pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/mac/" rel="tag"Mac/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/pc/" rel="tag"PC/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/action/" rel="tag"Action/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/adventure/" rel="tag"Adventure/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/fighting/" rel="tag"Fighting/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/online/" rel="tag"Online/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/rpgs/" rel="tag"RPGs/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/video/" rel="tag"Video/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/mmo/" rel="tag"MMO/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/galleries/" rel="tag"Galleries/a/pobject classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="490" height="318" id="viddler_a88c025b"param name="movie" value="http://www.viddler.com/player/a88c025b/" /param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /embed src="http://www.viddler.com/player/a88c025b/" width="490" height="318" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" name="viddler_a88c025b" /embed/objectbr /If you've been playing the a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/wrath-of-the-lich-king/"emWrath of the Lich King/em/a beta, then this stuff isn't new to you. However, it sure it pretty. All those lush environments, just waiting to be riddled with the corpses of the vanquished. Straight to you from BlizzCon comes the video above, and the gallery below.br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="/photos/blizzcon-2008-world-of-warcraft-wrath-of-the-lich-king/"BlizzCon 2008: World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King/a/strong/pa href="/photos/blizzcon-2008-world-of-warcraft-wrath-of-the-lich-king/1090951/" class="gallerythumbnail"img src="http://www.blogcdn.comwww.joystiq.com/media/2008/10/magnataur_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="/photos/blizzcon-2008-world-of-warcraft-wrath-of-the-lich-king/1090950/" class="gallerythumbnail"img src="http://www.blogcdn.comwww.joystiq.com/media/2008/10/fire-giant_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="/photos/blizzcon-2008-world-of-warcraft-wrath-of-the-lich-king/1090949/" class="gallerythumbnail"img src="http://www.blogcdn.comwww.joystiq.com/media/2008/10/furbolg_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="/photos/blizzcon-2008-world-of-warcraft-wrath-of-the-lich-king/1090948/" class="gallerythumbnail"img src="http://www.blogcdn.comwww.joystiq.com/media/2008/10/dire-bear_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="/photos/blizzcon-2008-world-of-warcraft-wrath-of-the-lich-king/1090947/" class="gallerythumbnail"img src="http://www.blogcdn.comwww.joystiq.com/media/2008/10/citadel_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/11/blizzcon-2008-wow-wrath-of-the-lich-king-new-gameplay-and-image/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1339554/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=amp;fc=1amp;url=http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/11/blizzcon-2008-wow-wrath-of-the-lich-king-new-gameplay-and-image/" title="Linking Blogs"Linkingnbsp;Blogs/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/11/blizzcon-2008-wow-wrath-of-the-lich-king-new-gameplay-and-image/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=0ccPm"img src="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=0ccPm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=iFsXm"img src="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=iFsXm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/418125796" height="1" width="1"/

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Florin made a giant TV-B-Gone... 48 IR LEDs and an ATmega8 that sends the signals to the LEDs. Source code and schematics included. He writes -

I arranged the LED’s in 4 rows of 12 pieces and the resistors fit quite nicely between the LED’s. I used four BD139 NPN transistors to drive the rows. It took me hours to drill and then solder this board(48 LED’s and 48 resistors mean 192 holes plus the other parts). The controller board contains an ATmega8 chosen because of it’s 8k memory needed to store all the codes, an 8 MHz crystal, an LED, a tact switch and some resistors and capacitors. I designed the board so that it can also be used for other projects.

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I just sent back my original iPod touch 2G and when I got it back I noticed a little dent on the chrome. Not on the back, but I little dent on the front, close to the screen. I dont think its a big deal, but Im afraid that might mean that the screen was put in roughly or something. And I already sent back my iPod so this will be my third if I send it back :(.

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So you might be wondering what a picture of Eric Bana swigging a beer in a Hulk t-shirt has to do with the remake of a French thriller. Well, the answer I'm afraid is nothing, its just one of my favorite pictures of the Aussie actor -- but back to the business at hand. Variety reports that Millennium Films is currently in talks with Bana to star in their remake of the French thriller, Le Convoyeur (now titled, Armored).

The original film was written and directed by Nicolas Boukhrief, but Millennium have their eye on F. Gary Gray (The Italian Job) to take over the remake. The script was also given a re-working by David Ayer (Training Day) and Andrew Kevin Walker. The story centers on a man (presumably to be played by Bana) working for an armored car company who manages to ingratiate himself into a heist planned by his co-workers. But as it turns out, our protagonist has his own motives for weaseling his way into this band of lowlifes.

Bana had originally been set to star in the flick before dropping the project to play Nero in J.J. Abram's Star Trek reboot. So what could have changed his mind? According to Variety, Bana "has a deal negotiated down to what sources described as a $7.5 million paycheck." Not bad for a guy who has yet to really break out as a leading man.

Bana's schedule would appear to be packed for the foreseeable future, including promoting Trek and the romantic weepy, The Astronaut's Wife. Not to mention he will be making his directing debut with the documentary, Love the Beast, later this year. Armored is scheduled to start production on April 1st, so Millennium is going to have to work fast if they want to convince Bana to sign on -- I personally can think of 7.5 million reasons to sign on the dotted line.

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A business development fund aims to encourage its largest partners to take up more skills training around data centers.

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Palin speaks to young missionaries, vowing from the pulpit to do her part to implement God's will from the governor's office. What she didn't tell worshippers gathered at the Wasilla Assembly of God church was that her appearance that day came courtesy of Alaskan taxpayers, who picked up the $639.50 tab for her airplane tickets and per diem fees.

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Microsoft's gaming console, the Xbox 360, is up for updates. The gamins star "made" an appearance at the Tokyo Game Show. Microsoft officials delivered a keynote speech, in which they announced that the software of the console would undergo a series of cardinal changes. The modifications would enhance the gaming experience, the realistic touch and will enable users to navigate more easily through the console's features. To denote the new characteristics, the new Xbox 360 environment was named New Xbox Experience.

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Here is Smash My Xbox taking on a totally new concept and meaning as one guy gets fed up with his 360's RRoD and decides to take out a shot-gun on it in order to even up the score...

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Anthony_Cargile writes "Microsoft announced Friday their new 'M' language, designed especially for building textual domain-specific languages and software models with XAML. Microsoft will also announce Quadrant, for building and viewing models visually, and a repository for storing and combining models using a SQL Server database. While some say the language is simply their 'D' language renamed to a further letter down the alphabet, the language is criticized for lack of a promised cross-platform function because of its ties to MS SQL server, which only runs on Windows."
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Reader Alex B. sent in this — Fantastic Contraption — a physics flash game where you string together wheels and joints in order to carry an object toward a goal on the screen. It's nice nonviolent trial-and-error fun, indulging both the competitive urge to be as efficient as possible, and the creative impulse to be as outlandish as you can get away with.
The opening tutorial is pretty helpful, and many of the opening levels are easy to beat in minutes or seconds. As for the general appeal of flash games, I think XKCD summed it up best.

Fantastic Contraption [Site, thanks Alex B]

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Man, Capcom are pulling out all the stops with their booths this year. We've already shown you the Gyakuten Kenji setup, but equally amazing is the company's Street Fighter IV booth, which is a replica of Chun-Li's stage. It's even got a chicken. Great stuff.


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‘Real-Time’ BitTorrent search engines are the trend of 2008, and new sites emerge every other week. It all started in January with the launch of YouTorrent, but soon after it went legal, other sites took over. We catch up with the founder of one of YouTorrent’s successors to find out more.

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In the first part of our interview with Digg founder Kevin Rose at the Future of Web Apps conference, CNET News asked the Web start-up poster boy about everything from the company's Series C funding round to whether he's concerned about when those election stories stop rolling in.

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The collection today showcases some truly awe-inspiring Widescreen Desktop Wallpaper designs created by an array of artists, most of which can be downloaded for free. Enjoy adding some new life to your desktop with one of these refreshing new Widescreen Desktop Wallpaper designs.

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BlizzCon is right around the corner, and the smart money is on Diablo III being the biggest news-maker of the show. Let's kick things off with our humble list of 10 things we'd love to see in Diablo III...

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New image recognition webapp ALIPR (Automatic Linguistic Indexing of Pictures in Real-Time) is a on a mission to assign relevant tags to digital images based on their content, and wants you to help it learn. While digital image recognition has come a long way in recent years, it's still got a long way to go, and ALIPR's got its share of hits and misses. Upload an image to ALIPR or hand it a URL of an image already online, and the engine will suggest tags, and ask you to add to its list. Some of ALIPR's suggestions are spot-on, but others are way off. You can confirm the hits and suggest other tags to help the engine learn. Check out how ALIPR did with a few images from my Flickr photostream.
Given a photos of boats in the harbor and a skyline, ALIPR does pretty well with its tag suggestions:

But a clear photo of a spider doesn't net any tags that apply:

Given a more confusing photo of a rock sculpture outside a building, ALIPR identifies the sky and buildings:

But a clear photo of a fire only returns the "orange" tag, not the word fire:

The concept of ALIPR is super exciting for anyone who's building a library of digital photos, because the most tedious parts of organizing and searching your photos is adding relevant keywords to them. So automatic photo tagging, when done well and accurately, could be a huge time saver. Can't wait to see ALIPR-like technology built-in to a desktop photo organizer like Picasa. In the meantime, you can also use ALIPR's growing library of tagged photos to search for images by keyword as well.
ALIPR [via TechRadar]

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Goodie! The long, excruciating wait for more information on Cowon's exceptionally sleek O2 PMP is finally over, and two of the more important tidbits you could ever want to know have been revealed. The PMP, which supports a gaggle of file types including MP3, OGG FLAC, AAC, WMA, DivX, MPEG4 and WMV (just to fire off a few), will arrive with a 4.3-inch touchscreen, SDHC card slot, 8GB / 16GB / 32GB of internal capacity, an internal speaker, TV output (up to 720p), 10-band custom equalizer, 18-hours of battery life for audio playback (8-hours for video), optional T-DMB TV tuner / e-dictionary functionality and your choice of pink, black or white motifs. The real news? An October 13th ship date in South Korea along with prices ranging from ?294,000 ($224) for the stripped-down 8GB edition to ?399,000 ($305) for the 32GB edition with a DMB tuner. Yanks, sadly, will have to wait.

[Via iAudiophile, thanks Ang]

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