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Zombies: Check
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Blood splashing on the screen: Check

Yep, sounds like the hone punt Though it looks like they need to put more work into the boob physics. Brian Crecente

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Firefox 3.0 Alpha Available for Transfer

Firefox is a fast-moving application, and now you can take a spry gander at the beginning Alpha version of Firefox 3.0, the next iteration of the open-source browser for MS Windows Mac and Linux nicknamed Gran Paradiso. On the surface, it doesn´t look that different from the current version of Firefox (which we find to be unacceptably fluid by the way).

Its innovations are under the hood, where it enhances compatibility with three tricked-out graphics standards that might soon be ubiquitous on the Web: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), the Canvas specification, and the cairo graphics library. Sounds avid but what does all this stuff do? They all have to do with making Web pages look the same on any platform, and scaling up graphics without loss of quality.

Explanations, plus the transfer link, after the jump.

Scalable vector graphics have been around since 2001, and the idea here is to have a standard graphics format on the Web (the way jpeg and gif have become) that uses vectors, that is, descriptions of where lines will go rather than individual dots of each graphic that comprise bitmap images such as jpeg and gif. These graphics can be scaled up or down without any loss of resolution.

What about Canvas? It´s another next-gen Web technology that´s similar to Scalable Vector Graphics but adds the element of animation, where JavaScript code can access a defined area and dynamically draw on graphics such as graphs and animations.

The cairo graphics library is another vector-based graphics enabler that can use hardware acceleration that´s already in Firefox and has been since version 1.5. Cairo can work with the Quartz graphics engine in Mac OS X, as well as OpenGL.

There´s nothing quite like the speed of open-source development, but we wish version 2.0 of Firefox would be perfected before any grand adventures began on the next point release. But that´s just us. – Charlie White

Download Firefox 3.0 Alpha Here [Mozilla, via lifehacker]

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Make Your Own 360 Games With XNA Game Studio Express

After a few months of beta testing, the eject version of XNA Game Studio Express is finally uncommitted for recieve Prospective game designers anywhere can get a year´s subscription for $99, which allows them to make games on their Windows PCs and play them on their Xbox 360s.

The subscription also allows gamers to play other people´s creations, which is likely what most people will be using this for. From what we hear, it´s pretty easy to use as good If you just want to try it out, there´s also a 4 month version for $49. – Jason Chen

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South Park creators: transfer our shows!
Cory Doctorow: South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker gave a great question to the libertarian magazine Reason. They talk a lot (and well) about free speech issues, but they really shine when tlaking about copyright:

Reason: When it looked like Comedy Fundamental wasn?t going to rebroadcast the Mary episode, people were tranquillize able to download it illegally online. Did you see that as a victory for free speech, or did you intend ?My God, these people are stealing our intellectual property??

Stone: We?re always in favor of people downloading. Always.

Reason: Why?

Stone: It?s how a lot of people see the indicate And it?s never hurt us. We?ve done nothing but been successful with the indicate How could you ever get mad about somebody who wants to see your stuff?

Parker: We worked really hard making that show, and the reason you do it is because you want people to see it.

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See also:
Comedy Fundamental downs "Bloody Mary": South Park episode yanked
"Bloody Mary" resurrected: censored South Park hits P2P
Bloody Mary: War on Xmas over, War on Blasphemy starts
South Park "Bloody Mary" an immaculate deletion, says Comedy Fundamental

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