E3 hasn't even officially started yet, and we're guessing Microsoft's already blown it out: Project Natal's motion controls seem downright incredible, full games like Mass Effect are going on demand, and Twitter and Facebook have infected Xbox Live. It's overwhelming! Here's everything you missed today:

•Xbox 360 Project Natal: Full-Body Motion Control One-Ups the Wii: Microsoft's motion control project is revealed, and it looks pretty amazing. I wonder if Project Natal's really gonna be that incredible in person though. The live demo was kinda convincing!

• Project Natal Intro Videos Show Real Controller-Free Interction (Video): Project Natal's motion controls in action, again looking fancy. Hopefully not just Hollywood magic.

• Xbox Live Full Retail Games on Demand: Download Mass Effect, Bioshock and More: It's the beginning of the end for Gamestop and manufacturers of shiny plastic discs, since come August you'll be able to download full Xbox 360 games like Bioshock and Assassin's Creed.

• Netflix Lets You Add to Queue on Xbox, Video Store Gets 1080p: Your PC is removed from the Netflix process, making it that much better, and the video store is now Zune Marketplace, which streams 1080p video instantly.

• Facebook and Twitter Come to Xbox Live This Fall: Facebook! Twitter! Xbox Live!

• Xbox Live Spillover: New Avatars, Where's Hulu and Why I Hope You Have Fast Internet: Microsoft's figured out how to milk Avatars for money, Xbox Live's Marc Whitten sorta dodged the Hulu question, and you need a really fat pipe to get that 1080p instant streaming video action from Zune Marketplace.

• Last.fm Brings Streaming Music to Xbox Live: Last.fm on Xbox, weeee.

• Halo 3 ODST Collector's Edition Controller: There's an exclusive Halo 3 ODST controller bundled with the $99 collection's edition, 'cause you didn't already have 4 Xbox controllers, right?

Overall, a pretty crazy day, and we have a feeling Microsoft might've already stolen the show. What do you think?

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Former Playboy model turned fighter LaTasha Marzolla won her MMA debut this weekend in Las Vegas, beating on Christy Tada until Tada's corner called a stop to it after one round at Saturday night’s Tuff-N-Uff event.  Guess you do learn a thing or two being best buds with Gina Carano.  As you can see, Marzolla isn’t built like the typical female MMA fighter (NSFW photographic evidence here) but she’s still not worried about getting her pretty face smashed in, much to the surprise of Steve Cofield, who had her on his radio show last week.  Marzolla brought along her Xtreme Couture trainer, Shawn Tompkins, and Cofield proved that he really knows women, or at least how to make broad generalizations about what’s important to them with this write-up:

“It takes a unique woman to want to compete in mixed martial arts. So much of a female's self-esteem is based on looks, to risk having your face disfigured takes some guts.”

Real nice, Cofield.  Everybody remember to tune in to next week’s show to find out what is universally important to your demographic.  After the jump, video of Marzolla from the bizarrely cheesy movie “Ring Girls” for you to watch while you contemplate whether Marzolla’s entrance into MMA means she’s a threat to steal Carano’s unofficial title of ‘hottest female fighter.’

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The buzz of the interwebs last night and carrying on to today has been last night's fiasco between rapper Eminem and Sascha Baron Cohen aka "Bruno" aka "Borat". Whether the incident was fake or real, the video will live forever and will be talked about for months to come! PASS IT ON!!!

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Another win for Comcast and all innocent children. When little Susie wants to see when Hannah Montana would be on the Disney channel, she might stumble across an even better option for her afternoon viewing pleasure: Busty Virgins.

The Comcast on-screen program guide is unfortunately numbered and Twin Cities customers can see what's on Disney and several pay-per-view porn channels at the same time. A pedophile's dream come true.

After a parent complained to the Star Tribune, a reporter contacted the company. They said the listing system was unfortunate and plans to make some changes to protect the children from the pay-per-view young and horny ladies.

More from the Star Tribune:

Earlier this month, Ian Goodson discovered this close encounter. It disturbed him because his 9-year-old daughter regularly checks the programming guide to see what's playing on ABC Family HD and Disney HD. Even though all she might see are a few suggestive words, rather than the programs themselves, Goodson does not want his daughter to stumble upon the obscene while seeking out the wholesome.

"At noon there's pornography right above the kids' channel stuff," said Goodson, 28, a sales rep who lives in Minnetonka. "It just doesn't make any logical sense at all." Comcast says they will change the program guide for Twin Cities customers by placing dummy channels in between the children's programming and the XXX.

If you want to completely remove the dirty from your cable selection, Comcast can help you out using the remote. Check out Comcast for more details or call 1-866-781-1888. But who would really want to do that? Those pay-per-view channels come in handy (literally) when the kiddos go to bed.
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By: Chris Matyszczyk

Sharon Adams, a 45-year-old mother of four from Reading, England, underwent a mastectomy in March.

Instead of concentrating on her own misfortune, she decided to use
Facebook to spread the need for women both to have regular checkups and
not to feel shame should they endure such awful surgery.

So she posted four pictures of herself, revealing the right side of her body, scarred after the removal of her breast.

Within 24 hours, the pictures were removed by the so-called porn cops at Facebook as being "sexual and abusive."

(Credit: CC Klynslis/Flickr)

"For Facebook to claim they were sexual and abusive was absurd.
Facebook has online groups about sexual positions and some groups which
are bordering on racist--but they ban this," Adams told the Daily Mail.

There will be many who have themselves experienced a cancer
diagnosis or watched a loved one suffer through physical pain,
emotional desperation, and a need to grip hard to some place of hope,
strength, and dignity.

They can only sympathize with why Adams put the images of her body's
struggle and defiance onto her Facebook page, though they could only be
seen by her friends.

When they were removed, a separate group was set up called "Get Sharon Adams Picture Back on Facebook."

A message on the group's page from Simon Axten of Facebook read:
"We've investigated this further and determined that we made a mistake
in removing these photos."

Perhaps some might consider that this was Facebook making an exception to its conservative nudity rules.

However, Axten's message continued: "Our User Operations team
reviews thousands of reported photos a day and may occasionally remove
something that doesn't actually violate our policies. This is what
happened here. We apologize for the mistake and encourage Sharon to
upload these photos again if she so chooses. Thanks."

This insistence that the photo did not, after all, violate the company's policies might just refer to the so-called areola rule that came to light after a furor over Facebook removing certain breastfeeding pictures from its site.

The areola is the darker part of the nipple. And Adams' is not
actually visible, given that she now has a large scar living across the
right side of her chest.

So Facebook's carefully constricted policies appear to have actually remained intact.

However, if a woman chose to post a picture similar to Ms. Adams',
but with the remaining breast exposed, perhaps to make a dramatic and
comparative point about the ravages of breast cancer, one assumes that
image would be removed.

Oh, good policy, wherefore art thou?

[Excerpt From CNET]