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Filed under: Gaming
It had to come to this eventually, with all the features Sony’s been adding and dropping to the various PS3 SKUs — Wired’s Chris Kohler has whipped up a Venn diagram to help the addled consumer pick out the right one. Although Kohler says it started out as a joke, it’s actually pretty interesting — and the 20GB model seems like the big winner with all the important features, full backwards compatibility, and a street price of $380. Now, when is someone going to make the Wii version?
[Via BoingBoing Gadgets]
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Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
MPIO’s MO100 doesn’t have a whole heck of a lot going for it, and interestingly enough, neither does Grundig’s MPixx 2000. Of course, that could be because they’re likely the exact same player save for the branding. Just look for yourself — you’ll notice the same 1.8-inch 160 x 128 resolution display, MP3 / WMA / SMV / JPEG / BMP format support, FM tuner and real-time recording as found on the Grundig, and in case you needed any additional proof, the MO100 arrives in 1GB and 2GB flavors, too. Nevertheless, it still features USB connectivity, around 12-hours of continuous playback and looks a touch nicer in that blue motif, but don’t expect anything revolutionary for obvious reasons.
[Via AnythingButiPod]
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Those sneaky MySpace folks, after teasing that their Exclusive! First! Owen Wilson! Interview! Since, You Know, The Incident! would be getting a terribly inconvenient midnight world premiere, have (thankfully) snuck the video online several hours early. And? The clip contains talk of monkeys, the inoculations you need to film in India, and other good-natured chatter overwhelmed by the unbearable tension that Anderson will at some point finally break from the small talk to turn to his old friend and ask, “Will you just fucking tell everyone you’re OK so we can be done with it?” (A moment that never arrived, but you’ve probably figured that out already.) Now you can safely head out to whatever boozy plans you had for the evening without having to feel like you were going to miss out on the kind of teary, revelatory moment the Hollywood’s troubled stars usually reserve for Barbara Walters or Diane Sawyer. See you Monday.
- Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson [MySpace]
It wasn’t just Kiefer Sutherland’s merry, drunken joyride through life that came crashing to a halt when he was stopped for a parole-violating DUI last month–so too did the party end for the ranks of professional John Hancock-procurers depending on Kiefer’s autograph to put food on the table for their little ones. Sutherland now refuses to sign for them, Page Six reports, since damning shots of the slosh-faced actor taken the night of his arrest made their way onto the internets:
Autograph collectors are reeling over the “24″ star’s decision to stop putting his signature on memorabilia in the wake of his Sept. 25 bust for DUI, when fans and paparazzi snapped footage of him stumbling after he was pulled over at 1 a.m. “He was one of the best autograph signers there was,” collector Michael Wehrmann told Page Six.
“He would always stand and sign for a half hour, but since his arrest, he’s been telling collectors, ‘I don’t do that anymore. You guys screwed me.’ ” Photos taken before the arrest, showing Sutherland looking tired and emotional, were quickly posted on the Internet. The shots could have been introduced as evidence in court, but Sutherland pleaded “no contest.”
While a signing blackout for full-time collectors could be devastating–shutting down entire eBay wings devoted entirely to hawking 8×10 glossies of the actor signed, “‘See you in hell, Fayed!’ Best wishes, Kiefer”–the implications for the casual Sutherland fan could reap untold rewards, as any scotch-stained message from the actor drunkenly scrawled on a cocktail napkin reading, “You’re [illegible] hot. Call me - 310-829-[illegible] - Kie[illegible]” could now be worth a far heftier sum on the Kiefer collectible market.
- NO AUTOGRAPHS [NY Post]
Congratulations are in order for ABC, the network deemed marginally less lily-white than its borderline-albino broadcast rivals in a television diversity report just released by Multi-Ethnic Media Coalition. Behind the leadership of televisionary Steve McPherson–an executive unafraid to crack some skulls when his shows begin to lag behind their diversity benchmarks–and hits like Ugly Betty, ABC easily triumphed over competition that was either satisfied to maintain the Caucasian status quo or backslide further into the alabaster void:
The success of “Betty” earned ABC an A-minus for the 2006-07 season, the highest grade for any network rated by the Multi-Ethnic Media Coalition.
The group’s seventh annual diversity report card grades the broadcast networks for hiring minority talent in front and behind the camera and in the executive ranks, as well as “overall commitment to diversity initiatives.”
NBC and CBS maintained their grades of B and B-plus, respectively, while Fox was the only network to go down, from a B to a B-minus, prompted mostly by Fox’s policy not to disclose complete statistical information.
Of course, no discussion of McPherson’s dedication to primetime diversity can exclude perhaps his greatest triumph in this area, Cavemen. Ignoring the misguided complaints of a star who felt victimized by the executive’s controversial pro-Neanderthal programming policies and the slings and arrows of skeptical critics, McPherson ultimately succeeded in dedicating 30 minutes per week to televising the struggles of a minority group heretofore completely ignored by the networks. While his triumph will probably be tragically short-lived, it’s a victory that will be forever reflected in that much deserved A-minus.
- ABC wins top grade for diversity [Reuters/THR]
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Filed under: Handhelds
Those sitting tight for Cybook’s Gen3 e-book reader can finally do something other than just wait for it. That’s right, Bookeen’s latest is finally on sale, and just as promised (the second time, that is), it’s available now (read: in October) for $350. If you’re wondering what all that coin will get you, you can look forward to 8,000 page flips without a recharge, a daylight-readable 800 x 600 resolution display, 2.5-millimeter stereo headphone jack, 64MB of storage, an SD expansion slot and USB connectivity. So go on, bust out that credit card and count down the minutes till it arrives on your doorstep.
[Via Teleread]
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Images of Dell’s newest upcoming all-in-one XPS One have surfaced. The new machine looks to go head-to-head with Apple’s iMac and the Gateway One, sporting a 22-inch WSXGA (1,680 x 1,050) display with two built-in speakers and media buttons on the si.