Max Headroom To Be Released on DVD

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Home Media Magazine is reporting that Shout! Factory has acquired the U.S. and Canadian distribution rights for the short lived late 1980’s Sci-Fi TV series Max Headroom. They will be releasing a complete series DVD set in August 2010.

Episodes are being transferred from their original elements to provide the best quality, and Shout! Factory is planning a robust range of extras for the set. Bonus content may include the original U.K. telefilm 20 Minutes Into the Future, upon which the series is based, though nothing has been confirmed. Max Headroom also appeared in a series of Coca-Cola commercials in the 1980s, raising speculation such content may also be fodder for bonus material, but Shout! Factory said planning the extras is in the early stage.

There be blood in those \’darn hills…

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Our planet is a weird place. I can imagine visiting Antactica, seeing nothing but white ice and gray rocks for days on end… but then, how would you react when you saw this?
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That\’s a \”Blood Waterfall\”….

Apparently, a lake was covered by the glacier about 2 million years ago, trapping the microbial life inside. They have evolved independently of outside life for all that time, and were discovered due to a few leaks from under the glacier.
The water coming out is red due to iron, and is incredibly salty with almost no oxygen in it. The microbes — 17 different kinds have been found there — must use sulfur as a catalyst instead of oxygen, which has never been seen before.

Review: Borderlands: The Secret Armory of General Knoxx

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Destroid reviews Broderlands: The Secret Armory of General Knoxx.

I would imagine that, if I were to ask any given Borderlands fan, they’d tell me that the third time’s the charm: following ‘The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned’ and ‘Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot,’ Gearbox’ third DLC pack, ‘The Secret Armory of General Knoxx’ might be the best.

As far as I’ve been keeping tabs, ‘General Knoxx’ addresses most fans’ complaints thus far: it raises the level cap, introduces new enemies, weapons, and class mods, and even provides something akin to end-game content. Alas ‘General Knoxx’ isn’t perfect; a handful of flaws — some fresh, some familiar — rear their ugly heads.

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What disk formats can MOSX read?

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All versions of Mac OS X, at least past 10.2, can read NTFS. USB, Firewire, network drive, doesn\’t matter…
According to Wikipedia, it supports HFS+ (default), HFS, UFS, AFP, ISO 9660, FAT, UDF, NFS, SMBFS, NTFS (read only), FTP, WebDAV, ZFS (experimental). Snow Leopard, assuming you re-install the boot camp drivers, allows your Windows OS to read HFS+ via the said boot camp drivers….
So even two way access is allowed…