EraserBot... these features are:
* RIAA Commits
Legal Hara-Kiri
That's the name of the MP3.com
article, and it tells how the RIAA has screwed itself by getting a few
facts straight and on the books. A couple points of note:
1. The heart of the decision wasn't about the Rio or any other portable device. It was about computers.
2. Once a music file gets on a computer hard drive - no matter where it came from or how it got there - it is exempt from the Audio Home Recording Act and can be freely transferred to portable players and other playback devices without royalty payments or serial copy limits.
Read it all here: http://www.mp3.com/news/277.html
* Rio 500
And one the corpse of the
RIAA Diamond has planted new seeds, the Rio 500. The features:
In addition to 64 MB of on-board memory (upgradeable to 96 MB using flash memory cards), the Rio 500 is now supported by Mac and Windows. The player comes bundled with slick new song file management software and support of Audible.com's proprietary audio format for spoken word content. The $269 Rio 500 will ship to stores in August.
http://www.mp3.com/news/280.html
* 3DGamersEdge
Reopens... For A Day
I used to love this site,
sadly it closed, but it still has some life... In the 'New Maps' section
there is a new map (and one from a couple monthes ago) that receive a 120
rating, which is higher than excellent. They are not just a couple maps,
they are more like whole units, so if you love single player Quake2 (I
do) go get them. http://planetquake.com/3dgamersedge/
* New Quake3 Screenshots
Over on Gamers Central they
have a couple new pics of some models (Quakeguy and Sarge) and the female
model.
http://www.gamerscentral.net/news/quake3/img1.html
http://www.gamerscentral.net/news/quake3/img2.html
* New National
Game Review
Rine loves this site. Take
news, computer/gaming, and sick senses of humor, add some genuine magazine
layout, and you have the National Game Review. They update every Monday
(if we're lucky) and I'll be passing on the goodness.
http://www.nationalgamereview.com/index.html
* # 119 EVEN THE
MEEK CAN CARRY GUNS
Never underestimate someone
by their size or intelligence... They might have a surprise...
* RINE'S LINK
OF THE DAY
Laser
Vaginal Rejuvenation.
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