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A great week-end of tennis: Federer survived a nail-biter against Karlovic, Murray beat Ferrer for a second time in a third meeting during this race to London which lead to two totally brilliant and totally different finals. In Basel Federer gave a masterclass in attacking tennis, discarding a...

Just readGlasshouseby Charles Stross. It's a post-humanity SF book (minds can be stored, downloaded, duplicated, altered, bodies can be fabricated to any specification, several minds can be in a body, several bodies can be governed by the same mind, different instances of a same mind can run...

My guess would be that the 5'11" official height for Palicki is at least a couple inches shorter than reality. It's just that being taller than 6' is a bit of a problem for women (in general and actresses in particular - Sigourney Weaver is listed on imdb as 5'11" too). Henry Simmons who plays...

Nadal who played in Shangai with an appendicitis kept under control with antibiotics actually went on to play in Basel (Soriak's home town!). He won two rounds with ease but then announced he would not play in Paris and after that lost to 17 year old wild card Coric! Nadal almost got bageled in...

With levitating shoes, you cannot propel yourself nor alter your direction with the sole of your feet. At least not in the way you can do it with skates. It's more like trying to move around on ice wearing twosliding curling shoes.

Spies using seduction and sex is probably as old as spying itself. I really like the season so far. The first season was frantic and great. The second season frantic and retarded. I think they did well with the 3rd and this 4th season to use a more deliberate pace and to make sure the plot is a...

I found this last episode slightly shark-jumpy with Thackery managing to botch a coagulation test and the head of the opium den going The Raid on the mobsters, but all in all it was a great season in just about every department. Looking forward to the 2nd.

That looks dramatically less interesting than a good old skateboard.

It's self published, so it was never meant to have a physical version in brick and mortar stores and they will not rate it because it's not mandatory in any way. When the game is done there will be another round of news about how steam/desura/gog/etc don't want to sell it and how it's only...

Going to the movies solo can lead to strange situations. I went to see 22 Jump Street during the day and we ended up being 2 guys in the 600 seats theater, so suddenly you watch the movie hearing what the other guy finds funny and you don't andvice versa.

In the realm of non-competitive superhuman physical activities, rock climbing and dancing are pretty insane and Tatum is a trained dancer I believe.

Things are heating up for the Masters' Cup: Djokovic, Federer, Nadal, Wawrinka and Cilic (by virtue of winning the US Open and the other three slam champions being assured to be in the top 7) are in. Nishikori should be ok, but then it's a fierce race between Berdych, Murray, Ferrer, Raonic and...

There is something amusing in doing the game that video games are accused of being by those that do not know the medium, but it all sound very 1st degree (and I don't mean 1st degree murder).

We both know it's made by Bungie and that Bungie made Halo, but I wonder what percentage of people who bought the game also know that. I suspect 'online FPS' being more in tune with the taste of the Xbox brand consumers has a bigger impact than the 'Bungie fan club' factor.

The only way this could have happened is if the chinese launch of Xbox One (a territory not covered by the PS4) had been a giganormous success. Since they did not even sold 100k units there, it is totally impossible. Sony not mentioning world wide numbers is just because at some point you have...

Destiny on Xbox One outselling the PS4 version is a bit of a surprise when you consider all the advertisement was tied to Sony.

I thought boxing was considered the most strenuous sport?

There is a a soft emulation of sorts with a pointer you can move on screen with the analog stick I believe? I remember seeing something like that when they first revealed the gizmo several months back, so it might not be in the final product.

The home console versions of Child of Light probably have their assets stored at an optimal resolution for 720p while the Vita version have them for 544p. Upscaling 544p to 720p means it will have jaggies or be blurry (or both!). They should upscale to 1088p and crop 8 lines or cheat with the...

About the Vita games on TV: are there different scaling options? Like playing with no scaling even if not in full screen?

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I really liked these first three episodes. Not everything was stellar, but it set the scene well. On complain though: can one really jog to free jazz? More seriously, I have been asking for more jazz for 3 seasons now. Her trumpet should be Holmes' violin and instead we have not seen her play...

Simon started well against a somewhat nervous Federer and then the frenchman managed to lull the swiss with his strange brand of consistent off-pace tennis. Mid way through the set, Federer started to produce a little more game, notably slicing his backhand a lot more to try and upset the rhythm...

We got our final: FEDERER, when facing Djokovic, is supposed to avoid long rallies from the back of the court. Well... he did just that. But instead of rushing head first to the net without sense or reason, he threw the occasional serve & volley in there, but he mostly engaged rallies with...

Is a shrink really supposed to report it if a patient confesses to a crime during a session? I thought it would fall under the patient-doctor confidentiality thing.

The tea scene is in Marrakesh, the boat scenes are in Casablanca (Marrakesh is inland so they got that part right!).

Secretly recording to gather evidence of a violent crime is apparently legal in California, but secretly recording a therapy session? That's pretty fucked up.

I can see how such inconsistencies can be highly frustrating. Let's hope they patch that at some point. Anyone tried the console versions? Do they have the same problem?

I have not played the game, but some of the comment point out that a modicum of skill is needed unlike the very assisted movement of an Assassin's Creed. So what is the problem exactly? It's difficult to aim the jumps properly and/or there is zero assistance making it very tedious?

Are you playing with mouse and keyboard or a controller Hatorade?

We have our semis in Shanghai: DJOKOVICbroke early in the first against Ferrer, but then it turned into a battle the whole set through, culminating with an almost 15 minutes long 10th game on the Djokovic serve that the World N?1 finally managed to bag along with the first set. The spaniard...

I liked the episode, but I got to laugh when some agent said Casablanca was in the middle-east... EDIT: Actually it's a Bushism, using the term 'greater middle east' to basically say 'muslim countries'.

I have 20+ movie screens within a 15min walk radius, so the huge majority of the movies I see are impulse-watch. The only guideline is sparing the movies that have date/buddy night potential, unless you don't mind seeing the same movie twice.

I just wanted to point out thatEnvironmental Station Alpha, a metroid clone of sorts, is on steam's Greenlight. Check the demo and up vote it if you liked what you played. I was/am one of the beta testers for it and it's a pretty sweet action/exploration game with a healthy dose of content and...

What about The Straight Story?

The ATP 1000 in Shanghai started the other day and it's a seedicide in full effect. Anderson[16] ousted in straight sets by Kukushkin. Dimitrov[10] discarded in straight sets by Benneteau. Nishikori[7] too banged up after two straight tournament wins to resist Sock. Cilic[9] met an...

Her bank account I would guess.

The 'funny' part is that we are in 2014 and that democratic system for 2017 is supposed to be a part of the transitional '1 country 2 systems' running from the 1997 retrosession to 2047. That's 20 years of beating around the bush out of a possible 50.