wonder what that says about Sony's faith in God of War if they're using it as a vessel for The Last of Us.

How many undecided gamers are going to turn to Kratos' latest journey just to get the sneak peak a few weeks early?

Naughty Dog has been on a hot streak with their Uncharted games since the beginning of this console cycle, and their storytelling has been given a lot of praise. This new experiment for the company has got a lot of gamers shaking in their boots, wondering what the gurus have in store for the dwindling survival horror genre.

I know I'm excited, and I'm not even that big of an Uncharted fan.

Naughty Dog's The Last of Us will be released on June 14th, exclusively for theFriday, January 16, 2009

Demographics of Smithland 1830 - 1840

For some time I have been working on a special project on the town of Smithland, from its earliest establishment to about the time of the Civil War. Calling it a history project isn’t entirely accurate, nor is calling it a genealogy project. It is a mixture of both. When it is completed, I plan do a Power Point presentation for my local genealogical society.

The project began with research of some of the early families, but it soon snowballed into much more. When I research a family, invariably the project expands to include all the neighbors, where they originated, who and where they married and died and their religion. Because people settled in a particular place for a particular reason,