The Warden

You can shoot civilians in Americas Army, for crying out loud. Why single out MW2?

Outrage? Modern Warfare 2 leaked footage shows terrorist attack at airport (and you can hurt the civilians)

RIP, Hulu. Because this is basically going to die.

Chase Carey: Hulu to Charge in 2010 (via)

Google: “Let in Google Voice!”

Apple: “NO!”

Google: “FINE. We’ll go make an infinitely superior music store and eat up your market share.”

At least, that’s what it sounds like. The weird thing is, though, Google already promotes AmazonMP3 on the Android.

New Google Music Service Launch Imminent (via) (via)

Malik is skeptical, mainly because of Apple’s draconian approval policies. Apple has already approved web browsers, but here’s the catch: they’re all based on Mobile Safari. They’re all really just add-ons, rather than full-blown independent browsers. Additionally, Mozilla isn’t stupid: you don’t invest time and energy into a project that you know will just be rejected.

That leads me to an interesting thought. Mozilla CEO John Lilly said that the app “[will] surprise people”. What could be more surprising than a WebKit-based Firefox? It could run on WebKit, but include an awesome bar, Weave, and all the other Fennec features.

Crazy idea? Heck yes. In fact, it probably won’t happen — Mozilla is pretty committed to Gecko. But still… food for thought.

Coming Soon: A Mozilla App for the iPhone.

Clever marketing. Clever clever marketing. T-Mobile (which, ironically, carries the Peek) must be fuming.

Still, if I were a Sidekick owner, I doubt I’d switch… the Peek is only for email/texting, remember?

It’s Peek to the Rescue (via)

Gnome 3.0 will be a disaster with Shell. KDE 4 caused many disgruntled users (including me, formerly a die-hard KDE fanboy) to switch to Gnome. People don’t like “different”.

I think Byfield is sort of wrong. I seriously doubt that the Shell was hard to install on purpose. But I do agree that, intentionally or not, it will end up with less users testing, which means an even bigger problem than KDE 4.

At the end of the day, most users (even techies like me) don’t want fancy interfaces. Compiz works because it adds both usability and features that don’t get in the way of normal, everyday work. It blends into your daily routine. Gnome Shell will change everything. Change isn’t always a good thing.

Gnome 3.0 Stealth Preview: Will Anyone Notice?

Devin Coldewey at CrunchGear sums it up best:

Is it just an MP4 with those specifications? Then why call it iFrame? Is it slightly different yet no better (as I suspect)? Then why make it at all? Why not make your software compatible with existing formats instead? I’m going to explode!

iMovie update reveals new Apple video format (via) (via)

He missed a few Linux features that were stolen, but still, good read.

Apple versus Microsoft: The top 20 stolen ideas of the OS wars (via)

This. Is. SWEET. Who cares about the ads???

HotPrints Launches Totally Free Photo-Book Printing (via)

Please, for the love of all things holy, do NOT make a movie about Soap MacTarvish and/or Vladimir Makarov.

Modern Warfare 2 delayed for the PC, Call of Duty trademarked for movie use .