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Doctor Who – SideKick Stories

Sidekick Stories covering Doctor Who. Roughly 10 minutes…

Meet Doctor Who’s new assistant

The Observer has a interview with Karen Gillan….

Doctor Who has a new assistant, Amy Pond. Karen Gillan, who plays her, explains what it’s like to be the most envied woman in Britain

She thought she “hadn’t a hope in hell” of securing Amy, so just went for it, without fear.
“Then I got the recall, the second audition. That was when I started sweating. This huge thing. And it was so secretive I couldn’t even tell BBC reception where I was going, had to pretend it was for something called Panic Moon, which is an anagram of companion.” She was the last auditionee, and got the call later that same night that’s still changing her life.

Take a look at the rest of the Interview here, via Karen Gillan: Meet Doctor Who’s new assistant | Interview | Television & radio | The Observer.

VMware Fusion 3.1 Beta Now Available

Goody! A new VMware Fusion 3.1 Beta Now Available!!! Why am I excited? Well, I prefer Parallels, but for some reason Parallels doesn’t work on my Mac Pro. It complains that the hard drive is unavailable, and can’t be found.. Yet, if I make any configuration changes, it now magically works, until I reboot the computer… VMWare works fine, and never has a problem… It’s just slightly slower… Hopefully this will bring it up to par with Parallels…

The VMware Fusion 3.1 Beta is now available at http://communities.vmware.com/community/beta/fusion.

This beta software includes 10+ new and improved features including:

More Powerful Graphics Performance for Games & 3D Apps: OpenGL 2.1 support for Windows Vista and Windows 7, DirectX 9.0 SM3 performance improvements, Windows Aero performance improvements, better OpenGL compatibility for modeling apps
Improved USB Support: USB “EasyConnect” makes it simple to assign a USB device to a virtual machine or your Mac and then remembers preferred settings for each USB device
Support for larger virtual machines: 8-way SMP support added, maximum virtual hard disk size increased from 950 GB to 2 TB
Improved Boot Camp Support: Improved disk performance for your Boot Camp VMs, better handling of disk configuration changes to avoid duplicate entries, option to avoid authentication dialogs when using a Boot Camp virtual machine
PC Migration Improvements: Migration status displayed on PC, now avoids port conflicts, guest account issues on Mac OS X now resolved
User Experience Improvement Program: VMware uses information obtained through the User Experience Improvement Program to improve the quality, reliability, and performance of our products and to plan our future development and testing. Participation in the program is voluntary and you can opt out at any time.
Many Additional UI Improvements and Various Fixes: See the VMware Fusion 3.1 Beta Release Notes for more information.

via VMware: Team Fusion: VMware Fusion 3.1 Beta Now Available.

Steam News – Sniper Elite Sale

Sniper Elite is available for $2/€2/£2 until March 22nd!

As World War II draws to a close, the first covert battles of the Cold War begin. Caught in the life and death struggle between Soviets and Germans in war-torn Berlin, you control the fate of a lone American OSS Sniper.

Silverhawks Outtakes

In addition to the Thundercats, there was another cartoon series in the 1980s called “The Silverhawks”. It too was a science fiction cartoon, except it took place in the far future and in space. Another interesting note is that it had the same voice acting cast as Thundercats did. Since I have gotten more requests for outtakes, I figured I would put up these ones as well.
Silverhawks Outtakes | Claws and Paws dot Com.

Thundercats Outtakes

The Thundercats is a sci-fi/furry cartoon series that aired in the 1980’s which featured characters that were human looking, but also were part cat, as if they had evolved from felines. The show can still be seen on occasion on the Cartoon Network.

Anyway, enough of that, how about something that will make you laugh your head off? You see, the Thundercats, like most cartoon characters, were played by humans. And humans sometimes get mad and like to swear. That being the case, someone happened to record the members of the Thundercats cast swearing while taping the show, and it makes for some pretty funny outtakes!

Thundercats Outtakes | Claws and Paws dot Com.

The Open Book Project

The Open Book Project is aimed at the educational community and seeks to encourage and coordinate collaboration among students and teachers for the development of high quality, freely distributable textbooks and educational materials on a wide range of topics. The advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web are making collaboration among educators on a global scale possible for the first time. We want to harness this exciting technology to promote learning and sharing.

The open book project contains, How to think like a computer scientist, Lessons in Electric Circuits, various tutorials, and other content…

Open Book Project.

Steam Hardware Survey

Steam, every month, refreshes their Hardware Survey… It will be quite interesting to see how this changes when Steam for the Macintosh is made available…

Steam Hardware Survey.

Steam for Mac dissected

Here’s a close look at the Steam for Macintosh announcement, and what we can expect in the future.

Look here … Steam for Mac dissected « The Mac Gamer.

Doctor Who Season 5 information.

The BBC Programme Information site is saying the new series will begin on Saturday 3rd April at 6.25pm.

The Doctor has regenerated into a brand new man, but danger strikes before he can even recover. With the TARDIS wrecked, and the sonic screwdriver destroyed, the new Doctor has just 20 minutes to save the whole world – and only Amy Pond to help him.

The date and time have not been confirmed by the BBC Press Office and are subject to change. The series is referred to as Series Five on the website and the duration of the episode is noted as 60 minutes.