The GeForce3 Titanium 200, while not quite as powerful as a standard GeForce 3 in some tests and more powerful in others, is available for around $200. Screw XBox and GameCube – I know what I’m getting for Christmas now…

Ah, so that’s how it happened.

It wasn’t already?

I’m not sure if this is “too far” or not – Osama bin Laden skins for Quake 3, Unreal Tournament and The Sims. If you want a Bush model to blow it away with you can get one at Political Arena, a mod whose aim was to make fun of the Election 2000 fiasco.

I’m not sure what to make of all this bin Laden hating. I went to the store this morning and I saw a tabloid with a huge picture of him and crosshairs on him. I think of when we see propoganda in other countries saying to kill the President of the U.S. I think it’s idiot propoganda, but this makes me realize we’re doing idiot propoganda as well. Kinda makes me think low of the U.S.

But on a happier note, I pre ordered Bleemcast! for MGS and TK3, and so should you. Hit BleemDirect and you’ll save $1 on each if you preorder before midnight tommorow.

Do yourself a favor and watch The West Wing tomorrow night. The West Wing is, of course, NBC’s television series with a fictitious White House and its staff. West Wing is put together by the same production/writing team as the movie The American President, so if you liked that movie (sans the romantic subplot) then you’ll like this show. The reason this week’s episode is significant is because it’s in response to the terrorist activities of 09/11/01. West Wing does have an ongoing plot whose cliffhanger season finale is still unresolved, but they’re putting the season premiere on hold in order to air this episode and its self contained plot, a move they will explain the workings of at the beginning of the show.

The episode, “Isaac and Ishmael”, will deal with a terrorist action and the White House and country’s reaction to it, but it will not deal with the WTC incident specifically. Furthermore, the response to the terrorist action will not be in the rest of the season, both due to the intent of the show and the fact that the rest of the season is already finished. Aaron Sorkin, the producer/creator of the show, started writing this episode shortly after the incident, and filming on this episode began Thursday before last and didn’t finish until yesterday. Two editing staffs have been pulling 16 hour days for over a week now, and the episode won’t be finished until tomorrow, hours before it airs (the executives won’t even see it before it airs). By comparison, most episodes of this or any other show are filmed and finished months in advance, so the production schedule for this show is quick, to say the least. There will likely be a commercial interruption of some sort – probably comments from the cast and crew for reasons of shorening the episode slightly but not to advertise – but the episode is being produced at the expense of the producers – NBC is not paying for it.

Just so you’ll have a better idea what is going on, here’s a listing of the actors, their characters and an analogy for each:

Sources: IMDB, Cincinnati Enquirer, JedBartlet.com FAQ

MemPlug is a product by Portable Information Technology that is a series of SpringBoards for the HandSpring Visor. The first two, at $50 a piece, can allow your Visor to access CompactFlash and SmartMedia memory cards, two different proprietary formats commonly used to store data from digital cameras and such. Palm has some models which also can run programs from SmartMedia, so presumably armed with the SmartMedia MemPlug Springboard you could exchange programs and such with a Palm Pilot device. Next month they’re unveiling a third model which can read the Sony Memory Stick, a third proprietary format. So, armed with an array of these devices, you could use any number of memory cards on your Visor. And to think this little $150 device of mine can do so much…

Also, the other day Panasonic, makers of the Secure Digital memory card (a form of SmartMedia, I believe) announced 256MB and 512MB cards. I know that the Nintendo GameCube uses a proprietary 8MB memory card but they will also unveil an adaptor to use 64MB SD cards from Panasonic (due to an agreement between the two companies). I wonder – can you use the 512MB card on a Game Cube? If you can, then one memory card would do you for life. Better yet – I wonder if you could then pop the same memory card (be it 512MB or 64MB) into your Visor and manage/hack your saved games on your Visor/Palm Pilot – that would be too cool.