Poet, playwright, novelist, mural painter, experimentalist, illustrator; a ?fat, spectacled, balding, increasingly old Glasgow pedestrian?; and perhaps ?the greatest Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott,? Alasdair Gray has a new book out. The ?maker of imagined objects,? perhaps best known for "Lanark," also blogs his poetry/prose/plays, offers up a lovely archive of some hard-to-find volumes, and shows us the storyboards for the late lament
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Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, GDC, Video If you can will yourself to push the "play" button on the above video, you'll see a recording of the brief and maddeningly ambiguous Gears of War 2 teaser trailer shown at Microsoft's GDC keynote. If the close study of Marcus Fenix's armored legs and a brutal chainsaw showdown with a locust don't get you excited, perhaps CliffyB's visit (with a chainsaw bayonet) can quicken your pulse. If, on the
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Filed under: Culture The first day of the Preserving Games: Saving the Past and Present Now panel was focused on identifying problems in game preservation. First, panel leader Henry Lowood outlined some of the existing work from the IGDA Game Preservation SIG, including the Digital Game Canon, whose first year included Joystiq's own Chris Grant on the panel, and a new project on the SIG's wiki devoted to memorials of game developers who have pass
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Filed under: FightsTMZ.com: Rapper Mams Taylor was treated like a heavyweight boxing champ as he and girlfriend Taryn Manning entered Katsuya last night. Who knew knocking Jesse Metcalfe on his ass with one punch would be the best move of his career?... Read more

Filed under: FightsTMZ.com: Rapper Mams Taylor was treated like a heavyweight boxing champ as he and girlfriend Taryn Manning entered Katsuya last night. Who knew knocking Jesse Metcalfe on his ass with one punch would be the best move of his career?... Read more

In the first report of its kind, U.S. health officials said the nation's states and cities made a strong effort to prepare for a flu pandemic, bioterrorism or other emergency health crises, but big challenges remain

Filed under: Troubleshooting, LeopardImagine the scary, Sarkian voice of David Warner intoning "You will be subject to immediate de-resolution" and you'll know how a cluster of Leopard-using laptop owners (including yours truly) are feeling after getting bitten by a problem in the Leopard Graphics Update. You can see the rundown over at MacFixIt; the symptom is that after a restart or crash, the previously-happy external display is registered by
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Filed under: Troubleshooting, LeopardImagine the scary, Sarkian voice of David Warner intoning "You will be subject to immediate de-resolution" and you'll know how a cluster of Leopard-using laptop owners (including yours truly) are feeling after getting bitten by a problem in the Leopard Graphics Update. You can see the rundown over at MacFixIt; the symptom is that after a restart or crash, the previously-happy external display is registered by
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DiscoverU, a private, independent local institution, has decided to close its doors after more than 16 years in business, according to an archived version of the institution's now-defunct Web site.

DiscoverU, a private, independent local institution, has decided to close its doors after more than 16 years in business, according to an archived version of the institution's now-defunct Web site.

Beams back remote office data to mothership Data Domain wants to give its de-duplication technology a comfier fit in the wiring closet with a shrunken system for remote offices.?

'Let's do it again' The Australian government has admitted that the AUS$85m it spent trying to protect kiddies from internet porn was AUS$85m too many.?

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