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Bruce Lee (Danny Chan Kwok Kwan) travaille sur "GAME OF DEATH", mais au même moment,
celui-ci ignore complètement qu'ont lieu les funérailles de son Sifu.
Pagetable.com has an interesting article on a Microsoft easter egg. If you type 'WAIT6502,1' into a
Commodore PET with BASIC V2 (1979), it will show the string 'MICROSOFT!' at the top left corner of
the screen. Legend has it Bill Gates himself inserted this easter egg 'after he had had an argument
with Commodore founder Jack Tramiel', 'just in case Commodore ever tried to claim that the code
wasn't from Microsoft'. In this episode of Computer Archeology, we will not only examine this
story, but also track down the history of Microsoft BASIC on various computers, and see see how
Microsoft added a second easter egg to the TSR-80 Color Computer - because they had forgotten about
the first one.
Pagetable.com has an interesting article on a Microsoft easter egg. If you type 'WAIT6502,1' into a
Commodore PET with BASIC V2 (1979), it will show the string 'MICROSOFT!' at the top left corner of
the screen. Legend has it Bill Gates himself inserted this easter egg 'after he had had an argument
with Commodore founder Jack Tramiel', 'just in case Commodore ever tried to claim that the code
wasn't from Microsoft'. In this episode of Computer Archeology, we will not only examine this
story, but also track down the history of Microsoft BASIC on various computers, and see see how
Microsoft added a second easter egg to the TSR-80 Color Computer - because they had forgotten about
the first one.
It takes no time at all to pick out the vocal stylings of TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe, Subtle's Adam "Doseone" Drucker, or Mike Patton of Peeping Tom/Faith No
More/Tomahawk/I Am
Legend/etc.
Each is possessed with an inimitable set of pipes and a willingness to mix subtlety (no pun
intended) and balls-to-the-wall fury when the occasion calls for it.
One can only imagine what kind of howls and growls await us on a new project the three are
working up, which Adebimpe mentioned in an interview with
the Onion's AV Club. The TVOTR frontman told the paper that he, Drucker,
and Patton are "working on a project that I'm thinking will congeal toward the end of the year.
It came from an idea that Adam had, to have the three of us just, basically, mess around vocally
and see what comes of it."
No other info about the project is available right now, though it has been confirmed as being in
the works. I hope, at the very least, it involves a cover of "Don't Worry Be Happy".
The AV Club reminds us that fans waiting to hear the three spit together could play a little six
degrees of salivation at home if they so chose: Tunde shows up on
Subtle's Yell & Ice, and Doseone showed up on Peeping Tom's self-titled
affair back in 2006. Still, the prospect of the three coming together on record is
like one of those Yngwie Malmsteen/Steve Vai/Joe Satriani superjams, minus the old man smell.
A fairly slow week sees the release of the ground-deforming shooter Fracture, The
Legend of Kage 2 on DS, and a whole pile of NBA games. Complete list inside.
The mythology in Latin America is quite rich: some tales have been passed onto us from
the Incas, Mayas or Aztecs, and others are colonial imports from Europe. On this first part of
the multinational Latin American post, we'll visit some of the most popular myths and legends
like the Llorona, the Cegua, the Cadejos and the Evil Light.
Legends and myths are part of our culture. Nina Maguid mentions in her post “Of Fear
and Frights”, that these stories were told in first person and usually around some
source of fire, and I couldn't agree more. I used to hear local versions of some of these stories
during my holidays, sitting around dining room tables at rural farmhouses, our faces lit up by a
flickering kerosene lamp. All it took for a story to be recalled was the unexplained baying of
dogs or a horse galloping by in the dead of the night. Nina mentions three specific
frights famous in her mother's Argentinean hometown: The bad light, the widow and the pig.
According to Comodín
at El Blog de Oro, this light would be used to hunt for treasure: if it was a white light, it
would signal gold and silver treasure, if it was red, they had to run away, since it was the
devil at work. This myths is by no means unique to Argentina: all over the world people have
tried to explain the meaning of these
mysterious lights which appear at twilight, like in Spain and Chile.
The Widow was a woman slighted in love, who died when she discovered her husband was unfaithful.
She signed a deal with the devil to remain forever in this world and get her revenge. She would
jump on single men's horses and ride pillion with them, and if they got frightened, she would
kill them. The only way to remain unscathed was by carrying a rosary or crucifix and not getting
scared. This myth is so fixed in Argentinean folklore that the expression “getting visited
by the Widow” is a synonym for an unexpected or disagreeable event.
El Loco
Bender (Crazy Bender) also writes about the Black Widow, and adds a bit more flair to the
hair-raising story by promising a lonely, slow and painful death to those fickle or unfaithful
men she meets.
Costa Rica has a similar myth, known as la Cegua. La Cegua will hitch a ride from lonely and
unfaithful men, luring them with her attractive appearance, but once she is atop the horse, when
the men look back they will see that her face is a horse's skull covered in putrid meat, and she
will bite their cheek to mark them as unfaithful. However, blogger Elemental writes
that the outcome may be far more dire: all unfaithful men die with their eyes wide open in fear,
and those who weren't unfaithful keep their lives, but remain impotent for the rest of their
lives.
Elemental also writes about the Cadejos, a demon dog that would appear at night with the sound of
dragging chains, although none would be visible. The size of a small calf, this dog had matted
hair, giant fangs and sizzling eyes, nose and ears, and would scare anything in its way, from
naughty children and wayward men to farm animals. Nevertheless, this “fright” is
considered benevolent, since it will walk along drunken men and make sure they get home safely,
even protecting them from other beings of the night such as La Llorona or common thieves. In
Guatemala, however, they consider that there are two versions of this dog: the black one and the
white one. The white dog will protect anyone it walks with, and in Deguate.com, Mrs. Argentina Barcia tells
of how the Cadejos led them to find her father's dead body. At El Blog Chapin another goose-bump
inducing story tells of how El Cadejos appeared to a city slicker staying at a homestead, and how
people should take heed when warnings of the supernatural kind are delivered by country folk.
Our last legend for today is that of La
Llorona, [en]Â one that caused me to fear cats in heat for years and years of my
childhood . La Llorona is “the crying woman, and this is one of the multinational frights.
From Mexico to Chile, the Llorona stays near bodies of water (which might include a water tank in
your garden) and wails for her missing children. She might just be there to scare you, or if you
are in Colombia [es],Â
she might want you to hold her baby for just one second, since she's very tired, and then you'll
be condemned to being La Llorona until someone takes the burden off your hands. The story of how
her children went missing varies from one country to the other, but most have some of the same
elements. Women who married men who were much richer than they were, got slighted or abandoned,
and decided to take their anger out on their children by drowning them, to later regret their
choice. Others versions have a young and flighty woman who leaves her baby out by a river rock
where she things he'll be safe while she goes out dancing, and then the river rises and takes the
baby away, and so the woman remains near rivers, asking everyone if they have seen her children.
The following Costa Rican animated short film, Asusto, by Pablo and Francisco Céspedes Jr
showcases most, if not all the Costa Rican legends, including the ox-less cart and the headless
priest. No translation necessary: there seems to be no need for words when you are busy running
away from fright after fright.
If you wanted to, you could by 11 versions of three different NBA games on
Tuesday. Of course, if you wanted to, you could also buy Imagine Fashion Designer New York
and Imagine Babysitters on the same date. And which would be worse? Another jampacked
Tuesday for you, with the big NBA drops, plus Fracture on PS3 and 360, and then
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway arrives for the PC if you're waiting on that. Curiosities
include CID The Dummy (Monday, Wii, PC, PSP and PS2) and Crash Bandicoot: Mind Over
Mutant (Tuesday, PS2, DS, Wii, 360). They do not include Etch-a-Sketch or My Spanish Teacher
(both PSP, Tuesday). Full list is on the jump. Let us know what you're
buying/renting/playing/sneering at in the comments. Monday (Oct. 6)
Nancy Drew: The Haunting of Castle Malloy (PC)
Line Rider 2: Unbound (Wii)
Game Party 2 (Wii)
CID The Dummy (Wii, PC, PSP, PS2)
Tuesday (Oct. 7)
Fracture (PS3, 360)
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway (PC)
NBA Live 09 (PSP, PS3, 360, PS2)
NBA 2K9 (PS2, PS3, 360)
NBA Live 09 All-Play (Wii)
NBA 09 The Inside (PSP, PS3, PS2)
Crash Bandicoot: Mind Over Mutant (PS2, DS, Wii, 360)
Disney Sing It (PS3, 360, PC)
Midnight Club: LA Remix (PSP)
My Spanish Coach (PSP)
The Guild 2: Venice (PC)
Ten Pin Alley 2 (Wii)
Spectrobes: Beyond the Portals (DS)
Sniper - Art of Victory (PC)
Six Flags Fun Park (PC, PS2)
Prey the Stars (DS)
Onimusha: The Essentials (PS2)
Kage Densetsu: The Legend of Kage 2 (DS)
Imagine Fashion Designer New York (DS)
Imagine Babysitters (DS)
Guilty Gear 2: Overture (360)
Exodus from the Earth (PC)
Everlight (PC)
Etch A Sketch (PC)
Can You See What I See (PC)
Bleach: Dark Souls (DS)
Army Men: Soldiers of Misfortune (Wii) Wednesday (Oct. 8)
MLB Stickball (360) Thursday (Oct. 9)
Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars (PS3) Friday (Oct. 10)
Cake Mania: Baker's Challenge (PS2, PSP)
Source: Gamespot
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If you wanted to, you could by 11 versions of three different NBA games on
Tuesday. Of course, if you wanted to, you could also buy Imagine Fashion Designer New York
and Imagine Babysitters on the same date. And which would be worse? Another jampacked
Tuesday for you, with the big NBA drops, plus Fracture on PS3 and 360, and then
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway arrives for the PC if you're waiting on that. Curiosities
include CID The Dummy (Monday, Wii, PC, PSP and PS2) and Crash Bandicoot: Mind Over
Mutant (Tuesday, PS2, DS, Wii, 360). They do not include Etch-a-Sketch or My Spanish Teacher
(both PSP, Tuesday). Full list is on the jump. Let us know what you're
buying/renting/playing/sneering at in the comments.
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