Join us, won’t you, for the sound of four lost souls muddling along? With Chris Kohler in Las Vegas all week covering DICE — though he sends greetings by way of a bizarre megalomaniacal written statement — the rest of the crew is forced to call in a replacement. I’m joined by Wired.com managing editor [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/02/gamelife-podcast-alone-again-naturally/ Liz Phair Lokelani McMichael Lori Heuring

Wladimir Palant, developer of the most popular add-on in the world, Adblock Plus, is also an active contributor to the Planet Mozilla blog community. Over the last few days, in response to Mozilla’s new name and shame list of slow add-ons, Palant has been investigating whether Mozilla’s testing methods are actually accurate. Rather surprisingly, it turns out that Mozilla’s numbers could be significantly wrong — and if they’re not wrong, the factors that Mozilla uses [...]

Even the rich are sinking in Europe: the 198-foot (60.2-meter) superyacht Yogi sunk under a Force 8 storm in the Mediterranean Sea on Friday. This video, just released today, shows the Hellenic Air Force rescuing the passengers in the middle of the gale. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/Xip88ZnOJK4/superyacht-sinks-like-a-stone-in-the-mediterranean Thalía Thandie Newton The Avatars of Second Life

UK satellite TV broadcaster Sky has announced that it will be launching a dedicated app for the iPad to compliment its coverage of the 2012 Formula 1 season. Sky has recently secured the rights to show the Formula 1 racing which was previously shown exclusively in the UK on the BBC channels. Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/HkF9vUV4cyk/story01.htm Maria Sharapova Mariah Carey Mariah OBrien

Sand Trap is one of those games that at first seem too hard to bother with, but when you try to stop playing it you discover you’re hooked. The goal is to get as much sand as you possibly can out of the maze and into the bucket at the bottom of the screen. You need to rotate your maze every which way to get the sand rolling around it. You then try to direct [...]

Yes he?s a dwarf, but the fictionalized version of Warwick Davis is also a vain, self-delusional, preening egotist beset by an endless succession of humiliating social encounters. He?s the perfect antihero for Ricky Gervais? new fake documentary comedy series Life?s Too Short, which debuts at 10:30 p.m. Sunday on HBO. Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/02/lifes-too-short/ Teri Polo Tessie Santiago Thalía

An internal FBI probe into its counterterrorism training, prompted by a Danger Room series last fall, has uncovered and purged hundreds of inaccurate or offensive instructional documents about Muslims. And the bureau might still uncover even more. Source: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/02/hundreds-fbi-documents-muslims/ Talisa Soto Tamala Jones Tami Donaldson

If you’ve had your head under a rock for the last few days, here’s this week’s Firefox news in brief: Firefox 4 was finally released. Yes, 13 months after the initial release of Firefox 3.7 alpha 1 and four more alpha builds, a renumbering to 4.0 and 12 beta releases, and finally a release candidate (or two), Firefox 4 has been released into the wild. Just like every other Firefox release, initial reception for the [...]

Here?s one for the “How on Earth did nobody think of this before?” files. The Video Star app for iOS facilitates the creation of homespun music videos to go along with any song on your device. Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/02/video-star-app/ Lori Heuring Lorri Bagley Lucy Liu

Google’s daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills. Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/02/agad022012/ Taylor Swift Teri Hatcher Teri Polo