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i usually like to post a quick BvB on fridays, usually before i leave for the day if i can... but i had to leave work early today – had some great tasting Indian food for lunch, but next thing i knew i was feeling like total ass and ended up in the bathroom throwing up... ugh, i fucking hate puke'n, especially when i don't have a toothbrush handy... anywho, here we go, mang.

** as always, make a choice... don't be dbag.

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remember all those slick desktop meets the web UI's? if so, you're going to love this... i just opened it up and immediately was like "holy. shit." – this is totally badass, mang.

man i totally dig this kinda stuff. bravo!

(hat tip: arnold)

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i remember the teaser coming out months ago for this movie, Prometheus, but somehow totally missed the fact that a fuller trailer came out – and a month ago at that... but holy shit man, i must've watched this half a dozen times yesterday.

i can't effin wait to see this one... it's definitely on the list of "must see" movies for me – along with the new Batman movie, The Hobbit, and Avengers.

oh, and just for notalgia's sake, checkout the original Alien trailer from 1979.

p.s. Everything we know about Ridley Scott's Space Jockeys

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i was just wondering if any of ya went to see the new Underworld movie that opened in theaters this past weekend? i wanted to go see it but got busy with other things – not to mention the NFL championship games... but was thinking of taking jayden to see it, and wondered if any of you guys thought it was good and worth seeing up on the big screen?

it's either seeing this, Haywire, or Red Tails... hmmm.

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it's a cold rainy friday morning here, which means it's a perfect time for the latest from victor hanson – Fidelity and the Presidency

The news media seem obsessed with the serial affairs of a younger Newt Gingrich back in the last century. The anger of his second of three wives mysteriously became national news on ABC's Nightline on the eve of the South Carolina primary. Millions watched Mrs. Gingrich II complain that Newt and the present Mrs. Gingrich had done to her (while ill) just about the same thing that she and Newt had earlier done to Mrs. Gingrich I (while ill).

Do these marital dramas involving our leaders matter that much? At some point, does long-ago adultery earn a statute of limitations? Do we forgive a few, but not serial, transgressions? Do we really care to learn the back-and-forth, he said/she said details? And do leaders have to be exceptionally talented to atone for extremely poor marital behavior?

There have been plenty of unfaithful presidents, a few who could not even suppress their libidos upon entering the White House. Long before Bill Clinton's dalliances, John Kennedy, Franklin Roosevelt, and Warren Harding allegedly had been unfaithful to their first ladies.

Given the value of stable marriages to society, it would be nice to think that such moral failure in our presidential candidates would be a telltale warning of later flawed governance — and that anyone who cheated on a spouse would also somehow cheat the country. But the truth unfortunately is more complex. The extracurricular Clinton proved a better president than the faithful Jimmy Carter. The reckless Kennedy served more honestly than did the seemingly devoted Richard Nixon. And the two-timing FDR was considered more successful than the monogamous Herbert Hoover.

another good one as always... though i don't think cheating on your wife is ever a really good indicator of one's moral compass – sure there's always reasons behind it all, and always two sides of the story... but we're talking about our country's leader, the President.

p.s. did any of you watch the debate lastnight?

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well, being that it's aussie day and all, figured we might as well enjoy one of the finer things to come from down under – like sweet delicious babes.

p.s. okay... which one?

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today is Australia Day, which is much like our 4th of July over here... so a big hat tip to all the awesome aussies out there – from everything i've ever heard, and a few aussies i've met over the years, it's a great place with pretty awesome people... and they also seem to churn out some incredibly hot babes, too.

sent in from our buddy marty, here's a few other tidbits of what's going on down under.

• We a thrashing India in the cricket test match at the moment, which feels good for us.
• Our politicians are hopeless, populist, weak bastards. That's a shame for us.
• The actor, Geoffrey Rush (Pirates of the Caribbean, King's Speech), was awarded Australian of the Year, which is a big award here. Normally it goes to really special (often not very well-known) people.

going to australia is definitely on my personal bucket list... maybe one of these days... one of these days... *sigh*

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Apple passes Exxon as most valuable company, again.

NEW YORK (AP) — Apple has again surpassed Exxon as the most valuable U.S. company after an excellent quarter.

Apple Inc.'s stock rose nearly 6 percent to $445.29 in midday trading Wednesday, bringing the iPhone and iPad maker's market capitalization to $415 billion.

Meanwhile, Exxon Mobil Corp. shares are down 1 percent at $86.52. That gives it a market cap of $414 billion.

Apple said Tuesday that net income in its latest quarter more than doubled, while revenue grew 73 percent.

Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple first topped Exxon as the most valuable company in August, then fell back to second place. The Irving, Texas-based oil and gas giant had held the top spot since 2005.

Apple overtook Microsoft Corp., now in the No. 3 slot with a market cap of $247 billion, in 2010.

damn man, that's pretty fucking crazy... kinda blew my mind the first time it happened, but now again for the second time in the past year?

wow, kudos to apple... i think.

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Facebook Timeline mandatory rollout: You have 7 days to scour your past

hmmm, i'm not sure how i feel about this one... i don't really use facebook, but i kinda had to have an account, so i liked the fact that it was optional... something you could turn on and use, or just check it out, but not put too much into.

Facebook is the virtual home to more than 800 million active users, so any change to how the network operates is a big deal. And nothing could be bigger for the social hotspot than completely revamping everyone's front-facing profile page, and that is exactly what is happening today. Starting this morning, the new Timeline feature — that up until now has been an optional switch — is now mandatory.

since i don't really use facebook, i guess my "timeline" is going to be pathetic.

oh well, no sweat off my ballsack.

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now this is pretty hot... cute chick, and a chalk board full of math equations? nice.

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Sources: The Next Xbox Will Play Blu-Ray, May Not Play Used Games (And Will Introduce Kinect 2)

Microsoft will upgrade its disc technology for its next Xbox from DVDs to Blu-Ray discs, catching up to rival Sony, games industry sources tell Kotaku.

Sony's PlayStation 3 currently supports Blu-Ray, which can contain 25 or 50GB of data compared to DVD's 9GB.

But that disc detail could be far less impactful to the next generation of game consoles than the assertion I've heard from one reliable industry source that Microsoft intends to incorporate some sort of anti-used game system as part of their so-called Xbox 720. [...]

One source familiar with Microsoft's plans for the new Xbox said Microsoft plans to ship their new Xbox with a new version of its red-hot Kinect hands-free sensor system. The new Kinect would contain an on-board processor, a feature originally intended for the first Kinect. That processor would enable a new Kinect to more effectively detect users' motions.

I'm also hearing that Microsoft is interested in making a smaller controller for its new console.

And what of gaming site IGN's report that the machine could be six times more powerful than the Xbox 360? From some industry sources I'm hearing that that's the right ballpark and that Microsoft is estimating they might even get to 8x the Xbox 360. But another insider clarified that no one in the industry has development kits yet and that any talk about specs right now is still hypothetical.

well this is starting to sound pretty good, as far as news/rumors of the next xbox goes – does sound reasonable, though, and i'd getting to the point where i wouldn't mind hearing about a new 360... i mean, come this holiday, it'll be 7 years since it was first released.

more memory, faster processors, and blu-ray support sounds good to me, mang.

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i know you've probably already seen this Knights of the Old Republic trailer a dozen times – well, if you're like me you have – but lastnight was the first time i've actually seen it played in high def on my TV.

holy hell it looked fucking awesome! had me once again thinking and dreaming about the day when a new Star Wars trilogy gets started up – one without Lucas behind it... something totally badass and more adult oriented... seeing a hundred Sith getting off a ship with their red lightsabers glowing, up on the big screen?!?

oh hell yeah... sign me up.

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