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I'm not sure what's being advertised but they got the comic nerd audience's attention. Should be safe for work mild bra exposure.

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Top 15 Movies in 2007 to look forward to before the summer

Some of the best movies that will be coming out before May in 2007 - enough said!

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More critical Apple phone info from a "trustworthy" source

On the Leo Laporte KFI show December 31, 2006, a caller stated he had critical information regarding the iPhone from a close friend at Apple. He states things like it will be a CDMA phone, price, the material that it will be made out of, and some more very surprising information.

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Battlestar Galactica Online for Xbox 360 confirmed by Vivendi games

Vivendi Games has confirmed Battlestar Galactica Online, an exclusive video game for the Xbox 360.

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Aurora Jolie, Alex of KO on Last Call with Swami

After a wild week of Christmas Parties, opening gifts, planing for a New Year's day filled with football and much more, the Swami gets down to brass taxes. This week the Swami rings out the old year of 2006 by bringing something old and something new.

First off the Swami looks at the year in boxing with KO Fantasy Boxing editor, Alex Pierpaoli as the two preview the new year. Then with the AVNs right around the corner, hot and sexy newcomer Aurora Jolie makes her debut on the show to chat about her coming out party. Its a wild hour on the Final 2006's show of Last Call with the Sports Swami on Cyberstationusa.com. Brought to you by VickyatHome.com, Deviant Culture X and Sunsets Life (www.sunsetslife.com).

It was a year that saw the emergence of Miguel Cotto to super-stardom, an epic showdown between Erik Morales & Manny Pacquiao, the dominance of the Paq-Man, and a unknown fighter named Carlos Baldomir become the story of the year. Now Alex Pierpaoli (www.kofantasyboxing.com) talks with the Swami about the year that was, his fighter of the Year, his Ko of the year, the future of 2007, Peter vs. Toney II and much more boxing news as the new year is upon us.

Since her first ever scene in the adult industry, Aurora Jolie has been a lightning rod for controversy from all points on the net and the industry. The beautiful Nubian goddess caused heads to turn not but just doing anal scenes and Bj scenes, but by announcing that she is a Virgin vaginally! Since then the buzz is all over the net and at the 2007 AVN's, Aurora will be signing with Jules Jordan for all four days. Before that the beautiful Ms. Jolie sits down with the Swami to air out all things adult that is on her chest.

Twilight Princess Hits 2 Million

Aside from the Wii recently flying past the 3 million mark worldwide with a relative ease, now its flagship title The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess has surpassed another milestone. Just a few weeks ago reports surfaced that the long-awaited title had reached 1 million units, well today that figure can double.

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Amazon.com sells out of Nintendo Wii in under 20 seconds!

A Ruby script polled Amazon.com this morning to no avail.

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2007: Year of the Xbox 360?

A look at the 2007 prospects for the next generation consoles and why the 360 may be the richest game-wise.

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Jessica bending in all sorts of positions playing a beach paddle game. She's even reading a book in one pic, i had no idea she could even read.

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Ocean's 13 Trailer.

Ocean's Thirteen, the third movie from this series comes back with even more action than before. With an amazing cast including George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Al Pacino, this is another movie to remember.

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Noah Kalina of viral internet fame has a new project where he took pictures with celebs at VH1's latest award show. Stars included: Paris Hilton, joey lawrence, xzibit, david hasselhoff, flavor flav and more. The only celebs that were actually familiar with the phenomenon that is Noah K were Weird Al Yankovic and Paris Hilton. How perfect is that

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Mike Tyson story on Google News uses NES picture...

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132 Million People Access The Web in China

China's population of Internet users has risen by 30 percent over the past year to 132 million, a state news agency said Friday.

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A new form of internet "porn" is sweeping the world, and much like any other fetish, it has many other people confused. Videos are sprouting up across YouTube, Google Video and other sites detailing the literal geeky wet-dream: unboxing.

According to The Register, more than 73,000 viewers witnessed a man open a PS3 box on YouTube since November 11th. A further search has detailed many other videos, each involving a person unboxing his (or, in rare cases, her) new merchandise. Some of the most popular brands include the likes of Nintendo, Sony, and Palm.

The craze is getting to be large enough that it even has two websites devoted to it. First, there's unbox.it, a blog-style site that tracks down various unboxing videos. Then, there's unboxing.com, which takes on more of a full news-style site and carries the tag-line "Vicarious thrills from opening new gear. Share in the unboxing ceremony!"

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The World Series of Video Games Grand Finals have just come to their climax in New York City, America. The WSVG, as it is commonly known, is the first professional circuit of its kind, where hundreds of gamers compete in regional tournaments for those all important spots in the final event. Since June this year, Intel has presented us with five regional WSVG events which each sent two people from their respective games to the finals. more

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Mia Rose, Ava Rose on Howard Stern

Mia and Ava Rose are set to appear on the Howard Stern show wed Dec 13 2006, with the president of AVN Paul Fishbein. The girls will be promoting the awards and a trip will be given away live.

Mia received a total of two nominations this year for Best Anal Scene and, sharing the other with her sister Ava, for Best New Starlet.

See them both at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo and the AVN Awards Show in Las Vegas this coming January.

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(TORONTO, CANADA) -- "Hottest KSEX Babe 2006" award winner Monica Mayhem and Tony Batman, honored with the KSEX "2006 Mike Rick - Most Valuable Player" award, bring a dose of 'I Don't Think So Buddy' to Wank Punter's XXXmas show at Toronto's Opera House, December 15, 2006.

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Nina Mercedez Spreading Holiday Cheer Across USA

HeartBreaker films President and Former Vivid Girl, Nina Mercedez will be taking the United States by storm in December! She will be hitting four cities in three weeks. The Latin Beauty will be performing her signature "Snow show" for Christmas parties in Florida, Philadelphia, Connecticut and Los Angeles.

Nina Mercedez will be starting her Christmas tour with three nights at the Spearmint Rhino in West Palm Beach, Florida on December 7th-9th. Then flying to Delilah’s in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for one night only on December 13th, for what is promising to be their biggest Christmas party ever. Nina Mercedez will then be heading to Mermaids Café in Norwalk, Connecticut for two night beginning on December 15th and 16th. The last stop will bring this Busty 34DD-24-33 Latin Doll back home to meet her fans at the Blue Zebra in North Holly wood, California for 3 nights beginning on December 21st thru the 23rd.

"I am so excited to get back on the road and dance again I took the month of November off to concentrate on my first movie "Latin Anal HeartBreakers." We shot it in October and we wanted to take our time on the editing process, box cover art, and all the other details!" "said Nina Mercedez" "I wanted our movies to have a personal touch on everything, Raymond Balboa CEO of HeartBreaker Films actually did the box cover himself. We’ve worked really hard on this movie but we wanted it perfect because it’s our first release through our company "HeartBreaker Films", which is exclusively distributed by LFP Video Group. Now that we’re done I am ready to put my stiletto’s back on and hit the stage!" exclaimed Nina Mercedez

Nina Mercedez will be meeting and greeting her fans after every show. She will have lots of merchandise for sale, including the Vivid release "Illicit" where Nina Mercedez was just nominated by AVN for "Best Actress!" She will also have Polaroids, 8x10's and all of her DVD’s available for sale!

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December 7th-9th

Spearmint Rhino
2154 Zipcode Place
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Thursday: 10 pm, & 12 am
Friday: 12:45 pm, 9 pm, 11 pm, & 1 am
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Wii's debut for European gamers

Nintendo's Wii console went on sale at midnight on Thursday in Europe, but some gamers are disappointed that pre-orders have not been fulfilled.

Nintendo expects the console to sell out on day one and more than four million Wiis will be shipped globally this year.

More than four million Wiis are being shipped globally

The first console in the UK was sold officially to 17-year-old student Marwan Elgamal, from London.

Many gamers have e-mailed the BBC News website complaining of stock shortages.

Mr Elgamal said: "I am a die-hard Nintendo boy.

"This is the first time that you can pick one up, so I just had to be here.

"I have been camping out here, but at the same time some of my friends have been camping out waiting for me to get my hands on it."

One of the unlucky gamers e-mailed BBC News to say he had been disappointed when he went to collect his console.

"I pre-ordered a Wii from Currys," said CJ Anderson from Kent, in the UK.

"But when I went to pick it up, I found the store covered in posters telling me that they (as in all Curry's shops) had received none from Nintendo and that their allocation had been reallocated to another store."

He was offered and accepted a refund.

More than 1,200 Wiis have gone on sale on online auction site eBay in the UK within hours of the launch.

The highest price for a console so far has been £500.

Nintendo is taking a different approach to rivals Sony and Microsoft - focusing on casual games and fun, family titles.

Remote control

The console costs £179 and includes a motion-sensitive controller shaped like a remote control.

The so-called Wiimote can be jabbed, swung, waved and turned to imitate a range of real-life motions that are represented on screen.

Nintendo hopes that simplifying the control system will make games consoles less intimidating to non-gamers and more accessible and immersive for hardened players.

Woolworths gaming boss Gerry Berkley said: "The Nintendo Wii is already a runaway success and we expect tomorrow to be the busiest day of the year for gaming."

Gamers who have not pre-ordered a machine are unlikely to find many on sale in UK shops on Friday morning.

Warning

Jason Legg, head of events at HMV, warned that many games fans who had not pre-ordered their consoles could be disappointed.

Gamers are queuing in London

"There will be a very, very slim chance of picking one up on Friday morning," he said.

Response to the Nintendo Wii's release has been very positive among consumers and journalists.

Nintendo's different approach to gaming has won over many people and the launch has been generally problem-free - in contrast to Sony's PlayStation 3 launch which was hit by chronic stock shortages and reports of early teething problems.

'Too flimsy'

Many blogs have reported that the Wiimote strap is too flimsy and there are accounts of the remote flying out of hands and crashing into TV screens.

Nintendo has warned people to be careful

Nintendo has sent an e-mail to customers with further advice on how to use the console's controller after reports of customers accidentally throwing the remote into television screens.

"Hold the remote securely and avoid excessive motion during game play. If your hands become moist, stop and dry your hands," the company recommended.

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said of the problems: "We are investigating."

He added: "Some people are getting a lot more excited than we'd expected.

"We need to better communicate to people how to deal with Wii as a new form of entertainment."

Nintendo also cautioned players to stay at least three feet away from the TV and to make sure people and objects were safely outside their range of motion.

Is the Nintendo Wii a revolution in gaming? Will it appeal to people who have never played videogames before? Did you pre-order one? Have you had problems picking up it up? Send us your comments and experiences

Teenage clicks in Second Life: By Gareth Mitchell

A few days before my trip to San Francisco, I was in the online world of Second Life having problems with my avatar - the digital manifestation of myself in this massive 3D virtual environment.

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Around me, perfectly proportioned boys with prominent torsos floated around with skinny mini-skirted girls. After an hour fiddling around in the "edit appearance" menu, Therag, my avatar, stubbornly refused to be anything other than an anonymous silhouette. The only thing I could change was Therag's hair colour. I settled for purple.

Three days later, I found myself at Second Life in real life. The virtual world is the creation of Linden Lab, located on a quiet road near Telegraph Hill in San Francisco.

It runs on 4,100 computers housed in two server farms - one in San Francisco and the other in Dallas. Over a 24-hour period, an average of 60,000 of Second Life's 1.5 million users log in.

Despite my avatar-related frustrations, this was something of a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory moment for me - an opportunity to peer behind the scenes of this social phenomenon with over three times the population of Luxembourg.

Business and porn

In a large, airy open plan office generously decked out with pot plants and figurines of characters from various sci-fi movies, around thirty people sat at their computers keeping an eye on their digital world.

Linden Lab's vice president of platform and technology development, Joe Miller, is one of those charged with keeping it all going.

"We feel like we're surfing a very large tidal wave of popularity and we're staying out ahead of that crashing wave and surfing it successfully right now", he told Digital Planet.

But as Second Life has grown, so has criticism of it. Far from being a utopian online paradise, some regard Second Life as a seedy, even violent place, compromised by the presence of big business and porn.

And if my experiences are anything to go by, its technical capacity has failed to keep up with the rapid increase in membership. At busy times, scenes take ages to load, and navigating the landscape is slow and tedious.

"There are some bottlenecks in the system," Mr Miller concedes.

"We're actively working to remove those bottlenecks so that we can distribute the load that is perhaps causing some performance reduction at peak time.

"One of our challenges is just the sheer amount of bandwidth that we use. That's something we can easily solve by adding another one gigabit data line which is literally going in as we speak."

But last week, a Digital Planet listener told us that the newly expanded World of Warcraft online game supports four times as many people as Second Life and it never falls over.

"World of Warcraft touts a six million or larger active user base - but they shard their world off into smaller servers so you never see 16,000 people in the same place", said Mr Miller.

"That's unlike Second Life, where tonight you will see 16,000 people enjoying exactly the same world all able to communicate with each other, all attending the same live music event should they wish to."

Linden Labs operate out of this small building in San Francisco

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I mentioned my difficulties with my avatar and Joe Miller obligingly introduced me to one his team, who cranked up Second Life on my errant laptop and started fiddling with the graphics settings.

Meanwhile, for Digital Planet's contribution to the BBC World Service Generation Next season, focusing on issues surrounding young people, I made it to the other side of the office.

I wanted to find out more about Teen Second Life, an area of the virtual environment fenced off exclusively for younger users.

The idea of the Teen Grid is to act as a safe haven for younger users, free of the adult content that pervades much of the main space.

Through their avatars, Teen Second Life's young users can go shoppin