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One Word: An awesome game.

I finally went out and bought myself Portal 2. My initial thoughts before buying the game was that I might be over hyping the awesomeness of the game, however I pretty much learned that it was as awesome as I had hoped as it was going to be.

You may have heard of Sean Power, but if you have not, then maybe you should read this story:

The United States is about to have something in common with Iran, Saudi Arabia, China, and many other totalitarian governments, Internet Censorship. You read correctly, US Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) today introduced a bill into congress which would effectively allow the Justice Department to block any website that they deem predatory, ANY website, don't kid yourself.

You may know that your iPhone was able to track your location. However, you may not have known, or maybe you did know, that your location data of every place you've ever been with your iPhone within the past year, was not only stored on your iPhone but was also synced with iTunes. Well, what are you planning to do with that data? Why don't you donate it to science? That is, if you actually trust the claim that the data is uploaded anonymously.

The latest version of Ubuntu was just released, called "Natty Narwhal" (narwhal, interesting). The Narwhal provides some new features, the most notable being the new "Unity" desktop. This desktop has been previously introduced into the Netbook editions of Ubuntu. Many say that this new look emulates the Mac OS X theme, which is surely justified.