UK based YouTube Channel “Xbox On” uploaded a short video I found relatively interesting; at least, interesting enough to write about here, where they list 36 facts about the Xbox 360 game console. Now, honestly, this number is an exaggeration. There are maybe 10 main facts, if even that many, with various ancillary facts related …
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Fox, Family Guy, Double Dribble, YouTube, and the DMCA
Proving yet again how absolutely broken the YouTube copyright system is, Fox has issued a DMCA takedown against a YouTube video of the NES game “Double Dribble.” The reason? The video clip, which was uploaded in 2009, was used in the most recent (at this time) episode of the animated comedy Family Guy. That’s right. …
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Lordi and their Eurovision 2006 Win, a Decade Later
Here in the United States, over the past 15 years, we have had varying television programs dedicated to music. American Idol, The X-Factor, The Voice, and other shows captivated the average American TV consumer. While that’s great for the average person, I never quite cared for them. Difference in music taste in conjunction with just …
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Spending Some Time With a Good Old BBS
Before there was the internet, there were Bulletin Board Systems (BBS for short). These systems were basic, at their core, but could grow quite complex. The way they worked was simple: a user dialed the phone number of the BBS they wanted to access and, presuming the line wasn’t busy, they would connect directly to …
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Memories of Vagabond’s Quest
Let’s go back. Way back. over 15 years into the past, to high school computer labs in late 2000 and early 2001. At this time, I didn’t have a computer at home (amazing, I know!) so my only real access to PC’s, or the internet, was at school. This was fine by me – I …
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Disney Ends the Disney Infinity Game Series
In what was a rather unexpected move, Disney announced it was ending the Disney Infinity game series! http://www.disneyinteractive.com/blog/update-disney-infinity/ White note officially saying why they made this decision, a major part could be due to the massive decline in toy-to-life video game sales over the past year. You see, the thing about these games is that …
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The Most Hated Video Game Trailer Ever – Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
When I wrote last month about the trailer for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, I never knew it would get as hated as it has been. Oh yes, a Call of Duty game is receiving massive hate.What a time to be alive! That’s right. You are looking at over 2 million dislikes! Okay, so …
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United States Congress Blocks Yahoo!
In a piece of interesting news that crossed my radar last night, it looks like the United States Congress is blocking access to Yahoo, all because someone feel victim to a phishing scam. That’s right. Someone in the United States Government, in a major legislative role, mind you, fell victim, in 2016, to some (as …
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Battlefield 1 – Reveal Trailer
After the release of the Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare trailer a few weeks ago, Electronic Arts began to hype up their upcoming release in the competing Battlefield game series. Their hype included direct stabs at Activision, the publisher of the Call of Duty series, on Twitter. Battlefield is a game series I, amazing, have …
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JCSAT-14 Launches Aboard a Falcon 9 with a Successful 1st Stage Landing!
As I type these words, a new Communications satellite, JCSAT-14, is on its way into orbit to provide Japan with more bandwidth for both entertainment broadcasts, and in an emergency, satellite based communications when grown infrastructure may be damaged. The launch vehicle for this payload was the powerful Falcon 9, provide by the commercial spaceflight …
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55 Years Ago, the Flight of Freedom 7
May 5th, 1961. 3 Weeks after the successful Soviet flight of Yuri Gagarin in Vostok 1, the United States was ready to send it’s first human into space, United States Naval Officer Alan Bartlett Shepard. His flight, designated Mercury-Redstone 3, was intended to prove that a person can survive the stresses associated with the launch …
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History of the Internet – Jason Scott
In this video, we take a look at a talk Jason Scott gave at Marist College in New York on the subject of the History of the Internet. Jason Scott, if you don’t recognize the name, is a somewhat odd gentlemen, obsessed with preserving computer history, including that of the early BBS systems and Internet …
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The “Joy” of Server Issues
As I write this entry, I’m in a time crunch. At any given moment I could experience an issue that has been plaguing the site the past 24 hours or so. In this case, it’s something to do with the MySQL server, and it basically giving up every few hours. What does this mean to …
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Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare – Reveal Trailer
It’s a new year and that means a new Call of Duty game. This time, the name of the game is Infinite Warfare, and it looks to follow the futuristic theme of games like Ghosts and Advanced Warfare. It had been previously leaked that the title of the new game was going to be Infinite …
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Cutting Back on YouTube Content Creation (Final)
So let’s cut to the chase with all this YouTube madness. What is the entire point I’m getting at in writing 3, now 4 articles about YouTube Content Creation? First of all, for those of you who may not have seen them, let me share the first 3 articles in this series: http://www.xadara.com/cutting-back-youtube-content-creation-part-1/ http://www.xadara.com/cutting-back-youtube-content-creation-part-2/ http://www.xadara.com/cutting-back-youtube-content-creation-part-3/ …
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