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We haven't heard much about ZGeek's legal dramas lately, but they are still a concern apparently, with papers having been re-filed after initially being rejected. There also seems to be a strange trademark claim now too. Anyway, if you want to help out with their legal fund, they are accepting donations here (seems you have to be logged in) or via paypal to thepirate at zgeek .com.
Gateway are planning a comeback in Australia, it seems. I remember the Osborne -> Gateway acquisition a zillion years ago but hadn't heard anything about them since. Acer bought the US company for $US710 million ($846 million) in 2007 but says Gateway will remain a stand-alone brand. Harvey Norman is the first retail partner, with Gateway products to appear on Friday in their trademark cow-print box packaging.
Another game has been banned in Australia - this time the RPG "Risen". Kotaku was informed by the game's Aussie distributor that the board was concerned by "sexual activity and drug use related to incentives or rewards."
Frostytech have compared 161 Intel heatsinks. Intel heatsinks are ranked according to their performance on a 150W heat load, ranging from -50C to 50C over ambient! The warmer heatsinks in the chart account for many of the low-noise coolers, sound level data can be found in each of the full 161 detailed reviews.
Australia's Federal Government is giving you the chance to talk to aliens. Discovered in 2007, Gliese 581 d was the first planet found circling in the ''Goldilocks'' or ''habitable zone'' around another star, where it is neither too hot, nor too cold for life. The messages will be beamed to the planet from NASA's Tidbinbilla space tracking station, outside Canberra, to mark National Science Week, which starts on Saturday.
Timbot spotted this article about the desks of game designers. Currently the project includes photos from nearly 20 studios. You'll get to see the desk of such greats as Sid Meier, Peter Molyneux and Tetsuya Mizuguchi along with plenty of others. Have fun.
XbitLabs have a roundup of AeroCool cases. As if alluding to the developer’s name, many of its system cases employ an original cooling solution based around a huge 400mm fan. This is not the only special feature, though. You will see temperature controllers, touch-sensitive screens, fan speed management, and a very exciting small-size cube-shaped computer enclosure.
TechARP have a bit of a walk-through of the whole PhysX thing, in case you've lost track of where it's all up to nowadays. Instead of using a dedicated PhysX PPU, NVIDIA uses some of the stream processors in the GPU to process the physics calculations. This allows NVIDIA to divert some of their GPUs' tremendous processing power to physics calculations without using a separate PPU. The result? Physics acceleration by the GPU at no additional cost.
A few people sent in this Google Street View of Laguna Seca raceway. Hrm, seems to be missing quite a bit of the corkscrew, but still, cool! I wonder what kind of car they had the cameras mounted on.
OCAU member sum_1 has an interesting travel blog: I quit my job to go travelling in March and have been on the road for five months now. I've been robbed in Cambodia, taught English in Tibet and almost killed myself in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. I've worked as a farmer clearing a field using a sickle, have hitchhiked on a tractor with an angry yak and am now in Kazakhstan, with no sign of Borat. There's a thread about my travels on the forums here and the blog is here.
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