Fly in my eyE

Pic of the day

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Marijuanna acts as antidepressant

A chemical found in cannabis can act like an antidepressant, researchers have found.

A team from Canada's University of Saskatchewan suggest the compound causes nerve cells to regenerate.

The Journal of Clinical Investigation study showed rats given a cannabinoid were less anxious and less depressed.

But UK experts warned other conflicting research had linked cannabis, and other cannabinoids, to an increased risk of depression and anxiety.

They suggested this could be because different cannabinoids acting at different levels have contradictory effects.

Cannabinoids have been shown to relieve the symptoms of multiple sclerosis and pain relief in humans.

They are naturally present in the body, as well as being found in cannabis.

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X05: Crackdown: Behind Closed Doors

IGN has a preview of the upcoming Xbox360 GTA style game: Crackdown. From the article:















Grand Theft Auto creator David Jones and staff have been quietly working away on their next-generation title for more than a year now, and the result is a strange mix. Using an open-world design like the one created in the very first Grand Theft Auto (which was in 2D), but which was fully realized by Rockstar with Grand Theft Auto 3 (in 3D), one must adjust one's perspective to see the game properly. It's not GTA…but it kinda is… yet it's not….Or, is it?

Seeing Crackdown behind closed doors at X05 in Amsterdam is like looking at what the future of Grand Theft Auto would have been like if, perhaps Take-Two or Rockstar hadn't been around. Sort of like thinking about how Led Zeppelin would have sounded like if John Bonham hadn't died. Or what the world would be like if John F. Kennedy had lived. Well, perhaps that's a stretch, but the point is David Jones isn't dead, though in a way he has very much come back to life.

A third-person action-adventure game enabling single-player and co-op play, Crackdown takes the GTA concept and expands, contracts, and forages deep for open gameplay in ways you wouldn't have dreamed of. First and foremost, the large open city -- which only loads once, the rest streams in -- is designed for platform-style movement, so it's built with a hefty level of verticality. You'll constantly jump, shimmy, lunge, and use the game's particularly strange, moon-based physics to leap across massive gaps, in some cases leaping from rooftop to rooftop. When you land, contact-sensitive edges enable you to cling to window sills, roof top edges, and more.

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Modding the Xbox in 10 Minutes

Xbox modification has come a long way in the past couple years. With the introduction of the TSOP mod, potential modders no longer had to shell out money for a modchip; rather just bridge two points on the Xbox motherboard. Now one doesn't even have to open up his Xbox. Welcome to the world of soft modding. Using code exploits in certain games, a user is able to load a phony gamesave that will boot into a Linux based operating system and allow a user to mod his Xbox... in under ten minutes.

posted by Agent 1138 @ 4:24 PM 0 comments

Nintendo Wi-Fi USB Connector

For those without a wireless router, the USB connector will be sold worldwide.
1. You plug the connector into your internet-ready PC.
2. A window pops up, you click it with your mouse.
3. Then your DS can connect to it as a Wi-Fi access point.

I love this.... 3 simple steps.

posted by Agent 1138 @ 11:29 AM 0 comments

Attack of the Xboxen

Xbox 3shitty assembly line video HERE

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Peter Jackson Producing Halo the Movie

Universal Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox announced today that triple-Academy Award® winners Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh will serve as the executive producers of HALO®, the upcoming feature film based on Microsoft’s phenomenally popular video game from Bungie Studios. Jackson and Walsh will provide creative counsel on all aspects of the film via their WingNut Films banner, and Jackson’s award-winning companies Weta Digital Ltd. and Weta Workshop Ltd. will provide creatures, miniatures and visual effects for the production. The HALO agreement marks the first time that Jackson and Walsh have performed these services on a major studio film that Jackson is not directing.

“As a gaming fan, I’m excited to bring HALO's premise, action and settings to the screen with all the specificity and reality today’s technology can provide,” said Jackson. “Fran and I are intrigued by the unique challenges this project offers, and we’re delighted to be working again with our friends at Universal, and with our new ones at Fox and Microsoft. I’m a huge fan of the game and look forward to helping it come alive on the cinema screen.”

Meh. Seems like a waste of Jackson's time. I suspect That fans of Halo would anticipate a new Halo GAME over a movie translation. —Agent 1138

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Societies worse off 'when they have God on their side'

RELIGIOUS belief can cause damage to a society, contributing towards high murder rates, abortion, sexual promiscuity and suicide, according to research published today.

According to the study, belief in and worship of God are not only unnecessary for a healthy society but may actually contribute to social problems.

The study counters the view of believers that religion is necessary to provide the moral and ethical foundations of a healthy society.

It compares the social peformance of relatively secular countries, such as Britain, with the US, where the majority believes in a creator rather than the theory of evolution. Many conservative evangelicals in the US consider Darwinism to be a social evil, believing that it inspires atheism and amorality.

Many liberal Christians and believers of other faiths hold that religious belief is socially beneficial, believing that it helps to lower rates of violent crime, murder, suicide, sexual promiscuity and abortion. The benefits of religious belief to a society have been described as its “spiritual capital”. But the study claims that the devotion of many in the US may actually contribute to its ills.

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Animated concept for a “dermal display” medical-nanorobot control panel

This is pretty damn cool.

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Erotic MMO Targets Female Audience

Republik's Spend The Night is about sex. It's an online multiplayer game in which adults can meet other adults and act out their fantasies through graphically rich avatars. Next Generation spoke to company CEO Robert Coshland.

A game in which adults are encouraged to indulge their sexual fantasies is bound to attract the media's attention but, so far, Republik's Spend the Night has been keeping a low profile. Come the middle of next year, when it launches online, that'll all change.

Details are scant at present, and Coshland doesn't want to give too much away, but the basics are simple. Players go online, choose a graphical identity, mooch around with other players, find someone they like, and find a room. Graphics claimed to be "cinematic" are promised, and a simple interface allows the action to proceed.

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Majority of Americans Becoming Overweight or Obese

TUESDAY, Oct. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Over the three decades between 1971 and 2001, nine out of 10 American men and seven out of 10 women were overweight or became overweight, and more than a third were obese or became obese, according to a new study.

The findings from the study of more than 4,000 white adults enrolled in the ongoing Framingham Heart Study suggest the vast majority of American adults are at risk of becoming overweight or obese.

"National surveys and other studies have told us that the United States has a major weight problem, but this study suggests that we could have an even more serious degree of overweight and obesity over the next few decades. In addition, these results may underestimate the risk for some ethnic groups," Dr. Elizabeth G. Nabel, director of the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), said in a prepared statement.

HaHa! They're fat! —Agent 1138

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Sunday Driver trailer

Rockstar has a site up with a trailer for their upcoming documentary Sunday Driver.

http://www.rockstargames.com/sundaydriver/

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