Crown Vic cruisers in NYC being replaced with Chargers?
 New York City’s finest are trolling the aisles for a new set of wheels and they’ve decided to take the Dodge Charger for a test drive. The NYPD has agreed to buy 15 Chargers for a pilot program this summer, five models with V6 engines and 10 featuring Chrysler’s HEMI V8. Awhile back that the Michigan State Police had tested many potential police cruisers and the results put the V8 Charger at the top in acceleration and fastest lap times. Apparently the NYPD were impressed and if the pilot program goes well, it could replace the city’s entire fleet of 3,000 Crown Vics and Impalas with Chargers. Read more..!
Fun with physics: a HL2 Rube Goldberg machine
Another Rube Goldberg machine made using Half-Life 2 and the always impressive Garry's Mod. More fun with Garry's Mod: Half-Life 2: historical reenactmentsRead more..!
Bottega Veneta Cervo Cocker Handbag
 Made of soft leather, the woven detailing is minimal, yet it still makes a strong statement. The braided handles and two exterior side pockets accent the bag's shape and overall classic and rich look. It also features a magnetic top closure, an interior zippered pocket, and suede lining. Also available in navy - but not until April 2006. Price: $1780. Read more..!
Bruno Fisoni Ribbon Sandals
 These ribbon platform sandals from Bruno Fisoni are patent leather slingbacks with a big red satiny bow wrapped all around the front. With a heel over four inches high they might be a bit uncomfortable. They sell for $675. Read more..!
Intel shows off first quad-core chip
 Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner recently demoed the company's upcoming Clovertown quad-core processor, which will initially be seen in 2007 servers running two of the chips, for a total of eight cores under the hood. Rattner says the Clovertown architecture is scalable to 32 or more cores on a single chip, which should suffice until quantum computers finally go mainstream. According to Rattner, chips with hundreds of cores are theoretically possible with this technology. Read more..!
 LimeWire self proclaimed the Fastest P2P File Sharing Program on the Planet is an open source app Features: *Ability to search by artist, title, genre, or other metainformation *Elegant multiple search tabbed interface *"Swarm" downloads from multiple hosts help you get files faster *iTunes integration for Mac and Windows users *Unique "ultrapeer" technology reduces bandwidth requirements for most users *Integrated chat *Directly connect to a computer *Browse host feature--even works through firewalls Maybe the folks at LimeWire should have considered the terms of the GPL before charging for their app, but Webby's World has the details on acquiring LimeWire Pro for free. Or just go to the main site and down it... for free. Read more..!
Audi launches A4 Titanium version
 Audi USA announced an upcoming option group for the 2006 A4 sedan and Avant models - the Titanium Package. Created for the North American market, the Titanium Package will be available in April on all A4 2.0T and 3.2 FSI sedan and Avant "S" models. The stealth-themed appearance group includes: * 18-inch Titanium colored 15-spoke wheels with high performance tires * Polished black front grille frame * Black exterior window trim and black roof rails for the Avant * Black interior headliner * Piano black interior beltline trim Rule #1 never open the package.
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 Escapa has you click and drag a little red box around the screen, trying to avoid bigger blue blocks. It's a variation on several games, one was called "Daleks" where you move your character one step at a time, and the enemies would inch closer. In Escapa, you drag your little box around in real time while the blue boxes chase and capture you. Read more..!
Xfire users' attempted Solitaire coup
 In a gamers' coup, a meme is spreading amongst Xfire users, showing that Solitaire can be cool. Unfortunately, Solitaire's falling short of the coup's intended goal--to displace World of Warcraft as the most-played game. It's third in the rankings at the time of writing; the "sticky" factor of WoW and Counter-Strike is helping both games to beat the fad. Of course, Solitaire's requirements are such that you can run more than one game at once, or leave it running while AFK, which all adds to its impressive tally of minutes played so far. Read more..!
 Over on TUAW they mentioned a trick from MacOSXHints that'll allow you to export an OPML file of your RSS feeds out of Safari. Neat trick, and all this OPML export/import stuff is great, but it's a lot of tooling around the bookmarks files. There has to be a simpler way of keeping everything organized and synchronized. Read more..!
Classic Brown Wool Cable Sweater for Dogs
 The classic brown wool cable sweater is a very "handsome" look for your dog from PamperedPets. This hand knit wool and cotton sweater will keep your dog looking, this ain't good. It should provide comfort, warmth, and flexibility through the seasons at $88.95 Read more..!
Trace your way to adventure in Kaitou Rousseau
 If you're expecting a game explicitly geared for girls, however (based on this screenshot of the game's main protagonist), you might be disappointed: it's just the rather male Rousseau playing at being a girl, in addition to his other adventures imitating police officers, odd sculptures, and apparently a window frame. Tracing new faces is the way to get through this puzzle-laden masquerade. Japanese gamers can expect to start tracing a few disguises on their DSes sometime later this year. Read more..!
The ultracapacitor, tomorrow's battery
 MIT's Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems is hard at work on developing new ways to bust the chemical battery once and for all. Their research has produced methods to use vertically aligned single-wall carbon nanotube structures to create cheap, efficient, long-lasting ultracapacitors -- cells capable of delivering larger amounts of energy without all the fussiness of chemical batteries, like the temperature, discharge, explosion, and safety issues. Read more..!
Half-Life 2 becomes episodic
 Valve has revealed that the upcoming expansion pack, Half-Life 2: Aftermath, will be renamed Half-Life 2: Episode 1 and will be the first in a series of episodic games. It's unclear whether this announcement will affect the release date (previously announced as April 24th) or the distribution of the expansion pack. Presumably Valve will be selling the episodes via Steam, similar to the upcoming SiN Episodes. Valve promised a retail release of Aftermath back in May 2005, but it's possible this may have changed in light of this announcement. Read more..!
Linux alpha for Second Life released
 As the Second Life website warns, this client connects to the main grid, so be careful--there are definitely still bugs in the system, and any changes you make to the world are permanent. Initial testing proved favourable; it installs and runs perfectly on Fedora Core 3 boxes with NVidia binary graphics drivers. Although several features in the game client are missing or working poorly, they are known issues at this alpha stage, and the forums allow for discussion and feedback. Read more..!
D&D movie sequel released on DVD
 Warner Home Video is releasing Dungeons & Dragons II: Wrath of the Dragon God on DVD this week. Veteran bad guy Bruce Payne (Passenger 57, Highlander: Endgame) reprises his role as the evil Damodar, and this time he's looking to summon...you guessed it...a powerful Dragon God! IGN's RPGVault interviewed the writers behind this misuse of $15 million. Massive budget aside, give them credit for tapping the expertise of Wizards of the Coast and attempting to "anchor the movie within the rules of the game". PLEASE don't waste money on this. Read more..!
Jazz Jackrabbit ported to PSP
 The forums over at dcemu have posts of this PSP homebrew adoptation of Jazz JackRabbit 1 by Epic MegaGames. This port is based on OpenJazz port by Alister Thomson It is still in early stage but already playable full screen with music and FX. Down it here(caution direct link.)
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CE Pro attempts to answer the question: "What is Viiv?"
 The CE Pro Weblog goes into what's transcoding, why Viiv is necessary despite DLNA, and Intel Virtualization Technology, but doesn't quite deny or prove the "ViiV is DRM" rumors, check it out. Read more..!
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