Word is just hitting the news that Blagojevich is going to name Former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris as Obama’s replacement for his vacated Senate seat. Unfortunately Tim is out of reach so I really don’t know much about this guy but I’m sure we’ll find out a lot in the coming hours.
I held off on posting this originally because I wasn’t sure if this might just all blow over after a few airstrikes but it looks like it’s escalating. About 24 hours ago, Israel began launching sorties against Palestinian rocket launchers and other security compounds that had been pounding Israel for a few days. After the initial strikes, it is claimed that the rocket attacks have been reduced by fifty percent. Israel launched strikes against a tunnel network that was used to smuggle guns in an attempt to stem to flow of arms to the Palestinian militants. (more…)
In a piece of news that probably came to a surprise to only those who had their heads in the sand, Time Magazine named President-elect Barack Obama as 2008’s Person of the Year. In all honesty, it would’ve been pretty insulting if he hadn’t been named for the position as I can’t really think of anything more groundbreaking than his election.
The runners up were Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, French President Nicolas Sarkozy (essentially the “European Obama” in terms of his popularity and attitudes), Governor Sarah “You Betchya” Palin of Alaska, and Chinese director Zhang Yimou who coordinated the Beijing opening ceremonies. Other contenders were Tina Fey, Michael Phelps, T. Boone Pickens, Nouri al-Maliki, incoming Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili.
Last night during the Spike TV Video Game Awards, it was announced that Gears 2 was receiving it’s first map pack, titled the Combustion Map Pack and it would be released later that night, 12 am PST to be exact. The fact that there was a map pack didn’t really surprise anyone because a mere 10 days after the release, the first screenshots of a map titled “Imulsion” appeared on Joystiq. Now, 5 weeks later, Microsoft just released three new maps for the game in the pack for $10. While that’s the regular price point for map packs, this time around it seems like Microsoft might be going for a money grab… (more…)
