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Steam Deal: Next 40 minutes, Torchlight, $5.

Torchlight is Diablo II, with an updated interface. And a different story and stuff, but don't fool yourself. The gameplay is, barring the aforementioned well-needed interface improvements, Diablo II.

For $5, totally worth the money.

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The C Programming Language, by Brian W Kernighan & Dennis M Ritchie & HP Lovecraft

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( Fairy Tail - a present for citizenerased )

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GTA 4 is $7.50, today only, on STEAM. If you don't have a copy, it is WELL worth the $8, and as Christmas gifts for PC gamers you know it's hard to find a better value.

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all i want for christmas is burning love
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Republican Representative, Senatorial candidate, and rapist of his foster daughters attempts to "copyright" his own name in a desperate attempt to stop news organisations from reporting on his crimes.

Microsoft served with injunction against selling Word.

“We?” Andy raises one eyebrow. “I am going to go home to the wife and kids for Christmas and try to forget about threats to our very existence for a bit. You”—he takes a deep gulp of smoke—“get to play at Night Duty Officer, patrolling the twilit corridors to protect our workplace from the hideous threat of the Filler of Stockings, who oozes through chimneys and ventilation ducts every Dead God’s Birthday-eve to perform unspeakable acts against items of hosiery. Try not to let it get to you—oh, and have a nice holiday while you’re at it.”

- Charles Stross, Tor.com

NDP Leader Jack Layton and Toronto-area MP Olivia Chow caught holding hands and "sneaking smooches" while at Copenhagen conference.

Okay, so. Oh my god.

I went to a meeting at the pub this evening, in which we discussed launching the rent a farm house scheme in our town. I rarely get involved in things, but wanted to be a part of this because it's an amazing project and could do so much for the town. More numbers at the schools, more jobs, more services, more sport and arts and recreation, just more people are all things we really need. I plan to go to meetings and help organise things, and volunteer at the CTC to help Sal with flyers and things. Even if not for the extra thing I'm about to mention, I'd still be doing that. This town working is one of the few things I really care enough to be active about, and the scheme is very exciting.

However, on top of that - and this is the oh my god part - Andrew Denton's production company is looking to make a documentary series of a town implementing the scheme, and they are really interested in that town being ours! They even approached us about it before anyone here had started anything. Can you even - I could do work experience for Zapruder's Other Films! Actual experience on an actual project, by a company that I like and respect, that tends to sell to my favourite channel! I can't even.

Just - ahhhh! Right when I'm looking for ways I can get a bit of work and connections somehow related to the film industry, Andrew freaking Denton comes knocking!

How hilarious would it be if my foot in the door were to happen here, eh? I spend most of the year in Sydney, where major channels and studios are all located, studying film and watching film and talking to lecturers who have taught successful industry people, wondering what sort of crummy little tea-lady gig I could get somewhere, but something actually happens in my tiny little, nothing ever happens in, 500 people max, town.

This is amazing!  It may not happen, of course, they may pick another town (though if it's near by I may still go see them, because duh, Zapruder's Other Films will be in the area), or the pitch might not sell (though who'd turn down Denton?), and even if it does happen it may be while I'm at Uni or I'll only get a couple of months work - but a couple of months is still a couple of months! It's still really excellent experience! And maybe, if they like me, someone could hook me up with something in Sydney that I can do during semester! I could work with them through January and most of February, a couple of days in the mid-semester break, a whole month mid-year, and then from November on, if they're still going. Hell, if I could get an actual paying job out of this project, I could even defer Honours until the start of 2010. 

God, I hope they choose us. It'd be fantastic for the town and area to have some publicity, and there are so many possibilities in this for me.