Ok, so I have been searching on the net all day for any kind of update regarding the PSN crash of the fat PS3. While checking my mail, I read on yahoo that Sony is now telling everyone who has a fat PS3 to “NOT USE YOUR PS3” When I read this I was kind of upset because I use my console for other reasons besides playing games. So now because of a bug on “their” part, 95% of people in the world can’t even turn on their PS3.

So, what’s the deal? Naturally, speculation initially focused on the PlayStation Network itself, but it turns out the problem lies with the PS3 hardware—specifically, the glossy, older-model PS3 consoles, not the  new slim PS3. In a post on the official playstation blog, Sony says that the glitch “is being caused by a bug in the clock” which people are guessing may have gotten tripped up in the changeover from February 28 – March 1.

Symptoms of the bug include your PS3’s internal clock being reset to Jan. 1, 2000; the inability to set the clock via the Internet, or to connect to the PSN at all; PSN video store rentals that won’t play, even though their rental windows haven’t expired; and, worst of all, disappearing “trophy” data for some games, with the message “Failed to install trophies; please exit your game” when you try to launch the said games.

Sony says it “hopes” to get the problem fixed “within the next 24 hours,” but it has also issued a sobering warning: “In the meantime, if you have a model other than the new slim PS3, we advise that you do not use your PS3 system, as doing so may result in errors in some functionality, such as recording obtained trophies, and not being able to restore certain data.”

So I’m wondering what people will do now that they can’t even watch movies, watch anime, surf the net……can’t do basically anything what so ever on their PS3. As for myself, I’ll be stuck on my computer till I get tired enough to go to bed instead of watching movies on my system while trying to go to sleep. Hopefully Sony will have this fixed by later tonight or tomorrow. And HEY Sony, maybe a warning will be better next time then having your customers panic. Hopefully we’ll get a notice to when their done fixing the problem and we can go on with our gaming lives.

Sony Playstation 3 owners in multiple regions (including North America, Europe, and Australia) are facing the inability to sign into the PlayStation Network online gaming service, corrupted user data and inability to play some games online or off. The problems are accompanied by the 8001050F error code.

When they try to load up certain games — including the just-released Heavy Rain — they receive the error code and the following message: “Registration of the trophy information could not be completed. The game will now quit.” After the message, the system reboots. The problems seem to mostly affect older, “fat” models of the PS3. Slim models are either not impacted or affected far less frequently.

Trophies are prizes given to players for accomplishing certain tasks in each game; the trophies are synced with the PlayStation Network so players can compare their achievements. Gaming blog Joystiq found reports that the consoles were having their dates reset to 12/31/1999; that might somehow be related to the trophy syncing problems.

Not quite sure what time this all happened, but I have seen posts on different blogs saying they couldn’t log onto the PSN around 4:30, then I have read other post that said somewhere around 6:00. I just currently turned mine on around 10:00 and I couldn’t log onto the PSN even though I was on it practically all of the morning. Some people can’t play games like Tekken 6, Heavy Rain or other trophy enabled games, while others (like me) can play their trophy enabled games like Brutal Legend and Assassin Creed. Also apparently themes and games that you have bought and downloaded from the PSN aren’t working and have said it’s a corrupted file.

So hopefully Sony will fix this problem soon because there are a lot of angry customers out there just waiting to go play online.

Kim Kardashian loves posing for calendars almost as much as she loves starring in sex tapes.

While it seems like only a couple months ago we published photos from Kim’s 2009 calendar, the reality TV vixen has already jetted to Cabo San Lucas for her 2010 swimsuit edition.

As she says in her official blog:

I am sooo excited about it and I wanted to share with you guys a sneak peek of the behind the scenes footage!

Look at that bronzer in some of the shots! I love that sun-kissed glow.

We’re pretty sure she means fake-tan-kissed glow…

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St. Vincent’s hospital in New York has a little bit of a debt problem…about $700 million worth, according to the New York Post. They also owed New York Giants Quarterback Eli Manning over $500,000 for marketing work he’s done for them, but Eli, aware of their debt problems, told them no thanks. He wants them to keep their money. He’ll continue doing fund-raising work for the hospital for free, too.

Obviously, it’s the right thing for Eli to do. What kind of person — especially one with Eli’s money — would demand that a bankrupt hospital keep paying him, especially when they’re already cutting salaries and jobs? “Shut down your Oncology ward! The quarterback needs his money!” No, that’s not quite Eli’s style.

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Beer is a rich source of a nutrient that can help prevent weak bones – but it depends what type you drink, claim researchers at University of California, Davis, today.

As one of the nation’s favourite tipples, beer is a rich source of dietary silicon, which can help cut the chance of developing diseases like osteoporosis, they conclude.

However, not all beers are the same, with those containing malted barley and hops having higher silicon content than beers made from wheat.

Some light lagers made from grains like corn have the lowest levels of silicon while beers made from hops seem to come out on top, according to the study. The research, published in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, examined 100 commercial beers and their production methods.

The experts said beer was a major source of dietary silicon – roughly half of the silicon in beer can be readily absorbed by the body.

Charles Bamforth, lead author of the study, said: “Beers containing high levels of malted barley and hops are richest in silicon.

“Wheat contains less silicon than barley because it is the husk of the barley that is rich in this element.

“While most of the silicon remains in the husk during brewing, significant quantities of silicon nonetheless are extracted into wort and much of this survives into beer.”

Dr Claire Bowring, from the National Osteoporosis Society, said: “These findings mirror results from previous studies which concluded that moderate alcohol consumption could be beneficial to bones.

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Model Brooklyn Decker landed the coveted Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover this year.

The 22-year-old wife of tennis star Andy Roddick said being chosen for the front is “the news of a lifetime.”

The cover photo of Decker smiling in a yellow bikini is a departure from the more sultry look that SI had gone for the past few years, she said. She compared it to covers from the 1980s or ’90s, when Elle Macpherson won her covers with a friendly, sun-loving look.

SI keeps the cover photo a secret — even from the models — until less than 24 hours before it’s revealed. Decker said now the mad dash was on to find outfits for TV appearances that will come with the gig. (Her closet of swimsuits wasn’t right for winter, she joked.)

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Google’s Web browser is about to make the leap from upstart to leader of the pack.

Google Chrome’s market share numbers are skyrocketing, blowing past Safari and Opera to become the number three most-widely-used Web browser. That’s pretty impressive, and I don’t think it’s going to stop there. I fully expect it to overtake Firefox and challenge, if not beat, Microsoft Internet Explorer sometime in the next 5 years.

It took Firefox most of this decade to achieve its solid number two status, but the one-and-a-half-year-old Chrome is growing faster and, in some ways, developing more quickly than Firefox ever did. The question, though, is not whether or not Chrome will beat other browsers, but why it is rising while Firefox seems to have stalled or is falling.

Over the years, most tech-savvy users I’ve talked to have said they run Firefox. It’s faster—I agree—and it has amazing features, which is true. The Awesome bar, also known as Firefox’s address bar, works better than virtually any other address bar in the business. When I start to type in a URL, its best guesses are almost always on target. Those same tech-savvy users have always touted Firefox’s extensive add-on library. I use a handful of them, but I’m not an extension nut like some people I know. I find it fascinating how, say, a “27 Best Firefox Extensions” story can kill on Digg and drive thousands of page views. What, exactly, is the attraction to stuff you can add to your browser? Does everything we use need to be customized?

Firefox has also, traditionally, been faster than the competition. It usually loaded pages lickety split, and it did so with an admirable level of precision. The pages looked the way they should and everything worked most of the time.

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Now that Game of the Year awards for 2009 are behind us it is time to look towards a new year of gaming.  Here are 35 games from the Playstation 3 lineup for 2010 that we are keeping our eye on.  Remember, obviously there are other games releasing in 2010, these are just 35 that we find interesting for one reason or another.  

Assassin Creed II Episodes

Another Assassin’s Creed game only a year after Assassin’s Creed II? Sounds crazy, but take a look at the sales this series has generated and you can hardly blame them if they do release it this year. It may not be Assassin’s Creed III, but with multiplayer already confirmed to be heading in its direction there could be some other pretty big changes on the way nonetheless.

Final Fantasy XIII

Seems like only yesterday this game was revealed.  Alright that’s not quite true – it feels like an age ago, and seeing every new video out of Japan only makes it feel longer.  Finally all the Final Fantasy fans will get to play the latest game in the series on March 9th.

God Of War 3

Some of you may be thinking “hey, didn’t I see this last year?”.  Well, yes, and you’re going to have to get used to that for a couple of these due to delays.  God of War 3 is still the cap off to one of the most beloved action series in gaming and the demo has gotten the fans in a frenzy.  I cannot wait to see what crazy violent things Kratos does next when the game comes out in March.

With so many exciting new games coming out this year, it will be hard to pry ourselves away from our consoles to go back to our daily lives. Check out the other upcoming titles of 2010 here

After looking at this commercial numerous time, I realized that the salad actually looked sort of good. But then again, a sloppy big mac would look good if it was eaten by Kim too.

As apartments and cars become increasingly compact, that surfboard you never seem to find the time to use just takes up more and more space. Nicholas Notara has decided to devote some time to the problem and has created the collapsible surfboard. This carbon-fiber board has been carefully designed to maintain the balance and weight of its traditional counterpart, but with the help of two pins and a quick release lever can halve in size. A hot-swappable fin system completes the board with style and presents a viable concept that may make a surfboard purchase not such a bad idea.