ET breaks the news that comedian George Carlin has died from heart failure. The man who made famous the “seven words you can never say on television” passed away at 5:55 p.m. Sunday at Saint Johns Hospital in Santa Monica, his longtime publicist said. He was 71.

Carlin, who has had several heart attacks and a history of cardiac issues, went into the hospital this afternoon after complaining of heart problems.

Carlin has more than 20 comedy albums, 14 HBO specials, numerous TV and movie roles, and three best-selling books to his credit. Last year, he celebrated his 50th year in show business, and he had just finished his last HBO special in March, “Its Bad for Ya.”

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PC World - 14 Classic Tech Rivalries
After a North American release through Atari fell through, Nintendo went it alone, unveiling its Nintendo Entertainment System NES at the 1985 Consumer Electronics Show CES. Nintendos Mario, the Mario Brothers sibling originally known as Jumpman, is arguably the best-known and most beloved video-game character in history. By 1990,…
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I’m kinda all for SEGA [SErvice & GAmes combined] on this one. Although I am a diehard SNES fan and still have one to this day, SEGA had the gaming “edginess” that everyone wanted. That, and they also got the bloody version of Mortal Kombat.
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It was a heated war that no one has seen the likes of since, but it sure was a good one.

Sonic & Knuckles FTW!

Update: New Floating Man-Made Island About to be Open to the Public » ecoble - ecological design, green innovation and environmental sustainability
The original Spiral Island was the talk of the world: a man-made floating island constructed from 250,000 plastic bottles that could drift and relocate as needed until it was destroyed by disaster. Now the new Spiral Island is slated to open to the public within the next few months in Laguna Makax near Isla Mujeres. The new island has drawn in donations, volunteers and visitors from all parts of the world and walks of life - people inspired by what may be one of the most impressive do-it-yourself projects of modern times.
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Let’s make one. I’d prefer to use recycled beer bottles as that is all i plan on drinking to make this island.

Wii homebrew channel video released - Engadget
We’ve already seen some rudimentary Wii homebrew channel support, but this latest video released by homebrew developer Bushing steps things up considerably, with it turning what was once a curiosity into something that quite a few non-homebrew dabbling folks will likely be eager to get their hands on. As you can see after the break, the channel looks to be about as straightforward as can be, and it apparently includes built-in support for loading ELF and DOL homebrew executables via USBGecko and TCP/IP, in addition to support for loading ‘em off SD cards. Sadly, there’s no word on a release just yet, but we can’t imagine it being kept under wraps for too much longer.
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Ill stick with my non modded wii thank you very much. I dont want the big N to release an update and force me to have a $250 brick lying under my television.

At concerts these days you have to brace yourself for an experience easily ruined by the fans themselves, who have become a rude and unruly lot entirely unaware of everyone else’s personal space. Here are the ten rules of concerts that people blatantly disobey.
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I’m partly that camera asshole but i think im getting better. Ive moved on up to a digital camera as opposed to the standard cell-fone piece of shit.

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Virtual Console: ESRB Rates EarthBound For Wii VC
Here’s one future Wii Virtual Console update I cannot wait to write up. The ESRB has recently posted a rating for the classic Super Nintendo RPG EarthBound for the Nintendo Wii. The sequel to the Japanese-only game Mother, the game tells the story of Ness and company as they fight to gather the powers of the Earth to defeat the evil alien Giygas. With a compelling humor, an original setting, and some damn fine graphics for a Super Nintendo game, EarthBound is widely considered to be one of the greatest role-playing games of all time…and now it is rated E for Everyone. There really is only one reason an older game gets a Wii rating via the ESRB, so expect EarthBound to arrive on the Wii Virtual Console sometime in the near future.

Jesus Christ man. I tried to update to the new Hardy Heron linux distro and all hell broke loose on my hard drive after i was told to restart. Somehow i finally managed to reinstall 7.10 on this goddamned thing. I am back to square one with all my data and shit, but it wasnt that bad really. I managed to backup my music a month or so ago so i didnt lose that much really. All i really lost were some movies i downloaded, which i needed to delete anyways.

The only other thing that pisses me off is that i have to reinstall WoW.

Green Lantern Lincoln, originally uploaded by Joe D!.

I know i havent posted in a while, and i plan on getting back into that soon [hopefully tomorrow being im off]. so until then, check out these famous drawings on famous dead presidents.