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LOLPD

nospam@example.com (Guy McArthur) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:49:29 -0400

"Liberty City Police Face Allegations Of Incompetence, Brutality". This is funniest Onion piece in years....

And don't miss the opening sequence of Naked Gun recreated in GTA IV!

Buffalo buffalo!

nospam@example.com (Guy McArthur) — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:18:39 -0400

I was delighted to discover, on Digg.com the other day, what is surely the strangest grammatically correct sentence in the English language: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo!!! It was invented in 1972. Ah those cunning linguists!

It took me a few minutes to figure out. Obviously, the word buffalo is used as a proper noun (the city in upstate New York), as a noun (bison), and a very ("to bully"). What threw me is that the middle of it is an inner clause; I'm not used to reading (or forming) clauses like that without punctuation or joining words. If you get the intonation right, it makes sense.

So it can be best understood as: Buffalo bison [whom] Buffalo bison bully[,] bully Buffalo bison. Or, in a shorter (only singly reflexive version): Buffalo bison bully Buffalo bison (Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo)!

QuakeWars

nospam@example.com (Guy McArthur) — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 12:43:53 -0500

The videos from the upcoming Enemy Territory: Quake Wars look insane. Like GoW or SOCOM, it's a multiplayer-online war game, only set in the future of Quake. New software technology from Id and 3D programming guru John Carmack allows for incredibly large non-repeating (untiled) game levels. Called MegaTexture, it's a gigapixel of data representing the level compressed such that only 8MB or so is needed in the video card at any time.

Below is a low-res clip composed of entirely of in-game action.

More clips can be downloaded from the ET:QW site, which are well worth watching even if you are not a gamer, to see what the state of the art is.