A wild Zangoose appears!

A sexy Zangoose appears!

At first, when the internets went crazy for this girl, Jessica Nigri, I honesty thought that she was a 1 costume person.  So, I really thought her 15mins was up.  Well, reset that timer because even more photos of her have surfaced, but this time as another Pokemon character named Zangoose.  If you want to see more photos of this costume, go past the break.  Also, if you didn’t see her famous rendition of Pikachu in a yellow miniskirt and tail costume from Comic con 2009, visit this post.

Update: 2 more photos of this wild pokemon

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It still works

In a post from MacRumors.com, people have discovered that the 3.1 beta disables tethering.  This has made a couple of people nervous about wether or not they should update to 3.0.1 to prevent the infamous SMS hack or deal with it to keep their internet tethering capabilities.

Well, I took the plunge and I’m happy to report that internet tethering still works.

Back at Comic-Con, Viz Media and Naruto were holding an open tournament using this game. None of the players have played it before since it hasn’t come out yet.  Winner received a brand new Wii system.  I stayed for the whole competition and enjoyed almost every battle.  There were somethings that have yet to be polished though.  Mainly the in-game sounds .

Now, at the tournament, no one used the Wiimote and Nunchuck combo.  All players opted for the classic Wii controller.  I’m not sure why fighting game developers would want to program for the Wiimote and Nunchuck combo.  It doesn’t add much to the game and just seems like a waste of effort, in my opinion.  If it’s for the sense that you are actually doing that super move, then I know of only young kids would try and do it.  But yet, I bet they would get confused anyways.

NARUTO Shippuden: Clash of Ninja Revolution 3 comes out for the Nintendo Wii system November 16, 2009 for $39.99.

Block the Haxor!

The patch to solve the SMS vulnerability of the iPhone firmware up to 3.0 is live and available in iTunes. So get on and download the patch (some 280Mb!) before some joker hijacks your phone. Currently Redsn0w is not able to jailbreak it but it seems like just a verification error. Hopefully we’ll get an update for that soon, till now, update to protect yourself or run the risk (although pretty minor) that someone might hi-jack your phone.

Everyday, I’ll try to post a summary of three non-geek articles I read today. This is my vain attempt at trying to spread awareness of these types of issues.

WHO
U.S. Troops

WHAT
Allegedly do major damage to Hanging Gardens of Babylon

WHEN
United Nations reported it today

WHERE
Babylon

WHY
To convert it into a base

FTA
The troops and their contractors caused “major damage” by digging, cutting, scraping and leveling while they were revamping the site to meet military standards, the U.N. cultural agency, UNESCO, said in a report.

More: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/31/iraq.babylon.damage/index.html

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If you’ve ever hankered after a Black Cab, the work horse of the London taxi driver, but wouldn’t be able to stand the stock anaemic diesel engine then this is your luck day.

A custom Black cab with an 8.2L V8 from a Chevy, developing 450BHP, has gone on sale on eBay for the princely sum of £14,950. The monster cab looks stock from the front, but don’t be fooled, with over £65000 spent on this bad boy there’s plenty to be had. A custom leather interior means you’ll be crusing in the lap of luxury sitting next to a TV with DVD player backed up with a ‘full sound system’ with 2 amps and two 12″ subs to pound your brain to a pulp with. The ‘Pro-street style’ ride has 18″ wide rear tyres backed up with skinny fronts and it’s party piece has to be it’s ability to bust-a-groove. Just like the tricked out cars you see in rap videos this cab can ‘dance’ with a complete hydraulic floor allowing it to be raised and lowered by each wheel which can be seen in the video above.

So if you’re in the market for a new ride and fancy an unusual two-seater then hop on over to the listing on eBay and check out the gallery below:

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Genres: Action, Mystery

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The streets of Shanghai are alive with the sights and sounds of a great festival. Minoru Minorikawa, a journalist, and Maria Osawa, a photographer, have flown in to cover this event. In parallel to their soon-to-become active lives, an assassin drops her target from a rooftop, apparently miles away. A battle between this assassin and a terrorist group know as the “Snakes” rolls onward in a collision course with the other.

Separately, a CIA convoy escorts the captured Snakes leader, Alphard, to a detention facility. Her sister and allies spring her in gouts of flames and blood. Noting that the assassin they have been seeking, named Canaan, has been found in Shanghai. The inner workings of their organization are hinted at, but are never completely spelled out.

As the two stories collide we are shown that Canaan and Maria have met before and are actually good friends. Maria’s pictures, however, get her into trouble with the Snakes. She has uncovered something that undercurrents every aspect of this series, but we are not yet treated to an explanation. A flashback informs us that a terrorist group had spread a bio-toxin of which Maria was the only know survivor (by way of her father’s research toward a vaccine).

The Snakes strike out at Maria and Minoru who are eating at a restaurant after the initial events unfold. Thanks to a REALLY spirited cabbie, the two make a successful escape and are eventually saved by Canaan. The Snakes switch targets and Canaan leads them away. Upon returning to their hotel rooms, Maria and Minoru find their places wrecked and film stolen.

This series has a great opening and a good style; the pace is fast and has action throughout. A minor drawback is the amount of data we are asked to recall as we continue toward a (hopeful) epiphany of the what and why in the story.

Overall Hook Rating: B

Mike Crowley is an artist that uses two of a geek’s favorite tools.  The first tool is Adobe Illustrator and the second is LEGO bricks.  So, what happens when you put both together and sprinkle in some Star Wars? You get some of the best sketches I’ve seen in quite a long time. Btw, he used Illustrator… with a mouse.  No Wacoms here, buddy.

Check out more past the break.

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If you’re a big fan of the Robot Chicken show on Cartoon Network’s Adult swim, then you’ll be happy to know that you can get a free episode download code from us.  All you have to do is tell us why you deserve one of our free codes.

A Couple of days ago, my good friend Aric brought over his PS3 to help cure my boredom form being jobless.  What I didn’t expect was him booting up an old school game we used to play back in grade school. Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo is a game that has most of the characters and special moves form Street Fighter 2 but has nothing to do with the fighting aspect of it.  This is a puzzle game thats a little bit of Dr. Mario and a little bit of Tetris.

What you are supposed to do is keep all the colors connected.  It doesn’t matter which direction, they just need to be touching each other.  If you have a 2×2 square of one color, they turn into a bigger gem.  You want to grow your gems because once you get a “sphere” in that same color, they break all of those blocks that are connected to it.

The more blocks you break, the more random color blocks you give your opponent.  First person to get a full screen loses.  This game is available now on PS3 for download. I highly recommend you get this game if you own a PS3.