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You've been hearing a lot of stuff about the New Xbox Experience over the last few months. How it'll change the 360, how it'll add a whole bunch of new features to the console, how it'll alter the very fabric of space and time around you. Well, provided you're not already playing around with it, the time for hearing about the NXE is almost over. The update is due to go live at 2:00am Pacific Time, November 19 (ie very, very soon) and provided everything goes according to plan, millions of blades and gamerpics around the world will cry out in terror, before being suddenly silenced. Then summarily replaced with something slicker, brighter and easier to use. - Michael Fidler via Bookmarklet

No way to plug it in? I'm not sure, they may provide it as a downloadable off of xbox.com, as they do for the Backwards compatibility patches, which you can burn to CD and put in your xbox. - Aram Zucker-Scharff

Michael: I think it can be downloaded. Also, you can plug in a lan cable without the wifi-adapter. - Jemm

This shot is from the tourist train that rides through Campo, Tecate, and Tijuana, taken by my dad. - Pete Delucchi via mail2ff

Thanks for sharing, Pete! :) - Anna Haro

Always glad to share, Anna. - Pete Delucchi

Awesome! - pea gives ♥ a bad name

No-one can smirk as cute as you, Pea, but I gave it a shot :) - Bec Rowe

Awww. You are too sweet. I think your photo is great. :D - pea gives ♥ a bad name

lol...yeah, Ms. Pea has the smirk down to a science, but yours is cute too, Bec! - Anna Haro

She is a bit loopy, isn't she? - Grant Fitzgerald

Indeed <3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - Anna Haro

Thanks, Pete! Great to be back!...Anna, complete with retro intro. thanks, LOL :p - Matt Musgrave

:P - Anna Haro

I reckon Holyfield will get demolished. - Zee from WeDoCreative

I have a feeling, if he survives, Holyfield may be taking on George Foreman...selling kitchen appliances. - April Russo

Holyfield in his prime is my all time favorite boxer. It's sad to watch him continue like this. - Mark Krynsky

"Video for "Molten Light" off the 2008 Sub Pop release "Soft Airplane"" - Christopher Harley via Bookmarklet

Fleet Foxes video for "White Winter Hymnal", directed by Sean Pecknold, off the band's self-titled Sub Pop 2008 release. - Christopher Harley via Bookmarklet

The GuerrillaCG Project is a free non for profit organisation that hopes to make it easier to learn high-end computer graphics. We are building a team of volunteers to create videos, that describe in an easy and understandable manner, the fundamental concepts of computer graphics. Because core concepts rarely change with time, these videos have the potential to teach for many years into the future and help thousands of people all over the world. With enough people, it's possible that we can create a vast library covering many of the core concepts of computer graphics - Christopher Harley via Bookmarklet

Mentioned on - That Media Show - http://blip.tv/file/1474272 THE GUERRILLA CG PROJECT is a resource for helping people learn CG, or "Computer Graphics" and features tutorials from industry experts like; Andrew Silke, Glen Moyes, Greg Petchkovsky and Jake Hempson. GUERILLA CG PROJECT teaches the fundamentals of creating high-quality 3D characters, places and things. They have tutorials for 3D Studio Max, Blender, Cinema4D, Maya, MudBox, SoftImage XSI and ZBrush, with more to follow. The site is technically in "Alpha" right now, but you wouldn't know it and... it's free. - Christopher Harley

"Tatler: Once I was safely out of sight, I gingerly opened the magazine and started reading. Three seconds later, I was furious. Before getting to the Little Black Book section, I'd alighted on an article about a "sexy Holland Park billionairess and her fabulous life". She was called Goga Ashkenazi, and she was pictured swathed in fur, diamonds dripping pendulously from her ears. She was clutching a miniature dog that looked like it'd been peeled; one of those scrawny upholstered canine skeleton-creatures with the facial tics of a tiny frightened bird. Given the alarming way these micro-dogs pant 5,000 times a second, I always think they're about to die, that their pea-sized hearts will suddenly burst like a popcorn kernel inside their mousey little ribcage." - Grant Fitzgerald

"X-Factor: Either Alexandra or Diana (assuming she recovers) should win. The former because she's got the best voice, the latter because she's got the most interesting voice: sometimes she lets out curious little peeps and whistles when she sings, as though she's accompanied by a baby bird randomly blowing air across the top of an empty milk bottle. Either that or there's something seriously wrong with my television. We'll know for sure when the priest gets here." - Grant Fitzgerald

look carefully for all the different things using CPU, disk, network, RAM.... - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)

I guess not! - Christopher Harley

I wish that I could get a better shot of my FPS in warcraft in the background, but it slows to 10-20fps when I go to take the screenshot, it is normally 40-50fps under this kind of load and 100+ (which is so high as to be useless, but WoW is not the only game I play) when the machine is otherwise idle. - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)

LOL - Matt Musgrave

Derrick? - Anna Haro

Anna- LOL. A dedication to my man, D! :) - Matt Musgrave

<3 - Anna Haro

How I FF. - Matt Musgrave

mjc- thanks for the tip! i'm still figuring this all out. :) - Matt Musgrave

Toby- LOL - Matt Musgrave

One of my favorite movies. <3 - Anna Haro

nice set. wore out the VHS growing up to this movie :) - Matt Musgrave

thanks, Matt. Yep, it's a classic! - Anna Haro

Really good! - Erhan Erdogan

one of the few netvibes i've seen in awhile. - ♣genieyclo♣

his? - Mona N.

Really D? I flip between sharing directly and using NV to share by which browser I'm using. And yes Mona NV thinks a few females who signed up before the "ginger" release are guys, I'm just too lazy to bug them about it anymore. - Amber aka SDA

"The air is already laced with diesel fumes as the conductor shouts, "All aboard!" The engineer sounds the whistle, and the locomotive lurches forward. Squeals of delight emanate from the passenger cars. This train ride is a first for many of the children. The adults share their excitement because they are setting off on a unique international adventure. One or two Saturdays a month, nearly 250 passengers -- kids and grown-ups -- climb aboard the 1930s-era passenger cars in Campo in eastern San Diego County for the one-hour trip to Tecate, a town that provides a tranquil alternative to bustling and crime-ridden Tijuana, about 30 miles west." - Anna Haro via Bookmarklet

Thanks again for the share, Anna. My dad forwarded me the pic he took of the Tecate brewery when he rode it a while back. Also his friend used to be the trainman (car host) for these trips a while ago too! He was so happy for the fond memories brought on by this article. - Pete Delucchi

Aww, that's awesome, Pete. :) May I see the pic? - Anna Haro

The Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru has reportedly left harbour for the annual hunt in Antarctic waters. Greenpeace said the factory ship had left the port of Innoshima, near Hiroshima, without fanfare. There was no official confirmation of the departure, although officials did say the number of whales targeted would be identical to last year's hunt. An opinion poll commissioned by Greenpeace suggested that more Japanese support whaling than oppose it. The Nisshin Maru and her fleet of catcher boats will attempt to catch about 935 minke and 50 fin whales during the Southern Ocean summer, under regulations permitting hunting for scientific research. - BeeLing via Bookmarklet

bah... - Michael W. May

Extreme kayakers have been condemned for canoeing down a dam in west Wales. A photographer captured the latest incident as one canoeist slid 300ft (91m) down the spillway at Llyn Brianne reservoir in Carmarthenshire, near the borders of Ceredigion and Powys. Welsh Water said the practice was dangerous and such activities were banned at the reservoir. - BeeLing via Bookmarklet

Awesome, whats the biggie? If they die it's their own fault and it looks like great fun. - Toby Graham