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From the land Down Under, The Age has the following very strange story of historical revisionism and giant robots. From the article…

VCE scores changed over Battle Tech Marauder confusion

February 8, 2013
Jewel Topsfield

One hundred and thirty confused VCE history students had their scores adjusted after an artwork featuring a mysterious robot who appeared to be assisting socialist revolutionaries in 1917 was accidentally used in last year’s exam.

The VCE exam body apologised after the doctored version of Storming of the Winter Palace by Nikolai Kochergin formed part of a question about the Russian Revolution in the History: Revolutions exam.

The altered image had been sourced from the internet.

While many students did not notice a giant robot – rather like BattleTech Marauder II – in the background of the artwork, others were distracted by the strange image, suggesting it was anything from a statue of prime

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The long-classic MechWarrior video game franchise (which is based on the venerable BattleTech universe) is finally getting some new love, courtesy of a full-blown relaunch of the series courtesy of Smith & Tinker and Piranha Games. Simply called MechWarrior, the new game will be on PCs and Xbox 360. IGN has the initial details and check out this first bit of footage to be released from the game…

Looks like old school MechWarrior with a bit of Gears of War mixed in. That’s pretty hella sweet! 🙂...

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In no particular order, today I…

…saw the new James Bond movie Quantum of Solace (it kicks seriously crazy cool boo-tay!!!)

…filmed a lot of footage for a commercial that I’m making for a new client.

…played Classic Battletech and had my derriere handed to me (especially after the legs were shot off my BattleMech).

…was told during rehearsal for the Theatre Guild of Rockingham County’s production of Oliver Twist that I had a great British accent and that I was channeling the perfect persona for my role as Mr. Sowerberry.

…got to meet Cecil L. Cline, the project manager for the Saturn V rocket program (he also worked on the Polaris and Poseidon missiles and the C-5A Galaxy transport plane in addition to many other engineering marvels) and received an autographed copy of his book A Soldier’s Odyssey.

Not too bad a way to fill up a ...

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