November 5, 2001

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The new Starwars teaser trailer was released online today. I unfortuntly can not view it at the moment because I no longer have Windows on my system (the movies are in quicktime format, and Apple is dumb and doesn't release a player for Linux). However this article in cnn.com has a nice overview, which includes fan reactions to the trailer that they saw when watching Monsters, Inc. The article even includes such classic quotes like "-- Natalie Portman, who stars as Queen Amidala, looked 'hot.'" How a quote like that gets into a major news publication I don't know, but it scares me.

The Gamecube is being released in only 13 more days, but already people are taking apart their Japanese Gamecubes. So now you know what the inside of a console looks like, without voiding your warrenty.

Scientists now think that 4,000 years ago, a meteorite caused the extinction of several promising new cultures in the Middle East. They had wondered for a long time why there was such a sharp decline in the advancement of civilizations during the time around 2,300 BC, and they believe that faint craters found in the region might mean a meteor had exploded in the area. And of course the same exact thing could happen again even today.

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