A career milestone for Joel Johnson on Boing Boing tv -- his very first shower scene. The naked gadget reviewer explains: What hath videoblogging wrought? It is my honor and personal shame to present my video review of the Freestyle Audio Soundwave underwater MP3 player. Using the miracle of not showing you my junk, this is my first nude videoblog, but remains safe for work. Except for my dancing, which if everything goes to plan, will induce crippling nausea. If you'd like a direct download — I'm looking at you, my furry fanbase — then here is a direct MP4 link. Might I suggest you wander on over to the viewer comment thread on Boing Boing Gadgets blog, where the words "cheapish," "fap," and "natural urge to want to see the entire shot" have recently been typed? And don't worry, I swear the video is totally worksafe. Also, the ending is quite funny, so do stick around for that....br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=b39c34c54994f6637ae9f7dbe63e8982p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=b39c34c54994f6637ae9f7dbe63e8982p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=b39c34c54994f6637ae9f7dbe63e8982" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

Live Nation and Blockbuster announced a three-year contract that will put the promoter's large-scale ticketing system exclusively in 500 or so brick-and-mortar Blockbuster locations.

As part of the deal, blocks of tickets to shows ticketed by Live Nation will be available only at Blockbuster locations for the first four hours that they're on sale. The plan will go into effect after Live Nation's Ticketmaster contract expires at the end of the year, as part of the rollout of its own ticketing system.

"Our research definitively shows that the vast majority of music fans who prefer to buy their concert tickets at a retail location find Blockbuster to be the most convenient choice," stated Nathan Hubbard, head of ticketing for Live Nation. "Blockbuster's huge national footprint provides Live Nation with a powerful marketing partner to help drive incremental ticket sales to our events and an incredible opportunity to develop other product lines centered around music for Blockbuster customers."

Live Nation has record deals with Jay-Z, Madonna, Nickelback  and Shakira and a merchandise deal with U2. For its part, Blockbuster has been shutting down locations across the nation for the past year or so while doubling down on its video-on-demand strategy, and recently reported a quarterly loss of $20.6 million, so it has ample reason to sign a deal that would bring more people to its remaining locations.

"Not only will this agreement drive hundreds of thousands of customers to our stores, it represents another step in the transformation of Blockbuster into a brand that offers the most convenient access to entertainment," stated Blockbuster chairman and CEO Jim Keyes."We want customers to know that whatever their entertainment needs -- from DVDs and games, to accessing tickets to some of the biggest concert events -- they'll find those needs answered at Blockbuster."

We've asked Live Nation about what sort of convenience fees they plan to charge after the Ticketmaster contract expires, but so far haven't heard a definitive response. It's unclear whether the Blockbuster deal holds any implications for the sorts of additional fees show-goers might be expected to pay. But at the very least, the urge to snap up hot tickets should have many music fans trying to remember the location of the nearest Blockbuster.

If tickets are still available after that initial four hours, they'll continue to be sold at Blockbuster, which "will be responsible for managing and operating all aspects of the ticket transactional experience." In addition to early ticketing, the deal involves Blockbuster-only access to unspecified exclusive "concert products and promotions."

See Also:

• The Rolling Stones Deny Rumored Live Nation Album Deal
• Can Blu-ray Save Blockbuster?
• Live Nation Exits Car Racing to Double Down on Music

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Props to the EFF for having the testicular fortitude to fight the big fight. -Ed.

Quote: SAN FRANCISCO — The Bush administration on Tuesday will try to convince a federal judge to let stand a law granting retroactive legal immunity to the nation's telecoms, which are accused of transmitting Americans' private communications to the National Security Agency without warrants.

At issue in the high-stakes showdown — set to begin at 10:00 a.m. PST — are the nearly four dozen lawsuits filed by civil liberties groups and class action attorneys against AT&T, Verizon, MCI, Sprint and other carriers who allegedly cooperated with the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program in the years following the Sept. 11 terror attacks. The lawsuits claim the cooperation violated federal wiretapping laws and the Constitution.

In July, as part of a wider domestic spying bill, Congress voted to kill the lawsuits and grant retroactive amnesty to any phone companies that helped with the surveillance; President-elect Barack Obama was among those who voted for the law in the Senate. On Tuesday, lawyers with the Electronic Frontier Foundation are set to urge the federal judge overseeing those lawsuits to reject immunity as unconstitutional. At stake, they say, is the very principle of the rule of law in America.

"I think it does set a very frightening precedent that it's okay for people to break the law because they can just have Congress bail them out later," says EFF legal director Cindy Cohn. "It's very troubling." More of the article at the link above. BTW: This is happening TODAY.

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divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/96014?ns=guardianpageName=Business%3A+Government+puts+RBS+lending+policy+under+scrutinych=Businessc3=The+Guardianc4=Royal+Bank+of+Scotland+%28Business%29%2CBanking+sector+%28Business%29%2CRegulators%2CBusiness%2CMortgages+%28Money%29%2CBanks+and+building+societies%2CMoney%2CEconomic+policy%2CPoliticsc5=Personal+Finance%2CInvestments%2CCredit+Crunch%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CBusiness+Markets%2CProperty+Mortgages+and+Interest+Ratesc6=Jill+Treanor%2CRupert+Jonesc7=2008_12_02c8=1127185c9=articlec10=GUc11=Businessc12=Royal+Bank+of+Scotlandc13=c14=h2=GU%2FBusiness%2FRoyal+Bank+of+Scotland" width="1" height="1" //divpRoyal Bank of Scotland was put on notice yesterday that its lending policy, boardroom appointments and business strategy were being reviewed by the government as it took control of 58% of the Edinburgh-based bank./ppThe body set up to oversee the government's stake said it was in "active discussions" about the bank's strategy. UK Financial Investments said that John Crompton, hired from Merrill Lynch, would manage the stake that came under government control yesterday after shareholders shunned a pound;15bn cash call. It has presented the taxpayer with a paper loss of about pound;2.5bn. The UKFI said it was "putting in place arrangements to secure a robust assurance" that commitments to maintain lending to homeowners and small businesses at 2007 levels for the next three years were fulfilled./ppMeanwhile RBS's new chief executive, Stephen Hester, yesterday promised to grant a six-month moratorium to home owners struggling to keep up with mortgage payments. RBS pre-empted any government crackdown on repossessions by asserting that it would give customers falling into arrears six months rather than three months before beginning any repossession proceedings./ppThe move was welcomed by the Treasury and is expected to become a benchmark for the industry. Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman Vince Cable said it was "welcome news" for RBS customers. But, he added: "It will be a mere drop in the ocean unless it is followed by the whole industry. The government must now insist that all the nationalised and part-nationalised banks follow suit."/ppNorthern Rock, the nationalised bank responsible for a tenth of all repossessions, insisted it actually took 15 months for homes to be repossessed./ppHBOS, which owns the country's largest mortgage lender Halifax, which is accepting a pound;12bn government rescue package, said it would look at the RBS announcement but felt it already had a package in place to deal with customers in difficulty./ppLloyds TSB, which will take over HBOS next year and is likely to be 40% owned by the taxpayer, said borrowers were usually at least six months in arrears before it began repossession steps./ppThe Council of Mortgage Lenders will use its annual conference today to urge "an honest assessment of the challenges facing the lending industry". It appealed against the imposition of strict criteria on repossessions for each lender./pp"In a large number of cases, borrowers are already able to remain in their home for six months or longer while they work with the lender on implementing a plan to pay off their arrears," it said. "But in cases where there is little or no equity in the property - and no chance of the borrower getting back on his feet in a short period - it may be in the best interests of the home-owner to move towards selling the property rather than allowing arrears to continue to build up over a long period."/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/royalbankofscotlandgroup"Royal Bank of Scotland/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/banking"UK banking sector/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/regulators"Regulators/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/mortgages"Mortgages/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/banks"Banks and building societies/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/economy"Economic policy/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/vb3TVPgl9pQWbnvPOkAIHCmTSCU/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/vb3TVPgl9pQWbnvPOkAIHCmTSCU/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/23215?ns=guardianpageName=Environment%3A+UK+climate+watchdog+urges+dramatic+cuts+in+greenhouse+gasesch=Environmentc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Climate+change+%28Environment%29%2CCarbon+emissions+%28Environment%29%2CGreen+politics%2CPolitics%2CEnvironment%2CCarbon+capture+and+storage+%28CCS%29%2CTravel+and+transport+environmental+impactc5=Environment+Conservation%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CClimate+Change%2CEthical+Livingc6=Juliette+Jowitc7=2008_12_01c8=1127073c9=articlec10=GUc11=Environmentc12=Climate+changec13=c14=h2=GU%2FEnvironment%2FClimate+change" width="1" height="1" //divpAmbitious targets to cut the UK's greenhouse gas emissions by at least one fifth in just over a decade were proposed today by the government's Climate Change Committee. /ppThe reductions would be achieved by transforming the way electricity is produced and redesigning buildings, appliances and cars./ppIf accepted by ministers, the changes could see as much as 30% of the country's electricity coming from renewable sources as soon as 2020, most of it from wind turbines, and by that date four out of 10 new cars would use electric power./ppThe independent committee also outlined the need for a wholesale change in public behaviour that could include slower driving to reduce fuel use and swapping more "carbon intensive" meats like beef for hill-bred lamb./ppThe report also recommended tough new rules to make coal plants fit equipment to capture and store their carbon emissions as soon as the early 2020s, which would push up operating costs. Critics of coal claimed this requirement would end government plans for up to eight new coal plants./ppIn its first report on how the UK could meet its pledge to cut carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by 80% from 1990 levels by 2050, the eight-person committee recommended an interim target for 2020 of 34%, or 42% if there is a global deal to cut emissions. /ppThese reductions, which go further than existing UK commitments but are in line with what the UK would have to do under proposed European Union laws, equate to cuts from recent levels of 21% or 31% respectively - or from 11.6 tonnes per person to 7-8 tonnes on average. /ppThe committee also proposed shorter term targets. In the five years to 2012, the committee said average annual UK emissions should equate to 604 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, down from 695mt in 2006./ppBuying emissions cuts from schemes outside the EU should only be allowed if the higher target is adopted, added the committee./ppThe targeted reductions would make sure the UK makes a "fair contribution" towards keeping global temperature rises as close as possible to 2C, it said./ppThe report, Building a Low-Carbon Economy - The UK's Contribution to Tackling Climate Change, estimated the changes would cost less than 1% of the national economic wealth in 2020, or less than £15bn. That figure included the bill for helping up to 1.7m people who would otherwise be pushed into fuel poverty by higher energy bills ./ppThe cost, equivalent to reducing growth by 2020 from 30% to 29%, was "a price worth paying", said the report. /pp"Climate change poses a grave threat to human welfare, the environment and the economy," said Lord Turner, the committee chairman. "We need to act now, in the UK and as part of a global agreement, to significantly reduce our emissions."/ppThe report was broadly approved by environmental groups but there were widespread concerns about whether the government would enact the tough policies the committee said were needed to deliver the emissions cuts, such as regulation to limit emissions from power plants and cars, and financial incentives to encourage higher take up of more efficient goods./pp"Emissions reductions of more than 1% a year have only ever been achieved in significant economic recession, and [the committee's] proposing 2.5% a year so this requires a pretty radical framework," said Stephen Hale, director of the Green Alliance of environmental campaign groups. /pp"I think they [the government] will accept the budgets, but I'm not so confident they'll back that up with the policies needed to make sure we meet the budgets."/ppThe main political parties also welcomed the report, although neither the government nor the Conservatives explicitly accepted the recommendations. Ministers will respond next year. /ppTim Yeo, Conservative chairman of the MPs' Environmental Audit Committee said: "I urge both the government and the opposition to accept the committee's recommendations. Only a bipartisan approach can ensure that Britain achieves these important goals."/ppFriends of the Earth also urged the government to adopt the higher target for 2020, even if no international emissions deal was agreed at the UN conference in Copenhagen next year [2009]. "It's a small price for us to pay as there are quite a lot of economic opportunities if we move really fast," said Ed Matthew, the group's head of UK climate./ppCritics of coal were divided over whether the suggested tough new rules to ensure all coal power was fitted with equipment to trap and store gases in the early 2020s went far enough. Friends of the Earth said it wanted clearer guidelines that no coal stations should be built without the equipment already in place, even before 2020. /ppHowever Greenpeace said the recommendation would "kill" proposals for a new plant at Kingsnorth in Kent and up to seven others under the government's energy policy./ppDavid Kennedy, the Climate Change Committee chief executive, said: "If you put this [policy] in place the market will tell us how confident they are carbon capture and storage is going to come through. If they don't go ahead we'll know they didn't intend to fit CCS."/ppThere was also anger over the committee's lack of detailed recommendations for aviation policy, in particular the pending decision on whether to expand Heathrow airport. /ppLord Turner said the committee was not intended to recommend short-term policies. Initially, international aviation and shipping will not be part of the successive five year carbon budgets suggested by the committee, but those will be reduced to account for the omission./ppTurner defended the committee against concerns that it would not be able to enforce any of its policies. Last week the government's 80% cut pledge and the committee's role in recommending interim targets and monitoring progress were given legal status when the Climate Change Bill received royal assent. /pp"These [targets] are designed as much as possible to create an extra discipline ... we haven't had that before," said Turner. /ppThe UK is the first country to make a legally-binding commitment to such deep emissions reductions, though other countries have announced similar or deeper cuts./ppKennedy also denied concerns that the UK was going too far in targeting cuts which would not have any impact on global warming unless there was a global agreement. 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div align="center"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/30/ken-moores-wiimote-theremin-hack-explores-the-final-frontier/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/11/2008-11-30wiimotehack.png" //abr //div Both a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/wiimote-re-purposed-for-glove-based-multi-touch-system/"practical/a and a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/wiimote-strapped-on-guitar-for-wild-effects-whammy-bar-gets-tot/"not-so-practical/a applications for the a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/wiimote/"Wiimote/a have been around since Nintendo's console launched, but this latest hack is quite possibly the oddest thus far. Ken Moore, tinkerer extraordinaire, has inexplicably converted the controller into a new-fangled theremin. By coupling IR-infused gloves with a JV-1080 synth and the Wiimote's built-in Bluetooth, he's been able get his PC to recognize the left hand position as volume, and the right hand position as pitch. Once the IR camera in the Wiimote sends the positioning info back to the PC, MIDI sends it to the synthesizer to create sound. Now, you could just pick up a copy of span style="font-style: italic;"Guitar Hero/span or a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/rockband"span style="font-style: italic;"Rock Band/span/a if you wanted to casually riff on some classics, but if you've got an intrinsic urge to perform a rendition of the original emStar Trek/em theme, this might be your speed. Peep the setup in video action after the break.br /br /[Via a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/30/ken-moores-wiimote-theremin-hack-explores-the-final-frontier/"Joystiq/a]pa href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/01/wiimote-repurposed-into-theremin-vincent-prices-ghost-perks-up/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emWiimote repurposed into theremin, Vincent Price's ghost perks up/em/a/ppFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/gaming/" rel="tag"Gaming/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/01/wiimote-repurposed-into-theremin-vincent-prices-ghost-perks-up/"Wiimote repurposed into theremin, Vincent Price's ghost perks up/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:29:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/30/ken-moores-wiimote-theremin-hack-explores-the-final-frontier/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/01/wiimote-repurposed-into-theremin-vincent-prices-ghost-perks-up/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1386762/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/01/wiimote-repurposed-into-theremin-vincent-prices-ghost-perks-up/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/D-y4PjS0Vd0qYFAJkAGy56l2ZP4/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/D-y4PjS0Vd0qYFAJkAGy56l2ZP4/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=R7TMlWSN"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=R7TMlWSN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=4vUZCQXr"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=4vUZCQXr" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/vo42LoZQtLM" height="1" width="1"/

Both practical and not-so-practical applications for the Wiimote have been around since Nintendo's console launched, but this latest hack is quite possibly the oddest thus far. Ken Moore, tinkerer extraordinaire, has inexplicably converted the controller into a new-fangled theremin. By coupling IR-infused gloves with a JV-1080 synth and the Wiimote's built-in Bluetooth, he's been able get his PC to recognize the left hand position as volume, and the right hand position as pitch. Once the IR camera in the Wiimote sends the positioning info back to the PC, MIDI sends it to the synthesizer to create sound. Now, you could just pick up a copy of Guitar Hero or Rock Band if you wanted to casually riff on some classics, but if you've got an intrinsic urge to perform a rendition of the original Star Trek theme, this might be your speed. Peep the setup in video action after the break.

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If you're young, know nothing, and are trying to understand the world, here's some good advice:

Only Collect; that is to say, collect everything, indiscriminately. You're five years old. Don't presume too much to know what's important and what isn't. Photocopy journal articles, photograph archives; create bibliographies, buy books; make notes on every article or book you read, even if it's just one line saying "Never read this again"; collect newspaper clippings and email them to yourself; collect quotes; save your ideas for future papers, future projects, future conferences, even if they seem wildly implausible now. Hoarding must become instinctual, it must be an uncontrollable, primal urge. And the higher, civilizing impulse that kicks in after the fact is organization, or librarianship. You must keep tabs on everything you collect, somehow; a system must be had, and the system must be idiot-proof (that is to say, you should be able to look back on it six months for now and not be completely stymied as to why you've organized things that way -- the present versions of ourselves are invariably the biggest idiots, and six months will make that clear).

An alternate and equally useful approach is just to start doing things without regard to their quality. Make 1000 mistakes but try not to repeat them. (via snarkmarket)

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Itsumishi sez, "A few weeks ago it was mentioned that the Australian Labor Government will be trying to introduce mandatory internet filtering despite promises before the election that any filtering would be on a voluntary basis. The whole insane proposal has received very little mainstream media attention despite vocal opposition from the Opposition, some smaller parties, industry experts, ISPs, consumers and even Child Welfare Groups! With trials due to start December 24th (while everyone is distracted by the holiday season) the time to speak up and let Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy as well as the Labor Government know how Australian's feel about this very important issue. GetUp! Campaign Actions (who helped abolish Work Choices and free David Hicks) have set up a campaign to Save the Net in Australia. I urge all Australian's who care about free speech, the internet and our economy to sign up now and stop this insanity before it has real impact on our daily lives." Holly Doel-Mackaway, adviser with Save the Children, the largest independent children's rights agency in the world, said educating kids and parents was the way to empower young people to be safe internet users. She said the filter scheme was "fundamentally flawed" because it failed to tackle the problem at the source and would inadvertently block legitimate resources. Furthermore there was no evidence to suggest that children were stumbling across child pornography when browsing the web. Doel-Mackaway believes the millions of dollars earmarked to implement the filters would be far better spent on teaching children how to use the internet safely and on law enforcement. "Children are exposed to the abusive behaviours of adults often and we need to be preventing the causes of violence against children in the community, rather than blocking it from people's view," she said. "The constant change of cyberspace means that a filter is going to be able to be circumvented and it's going to throw up false positives - many innocent websites, maybe even our own, will be blacklisted because we reference a lot of our work that we do with children in fighting commercial sexual exploitation." Children's welfare groups slam net filters, Save The Net petition...br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=2779bba3b87dbc51d7701b6390dd45dbp=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=2779bba3b87dbc51d7701b6390dd45dbp=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=2779bba3b87dbc51d7701b6390dd45db" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/pc/" rel="tag"PC/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/firstpersonshooters/" rel="tag"First Person Shooters/a/pcenterobject classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="490" height="298" id="viddler_295f3196"param name="movie" value="http://www.viddler.com/simple/295f3196/" /param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /embed src="http://www.viddler.com/simple/295f3196/" width="490" height="298" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" name="viddler_295f3196" /embed/object/centerbr / It's been over ten years since Valve's emHalf-Life/em released on PC and changed FPS gaming forever. In 2009, the fan-made a href="http://www.blackmesasource.com/"emBlack Mesa Source/em/a will do more than just revisit the classic Valve game. From the looks of this newly released trailer, emBlack Mesa Source/em will reimagine the game with modern tech and modern production values.br /br /The spirit of emBlack Mesa Source/em is so true to the original. However, we're stunned by the ambitious goals for this project. The new character models and textures used in this Source Engine-powered mod urge us to give them money. The addition of multiplayer modes, such as co-op, make us think Valve will downright buy the team (if they haven't already!).br /br /emBlack Mesa Source/em won't require emHalf-Life: Source/em to play. So long as you have any Source Engine game on your PC, you'll be able to download and play this amazing total conversion when it comes out.br /br /[Thanks, Andrew H.!]br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="%GalleryURL%"Black Mesa Source/a/strong/pa href="/gallery/black-mesa-source/1193947/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/11/c1a0_release11_006_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="/gallery/black-mesa-source/1193946/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/11/c1a0_release11_005_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="/gallery/black-mesa-source/1193945/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/11/c1a0_release11_004_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="/gallery/black-mesa-source/1193944/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/11/c1a0_release11_001_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="/gallery/black-mesa-source/1193943/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/11/c0a0_release12_004_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/01/fan-made-black-mesa-source-trailer-reinvents-original-half-life/"Fan-made Black Mesa Source trailer reinvents original Half-Life/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:45:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/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.blackmesasource.com/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/01/fan-made-black-mesa-source-trailer-reinvents-original-half-life/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1386828/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/01/fan-made-black-mesa-source-trailer-reinvents-original-half-life/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/yi8oE5JyaN9-eMK6zAcEFnpXm_4/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/yi8oE5JyaN9-eMK6zAcEFnpXm_4/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=ch3lLBXF"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=ch3lLBXF" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=KG8COuMi"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=KG8COuMi" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/bpetJxhG1nM" height="1" width="1"/