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    Back home with my Sweet Gal, and all's right with the world at last!! It's a short work week this week, as I take Friday off to prep a tray of ziti for the Saturday Fish Fry shindig.

    On the gaming front, I'm a bit torn about whether I should get a new game or not. I have a couple of Amazon discount coupons gathering dust (the benefits of pre-ordering games last year), so I could pick some games on the relative cheap. Fact of the matter is, I just don't know whether I'll play enough to make the purchase worthwhile at all. I have some mild interest in Duke Nukem Forever, based on the lol value of the Duke character. And I'm somewhat intrigued by the Bodycount game, since I loved (but never managed to finish, lol) its spiritual predecessor, Black. It's a dubious move, I guess, since the creator of Black, Stuart Black, bolted from the Bodycount development team last year. And, yeah, come November, I guess there's Modern Warfare 3. I'll play it just to rip on what will almost certainly be a completely WTF? storyline. Moving on...

Featured CoD: Black Ops Video

Uploaded 1 July 2011 on CODblackopsXBOX

    Call of Duty Links:

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 'Rezurrection' behind the scenes on Shacknews.

    More Gaming Links:

• Hands on with Counter-strike: Global Offensive.
• [YouTube] Counter-strike: Global Offensive first look commentary.
• Borderlands 2 screenies on GamersMint.
• New Borderlands 2 info: The Gun Peddlers of Pandora.
• Left 4 Dead 2 update: New campaign, new mutation.
• Bungie takes a bite out of crime: Bungie staffer pulls gun on shooting suspect, makes citizen's arrest.
• [Image] Link made out of 4,048 beads. (Credit: notthatjesus on Reddit Gaming)
• [Images] Awesome Zelda cosplay gallery.

    Non-Gaming Links:

• [Feature] NASA after the Space Shuttle.
• Dark matter may be an illusion caused by the quantum vacuum.
• Plesiosaur and embryo fossil provide first evidence of live birth.
• The quest to create the perfect lie detector scarily close to completion.
• IBM personal computer turns 30. Also covered on Discovery and PC Magazine.
• Do you have a shorter lifespan if your Mom was stressed? Maybe, but you can do something about it...
• BART San Francisco cuts cell phone service to deter protests.

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