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Bears Sign FB Eddie Williams – WJZ

tweetleaks — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:58:12 +0000

Bears Sign FB Eddie Williams
WJZ
LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) ― Fullback Eddie Williams has signed a one-year contract with the Chicago Bears. Drafted in the seventh round by Washington last year, he spent most of the season on the Redskins' practice squad before being elevated to the …
Bears sign Eddie WilliamsProFootballTalk

Eddie WilliamsChicagoBears.com
Bears sign FB Eddie WilliamsNational Football Post
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Nebraska 75, Missouri 60 – ESPN

tweetleaks — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:35:58 +0000

Seattle Post Intelligencer

Nebraska 75, Missouri 60
ESPN
Did you attend this game? If so, start chronicling your sports memories today with ESPN's Sports Passport. Enter the games you attend, upload your photos and share your memories! Nebraska center Jorge Brian Diaz (21) and Missouri guard Zaire Taylor …
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OnLive: Money For Nothing

tweetleaks — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:35:10 +0000

SAN FRANCISCO — OnLive, the streaming games-on-demand service, will launch on June 17 for $15/month, the company announced Wednesday at Game Developers Conference.

Only the PC and Mac versions of the service are launching on the 17th — the tiny box that connects to your television won’t launch until later this year. And what will that $15/month get you? Access to OnLive’s service, but no games — those will have to be purchased separately. I’d rant about this but Bill Harris over at Dubious Quality is already all over it, and why duplicate the same level of bafflement:

What happens if you decide to leave the service? I’m pretty sure that you’ll be hearing a giant flushing sound in regards to the games you “bought.” So you didn’t buy anything, really, except a rental with no expiration.

Well, no expiration until you stop paying $15 a month. …

To me, you can try the rental model (monthly fee) or you can try the purchase model, but what you absolutely cannot try is the $15 A Month For Not A Damn Thing model.

I think this idea is OnLifeSupport until further notice.

I subscribe to Netflix for the streaming service. I’m paying about $10 for thousands of movies. I don’t have to pay separately for each of those. I don’t know why I’d pay $15 every month for nothing. OnLive’s technology sounds like it’ll work, but I’m struggling to understand the benefit of a monthly bill that doesn’t have a bunch of content included with it. After a year of playing OnLive, you’ve spent enough that you could have just bought a used Xbox 360.

Image courtesy OnLive

Toe blister has Braves’ Lowe steamed – USA Today

tweetleaks — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:27:40 +0000

New York Magazine

Toe blister has Braves' Lowe steamed
USA Today
Lowe lasted just one inning, throwing 27 pitches against the Mets in Wednesday's 7-6, 10-inning victory. He surrendered five hits and three runs on several hard-hit balls, including a two-run homer to roster hopeful Chris Carter. …
Braves' Lowe Departs After 1 Inning With BlisterNew York Times

Recap: Atlanta vs. NY MetsMiamiHerald.com
Jon Niese: Mets' Niese gives up three runsRotoworld.com
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Driver blamed in Brooklyn hit-and-run that left young mayor’s aide with severe … – New York Daily News

tweetleaks — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:16:21 +0000

New York Daily News

Driver blamed in Brooklyn hit-and-run that left young mayor's aide with severe …
New York Daily News
The driver blamed for a Brooklyn hit-and-run that hospitalized two women, including one who works for Mayor Bloomberg, surrendered Wednesday to police. Frances Jasmin, 28, was arrested at the 77th Precinct after arriving with her …
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WD’s 320GB My Passport AV external HDD wants to have and hold your media

tweetleaks — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:59:00 +0000

Western Digital has played this card before with the strategically named My DVR Expander, but for those who don’t realize that an external hard drive is an external hard drive, there’s the My Passport AV. For all intents and purposes, this 320GB HDD is nothing more than a standard drive with a fancy marketing scheme following it closely. Oh, sure — it may work “seamlessly” with Sony’s Direct Copy feature on the outfit’s range of Handycam camcorders, but outside of that, we don’t see anything in particular that makes us long to pay more for something that doesn’t really do more than any other 320GB HDD on shelves today. If you’re in complete opposition (it’s cool… really), it’s available to order today for $109.99.

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‘Galactica: Sabotage’ Creator Discusses Her Brilliant Beastie Boys Sci-Fi Mashup

tweetleaks — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:58:16 +0000

Katie King, a self-described “media-obsessed chick who digs all things sci-fi,” impressed even jaded meme connoisseurs this week with her re-creation of the music video for the Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage” using scenes from Battlestar Galactica.

Drawing on video-editing skills from her day job as art director at an ABC television affiliate in Virginia, King cobbled together the witty and smooth shot-for-shot re-creation of Spike Jonze’s masterful “Sabotage” video using snippets from Galactica.

“The first shot I imagined and the first I went looking for were of Adam [Yauch]’s iconic and short-lived mustache,” recalled King in an e-mail interview with Wired.com. “The rest fell into place from there.”

The above video compares the Galactica version with the real “Sabotage” video and puts things in perspective for those who haven’t memorized every shot in the original Beasties clip: If you dart your eyes back and forth fast enough, you can see the stunning precision with which her re-creation mimics the original.

Speaking of mimicking the original, this isn’t the first such “Sabotage” mashup — witness liventoride’s “Beastie Boys – Sabotage – Halo 3 Side by Side” and wolfgangmozart187’s Empire Strikes Back version. The former works pretty well, but it’s staged within the game (as admirable as that is). What’s incredible about “Sabotage: Galactica,” King’s third fan video, is the degree to which she was able to find scenes in the movie that duplicated or nearly duplicated the ones in Jonze’s creation — a “Wizard of Oz/Dark Side of the Moon“-style epiphany.

“It was one of those times where you hear a song a hundred times and on the hundred and first, a light bulb turns on,” King said. “I had hoped that it would be 100 percent shot-for-shot, but about halfway through, I had to start improvising. Each time I would take a clip, lay it down and set the timing, I would just start grinning like a maniac. I think I wore out the springs in my office chair jumping up and down a few times when a shot worked really well.”

King, known on YouTube as katamaran78, said she completed the video in five days working only an hour or two each night. The majority of that time was spent ingesting the videos onto her computer and hunting for shots, said King, who credits the high quality of her mashup to Jonze’s original vision.

“If it hadn’t been for the amazing editing in the Spike Jonze original, this would have been nothing but a clip show,” said King. “I simply paid homage to him, the Beastie Boys and most importantly to me, Battlestar Galactica.”

As with most awesome derivative works, there’s a chance the copyright cops could force YouTube to pull this video.

“Holy crap, I didn’t expect this to take off like it did. Hi everyone!” reads a note on King’s video. “Song property of Capitol Records and Beastie Boys. Video property of NBC/Universal. No infringement intended, just a fan tribute to both.”

Considering the generally agreed-upon excellence of this video, Capitol and NBC/Universal would be wise to accept it as tribute and allow it to continue racking up hits on YouTube, where it is currently approaching 20,000 combined views. (In other words, you’re still early.)

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Marquette Survives the Red Storm – New York Times

tweetleaks — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:58:08 +0000

New York Daily News

Marquette Survives the Red Storm
New York Times
From Tuesday's win over Connecticut to Wednesday's loss, St. John's witnessed the range of effort from the lethargic Huskies to the electric=yellow Lilliputians of Marquette. Buzz Williams's team burned the Red Storm going backdoor, …
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St. John's rallies in second half but can't pull off upset of No. 5 Marquette …New York Daily News
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Marquette Survives the Red Storm – New York Times

tweetleaks — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:58:08 +0000

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Pats, Faulk agree to contract – Boston Herald

tweetleaks — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:55:13 +0000

Boston Herald (blog)

Pats, Faulk agree to contract
Boston Herald
The Patriots [team stats] have agreed to terms with running back Kevin Faulk [stats] on a one-year contract, allowing the team to keep one of its veteran leaders. Faulk, 33, has been a member of the team since 1999. …
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