From my Google Reader shares

• Achieve Your Goals by Keeping Them Quiet [Goals]:
• Software Glitch Leads To $23,148,855,308,184,500 Visa Charges:
• Left 4 Dead 2 is racist because 'several' zombies are black:
• Pelosi Puts a Stop to Resolution Honoring Michael Jackson:
• Chinese drywall may have killed your Xbox:
• Apple Blocks Palm Pre iTunes Syncing:
• World of Warcraft gamer investigated for hijacking threat: Idiot
• Famitsu Awards Dragon Quest IX Perfect Score [Famitsu]:
• Super Metroid ‘Lonely Petals’:
• Firefox 3.5 Vulnerability Rated 'Highly Critical' – InformationWeek:
• What’s the Deal With 240Hz HDTVs? [HDTV]:

From my Google Reader shares

• League of Legends Adopting Free-to-play Model:
• Modern Warfare 2 Prestige Edition will cost you $149:
• Fight! EVO 2009 world finals start this Friday:
• Resident Evil 4 coming to the iPhone?:
• Pandora Wants Radio Stations To Pay For Music, Too:
• "Rules" for Windows 7 Upgrades Verified:
• Japanese FFIV: The After Years release schedule revealed:

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Krib and I have started up some War3 again. I’m trying to get back into the mindset of RTS games on a general level. War3 is a completely different game than Starcraft or than what Starcraft 2 will be so I can’t carry over a lot of the same practices that I employ.

Depending on how Starcraft 2 does replays I may throw a few up here unless Battle.net has a really great system for sharing innately. So this is also a test of how this pans out on the site.

Anyway, we’re very rusty, but I think this particular game was very crazy because the level of skill of our opponents is clearly better than ours so there’s a lot to learn from our mistakes in this game. Hit the break for a brief summary.

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From my Google Reader shares

• Microsoft prepping music streaming service, Xbox tie-in possible:
• Natalie Portman Cast In 'Thor' – MTV.com:
• BioShock 2 release delayed until 2010: Alright I have some time to finish the first one!
• Obese Kids May Have Obese Same Sex Parent – Health Jackal:
• Seagate’s New 15,000 RPM, 600 GB Monster:
• Confirmed: Guitar Hero 5 features features:
• Cats Know How to Control Humans, Study Finds – FOXNews:
• Microsoft Unveils Office 2010, Free Online:
• 5 Best Surprises Of Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince:
• Ikaruga drops to half price as XBL Deal of the Week:
• Is there a Zelda fan working at Google? TriForces everywhere:

From my Google Reader shares

• Swine Flu Kills Obese People Disproportionally:
• Ladybugs cover home, trees: Be ready to bow before the ladybug overlords!

From my Google Reader shares

• Ryan Reynolds Is Green Lantern!!!:
• Some people are Retired [Pic]:
• Secrets of the 7th Harry Potter Movie Revealed by the Cast:

From my Google Reader shares

• Beware the Airport Wireless: I think this goes without saying that you shouldn’t be doing things that require passwords on public wifi.
• W.Va. woman wins her 9th big lottery prize
  (AP):
• July 11, Last Day for Discounted Win 7 Upgrade:
• Dissidia: Final Fantasy – Exclusive Combo Gameplay Trailer:
• Analyst Believes Starcraft II Will Be Delayed:
• Green Lantern Casting Narrowed to Three: Please not Justin Timberlake!
• Google's Schmidt initially opposed to Chrome, says Microsoft is welcome to port Internet Explorer on over: Indistinguishable from a browser? Didn’t that get Microsoft in trouble in Europe?
• Blew Out My Flip Flop, Stepped On A Pop Top, Decided To Make A Dragon:
• The Scribblenauts ESRB listing is hilarious:
• There’s Finally a Use For the Caps Lock Key [Software]:
• Command & Conquer 4 Finally Confirmed:

From my Google Reader shares

• Microsoft's Next Patch Tuesday Could Be Big – PC Magazine:
• Cute Stop Motion Donkey Kong Movie:
• Quiznos Free Sub w/ Purchase of a Sub and Fountain Drink at Quiznos:
• Silverlight 3 goes live on Microsoft’s servers:
• Free Version of The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall Released by Bethesda:
• Best Buy-brand TVs to get TiVo:
• First Google Chrome OS screenshots leaked? Update: it’s a fake:
• Marvel VS Capcom 2 Release Date Wrestled To The Ground [Release Date]:
• Fake Dragon Quest IX ROM punishes overeager pirates:
• Apple Releases Safari 4.0.2:
• Turtles crawl on runway, delay flights at JFK
  (AP):
• Shack PSA: GameStop Begins Massive Summer Sale:

A hotly requested feature is the removal of my Google Reader shares from my RSS feed, mostly because of the duplication if you’re someone I share with natively through Reader.  So I present to you the feed with the omission:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/thanson-reader

For anyone else using WordPress here’s a nice tutorial for customizing the feeds for your site:

http://dailycupoftech.com/2007/07/25/creating-custom-wordpress-feeds/

From my Google Reader shares

• New RTS Based on DotA Offers Native Linux Client:
• Extended Battery Shoves 20% More Capacity Into the Palm Pre [Pre]:
• 11 Kanye quotes (done in pics) that prove he is a giant douchebag ***SFW**:
• ‘Harry Potter’ Star Faces 14 Years for Growing Drug Farm:
• North Korea May Be Behind Wave of Cyberattacks:
• Starcraft 2 Trailer Remake Using WOW Machinima:
• Unofficial: the complete Guitar Hero 5 track list:
• Command & Conquer 4 Officially Announced:
• Transformers Nikes Come in Sweet Toy Box [Toys]:
• Peggle: World of Warcraft Edition Spreads Free Glee:
• Sony Boss Getting Fed Up With People Telling Him The PS3 Is Too Expensive [Sony]: Uhhh how about you lower the price then? I thought old consoles did lose money per console and made it up through publishing.
• Google announces Chrome OS, coming to netbooks second half of 2010:
• Rubik Cube inventor devises new puzzle to infuriate us all.:
• So How Did Megan Fox Land That 'Transformers' Gig Again?:
• Southwest One Way Flights from $30:
• Pandora Agreement Saves Internet Radio [Pandora]:
• PopCap Working on Games for Pre: