Dancing With the Stars' Cheryl Burke has been getting a little porky lately, so she's doing what any responsible professional dancer would do: She's crying to the media about how everyone should be okay with it. According to People magazine: When bloggers called out Cheryl Burke for putting on a few pounds, the Dancing with the Stars pro fought back. But what upset her most, she says, is the unhealthy body image issues promoted by such stories. “I want kids or women out there to realize you don’t have to be anorexic to be beautiful,” the two-time Dancing champ tells PEOPLE exclusively. “There’s a lot of pressure living this Hollywood life. People expect to see you at a certain weight and when you gain a few pounds then all of a sudden it’s the talk of the week.” Whatever, fatty. If you weren't packing on pounds yourself, you'd be pushing your nose up with your thumb and making "oink, oink" noises at every chick who doesn't blow away in a stiff breeze. You're getting paid to stay in shape, so put down the damn donut and hit the treadmill. Unless you want your next TV gig to be on the evening news. In a breaking report about the woman who had to be airlifted to the hospital to have a turkey drumstick surgically removed from the folds in her gut.

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Austrian politician Joerg Haider, whose far-right rhetoric at times cast a negative light on the Alpine republic, has died in a car accident at age 58.

pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/arcade/" rel="tag"Arcade/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/ps3/" rel="tag"Sony PlayStation 3/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/xbox360/" rel="tag"Microsoft Xbox 360/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/fighting/" rel="tag"Fighting/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/tgs/" rel="tag"TGS/a/pcenterobject classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="490" height="295" id="viddler_5baf0104"param name="movie" value="http://www.viddler.com/simple/5baf0104/" /param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /embed src="http://www.viddler.com/simple/5baf0104/" width="490" height="295" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" name="viddler_5baf0104" /embed/object/centerFighting games have made a big comeback, and the evidence was clearly seen at TGS this year. emTekken 6/em's announcement for home consoles is one of the bigger stories on the show floor this year. (Probably because there wasn't that much else happening ...) Capcom's revival of the emStreet Fighter/em franchise in a href="http://www.ps3fanboy.com/tag/street-fighter-iv"emSFIV/em/a looks rather exciting, and the TGS trailer offers excited fans over three minutes of anime and fighting footage.p 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/tgs-08-street-fighter-iv-trailer/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1339272/" 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/tgs-08-street-fighter-iv-trailer/" title="Linking Blogs"Linkingnbsp;Blogs/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/11/tgs-08-street-fighter-iv-trailer/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=bXTbm"img src="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=bXTbm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=7V6Tm"img src="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=7V6Tm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/417549736" height="1" width="1"/

pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/household/" rel="tag"Household/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/10/10/sheets.of.light.oleds.ap/index.html"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/10/oled_500.jpg" alt="" //a/div Maybe the incandescent light bulb has been sitting in its socket-shaped throne for too many years -- GE thinks so, anyway. GE Ramp;D guys have produced a machine that prints a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/oled"OLED/a materials newspaper-style onto 8-inch sheets of metal foil in hopes that the sheets -- which can be pinned to just about any surface -- will start the process of home lighting biz regime change in 2010. Picture, if you will, wallpaper or window blinds that provide soft, diffused lighting for the living room after dark -- no need for special fixtures, just a wall plug. a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/07/osram-unveils-ingo-maurer-designed-early-future-oled-lamp/"OLED lighting/a isn't yet cost-efficient for the average consumer, but GE hopes that will change soon. In the meantime, expect to see these sheets in a trip-out Flaming Lips concert in the somewhat-near future.h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/10/10/sheets.of.light.oleds.ap/index.htmlRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/11/ge-builds-an-oled-printer-hopes-to-challenge-light-bulbs-in-201/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1339059/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/11/ge-builds-an-oled-printer-hopes-to-challenge-light-bulbs-in-201/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~a/weblogsinc/engadget?a=Sl8laX"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~a/weblogsinc/engadget?i=Sl8laX" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=4Leum"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=4Leum" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=JJI4m"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=JJI4m" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/417548512" height="1" width="1"/

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe gives key ministries to his own party in defiance of a power-sharing deal, reports say.

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Handbags can range from simple and utilitarian to all flash and fashion, and everything in between. If you intend to design them, learn both ends of this spectrum. Then, combine the different elements into new and different designs all your own.

pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/xbox360/" rel="tag"Microsoft Xbox 360/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/strategy/" rel="tag"Strategy/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/tgs/" rel="tag"TGS/a/pdiv align="center"img width="490" vspace="4" hspace="0" height="368" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/10/halo-wars-tgs-490-1.jpg" alt="" /br //div Shortly after learning that the Flood would be a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/08/roll-up-your-pants-the-flood-confirmed-in-halo-wars/"making an appearance in emHalo Wars/em/a, we were whisked away to a meeting with Ensemble's Graeme Divine where we immediately asked: "Is the Flood a playable race?" As quickly as we asked it, we were answered: no. With an emphasis on the story-driven single-player campaign, Divine told us that the multiplayer component would only include the UNSC and Covenant forces, as already revealed, and the campaign would only be playable as the UNSC, not the Covenant. br /br /But that brings up another issue: how is the Flood present in a prequel taking place 20 years before the events in emHalo: Combat Evolved/em? The more Halo-aware amongst you (read: total nerds) will recall that the introduction of the mysterious Flood in that seminal title was a surprise to the player and, indeed, to the entire UNSC command. When asked if they're a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retconned"retconning/a the Flood earlier into the emHalo/em timeline, Divine said that the events observed in Halo 1 "was the first time UNSC knew about the Flood." So how does the existence of the parasitic aliens twenty years earlier go entirely unrecorded? Unsurprisingly, they're not saying (our guess: everyone dies). br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="/photos/halo-wars/"Halo Wars/a/strong/pa href="/photos/halo-wars/997406/" class="gallerythumbnail"img src="http://www.blogcdn.comwww.joystiq.com/media/2008/08/halowarsboxart2_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="/photos/halo-wars/997402/" class="gallerythumbnail"img src="http://www.blogcdn.comwww.joystiq.com/media/2008/08/halowarsboxart1_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="/photos/halo-wars/927647/" class="gallerythumbnail"img src="http://www.blogcdn.comwww.joystiq.com/media/2008/07/screenshots_1280_016_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="/photos/halo-wars/927646/" class="gallerythumbnail"img src="http://www.blogcdn.comwww.joystiq.com/media/2008/07/screenshots_1280_020_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="/photos/halo-wars/927645/" class="gallerythumbnail"img src="http://www.blogcdn.comwww.joystiq.com/media/2008/07/screenshots_1280_014-1_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divpa href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/11/tgs-08-a-guided-tour-of-the-halo-wars-campaign/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emTGS 08: A guided tour of the Halo Wars campaign/em/a/pp 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/tgs-08-a-guided-tour-of-the-halo-wars-campaign/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1337239/" 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/tgs-08-a-guided-tour-of-the-halo-wars-campaign/" title="Linking Blogs"Linkingnbsp;Blogs/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/11/tgs-08-a-guided-tour-of-the-halo-wars-campaign/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=q8e4m"img src="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=q8e4m" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=EbWQm"img src="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=EbWQm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/417516981" height="1" width="1"/

Hey all, I was wondering if you could help me find some similar music to these two songs I like: Baba Yetu and Coronation from Civ4. You can listen to them here: http://www.christophertin.com/samples.html

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pGerman Porsche Tuner Ruf introduces a full electric Porsche dubbed eRuf. The Porsche eRuf uses a 150KW electric motor accelerating the Porsche from 0-60mph in 7 seconds. Powered by 96 Axeon iron-phosphate, lithium-ion batteries the range of the eRuf i.../p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/vGUS7OZQgCRciRjjVMngL3mKSKA/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/vGUS7OZQgCRciRjjVMngL3mKSKA/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind the user-driven Wikipedia project, is in the process of migrating its servers to the Ubuntu Linux distribution. Wikimedia's move to Ubuntu is part of an effort to simplify administration of the organization's 400 servers, which previously ran a mix of various versions of Red Hat and Fedora.

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Were you the one that leaked Fallout 3? Well, you better not be, because Bethesda is looking to find out just who did! Bethesda VP Pete Hines says they've narrowed it down and they're gonna get you!

"We're looking into it. Since we haven't sent out a single disc, it greatly reduces the number of places this might have come from."

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With Star Ocean 4 and Last Remnant featured exclusively next door in the Microsoft booth, Square Enix's Tokyo Game Show 2008 booth was all portable this year.

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An anonymous reader writes "Our wonderful government here in the UK has decided we're not being surveilled enough, and agreed to spend £12 billion on a programme to monitor every Briton's phone calls, e-mails, and internet usage. According to various sources, upwards of £1 billion has already been spent on the uber-database. Rationale? Terrorism, of course (no prizes for guessing). Needless to say, not everyone is as happy as Larry over this: Michael Parker pointed out how us Brits are being 'stalked.' I'm just looking forward to when the data gets lost."
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There's no doubt that this year's Tokyo Game Show is... a bit underwhelming. Sure, the booth companions continue to be top notch and Kids Corner is hoppin', but almost everyone we've spoken to at the con sees TGS 2008 as something of a dud. Outside of a few PR types who love everything on God's green earth, most folks are meh-ing the Makuhari Messe.
That translates to a drop in attendance of about 11,000 fewer than last year, at least on the first two days of TGS. Why? Metal Gear Solid 4 is out. Final Fantasy XIII is still not playable. Nintendo isn't here. Wada's keynote was a snoozer.
We'll see how the public reacts tomorrow. Brace for impact!

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Earlier this week I took a leisurely stroll through the halls of Tokyo Game Show videoing the goings-on of booths, their babes and the people who love them. Today it wasn't so leisurely. The mass of attendees tore through the hall shaking the will of smiling booth companions who still, despite the hardships, managed to keep those smile from going upside down. I wouldn't suggest watching if you weren't a fan of Cloverfield... or getting immensely motion sick.

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No, 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand isn't dead, dead, dead. It's alive! The game, orphaned by Activision Blizzard, has indeed been picked up by publisher THQ, according to a rating by Australia's Office of Film and Literature Classification board. That's the part we did get right when we reexamined 50's fate. Honestly, though our interest in 50's music begins and ends at "In Da Club" we can't help but be warmed over by the ridiculousness of Blood On The Sand's debut trailer. It's brilliant.
50 Cent: Blood On The Sand [OFLC via NeoGAF]

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As Election Day approaches, many musicians are stepping up efforts to rally voters to the polls come November 4. The latest to vote with their instruments? Hip-hop luminaries the Beastie Boys, staunch Obama supporters who just unveiled a handful of "Get Out and Vote" shows.

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