UT2007 delayed till actual 2007
Unreal tournament has a strange naming strategy. UT2003 was released in 2002, UT2004 was released in 2003.. and Epic aimed to release UT2007 in 2006. But due to further testing (and probably some other quality related issues) they are delaying it till 2007. So, game will be first time true to its title. Aww! My favorite multiplayer game delayed… sniff! sniff! at least the final product would be that much better.
Read the story @ Eurogamer
All good domain names are taken
I have been trying to register a domain name even before I started this blog; but with no hope.. its like all the domain names (leave aside the term “good domain names”) I couldn’t even find weird domain names to be free. Its like all dictionary / non-dictionary words have been registered. Then I saw this report by Mr. Forbes that confirms the same thing. It presents a real good analysis of what kind of domains (in short all) are already taken by the world.
All of the 1,000 most common English words have been snatched up. The word “a” appears more than any other, though most of the time, of course, it’s just a letter in a longer word. The least-used common word is “consonant,” Mr. Forbes says, which is in just 42 domains, including “consonantpain.com,” which isn’t a misspelling but a word game.
Mr. Forbes checked the U.S. Census Bureau’s 1,219 most-common male names, the 2,841 most-common female names and the 10,000 most-common surnames; all were booked. Not only that, but when you link the top 300 first names with the top 300 last names, 89 percent of the resulting combinations are taken for male names and 84 percent for female ones.
Read the whole report @ Northwest Florida Daily
Attack of Mermaid men
If you always thought mermaids to be beautiful fish woman with sea shell bikinis, you may be wrong!
I am still not sure about the source of what appears to be closest to what have been discovered of Mer-Man but they are very different from our perception. I got these photos forwarded from someone… who got it forwarded from someone.. and the usual loop of internet continues. Check these out yourself, click on thumbnail to enlarge:
