Nice to know that people are trying to help the environment Spymac is excited to announce it has today opened the GreenZones, a new discussion forum centered around GreenZones.org and its efforts to promote green living for the benefit of all life. GreenZones.org founder Christopher Adjani will be participating in the forum today and will be joined at 4 pm (PST) by celebrity Leslie Bega, who is also a GreenZones.org member and a star on HBO’s The Sopranos. We welcome them to the Spymac community and hope you enjoy your discussions with them. The GreenZones is the latest addition...

I just found out about this great application: Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows XP. Paint.NET is jointly developed at Washington State University with additional help from Microsoft, and is meant to be a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with all Windows operating systems. The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#, with GDI+ extensions. Paint.NET has many of the powerful features that expensive commercial applications have, including the ability to use layers. This is the second semester that...

Hip Interactive scores European distribution rights to Namco’s racer on PC 12:57 Namco’s Street Racing Syndicate, yet another pretender to the illegal street racing/mod-your-car-till-it-drops throne, is cruising into Europe, Hip Interactive announcing today that it’s scored distribution rights for the PC game on these shores. Billed as “one of the most realistic street racers ever to grace the PC”, the title has been developed by Eutechnyx and boasts over 40 licensed cars – with parts – from 15-plus real manufacturers with closed-circuit and open-city races...

Interesting…does this mean we’ll be having to “challenge everything” even more? Electronic Arts Inc., the largest video game publisher in the United States, said Monday that it agreed to purchase a 19.9 percent stake in French video game developer UbiSoft Entertainment SA from Talpa Beheer BV, the investment vehicle of Dutch media giant John de Mol. The purchase is subject to antitrust clearance from the U.S. government. Financial terms were not disclosed. More here Source: FiringSquad

It has been rumored that commandos would try a new genre but only for ps2. Instead of the usual top view camera and strategic gameplay it would have a first person camera. That would mean it will become a Fps(first person shooter) but not like say….. Doom3. It would the first commandos to combine Strategy, real time gameplay and first person shooting. More news hopefully to come. Source: Opm2 – The Offical Dutch PS2 Magazine

Blair visits the country he invaded and helped to kill so many – congratulations to him… The visit comes as a wave of violence shakes Iraq Tony Blair has held talks with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad during the UK prime minister’s first trip to the city. He was briefed on preparations for the national poll, which is scheduled for next month but is threatened by a deadly campaign of insurgent violence. “There is only one side to be on in what is very clearly a battle between democracy and terror,” Mr Blair said. He flew to Baghdad’s Green Zone administrative...

Bush says? Since when did what bush say even make sense? Iraq dominated the news conference at the White House Iraqi forces are still not ready to keep order, US President George W Bush has said, warning that next month’s election would not be “trouble-free”. It was unacceptable that some Iraqi government units had deserted during combat with militants, President Bush told reporters in Washington. He said car bomb attacks were having an “effect” but he insisted that Iraq was on course for democracy. Twin bombs killed more than 60 in Iraq’s holiest Shia...

Seems that another of Google’s services has a flaw! Published: December 20, 2004 SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19 – A Rice University computer scientist and two of his students have discovered a potentially serious security flaw in the desktop search tool for personal computers that was recently distributed by Google. The glitch, which could permit an attacker to secretly search the contents of a personal computer via the Internet, is what computer scientists call a composition flaw – a security weakness that emerges when separate components interact. “When you put them together,...