The James Logan Courier

By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)

ELEBITS
For: Nintendo Wii
From: Konami
ESRB Rating: Everyone

Nintendo's Wii promises to become a destination for games not remotely possible on other systems, but there's just as much room in the pool for the likes of "Elebits" — an entirely possible, potentially ordinary game made special through the magic of the Wiimote.

"Elebits" is essentially a game of video hide and seek. The game derives its name from the hundreds of tiny glowing creatures hiding in and around your house — in corners, behind furniture, in the back of a broom closet, under a vase, even inside various appliances. Your job is to tear apart each area and catch enough of the critters to satisfy each level's objectives before time runs out.

By John Reinan
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

MINNEAPOLIS — The federal government wants your Internet provider to keep track of every Web site you visit.

For more than a year, the U.S. Justice Department has been in discussions with Internet companies and privacy rights advocates, trying to come up with a plan that would make it easier for investigators to check records of Web traffic.

By Jackie Burrell
Contra Costa Times (MCT)

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — It's been quite a year for alternate reality game designer Jane McGonigal.

She hasn't had much time to dust her 2005 Webby — won for her design work on the cutting edge game "ILoveBees" — or the framed plaudits from a New York Times Year in Review, which called the game one of the most significant cultural phenomena of 2004.

Instead, the Berkeley graduate student has been jetting off to global conferences on game design, negotiating publishing rights to her just-finished doctoral dissertation, and enjoying the fame and attention that comes when MIT fetes you as one of the nation's "Top 35 Innovators Under 35."

By Diamond Floyd, Courier Staff Writer

Guitar Hero 2 is the game of the season.

Playing Guitar Hero for the first time is a blast. Playing it again and again only cultivates an addiction.

Everyone I know has played it over and over again, and loved every minute of it.

Guitar Hero is available only on the Playstation 2 game console. The game is played with special guitar-shaped controls that have 5 color-coded buttons on the guitar neck, a whammy bar (the little metal bar sticking out of the side) and a strum control.

ACTIVITIES:
Come support the boys soccer teams tonight as they match up against Washington. Jv at 4 pm and varsity at 6.

MISCELLANEOUS:
Congratulations to the boys soccer team for their 6-1 win over Newark on Friday night. Highlights included 3 goals scored by Felipe Cabrera and 2 assists by Roberto Amezquita.

Robert W. Service (January 16, 1874 – September 11, 1958) was a Scottish-born Canadian poet and writer. He is most well known for his writings on the Canadian north, including the poems "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee".

Early life
He was born into a Scottish family while they were living in Preston, England. He was schooled in Scotland, attending Hillhead High School in Glasgow. He moved to Canada at the age of 21 when he gave up his job working in a Glasgow bank and travelled to Vancouver Island, British Columbia with his Buffalo Bill outfit and dreams of becoming a cowboy. Hired by the Canadian Bank of Commerce, he was posted to the bank's branch in Whitehorse in the Yukon Territory. Inspired by the vast beauty of the Yukon wilderness, Service started writing his poetry about the things he saw.

Read The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses by Robert W. Service, one of five of his books available free from Project Gutenberg.