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Master Chief 'Sucks', Blu-Ray Sales Soar, BMW M3 Convertible Premature Unveiling

January 23rd, 2008

It appears as though Blu-Ray is finally starting to pull ahead in the next-gen DVD format war, at least in Japan. Japan Today reports that in the last 3 months, 90% of the hi-def players sold were Blu-Ray, and that excludes sales including the PS3.
Whether intentional or not, the new Samsung Silencio vacuum takes on a somewhat similar appearance to Halo's Master Chief. You have to either play Halo too much or have an uncanny ability to notice similarities to put these two together. By the way that Crave talks about it, we'd say that they do the former.
In an interview by CNN, it would seem that Osama bin Laden's Son wants him to change his ways. Omar and his wife are preparing to launch a movement for peace. Hopefully he will be even somewhat successful.
BMW wasn't planning on releasing the M3 convertible until March, but after all of the things that went on at the Detroit Auto Show they decided to release it a bit early. Autoblog has a little bit more information a ton of high-res pictures for your drooling pleasure.
It would appear that the economic problems of the U.S. are really beginning to have an effect on the global economy. CNN reports that stock markets around the world dropped between 4.5% and 11% on Monday and that Bush's efforts to kick-start the U.S. economy might be a little too late to help.

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