By now you would’ve heard about the earthquake which left Haiti devastated on Tuesday, leaving thousands dead and even more injured. These high-res satellite photos show the damage the earthquake, measuring 7.3, had on the capital Port-au-Prince.

The photos were taken by the GeoEye-1 satellite which has a resolution of 0.5 meters per pixel, from 423 miles in space, on the morning of January 13th. [GeoEye Satellite Images via Discovery News via Reillymj on Twitter]

You can help out those affected by the Haiti earthquake at Unicef here

High-Res Satellite Images of Haiti Capital Show Devastation From 423 Miles In Space [Image Cache]
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A pleasant surprise though – Vodaphone and Verizon are jumping onboard with the Nexus one and will have plans available sometime spring 2010.  AWESOME.  <3 google.  Also, with Vodaphone – it seems pretty obvious that they’re planning on taking their market globally.

Some other awesome tidbits:

• Does have snapdragon 1 ghz
• Coming with google earth app
• voice recognition for every text field on the phone
• Sync with picasa
• You get all the recognized droid apps with it
• Comes with droid 2.1
• and more…

Follow the live blogging to find out more!

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[Google Nexus One]

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Thanks – hope everyone has a good one.

Taiga: Akemashite Omedetougozaimasu. (Happy New Years)

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Unfortunately I don’t have a Wii.  Fortunately at school, people have the original nintendo 64’s which we play super smash bros. religiously.  Or at least we used to.  We should do that again.  Definitely.

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And today is a photoblog day!

Back on Friday, I decided to go into the city (New York City) by myself to go to the Japanese consulate and hand in my paperwork for my visa.  For those that don’t know, I’m going to Japan next semester to study abroad.  Anyway, it’s not that I don’t trust the USPS with my passport but…I don’t trust the USPS with my passport.  Do to a range of circumstances, I ended up at a train station I don’t usually take to go into the city.

So I got to penn station and decided to walk to the consulate.  The consulate is at 299 Park Avenue, between 48th and 49th I think.  It wasn’t that killer of a walk, but being that it was 22 degrees outside – it was a little longer than I would have liked it to be.  It’s certainly winter!  I was going to take pictures inside, but the building felt so official that I was kind of scared to.  Anyway – I liked the decorations in the front though.  Everyone’s in the spirit now I suppose.

And speaking of the spirit, since I was nearby, I decided to stop by the Rockefeller center to see the Christmas tree that they put up every year.  It’s hard to make out in the picture, but the lights and everything made it seem really nice.

And of course, you always have people at the ice rink.  It was certainly cold enough to have it too.

So on the way back, I happened across Bryant Park.  There were kiosks and stands everywhere, so I decided to stop and see what was going on.  Apparently they setup this every year as well.  Another smaller christmas tree and an ice rink, as well as shops and whatnot all setup outside.  A nice little spot to stop and take a respite.

I figured why not stop and get a bite to eat while I was there.  Found a teriyaki stand where I got some rice, chicken, and vegetables.  It wasn’t very good.  Probably one of the worse 5 dollar expenditures I have done in New York.  I ate it all though – the fundamental problem that it solved was that it was hot and I was cold.  Afterwards, I hurriedly ran back to penn station where I ended up spending 2 hours trying to get home – which is usually only a 1 hour endeavor.  Overall, I’d have to say that the day was good though.

Oh, and speaking of christmas tree stuff, I set my family’s up yesterday with my mother and younger brother.

Naked Tree.  Just unwrapped it and such, so it looks kind of awkward.

And here it is with ornaments and lights and such.  It still looks funny, but it’ll get fuller as the branches begin to go back to their original spots and such.  It’s hard to see the ornaments, but there’s plenty there.  I have yet to perfect the art of taking pictures in the dark and make them look good.  I realize that shouldn’t be hard…but meh – I’m a nub.

I do love macro shots though.  This one still came out kind of bad…

Got the idea to do this from a lifehacker competition that happened recently.  I can’t wait to get my DSLR for christmas.  I really want to play with all the settings and such to see if I can get better shots.

And it also snowed last night.  About a foot.  It was still snowing out when I took this shot, but my camera couldn’t take pictures fast enough to capture the snowflakes without sacrificing the lighting.

And then I went to bed.

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01. Black Pearl – Rise [Magic Island]
02. Marcus Schossow & Reeves feat. Emma Hewitt – Light (Mike Shiver’s Garden State Remix) [Tone Diary]
03. Trilucid – Departures (Skytech Remix) [Infra Progressive]
04. TyDi – Good Dream (Barnes & Heatcliff Remix) [Armada]
05. Cressida – Two-O-Ten [Euphonic]
06. Push – Global Age [Club Elite]
07. Tritonal – Suede (Stoneface & Terminal Remix) [Garuda] [Tune Of The Week]
08. Feel feat. Volmix – Dance For Life (Ronski Speed Remix) [Reset]
09. Lange pres. Firewall – Wanderlust [Anjunabeats]
10. Robert Nickson – Maybe Next Time (DJ Eco Remix) [A State Of Trance]
11. Setrise – Kumba
12. ReOrder & JayCan – Come With Me To Varanasi [Silent Shore]
13. Heatbeat – Hadoken
14. Fast Distance & Dimension – Above The Clouds [Magic Island]
15. Dash Berlin & RAM – Man On The Run To RAMsterdam (Johnvas Mashup)
16. Paul Trainer – Deal With It
17. Orjan Nilsen – Arctic Globe (W&W Remix) [Yakuza]
18. John O’Callaghan vs. Aly & Fila – Megalithic (AJ Hutch Remix) [Captivating]
19. Push – Till We Meet Again [Bonzai] [ASOT Radio Classic]

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01. Tocadisco feat. Nadia Ali – Better Run (Wippenberg Remix) w/ Kay D Smith & Marc Tall – Hoipolloi (Wippenberg Remix)
02. Eide feat. Cat Martin – Give It Up [Magic Island]
03. Mark Pledger feat. Melinda Gareh – Time Stands Still (Andy Duguid Remix) [Solaris]
04. Paul Keeley – Cloud 9 [Anjunadeep]
05. Cressida – Two-O-Ten [Euphonic] [Tune Of The Week]
06. Marko Kantola – Black City [Subtraxx]
07. Trilucid – Departures [Infrasonic]
08. Espen Gulbrandsen vs. DJ Julian Vincent – Perfect Sky (Max Graham Remix) [S107]
09. Mat Zo – Default [Anjunabeats]
10. Marcel Woods – Everything (Dub mix) [High Contrast]
11. Mike Shiver vs. Matias Lehtola – Nana [Captured]
12. Arctic Moon – Afterworld (Dimension Remix) [Emphase] [Future Favorite]
13. Peter Martijn Wijnia – Fortissimo
14. Anhken & Adrian – Intuition (Sunny Lax Remix) [Fraction]
15. Feel feat. Volmix – Dance 4 Life (Ronski Speed Remix) [Reset]
16. A.M.R. – Elevation (Fast Distance Remix) [Alter Ego]
17. Filo & Peri feat. Eric Lumiere – Soul & The Sun (Giuseppe Ottaviani Remix) [Vandit]
18. Alex M.O.R.P.H. feat. Michael – Wanna Be (Almar Club Mix) [Vandit]
19. Fast Distance & Dimension – Above The Clouds [Magic Island]
20. Ali Wilson – Boombox [In Charge]
21. Adam White – Ballerina [Darey Products] [ASOT Radio Classic]

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Tracklisting
01. Boom Jinx & Andrew Bayer – To The Six Anjunadeep
02. Imogen Heap – Canvas (Mark Eteson Re-Paint
03. Vegas Baby – Orange Theme
04. Med vs. Neil Bamford – Stolen (Danilo Ercole Remix) Infrasonic
05. Plastic Boy – Chocolate Infusion Captivating
06. Breakfast – Air Guitar (DJ Eco Remix) Flashover
07. Mike Koglin & P.O.S. – Autumn Anjunabeats
08. FuManChu – ID In Charge
09. Jochen Miller – Red One High Contrast
10. Filo & Peri with Nick Stufano – The Majestic Vandit – from their album “Nightplay
11. Julian Vincent feat. Cathy Burton – Here For Me (Robert Nickson Remix) S107 Tune Of The Week
12. Hydro Aquatic – Moon River Monster Tunes
13. Corderoy – Rock Guitar (Arctic Moon Remix) Insight
14. Jo Micali – Shine On (C-Systems Remix) Unearthed
15. Robbie Nelson – Aviator Crashing Waves
16. Matt Hardwick vs. Gulf – Impossible (John O’Callaghan Remix) Kill The Lights
17. Dash Berlin feat. Emma Hewitt – Waiting (Sean Tyas Remix) Aropa
18. Armin van Buuren feat. VanVelzen – Broken Tonight (Alex M.O.R.P.H. Remix) Armind Future Favorite
19. John O’Callaghan – Broken (Bryan Kearney Remix) Captivating
20. Franz Hlusek & Jorge Nava – Cosmic Dreamer (Fast Distance Remix) Massive Drive
21. DJ Tiesto – Theme For Norefjell (Magikal Remake) Magik Muzik ASOT Radio Classic

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Today we’re pleased to introduce the Pet Store for World of Warcraft, a new way for players to obtain in-game pets to join them on their adventures in Azeroth…

So apparently on Wednesday of this week, WoW opened up their new online Pet Store for official business.  Players can now buy in-game pets online through the Blizzard Store (surprise, surprise).  They decided to open with two exclusive pets that can only be bought through the Pet Store; Lil’ K.T. and the Pandaren Monk.  If you’re into WoW and you have some money to blow (other than on your subscription) on a friendly companion, I suggest you check it out.

[Pet Store]

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Tracklisting
01. Imogen Heap – Canvas (Mark Eteson Re-Paint
02. Dash Berlin feat. Emma Hewitt – Waiting (First State Remix) Aropa
03. Matt Darey pres. Urban Astronauts – See The Sun (Aurosonic Remix) Nocturnal Global Future Favorite
04. Kyau & Albert – I Love You (Cosmic Gate Remix) Euphonic
05. Binary Finary – 2009 (Vegas Baby Remix
06. Jochen Miller – Red One High Contrast
07. Plastic Boy – Chocolate Infusion Club Elite Tune Of The Week
08. Marco V – When The Night Falls In Charge
09. Tritonal feat. Cristina Soto – Kiss Me Here Flashover
10. Solis – Afterglow Infrasonic
11. Temple One – Sahara Nights Enhanced
12. Sophie Sugar – Together A State Of Trance
13. Franz Hlusek & Jorge Nava – Cosmic Dreamer (Fast Distance Mix
14. Robert Nickson – Maybe Next Time A State Of Trance
15. Talla 2XLC feat. Skysurfer – Terra Australis (Jorn van Deynhoven Remix
16. John O’Callaghan feat. Beverly O’Sullivan – Don’t Look Back Armada – in memory of Beverly O’Sullivan
17. Armin van Buuren feat. VanVelzen – Broken Tonight (Alex M.O.R.P.H. Remix) Armind
18. Med vs. Neil Bamford – Light Up
19. Be:Gold – Sunstroke
20. Solid Globe – Sahara Fundemental ASOT Radio Classic

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Tekken 6 Update Coming To Combat Online Lag [Kotaku]

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You know that whole debacle about MW2 not having dedicated servers?  It just got even worse, with Infinity Ward confirming that there is a 18-player cap on the PC version online, which is is the same cap imposed on the console versions.

Seriously? This is horrible, dedicated servers and big servers are the staple of PC gaming, and Infinity Ward thinks it can set a new standard?  We’ll have to see.

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Doom Classic is finally now on the App Store, available for iPhone and iPod Touch.  Priced at a reasonable $6.99, the game boasts the following additions and improvements.

• Play the legendary first person shooter, DOOM, with an iPhone or iPod Touch. Fight through 36 missions in four action-packed episodes: Knee-Deep in the Dead,
• Shores of Hell, Inferno, and Thy Flesh Consumed.
• Experience DOOM multiplayer on your mobile device, including Deathmatch and Cooperative play for up to four players via wireless internet.
• Choose from three different control types and customize the interface to suit your style.
• Explore the depths of Mars while utilizing the topdown map to help you explore and save your game on the fly.
• Listen to the original soundtrack or disable it and use your own iPod music.

Doom Classic [iTunes App Store]

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Two Valve universes collide, when you pre-order Left 4 Dead 2, which nets you a exclusive hat in Team Fortress 2. If that isn’t enough, the 10% off the price might be an incentive.  L4D2 will be available November 17th.

In addition, the L4D2 demo is live! In case you’re on the fence of buying it or not.

Pre-Order Giveaway Madness! [TF2 Blog]

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This and HTC’s Droid Eris phone for Verizon will be the first Android phones that Verizon will release on November 6th.  HTC’s Droid Eris looks almost exactly like their Hero with similar specs as well.  It also does not have Android 2.0 running on it, so I’m starting to wonder why Verizon is even bothering to release it with the Motorola.  In any case though, I’m extremely glad that Verizon has finally decided to release some Android phones.  Their regular phone software sucks and quite frankly, the selection of phones was pretty terrible.  Now I might actually want to shell out a few hundred bucks for a phone in the near future depending how these fair.

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Tracklisting

1st hour – regular episode “the newest tunes selected
01. Armin van Buuren feat. VanVelzen – Broken Tonight (Intro Mix) Armind
02. Calvin Harris – Flashback (Eric Prydz Remix) Fly Eye
03. Matt Darey pres. Urban Astronauts – See The Sun (Aurosonic Remix) Nocturnal Global
04. Dash Berlin feat. Emma Hewitt – Waiting (Dash Berlin 4AM Mix) Aropa
05. Paul Webster feat. Angelic Amanda – Time (Sean Tyas Dub) Captivating Future Favorite
06. Jo Micali – Shine On (C-Systems Remix) Tune Of The Week
07. Temple One – Sahara Nights Enhanced
08. Masoud feat. Josie – Leave It All Behind (Jorn van Deynhoven Remix) Levare
09. Thoneick, Diaz & Young Rebells feat. Cozi – Perfect Moment (Alex M.O.R.P.H. Instrumental
10. Above & Beyond pres. Tranquility Base – Surrender Anjunabeats ASOT Radio Classic

2nd hour – set recorded LIVE at Hala Tivoli in Ljubljana, Slovenia (23-10-09
01. BT feat. Jes – Every Other Way (Armin van Buuren Remix
02. Nic Chagall feat. Jonathan Mendelsohn – This Moment (Prog Mix
03. Paul van Dyk feat. Johnny McDaid – Home (Cosmic Gate Remix
04. Wippenberg – Pong
05. OceanLab vs. Gareth Emery – On A Metropolis Day (Myon & Shane 54 Remix
06. Cerf, Mitiska & Jaren – Beggin’ You (Armin van Buuren Remix
07. Arnej – They Need Us (Club Edit
08. Dakota – Koolhaus
09. Temple One pres. Tu Casa – Betelguese (Barnes & Heatcliff Remix
10. Armin van Buuren feat. Jacqueline Govaert vs. Ali Wilson – Never Say Shakedown (Armin van Buuren Mashup
11. Gaia – Tuvan
12. Super8 & Tab – Irufushi

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Also, next week is the DJ Mag Poll results!

Tracklisting

01. Deadmau5 – Strobe mau5trap
02. Alpha 9 – Bliss Aleph
03. Kyau & Albert – I Love You Euphonic
04. Filo & Peri feat. Aruna – Ashley (First State Remix) Vandit
05. Ben Preston feat. Susie – Why We Run Songbird
06. Wippenberg – Pong High Contrast
07. Daniel Heatcliff – Phoenix In Trance We Trust
08. Jonathan Martin – Insidious AVA
09. Super8 & Tab – Irufushi Anjunabeats
10. Cerf, Mitiska & Jaren – Beggin’ You (Armin van Buuren Remix) Armind Future Favorite
11. Arnej – They Need Us Coldharbour
12. M6 – ID
13. Dash Berlin feat. Sarah Howells – Waiting (Dash Berlin 4AM Remix) Aropa
14. Ferry Corsten feat. Maria Nayler – We Belong (Lange Remix) Flashover
15. Trance Arts – Stratosphere (Dan Stone Remix) Unearthed
16. Josh Gabriel pres. Winter Kills – Deep Down (Alex M.O.R.P.H. Remix) Different Pieces
17. Paul Webster feat. Aminda – Time (Sean Tyas Dub) Tune Of The Week
18. Vast Vision – ID
19. Adam Foley – Castaway Discover
20. Alibi – Eternity (Rising Star Remix) Armind ASOT Radio Classic

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And I bring to you Nanami Madobe – the character who is featured in the first 7777 copies of Windows 7 Ultimate DSP edition in Japan.  The first OS-tan marketed by the company themselves.

And for all of you college students out there (like me), you can go get yourself a copy of a $29.99 windows 7 home premium or windows 7 professional upgrade.  You can pretty much use this upgrade as long as you have some sort of windows on your computer already, so don’t sweat the small details (or just check out the requirements for upgrade over buying the full retail – I personally am upgrading from Windows 7 RC).

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Want to get Borderlands a little early and stay up a little late? …Basically, you now have only one excuse for not getting Borderlands tonight if you’re into the game and you’re in the US, and that is not wanting to go to GameStop and stand in line at midnight. Which is actually pretty reasonable.

So apparently Borderlands is releasing at a lot of Gamestops tonight at midnight.  I’ve actually been interested in this game recently and plan on playing the 4-player coop mode when I can get my hands on it.  Which might be unexpectedly soon.

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Apple are now attempting to halt jailbreaking for the time being.  Latest 3GS models are now loaded with a new booting firmware update, iBoot-359.3.2 which fixes the popular 24kpwn exploit.

Another exploit will have to be found in order to jailbreak future iPhones, but fear not there will always be a way around this.

In other jailbreaking news, jailbreaking for the 3GS 3.1.2 is now available.  The PwnageTool coming from Dev-Team and blackra1n coming frmo Geo-Hot.

I went the PwnageTool way and was successful. Creating an custom IPSW was easy and restoring it to my 3.0 Jailbreak worked perfectly.  However PwnageTool is mac only at the moment.  Geo-Hot’s blackra1n however only works on 3.1.2 stock phones, which means you will lose the ability to unlock with this tool.  Nevertheless blackra1n does its job well and fast.  Whichever method you go, you won’t go wrong unless you need the unlock.

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Starting November 11th, all WoW players will be required to login using Battle.net accounts.   Makes sense as Blizzard is really trying to push the Battle.net 2.0 platform, finally getting rid of redundancy and consolidating everything into one account.

Looking at the features of Battle.net 2.0, it does look pretty awesome.

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It seems that the leaders of the L4D2 Boycott (Agent Chaos and Walking_Target) have decided that the goal of the group was accomplished and that the group no longer serves a purpose.

Agent Chaos has this to say on the matter,

The recently released Crash Course was just the start. Future updates will continue to roll in, and 4v4 matchmaking is first in line. Valve has confirmed to us that it’ll be available before the release of L4D2. Also don’t forget, we have another DLC pack confirmed for sometime in the near future and of course, there will be bug fixes. This is as good as it can get people.

The group is filled with trolls and spammers saying that they sold out to Valve.  Valve recently flown them to their HQs to preview Left 4 Dead 2 and talka bout concerns for the boycott.

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Relic’s Dawn Of War II again receives a large FREE update to its award-winning Dawn Of War RTS.

Additionally, the game is discounted 50% off at the moment, so grab it while its cheap!

The Last Stand is a cooperative survival mode that gives gamers control of an individual hero unit and drops a small multiplayer team into a battle with impossible odds. Players can choose between a Space Marine Captain, Eldar Farseer or Ork Mekboy and will team up with two other squad-mates in an attempt to hold out as long as possible against wave after wave of relentless attackers.

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Killing Floor Free DLC and Free Weekend Plans [via Bluesnews]

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From a brief look at the article, you can sort of get a feel of the basic features of the OS.  And in case you are an Ubuntu user and you want to try it out, omg!ubuntu! cordially provides some links which I have reproduced here:

• Dev channel (for 32-bit systems): google-chrome-unstable_current_i386.deb
• Dev channel (for 64-bit systems): google-chrome-unstable_current_amd64.deb

[Contents and Image via omg!ubuntu!]

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Today, Google has announced that they are going to start giving invites to people that already have Google Voice!  It won’t happen all at once, but if you remember Gmail at all back in the beta stages, people started out with a few invites and then all of a sudden, it exploded into a hundred.  I assume this will be the same sort of deal – so soon everyone will have a Google Voice account.  Just peachy right?  Now if only AT&T would do something about their stubbornness…

[Content via TechCrunch]

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Tracklisting

1. Dash Berlin feat. Emma Hewitt – Waiting (from the album ‘The New Daylight’) (Armada)
2. Ferry Corsten feat. Novastar – Because (The Remix) (Extended mix) (Flashover)
3. BT feat. Jes – Every Other Way (Armin van Buuren remix) (Nettwerk)
4. Cosmic Gate feat. Aruna – Under Your Spell (Myon & Shane 54 remix) (Black Hole)
5. Above & Beyond – Anjuna Beach (Jerome Isma-Ae remix) (Anjunabeats)
6. DJ Eco presents Badlands feat. Marcie – Garden State (Jorge Nava Extended) (Istmo Music)
7. Super8 & Tab – Irufushi (Anjunabeats)
8. Giuseppe Ottaviani – Fallen (Vandit)
9. Adam Nickey – In Motion (Andy Blueman remix) (Anjunabeats)
10. Ferry Tale & Static Blue – Trapeze
11. John O Callaghan feat. Josie – Out of Nowhere (Stoneface & Terminal mix) (Armada)
12. Steve Birch Vs Within Temptation – The Temptation Within (Spaced Out Recordings)
13. Rapha & Reminder – Beyond The Clouds (Daniel Kandi’s 147 club mix)
14. Sly One vs Jurrane – Silicone Stars
15. TUNE OF THE WEEK: Deep Care – Blacks (Daniel Kandi Lifted mix) (Infrasonic)
16. Filo & Peri feat. Aruna – Ashley (Alex M.O.R.P.H. Remix) (Vandit)
17. Ernesto & Bastian – Killer Tone (High Contrast Recordings)
18. Adam Foley – 8AM (Vandit)
19. Solarstone – The Last Defeat Pt 1 (Bissen remix)(from the album RSEMIX) (Solaris)
20. Sander van Doorn – Ninety (Doorn)
21. ASOT Radio Classic: Agnelli & Nelson – El Nino (Xtravaganza)

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1. Kampfer (ecchi/gender-bender/harem)
2. NyanKoi! (talking cats/comedy/harem)
3. Seitokai no Ichizon (ecchi/heavy parody/harem)
4. White Album S2 (romance/heavy drama)
5. To Aru Kagaku no Railgun (spinoff/comedy/superpower/yuri)
6. 11eyes (sci-fi/fantasy/harem?)
7. Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu Purezza (ecchi/romance/comedy)

I think that’s all of them…as you can see, there are way too many harems and not enough of anything else.  To be quite honest, I’m probably only going to watch 1 or 2 of these throughout the entire season (luckily I still have FMA, and Cross Game to keep watching as well).  Here are some very brief first impressions I have of all of these series.

Kampfer

Senou Natsuru is a high school boy who suddenly gets picked to become a Kampfer (means fighter in German).  Through some twist of events, Senou finds himself in a battle where Kampfers have to fight other Kampfers that wear different colored wrist band things.  The whole premise is a little bizarre and the story seems to materialize with no background whatsoever.  I have little hope for this anime other than fanservice shots and a ton of girls.  Oh yeah, and the girl who Senou likes falls in love with his female self.  Yuri yuri yuri yuri yuri.

NyanKoi!

Nyan Koi! might actually have some hope for it.  While it is another harem anime, it doesn’t seem like that will be the main focus of it (hopefully).  Kousaka (the main character) has cursed himself by beheading a cat jizou statue.  An effect of the curse is that he can now hear cats speak.  In order to repel the curse and prevent himself from turning into a cat himself is to do 100 good deeds for cats.  Unfortunately Kousaka is allergic to cats and keeps finding himself in comedic situations when dealing with the cats.  Overall, a pretty lighthearted and leisurely anime.

Seitokai no Ichizon

The entire anime takes place in one room almost entirely, which is kind of interesting I guess.  Other than that, well, this is packed full of parodies and has some unnecessary fanservice.  That’s about it.  I have nothing else to say about this anime other than that if you aren’t seasoned in anime-watcher, definitely don’t watch it cause you won’t get any of the jokes.

White Album S2

Touya is still really dumb, Yuki should’ve moved on a long time ago and left him in the dust, and the rest of the characters are over dramatic and easy to read.  The story isn’t even that good – I’m not sure why I’m still watching; I guess for sake of completeness since the first season ended without any closure whatsoever.  I just want to see Touya get run over by a car and everyone move on with their goddamned lives and professions.  Oh yeah – don’t watch if you haven’t seen season 1.  And uh, don’t watch if you’ve seen season 1 anyway cause you should’ve stopped.  Like me.

To Aru Kagaku no Railgun

If you’ve watched To Aru Majutsu no Index, then you know who this character is.  This is Misaka Mikoto, one of the few level 5’s in Academy City.  I guess this is the story of Misaka.  Not very often is there an entire series of anime for a side-character.  I guess she’s just THAT popular.  It seemingly also takes place at the same time during the events of To Aru Majutsu no Index (as you can see from the beginning of the second episode).  Anyway, seems mostly like a slice-of-life anime that revolves around Misaka, Shirai Kuroko (who is a pervert in love with Misaka), Uihara Kazari, and Saten Ruiko.  I liked To Aru Majutsu no Index a lot, so I hope that this will deliver just as well.  (Hopefully with a season 2 of Majutsu no Index in store later!)

11eyes

So Kakeru and Yuka seem to be the main characters in this one.  I’m not actually sure what it’s about yet, but they apparently grew up at the same orphanage together.  Kakeru’s only family member, his older sister, killed herself.  The intro of the anime also hints that Yuka’s family was involved in an incident of internal killings or suicide.  That aside, the two of them are now in high school together and are close because of the time they spent at the orphanage.  This anime quickly turns from a high school setting to a sci-fi with Kakeru and Yuka being dragged into another dimension of sorts while getting attacked by strange (cheesy) monsters.  I predict that Kakeru and Yuka will eventually awaken to some hidden roles they each have.  Kakeru will gain some secret power and Yuka will always be in danger because of something she has or can do.  End prediction.  Regardless, I’ll at least watch for another episode or two to see where this is going.  Production values seem a little shoddy, but who knows.

Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu Purezza

If you liked the first season, this one will be the same exact thing – it’s pretty easy to tell.  I actually don’t want to keep watching this.  It’s romance (not good romance either), with fanservice, and lame comedy.  The art also isn’t great either.  Anyway, for those not in the know, it’s about a girl named Haruka who is secretly an otaku, but doesn’t want anyone else to know.  Ayase Yuuto, the male lead, knows Haruka’s secret and over the course of season 1, they get very close.  This series will probably just play on their relationship more while showing lots of fanservice.  Harems harems harems…no more please.

That’s about it for now.  I’ll probably end up watching a few more first episodes, because the ones I’ve seen so far have been pretty poor.  Looking through what has been released so far though, I can’t really hope for anything much better from what the descriptions say.  Hopefully something will come up and if it does, I’ll try to keep you informed.  Until then, it’s basically a crap-shoot.  It might actually be time to pick up something old that I’ve been meaning to watch for a while!  That would probably be worth it a lot more in retrospect.  Oh well – until next time.

Note: If you really need to watch something, try To Aru Kagaku no Railgun and Nyan Koi! if they sound appealing.  Otherwise stay away from most of the others, except maybe 11eyes, which could turn out decent or really bad.

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Yesterday a Chinese site had revealed what was apparently the last two campaigns in Left 4 Dead 2, those were “Hard Rain” and “Dead Center”.  This has now been confirmed by Xbox360Achievements.org who has the juicy details about new and otherwise rumored futures, like a defibrillator to revive teammates.  Check out the rest over at their site.

Full Story [via JoyStiq]

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Day 1:  Traveling and Late Night Eats

So I borrowed my dad’s car because my car had a side-view mirror broken.  So I had to go all the way back east to New Jersey and then start heading west and north to Rochester.  Added 2 hours to my drive =_=.

Ran into tons of traffic at the beginning of the trip because it was rush hour.  Sucked.

Apparently you drive through Russia on your way to Rochester, NY.  Or so says the GPS.  After this, didn’t really take anymore pictures because it was dark out and driving while picture taking is dangerous >_>.

So upon arriving, I think the only thing on my mind was getting some proper nourishment.  I had eaten dinner prior to leaving, but being that the drive was over 5 hours long, I was hungry.  What better way to satisfy my late night hunger with some innutritious Denny’s?

Chicken finger burrito.  ‘nough said.

The final activity of the night.  Record Danny, Sherman (danny’s housemate), and myself try to name all 150 of the original pokemon.  Needless to say, on later inspection; we learned we failed miserably.

Day 2: Dibella’s and RIT

So the next morning, I awoke because of a ring at the doorbell.  Apparently Jehovah’s Witnesses were wandering the neighborhood.  Sherman’s brother answered and I could barely stifle my laughter from the other room as they tried to convince him to see the path to god.

Needless to say, upon waking up, I quickly got comfortable since it was still pretty early.  Browsed the internet for a while until I got tired of waiting for Danny to wake up (I woke him up about 2.5 hours after I woke up).  We decided to head out shortly after.

Before leaving, I snapped a shot of the place Danny lives while at RIT.  It’s so much nicer than my current lodgings.

The first order of business was food.  So Danny took me to what is known is the best sub place in Rochester: Dibella’s.

The place was arranged pretty well – they had a system where they could shuffle customers to the counter to order quickly and then away to pick it up later.  It also had a nice vintage feel to it, which I enjoyed while eating my sandwich.

Here’s the remaining half of my capicola sub.  It was very tasty.  Thanks for treating me Danny.

After lunch, Danny brought me to RIT.  All of the buildings are pretty boring to look at since the entire school is actually pretty modern.  I think it’s only like 50-60 years old.

The hallways kind of reminded me of high school for some reason.  Narrow and long.

RIT boasts the largest video gaming club in the US.  Trademark of a nerdy school.

Inside of every building were places to eat or get snacks.  These places are even open on weekends.  Lehigh should get more places open on weekends and more food areas in general.  I mean, literally EVERY building had at least one place to buy food – ridiculous.

On-campus computer store.  Handy in a pinch I guess.

Rawr.

There’s nice shrubbery around all the buildings I guess.  Nowhere near as aesthetically nice as Lehigh, but it was nice to have everything FLAT.

Some hardcore editing equipment for the video majors I assume.

I do give RIT credit though.  There were a few nice park areas and greenery around.  Definitely fall now – it finally hit me as I realized there were tons of leaves on the ground here.

This is where Danny attends classes.

And with Danny’s lead, we dared to enter the abyss.

Was instantly greeted with comfy-looking chairs and a carpeted hallway.  Packard Lab seems so far away…(the building I go to most of my classes in at Lehigh).

A server room that’s apparently simulating black holes and whatnot.  Has a giant fan keeping it cool, along with a thermometer giving the ambient room temperature.  It was kind of awkward how most of the rooms had class windows that looked into the hallway instead of walls.  There were also tons of computer rooms as well as classrooms in this building, but that’s about it.  Typical of a college building right?

After touring that building, we decided to head back.  It was already pretty late – as you can see, there’s tons of cars missing from when we first arrived.  From here on out, we returned back to Danny’s place to fail miserably at making an intro-video for chenzen.  So much wasted time…Oh well – after that, just played some Street Fighter 4 (SF4) and went to sleep.

Day 3: Xacti and Rochester

So apparently the day I left, I didn’t take many pictures.  It’s probably because all I did was play more SF4 and eat some Chinese food with Danny.

This is Danny’s Xacti.  It takes up to 2 hours of 720p HD video @ 30fps.  As I mentioned before, we were trying to do a collab intro Vlog for chenzen, but failed miserably.  We came up with good ideas after the fact of course.  The camera seems pretty nice.  Compact and handy.

Look!  It’s Rochester!  It didn’t really give me much of an impression as a city though…

Well, we ended up at the Chinese restaurant which served up some good noodles.  Unfortunately I didn’t take any pictures of the food or the place.  I have no idea why, but this is the only picture from the chinese place, so yeah.  I think it’s cause I had just realized how dumb we were for making such a lame video for chenzen that we weren’t gonna use.

Anyway, after this, I basically got back to Danny’s place, packed up, and headed home.  Overall, I’d say I had a lot of fun though.  It was a nice trip, albeit a bit long, but nothing impossible.  On a good day, I can get to Rochester in about 4 hours and 40 minutes.  I got to relax a bit and chill with Danny and Sherman, so yeah – good times.  I hope to take more trips like this in the future.

That’s all for now!  Later

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