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    Bit of a slim update as I'm pressed for time, as usual, on my last work day. Mom continues to make slow improvement. It's difficult to be sure, not actually being there, but I'll go see her first thing when I get up tomorrow afternoon.
    In the meantime, at work last night and the night before, I smoked a Holt's 'Bottom Shelf' figurado cigar during lunch. Incidentally, I don't have any financial connection with Holt's (other than periodically giving them my money in return for their tobacco products). I'm not advertising their site, just relating where I get my own evil weed to puff on. (And, no, not that 'evil weed'. Get your mind out of the gutter. There's not enough room down there for both of us!) 

No, I don't make enough to smoke the Opus, either...

    I think that the Medal of Honor 'Taliban option' thing will turn out to be just the typical multiplayer thing. I recall that America's Army solved the 'never playing the enemy' problem by having each team appear to themselves as US soldiers. They saw the other team as the enemy, but never themselves as enemy combatants. I thought it was a neat thing to have in a game, myself. I always preferred to play as a hero, not a villain, so it made perfect sense to me. Nevertheless, it looks like the Medal of Honor 'playing as the Taliban' issue is blown hugely out of proportion, taking a standard multiplayer conceit (i.e., someone plays the bad guy) and turning it into a faux political issue. Nothing to see here, move along. 

    Today's featured Modern Warfare 2 is another Sandy Ravage Free-for-all massacre. Always love to watch him play; now that I work every Weds-Thurs-Fri, I usually miss out on his Live Stream on Justin.TV. Luckily, there's always YouTube. The second vid is episode 13 of Anoj'sTop 10 MW2 glitches. Amazing, isn't it, that there are thirteen episodes of glitches? Or maybe we should be amazed that there are only thirteen of them. Moving on...

Simon & Garfunkel - Homeward Bound (Monterey 1967)

Uploaded 24 September 2006 by TheDormouse

Featured Modern Warfare 2 Video
Sandy Ravage - FFAs from the Live Stream

Uploaded 18 August 2010 by Sandy Ravage

    Call of Duty Links:

Top 10 Modern Warfare 2 Glitches, Episode 13

Uploaded 20 August 2010 on MachinimaRespawn

• Call of Duty: Black Ops previews: GameSpot (updated impressions); VideoGamer.
• BASHandSlash celebrates the return of the developer console to PC Call of Duty in Black Ops. Also embedded in the BASHandSlash article is a two part YouTube GamesCom 2010 interview on Call of Duty: Black Ops.

    More Gaming Links:

Blacklight: Tango Down - OMG! It's not CoD!

Tango Down Gameplay by MrLanceyPancey

  Uploaded 19 August 2010 on LegitGamingUnion

• Medal of Honor previews: SoftPedia; SoftSailor.
• Medal of Honor 'Taliban option' inexplicably still controversial.
• Sony's new spiffy, expensive headsets come with free Medal of Honor.
• NowGamer's Medal of Honor GamesCom screenies.
• BASHandSlash links to the Medal of Honor 'Gunfighter' YouTube video.
• The 50 worst ways to die in video games.
• Why video games are like porn. Because a lot of people download them for free?

    Non-Gaming Links:

• Astronomy Picture of the Day: Ghost-like nebula in haunting space photo.
• Will the end of the space shuttle kill space exploration? Only for the US. 
• 'Mitochondrial Eve' - Mother of all living humans - confirmed at 200,000 years ago by statisticians. She says you never call, you never write.
• Archaeologists find 7,000 year old oar.
• Why can't you 'dislike' anything on Facebook? Can't we all just get along? 
• Google to buy McAfee for $7.7 billion dollars. Three hyphenated words: AOL-Time-Warner.
• Why nothing will save 'print media'. Because I bought a Kindle. If I buy a Kindle, folks, paper media is dead.
• It's possible to get sick of chocolate.

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