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Transformers The Movie Images | Transformers Movie On Location Set Images

Check out the link above for some pictures taken (supposedly) from the set of the upcoming live action Transformers movie.

Considering they are taking some of the most elaborate security precautions in the history of movie making I wouldn’t be shocked if these are a bit of disinformation, but they are still great eye candy.

How crazy awesome is that tank? Megatron maybe?

Update: According to various sites that tank is Devastator.

Update 2: Apparently the pictures are gone now. ;o(

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I’ve been neglecting my Flickr account since I started the job at Liquid Web, so today I cleared both my cameras of their stored pictures and uploaded them.

My personal favorite from today’s uploads:

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… which probably means $249.99, but that’s still half the cost of the cheapest PS3.

Talk about news that makes your day!

via Engadget

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Funny… I was just listening to Bob Marley’s “Soul Shakedown” in the car on the way to work today.

Link

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My fellow chocolate addicts should feel a tad vindicated today. A recent study by researchers at the Heinrich-Heine University in Dusseldorf, Germany yielded the following results:

In skin, the flavonols [in chocolate] have been shown to reduce skin’s sensitivity to UV radiation, increased blood flow to skin, and improvement of skin texture by increasing its density, thickness, and hydration.

The same flavonols have recently been shown to have benefits for cardiovascular health as well.

A quick summary: Chocolate is good for your ticker and the stuff that keeps your insides in.

Good to know!

via Slashfood

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A few months ago the president of Sony’s computer entertainment group issued a statement that (at the time) was the only statement dealing directly with the price of the upcoming Playstation3 console. Basically all they said was “we don’t have a price yet, but the PS3 will be a console that people will want to work overtime for.”

Overtime? As in SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS worth of overtime? More like overkill.

And that’s really the issue here: Overkill. Overkill has long been Sony’s way of staying competitive in the console market. They effectively killed the Dreamcast by releasing a piece of paper detailing the specs for the then upcoming PS2. Valuable word-of-mouth hype for the Dreamcast was constantly in the shadow of a system which was nothing more than a spec sheet.

Got a competitor with a product that has already launched you want to bury? No problem! Just make a bunch of empty promises and worry about your ability to deliver on them later. And don’t worry about the first generation of your hardware. As long as you rush it to market and release several hardware updates over the years those first few thousand early adopters who bought your product won’t mind.

Why do you think it took Sony this long to release a price for the PS3? Simple: They still didn’t know until just the last couple weeks how much it would cost them to build.

Will they still sell a ton of PS3’s? Sure. Will I buy one before they drop the price and put it through at least one major hardware revision? No freakin’ way.

End rant.

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