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Cilic kept the croatian hopes alive by beating Seppi and winning his 2nd single point, leaving Italy on the pretty dangerous situation: relying on head case Fognini to win a match. As Dodig clinched the first set, the italian public must have started to doubt the coach's choice, but Fognini...

He used to be a paladin.

The iPhone is a bit of the exception and that may very well be the reason for its success, but the cell phone business model is more based on a flood of new models making it an absolute nightmare for software development, even worse than the PC and their bazillion potential configurations...

I don't know the specifics of testicular cancer, but about urinary bladder cancer the doctor told me that if it spreads the metastasis tend to grow so slowly or with such delay that in most cases patients die of something else before their metastasis become an issue (no such luck for my father)...

I also got Denmark... is that thing made by the danish ministry of tourism or something?

The problem is that pretty soon you will not be able to generate excitement with new hardware on its technical merits. Not only because of the cost of using the resources of the hardware, but because of the diminishing return of power for visual fidelity. There are 4k screens looming in the...

It's the first round of the Davis Cup this week-end. After two days, Serbia beat Belgium, France beat Israel and Argentina beat Germany. This last one is a bit surprising, but Haas was not playing for the germans and Kohlschreiber found himself in a dog fight against the unheralded Berlocq...

From a bean counting perspective, it makes a lot of sense that future generations of console should last longer and longer. Unless the business model massively changes, there are a number of variable that were true in 1985 are true today and will be true in 2030. One of these variable is...

There are several layers with the screaming debate in women's tennis. Let's look at a specific one through this question: Why does Sharapova scream? A part of the answer comes with another question: When doesn't Sharapova scream? Sharapova usually stops screaming at around the tenth shot of a...

My father recently died from an urinary bladder cancer that got treated, but not before it spread to his spine and ribs. Weeks of constant pain, with less and less mobility, more and more difficulty to breath, more and more morphine and without the slightest hope for it to get any better. Pretty...

Where is Westbrook when you need him?

I did not see the match, but it was one way traffic between Djokovic and Ferrer, resulting in a crushing straight set victory in 90 minutes! It was another story between Federer and Murray. The swiss played an ok match, but found himself on the edge of the sword the whole way through as...

You have a semi point. Only semi, because the original Apple II art was that: It has a pretty good "classic movie poster" vibe going on, but there was a DOS version that used this: It actually works not that badly because of the contrast between the stylized background and spikes...

So we have our semi finals and... surprise surprise... the four top seeds went through. In the history of open era tennis, it's a relatively rare event (17ishth time out of 190ish slams), but somehow a lot more common in the past few years! Djokovicwas expected to struggle against Berdych...

I only saw the last few points, so here is a chunk of the post match interview that sheds some light on what happened on court: Serena Williams without her serve and backhand is a much less formidable opponent, but then again, Stephens still had to fight against the aura and will of her idol and...

I had to google Kolibri because I never heard of the game before (for those wondering, it's an exploration/shooter thing made exclusively for the 32X by the people responsible for Ecco the Dolphin where you play a hummingbird) and had to share this youTube comment: "Quite possibly the greatest...

The biggest problem with The Wire is that it makes it impossible to watch 90% of the other cop shows without making an almost inhuman effort of disbelief suspension.

Double post...

How old were you exactly? It was pitiful compared to the arcade and Star Fox, released a year prior, was more impressive. Maybe you were thinking of the 32X Virtua Racing Deluxe? But that was released after The Need for Speed on 3DO so it had a hard time amazing anyone (even the 7 people who...

I think people don't like Azarenka because of the screaming, which is a form of crypto-misogyny. Personally, I am not a huge fan (I love Stosur and all the chinese - Li, Zheng, Peng - or odd players like Martic, Niculescu, Daniilidou, Begu, Date-Krumm...), but you have to respect her work ethic...

We have our quarterfinals: Djokovicstarted poorly against a very solid Wawrinka. The swiss N?2 played well and made things very uncomfortable for the defender who had trouble finding his range (so many uncharacteristic errors) and his footing (the guy was slipping like crazy). As Wawrinka was...

Actually, he would be a shoemaker, as he did a multiple years shoe making apprenticeship in Italy in the late '90s. Yep.

R32 is done! My prognostics were shitty: -Wawrinkawon in straight sets. -FerrercontrolledBaghdatis. -Almagrokept nerves of steel againstJanowicz. -RaonickeptKohlschreiberat arms' length. -SimonvsMonfilsproduced a marathon of a match, but in the end it was not really an...

On the topic of US localization, that one is a pretty good example too. The american cover makes it sound like it's some sort of Charles Bronson vigilante thing, where an upstanding citizen got past boiling point and go clean the streets, but when you see the screenshot, you realize the main...

From the point of view of a subsidized film industry like it is the case in most of Europe, funding a movie is all about getting a cut of the many different subsidizing sources. In Switzerland for instance, you can apply for a writing subsidy with a synopsis. When you have a script you can...

Day Four: -Murray,Tsonga,Del Potro,Cilic,Gasquet,KohlschreiberandRaonicunsurprisingly won in straight sets. - More surprisingly,Federeralso had a comfortable straight sets win overDavydenko. - Even more surprisingly,Ricardas Berankis, lituanian PFG only allowed the 25th seedMayerto...

Racing against the black car in the original Ridge Racer remains one of my bestvideogame memory. There was an aura of mystery about it, the sudden intrusion of a narrative element at the very end of a racing game even heightened by the marvelous dramaturgy of the race: the black car giving you a...

As far as heavyweight japanese composers go, it's tough to beat Joe Hisaishi who got a rain of awards for his works for Miyazaki and Kitano (amongst others).

It's a bit difficult it seems to trace back exactly when systems were unveiled, especially for the pre-internet era systems, but I could find dates for the PS2, PS3, Xbox and X360 and for these four, the delay between the unveiling and the launch has been a year or more, except for the X360 that...

Day 3: - The only upset of the day: russian youngster Donskoy prevailed over his compatriot Youzhny in five sets. The guy discarded the talented romanian Ungur in the first round and won five challenger events in 2012 with two in november. He'll face Nishikori next. - Very tough wins for...

Day Two is done - The strong seeds went through with ease.Federer,Murray,Del Potro,Cilic,Simon,Raonic,Gasquet,Tsonga: all through. -Dolgopolov(18) was victim of bothMonfilsand a shitty draw (as Monfils is only unseeded because he comes back from a long injury). -Haas(19), the in-form...

As far as I am concerned, the latest great game developed by Nintendo is Rhythm Heaven in 2008 or possibly it's Wii sequel Rhythm Heaven: Fever.

Day One is done. -Monacowas seeded 11 and lost 6-1-1 to youngsterKuznetsov. Not sure what happened there, but Kuznetsov is one of these 'potentially future great' (PFG from now on). It's the only big upset of the day. -Djokovic, imperial on his serve, sailed pastMathieuwith ease...

A good game for a child who is learning to spell is Scribblenauts. It manages to be educative without being some boring edutainment pseudo-game.

The washed out colors and the not so terrible resolution made me think Commodore 64 and I was right!http://www.mobygames.com/game/gi-joe...ro/screenshots

Oh the infamous Token Female Director Vote, responsible for all these ridiculous nominations of female directors unworthy of being nominated on their directorial merits. I remember in 1964 when Edith Evans picked the statuette... Oh! She did it on behalf of Tony Richardson. So what about...

Harvard education for googling "myst walkthrough"?

The intro to Ys sold many PC Engine CD-ROM? back in the import days! Anyway, for me the most emblematic cover discrepancy is for Prince of Persia for SFC / SNES: