A moderator on the “Bungie Forums”:http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=829516 has acknowledged the leak of Halo 2 to the ‘net, saying it could have been something as low-tech as an employee in the manufacturing plant pocketing a disc on the way home, and that Bungie hasn’t been hacked. Half-Life 2 was stolen several months ago from Valve’s internal network, […]

Damien Stolarz turns his USB flash drive into a bootable device:
The cool thing is, the HP utility is reported to work with many other flash drives - I have a no-name USB 2.0 thumb drive, made it bootable with the HP utility on a 1.1 USB bus, and then used it to boot a Via […]

You may have heard of The Daily WTF where bad code across all languages is flogged on a near daily basis. Now, someone has started a similar site focusing specifically on bad PHP code snippets. It’s relatively new, and thus has very few entries yet. However, my favorite may just be the […]

I can’t wait for this.

Sonnet, a big name in Macintosh accessories and upgrades, announced on Thursday the Tempo Bridge, a SATA to Parallel ATA adapter. Essentially, the little board plugs into the back of most 3.5″ hard drives, allowing G5 user’s to take advantage of the often cheaper parallel drives. Just slide the […]

Based on it’s specs, the Gmini XS200 from Archos looks like it has potential to be competitive with the iPod Mini.
At just a tad larger than a business card, but with a 20GB hard drive, while it can’t play music from iTMS, it can store a heck of a lot more music than similar-sized flash […]

Google has quietly released a Desktop Search system (with the obligatory beta) for Windows XP and 2000 (SP 3+) based computers.
Desktop Search is designed to search the contents of your computer. It currently searches: Outlook (Outlook Express), AOL Instant Messenger, Internet Explorer, Word, Excel, Powerpoint and text files.
Google is really rockin’!
(Found via fiftyfoureleven.com)

Mark your calendars–the Japanese DVD release of Gunbuster 2 (aka Top wo Nerae! 2) is available on DVD on November 26, 2004.

According to “Kotaku”:http://www.kotaku.com/, Nintendo has cut the following classic games down to $20. What a great deal! Especially for Zelda: The Windwaker, easily one of the best games of all time in my opinion.
* Animal Crossing
* Kirby Air Ride
* “Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=twotallsocks-20&path=tg/detail/-/B000084318/qid=1097766658/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl63?v=glance&s=videogames&n=507846
* Mario Golf
* Super Mario: Sunshine
* Wario World
In fact, most of […]

*Gasp* The French version of Halo 2 has been pirated! Shocking! Unbelievable!
Seriously though, who _didn’t_ see this coming? It’s the most anticipated Xbox game ever, of course it’s going to be pirated before it’s released. I’d be wary of downloading this one though, something this hot is going to be tracked by Microsoft pretty thoroughly. […]

The Xbox Media Center Extender is a $80 add-on to your Xbox and Windows Media Center PC 2005 to allow your Xbox to do things like watch live or recorded TV, check the weather, listen to internet radio or song files on your Media Center PC, etc. You simply connect the Xbox to your home […]

I consider myself to be a techie, but technology like this blows my mind. Cyberkinetics, a company based in Foxborough, Massachusetts, has developed the Braingate:

A pill-sized brain chip has allowed a quadriplegic man to check e-mail and play computer games using his thoughts. The device can tap into a hundred neurons at a time, […]

The French have approved the use of cell phone jammers for theaters, movie houses, and concert halls to block cell phone signals inside their buildings.
This is the greatest thing in the world and I very strongly hope that it happens in the US eventually. There is absolutely nothing more infuriating than paying $8 to see […]

Jonathan Snook is building a web CMS and making sure to show the world every step that he takes in building it. This is great stuff to anyone who has been looking to start their own web project. I have seen ambitious efforts like this before, but none of them have been fulfilled to completion. […]

Reggie Fils-Aime, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Nintendo America, confirmed that Nintendo’s next generation console codenamed “Revolution” will follow the Sony’s timetable for PS3 (which is expected to hit stores in Q2 2006). Reggie also attacked Microsoft’s rush on releasing the Xbox 2.

Not that I want to ignore the Xbox, but certainly we […]

Neil Turner explains how to enable Write Caching which allows Windows to access the iPod’s files faster.

The world would be a better place if all Operating Systems contained all the same fonts. The web would work better. Applications would work better. Hell, in fact if one of the presidential candidates proposed to have a unified font platform across all OS’s I would vote for him no matter who it was…okay not […]