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DVD

In "Jersey Shore: Season 1 -- Uncensored" (MTV, $20), eight self-proclaimed "guidos" and "guidettes" take over the Jersey shore with fist pumping and fake tans. The controversial but popular MTV reality series follows the Situation and company as they work at a boardwalk T-shirt shop by day and party by night. What the series lacks in depth it makes up for in shock value. What with the hot tub, fights and GTL (gym, tanning, laundry), it's hard to stop watching. Then again, it's also hard not to be disgusted. (Season 2 began Thursday.) On the DVD, several episodes feature commentary by Snooki, Pauly D. and the Situation, which can be more entertaining than the series. There are a few gems among the deleted scenes, including when Snooki explains her nickname, but most of them are just extended scenes. The Situation joins Snooki to give life tips, which is worth a view if just to see the two without a drink in hand.

WASHINGTON POST

Out Tuesday: "Batman: Under the Red Hood," "Clash of the Titans," "Crack in the World," "Ip Man," "Jesse Stone: No Remorse," "Repo Men," "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" (final season), "Sgt. Bilko: The Phil Silvers Show" (Season 1), "Stargate Universe SG-U: 1.5," and Blu-rays of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "G.I. Joe: The Movie" and "Rambo" (extended).

GAME

Yes, we've been to the moon, split the atom and sailed a balloon around the planet, so the next great feat of humanity had to be nothing less than playing a video game for 50 hours straight. Six Dutch gamers in Rotterdam have done exactly that with "Red Dead Redemption" on the PlayStation 3. The idea, though, was not to break a record so much as to promote a new gadget, the TwistDock (www.twistdock.info), which keeps game controllers continuously charged -- for those times you and friends want to play 50 hours straight. The six players beat by almost 10 hours the record set by one player in September and got their accomplishment sanctioned by Guinness World Records. They also each received about $1,300 in prize money and six free TwistDocks. Surely, that's worth 50 hours of anyone's time, right?

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH.

WEB

A new Windows plug-in checks the content of your e-mails for tone and alerts you to language that might be misunderstood or interpreted as particularly negative. Let's face it: Often an e-mail with perfectly pleasant intentions can lead to a lot of upset co-workers. That's what ToneCheck (www.tonecheck.com) aims to address. After installing the free plug-in (available for Outlook only for now, but it looks as if versions for Gmail, Thunderbird and Mail.app are in the works), you'll get a new Run ToneCheck button right next to Spellcheck in Outlook. Click it to see an analysis of the tone of your e-mail. In theory it's a clever idea, but after testing it, I found a lot of its results downright frustrating. This might just be one of those areas where you're better off practicing good old-fashioned common sense.

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