Great Invasions

Great Invasions

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Art to check out this week

ART MART The United Indian Elders' Program features the wares of a dozen Native American artists and craftspeople, and the Northwest Native American Basketweaving Association with a demonstration. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. Nov. 25. Daybreak Star Cultural Center, 3801 W. Government Way (in Discovery Park), 206-228-1410.

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Hantu Jeruk Purut (Horror, 90 minutes) Starring Angie, Sheila M. Joseph, Samuel Z. Heckenbucker, Valia Rahma. Directed by Koya Pagayo.

When a novelist working on a book about the notorious, headless ghost of a priest lurking in a cemetery is mysteriously killed, a teenager (Angie, of hit film Virgin fame) boldly carries out the task of finishing the book. Meanwhile, the angry ghost sees to it that she never gets it done, with some terrorizing apparitions.

Although the film is not so bad as to invite unintended laughter from the audience (like the two local horror flicks released before it), it still fails to do justice to the original urban legend. The screenwriter seems to be lost in his own script, with too many insignificant subplots and characters.

Despite some rather scary apparitions now and then, the scares are cheap and badly choreographed; not to mention them being rip-offs from countless horror films in the library of modern cinema.

Crysis Programmer on Vista Audio Apocalypse

Wondering what sort of audio Crysis is going to have in lieu of the upcoming Vista 3D Audio Apocalypse? Crytek Audio Programmer Tomas Neumann had this to say: There are no plans to support OpenAL. All effects we are using are real-time DSP effects, or reverb. That provides the same sound quality to everyone on any platform (like Vista) with any sound card. .

Achievements praised

His Highness Dr Shaikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of UAE National Day, affirmed that the UAE leaders and people had pledged to forge ahead for more achievements and gains.

Shaikh Sultan commended the constructive steps taken by His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Al Nahyan to entrench representative democracy in a new form based on free elections to empower the FNC to play its role adequately in national development.

11/27/06 - Spore Vehicle Editor Interview

Senior Producer Morgan Roarty tells PC Gamer about Spore's vehicle editor, covered in depth in our January 2007 issue, on sale December 12. Dig it!

PCG: What are the main components of the vehicle editor? Morgan Roarty: It's similar to the creature editor, where you start with a body that has a spine in it and you put pieces on it like a Mr. Potato Head doll. The difference with the vehicle editor is that all vehicles have a chassis [as the main piece on which the vehicle is built].

We didn't start with the chassis concept—we just thought the vehicle editor would be LEGO-style putting parts together. But born out of what we learned from the creature editor, we got the idea of the chassis, which everything pins to. The pinning is really key in the vehicle editor—it aligns pieces on the chassis, so for example, when you snap a wheel on, the wheels are symmetrical.

Charlie's hitman in our sights - police

THE daughter of a grandad mercilessly gunned down outside his home in cold blood, has revealed how her family relived the horror when CCTV footage of the murder was shown on Crimewatch on Monday. Police said they were pleased with the public's response to the show, and are now hot on the trail of the suspected hitman with a host of new leads. The footage showed father-of-nine Charlie Butler - described as a "wheeler-dealer" - frantically trying to escape the gunman.He was chased around his car after he pulled up outside his house in Green Lane, Dagenham, on Wednesday, October 13, 2004. The man shot twice but missed. Then Mr Butler's luck ran out when he tripped over and was shot in the neck as he stood up.Mr Butler spent the rest of his life in hospital, and died eight months later, aged 51.

Second Life residents get free cellphones

YouNeverCall, an online cellphone retailer, decided to break new ground in terms of business by moving into the virtual one. They have a ready market of 1.5 million potential customers by jumping straight into the Second Life online community, offering a fully functional in-game cellphone for free. These virtual cellphones in Second Life are meant to be more than an accessory that offers meaningless fun - YouNeverCall will incorporate actual cellphone features in the virtual world by enabling them to ring, and there is no need to download any additional module to snag one for yourself. All you need to do is to head on here to get your very own virtual cellphone.

These free cellphones can be used to retrieve important information like real world U.S. stock quotes, the exchange rate between the Linden dollar (currency used in Second Life) and the U.S.