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Tonight at GDC 2010, I went out and stopped by the Capcom Fight Club party here in San Francisco, and while there, Capcom projected the actual App Store interface for sending their Street Fighter IV app to the App Store on various screens around the room. We actually got to see them press the button on the release live and in person, and sure enough, the game is in the App Store right now for $9.99.
Before you go press buy, though, I’ll also tell you that I got a chance to play the game, and while it is about as faithful a Street Fighter IV game as you can get on the iPhone, playing a fighting game without actual buttons is not really an ideal experience. While I was able to pull off a Hadoken and almost all of the other old moves after [...]

After he told Glenn Beck hours earlier that he had “tickled [a congressional staffer] until he couldn’t breathe,” former Rep. Eric Massa claimed to Larry King tonight that “it’s not true” that he groped staffers (”When four guys jump on you to wrestle you… anything can be called anything, Larry.”). He reiterated the two main reasons for his departure on Live, citing his health and his conduct as a congressman.
The 30-minute interview took an uncomfortable turn though when King asked Massa point blank if he was gay, a question the “salty old sailor” refused to answer, claiming that King had “insulted every gay American by asking it.” Enduring the tense exchange is worth it though for King’s automatic, guttural “No!” response when Massa suggests King pose the question to “the ten thousand sailors [he] served with in the navy.”

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Another innovation from the Netherlands:
Assisted suicide for anyone over 70 who has simply had enough of life is being considered in Holland.
Non-doctors would be trained to administer a lethal potion to elderly people who ‘consider their lives complete’…
Supporters say it would offer a dignified way to die for those over 70 who just want to give up living, without having to resort to difficult or unreliable solitary suicide methods.
Ah, but it’s Geert Wilders who’s “radical and extreme“.

The official video for Big Boi’s “Fo Yo Sorrows” from his upcoming Sir Lucious Leftfoot the Son of Chico Dusty album.
Directed by Zach Wolfe.

Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch is set to present a five-year financial rescue plan Wednesday in which he will propose New York borrow billions of dollars to address its current budget shortfall, the Times says. Additionally, a financial review board would be set up in the plan to “impose new discipline on future spending.” Ravitch, considered “one of the leading figures in the rescue of New York City in the 1970s,” was asked by Gov. Paterson to draw up the blueprint.
“The plan, which requires legislative approval, seeks to address New York’s immediate cash needs by permitting the state to sell bonds to help cover operating expenses. But those bonds would be contingent on the state’s producing a balanced budget, and the newly established board would have the authority to determine whether the budget meets that requirement,” the Times explains.

The state’s financial situation is an utter disaster: spending has risen by 10 [...]

Directed by Mills Miller

Addressing a group of Alabama law students, Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts issued his first public reaction to the exchange between the president and the Supreme Court justices in attendance at this year’s State of the Union Address.
Roberts called the event a “political pep rally” and the president’s decision to single out the court’s Citizen United decision in his speech “very troubling.”
From the Los Angeles Times:

“To the extent the State of the Union has degenerated into a political pep rally, I’m not sure why we are there,” Roberts said at the University of Alabama School of Law.
Obama’s speech in January came a week after the court ruled 5-4 that corporations had a free-speech right to spend unlimited sums to elect or defeat candidates for office. The president, looking down at the six justices in attendance, sharply criticized the court for having “opened the floodgates for special interests” [...]

Maryland mortgage officer Rolando Alonzo Cousins, aka ‘Junior’, 31, was indicted in a mortgage fraud scheme that victimized distressed homeowners with delinquent mortgages. A federal grand jury indicted Cousins for conspiracy to commit mail fraud, mail fraud and money laundering in a massive mortgage fraud scheme.

Sun. Snow. Park rails. What more could you want with your spring?
Snowboarding by: Jamie Orkin, BIG MAYNE BRYCE, Cal Hickox, Danny Childs, Tim Smith, Ben Nye, and Ben Kadow
Edit: Cal Hickox