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Archive for March, 2005



Tribes 3 Vengeance Scrapped

Via Warp2Search. According to a brief communique by VU Games, Tribes 3 will not receive any further updates and is effectively dead.
Development on the previously announced Tribes: Vengeance 1.1 update has been cancelled. No further updates to Tribes: Vengeance are planned.
Source: Vivendi Universal Forum

That was shortly after the Renegade team abandoned what seemed to be […]

AutoPatcher XP March 2005

Via Warp2Search. The March edition of AutoPatcher XP is here.

This release is based on the all-new AutoPatcher 5.0. Although it was made with Windows XP SP2 English in mind, it will load on any (English) Windows version, showing only the items which match the running environment.

Just what you need now that Microsoft has managed to […]

Anti-piracy office accused of piracy

Sweden’s anti-piracy organization, Antipiratbyrån (APB), established to combat the illegal downloading of copyright-protected films and games, has been accused of illegally downloading copyright-protected films and games - in an attempt to plant evidence against internet service provider Bahnhof.
The APB was behind a raid against Bahnhof two weeks ago, which resulted in the confiscation of servers […]

Lucasfilm confirms TV commitment

As Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith looms on the horizon, the folks at Lucasfilm are starting to talk a bit about the future of the franchise beyond the final movie. Of course, part of that future has been rumored in recent months to include some kind of TV presence, and now […]

Star Trekking Bioethics

Via The BioEthics Web Log …
Oh, this is a good one!
Diana Schaub, a Loyola College professor and adviser to President Bush, is convinced that cloning and embryonic stem cell research are evil. She says this belief was formed, in part, by watching Star Trek.
The show has “left me receptive to the view that mortality […]

A Hollow Point

It seems that the change in police ammunition, augmented in part by a new tougher stance on crime (you know what they say, attitudes are contagious) has claimed yet another victim. A 22 year old man was shot dead in a lame intervention by the police. But since social structures are so intangible, I will […]

Wallenius Wilhelmsen zero emissions carrier

Swedish / Norwegian shipping and RoRo specialists Wallenius Wilhelmsen unveiled plans for a new type of ‘zero emissions’ carrier a couple of weeks ago.
Intended to provide a vision of what an environmentally-friendly car and RoRo carrier might look like in 2025, the E/S Orcelle concept vessel has been designed so that it will produce no […]

Auto Innovator John DeLorean Dead

Via Boing Boing …
While only about 9,000 of his namesake cars were ever built, John Z. DeLorean’s place in auto history was assured as soon as the gull-winged sports cars rumbled off the assembly line.
While apt to be remembered popularly as the man behind the car modified for time travel in the “Back to the […]

Necrotized Government

I have followed the the Terri Schiavo case with great interest and it seems that it is not only her brain that has slowly liquified over the last 15 years, but also the brains of the US elite, neo-conservatives and lawmakers alike. They are at a loss when it comes to evaluating personal freedom within […]

Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals, Patents

Just a clever propaganda trick by the pharmaceutical industry or genuine concern? Well, Nature (Counterfeit pharmaceuticals: Murder by medicine. By: Aldhous, Peter. Vol. 434 Issue 7030, p132) had an exposé about how people in lesser developed countries (LDCs) (SE Asia and Africa mostly) often suffer badly because of counterfeit pharmaceuticals.
Aldhous did say that he in […]





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