Archive | March, 2010

Tostitos Vimeo Ad Will Melt Your Face Off

By on March 2, 2010 in Life & World, Shopping

Saw a Tweet from adii (WooThemes founder) that said “This shit is intense” and a link over to a Vimeo page that looked to be an ad from Frito Lay for their Tostitos salsa. I thought “he must be impressed easily” and pressed play.

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NSFW: Accidental Fully Nudity in Heavy Rain

By on March 2, 2010 in Video Games

Kotaku reader ‘kuroner’ said that he was playing Heavy Rain on the day of the PS3 glitch (“ApacolyPS3″ as Matt Young puts it) and after reloading a scene from a save, main female character Madison Page was standing there in the buff… walking around anatomically correct.

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Free Giveaway: Dante’s Inferno: An Animated Epic

By on March 2, 2010 in Entertainment

What is this ‘Giveaway’ Stuff? Here at Break it Down Blog we get things sent to us for review from time to time. After the review is over we need to clear off our shelves and we thought giving the items away to readers for just the cost of shipping would be a great way [...]

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Health Care Costs from Around the World

By on March 1, 2010 in Life & World

Big thanks to Marc Chung for forwarding this along. Visual Economics has put together a huge visual comparison of the cost of health care from around the world. What you see above is a snippet of just the top of the comparison, the full page graphic (mirror link) is packed full of more details. Some [...]

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Dante's Inferno: Animated Movie Review

By on March 1, 2010 in Movies

Summary [6.5 out of 10] Dante’s Inferno: An Animated Epic is an excellent adaptation of the story behind the video game of the same name, but in the grand scheme of anime, feels like an average attempt. For a new IP from EA, putting all the money behind the game and the animated movie is [...]

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Second Life Population as a Low-Cost Workforce

By on March 1, 2010 in Life & World, Video Games

Max Klein wrote about how instead of coughing up $9000 USD for professional native-translation work, he turned to the Second Life community as an outsourced cheap workforce and got the same amount of content translated for 11,960 L$ — that’s Linden Dollars, the Second Life currency which currently has a conversion rate of 260:1 (L$ [...]

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Many Original PS3s Are Broken – Thought to be a Leap-Year Date Bug

By on March 1, 2010 in Video Games

Update #2: It appears that turning on your original “fat” PS3 can cause the data to become corrupted and potentially loose trophies or at least it appears you have lost trophies. Sony strongly recommends keeping those PS3s turned off until tomorrow. Still no telling if that stuff is really corrupted or data is really lost [...]

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