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Stanford University's Folding@home program, a distributed computing project aimed at understanding protein folding, misfolding and related diseases: Since the program launched in March, participation by the PS3 user community has been phenomenal, providing Folding@home with immense computing power that is helping to fast forward its research. Furthermore, thanks to PS3’s powerful Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell/B.E.), the Folding@home program has become one of the most powerful distributed computing networks in the world and is quickly approaching a level of computing power that is of historical proportions.

This new contraption is interesting. It has a strange combination of features (see section in bold below) but sounds interesting enough to share with you. Slightly disturbing is that the PR rep decided it was necessary to call out his demographic, cutting us off at "Young adult gamers". Do you know what age is considered young adult?

[Press Release] Ultimate One-Stop Entertainment Center with Revolutionary 3"LCD Screen Rotates to Gameboy-Style Shape for Playing 20 Built-in Video Games

DXG USA announced today the new ultra-compact DXG-589V, digital camera/camcorder and portable entertainment center with gaming features in one pocket-sized device. The DXG-589V features a combination 5 Megapixel digital camera, VGA camcorder, video game player, digital music player, and direct video recording from TVs or DVD players. Tweens, teens, and young adult gamers will love having instant access to games and a camera/camcorder in one sleek package to bring anywhere they go. In addition, the DXG-589V is also geared towards road warriors that want to bring their media with them in one convenient place while on the road.

Last week, it was reported Doug Perry was finally leaving IGN after 11 years. This morning, I read Curt Feldman left gamespot.com as News Director, and Luke Perry was leaving IGN. I am interested to hear what Curt has in store for the future and wish him the best (he is a frackin cat who always knows whats about to break). The news about Luke, however, makes me sad. I will admit I was a little fan-girl and can't imagine my podcasts without him. little tear in my eye...

I was reading my daily GamesPress Digest this morning, and saw Scott Steinburg's book Videogame Marketing and PR is now available for free PDF download. I never caught it the first time around, but I will download anyone's free PDF and read it long enough to grasp the type of information and the basic point of view he is coming from. Three cheers for smart forms of Digital Distribution. When talks about cutting publishers out of the loop has become dirty talk in the industry, there is something clean and pure about getting content directly from the horses mouth, so to speak.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
- Kurt Vonnegut