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According to several news reports, Sony is working to create a new controller for its next-gen gaming platform, PlayStation 3. The big surprise (or maybe not so big) is that the new controller seems inspired by the already famous Wiimote.

The gaming site Gamesindustry.biz reported that the new controller will have the ability to “break apart” in two units, each with its own accelerometer…

Kotaku has quoted an unnamed source, who said that the controller will include two or four units, which can be attached to the hands and feet in order to move a character’s body. As you can imagine Sony denied commenting on the rumors.

Two months ago there were some rumors that Microsoft is also working to develop a Wii-like controller for its Xbox 360.

According to the rumors, the new controller, code-named Newton (Newton!), will have a design similar to the Wii remote, it will include a four face buttons, an analog stick, a microphone and even a gyroscope sensor that can detect tilt and motion…

According to the latest figures released by the NPD Group, Nintendo Wii has sold 675,100 units compared to 186,600 Xbox 360s and 208,700 PlayStation 3s.

The aggressive and timely response from Nintendo’s competitors simply makes my head spin.

“My finest moment”

Asked if he planned to pen his own book after leaving office in January, Bush said it was a possibility.

“I’m going to think about that, yes — writing a book,” Bush said in an interview with Britain’s Observer newspaper.

Bush’s predecessor Bill Clinton wrote a best-selling book after leaving office that chronicled his life as well as his eight years in the White House. He has made more than $23 million from his memoir “My Life”.

Bush also said he never saw the award-winning network television show “The West Wing” about a fictitious U.S. president, preferring instead to watch sports and read books.

“I seriously don’t watch TV. You know, I watch sports, but I’d much rather read books. And I do. I read a lot,” he said according to a transcript released by the White House.

Wonder who he’ll choose to ghost write it for him? Has Jay Leno ever done comic books?

Judge Kozinki

A federal appeals court judge on Friday stepped down from a high-profile obscenity trial in Los Angeles, three days after acknowledging that he had posted sexually explicit material on a publicly accessible personal website…

On Wednesday, Kozinski suspended the trial of Hollywood filmmaker Ira Isaacs to allow the prosecutor to explore what he saw as “a potential conflict of interest concerning the court having a . . . sexually explicit website with similar material to what is on trial here.”

Isaacs, the defendant, said he was disappointed Kozinski was no longer the judge. “I thought he was a fair judge,” he said. “I feel terrible that my trial caused this information to come out.”

He added, though, that it was somehow fitting for the trial, which he predicted would be a spectacle from the start. Isaacs planned to argue that his hard-core videos depicting acts of bestiality and defecation were works of art and therefore not legally obscene. Jurors spent several hours Wednesday watching the videos before the trial was interrupted. “This whole trial is one big piece of performance art,” Isaacs said. “I just can’t imagine what’s going to happen next.”

Legal experts who had called on Kozinski to recuse himself from the Isaacs case said it wasn’t necessarily a problem that the judge had collected sexually explicit material but that he was reckless in allowing it to be discovered.

Sex in a closet is appropriate and ethical for lawyers. Doesn’t sound like freedom to me.

Thanks, K B

A German sports reporter who was late for his plane to cover the European Championships staged a bomb scare at Italy’s Verona airport in order to delay its take-off.

The 27-year-old reporter, who has not been identified, called police saying a bomb had been planted on the Air Dolomiti flight to Vienna on Wednesday. The airport was closed for about two hours and two incoming flights were forced to land at another airport.

The reporter arrived at check-in just five minutes before the scheduled take off, shortly after the phone call announcing the bomb scare. When told he was too late to check in he said he had heard the plane was still not ready for take off, even though the airport officials had still not made any announcement of any delay.

Which alerted the officials to the fact that just maybe he was the clown who phoned in the bomb threat.

The man’s mobile phone was linked to the call and he was arrested and charged with causing an alarm and interrupting a public service.

Apparently, he didn’t understand Caller ID either.