Toy Story Cosbabies

I really don't know where the "cosbabies" design stems from. Apparently there are many characters from Marvel, DC, etc.. This specific line is for Toy Story 3 and includes Buzz, Woody, Rex, Evil Dr. Porkchop, Cowboy Alien and Spaceman Alien. I actually am not too much of a fan of Buzz or Woody but Rex is absolutely adorable. These guys stand at about 3 inches tall and you can pre-order them now for $9.99 here.

via: Super Punch

Video game renting from Netflix is dead

It seems like so long ago that Netflix was giving "Qwikster" the axe. The horribly misguided decision to split the DVD by mail service from the streaming business rubed no one the right way and was ultimately killed before it even launched.

One small good thing to come from the Qwikster debacle was that the Qwikster side of the company would soon offer video games by mail in a similar way that GameFly does today. A little over three months after the death of Qwikster, Netflix has chosen not to go forward with their video game plans.

GameFly owns the video games by mail space now and some competition would be a welcome thing. Netflix has many more distribution centers than GameFly which means it takes a few extra days to get games than it does to get a movie from Netflix. A new rival might have pushed GameFly to add new centers or reduce pricing but sadly Netflix is no longer a threat.

via: The Verge

BlizzCon on hold until 2013

Blizzard has decided to skip this year's BlizzCon in favor of "getting Diablo III, Mists of Pandaria, and Heart of the Swarm into players’ hands as soon as possible." 

The 2012 Battle.net World Championship is still on for late in 2012 in Asia and will feature the StarCraft II and World of Warcraft Arena World Championship tournaments. 

Its near impossible to predict the moves of Blizzard but I think it is safe to say that no new Blizzard titles will launch in 2012 and none until after BlizzCon 2013. I guess the rumors of Diablo III launching in early 2012 were a bit too good to be true.

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Thoughts: FOX's Alcatraz

I really should have known what to expect when I was getting into a J.J. Abrams TV show. I'm only familiar with Lost but I still stand by that Lost was god awful. I watched it beginning to end and the show retroactively spoiled all the enjoyment I had with previous seasons by never delivering on mysteries. I don't want things handed to me on a silver platter mind you, I just want the time I invested talking about the cabin and other unsolved mysteries to have mattered.

If you couldn't tell I was very skeptical going into Alcatraz. But hey, it has Hurley from Lost who was my favorite part of that show and Sam freakin' Neill. So I watched the 2 hour long premiere and my mind was mush by the end. Not in the good way.

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Jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 now available

It was a long time coming but the jailbreak "dream team" has finally cracked all devices on the A5 chip. Devices using the A4 (iPhone 4/ 3GS) received a untethered jailbreak weeks ago but the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 use the A5 so the process took longer.

I can't really go into much detail because I have no idea what I'm talking about but Redmond Pie has a nice step by step guide to jailbreaking your A5 device. The process is very simple. I've jailbroken my iPhone 4S with no problems so far. I am in the midst of having some trouble with my iPad 2 but thankfully it is not a brick yet. Do you plan to jailbreak your device and if so have you had success with this method?

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