September 2007
79 posts
Rock Band $170 on Nov. 23 →
Well, slightly cheaper then expected so that’s good. I’m really tempted but I’m still not sure I can drop that much on a game.
WatchSouthwest adds motion control, funny to commercial
Neat, the new Mario & Sonic Olympic will have fencing. Of course, they’ll only have epée which doesn’t have “right of way” or target areas. I know this only because I used to fence (poorly).
WatchWall Animation - Artist’s Site
Simon Pegg And Nick Frost To Take On America In... →
“An Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, ‘If I did not know about...”
– Annie Dillard (via Travors)
If everything were sold like iPods →
Linked here because you can’t add descriptions to chat posts. (hint hint Marco)
If everything were sold like iPods
"This microwave looks great. Does it have a popcorn setting?"
"A popcorn subscription, yes."
"Sorry?"
"There is a popcorn setting, but it's only good with this list of popcorn manufacturers. We were at least able to get Pop Secret and Orville Redenbacher to agree on a 99-cent price point for each use."
"Erm. How about this model? Is popcorn free on this?"
"Yes, but you can only use it three times."
"Oh."
"There is, however, a bonus: You can play five pre-loaded microwave games."
"On this little screen?"
"One of the games is 'Guess what I'm cooking.'"
the "blog" of "unnecessary" quotation marks →
(thanks Marco)
“I have this problem. Whenever I try to explain what’s happening in...”
– ‘The Big Con’ - New York Times
“And I couldn’t get over the fact that there was no difference between...”
– Bill O’Reilly in All His Racist Glory
The Pirate Bay files charges against media... →
‘Nuff said
WatchWhat happens when you’re in a lifted Jeep Grand Cherokee and you take on a big rock a wee bit too fast? Hilariousness happens, that’s what. Oh, and your airbags deploy. Also, you look really silly. From Jalopnik.
At happy hour last night
Guy1: When are you guys going to stop talking about this?
Guy2: How can we ever stop talking about how you fucked a 50-year-old woman in our street?
Me: Dude, in the street?
Guy1: The sidewalk.
Southland Tales movie trailer →
I was thrown off a little by ‘The Rock’ but this follow-up to Donnie Darko looks really interesting. (PS, if you go frame-by-frame during that flashy part about 20 seconds in, there’s some really cool and weird stuff.)
San Diego Mayor reversing his position on gay... →
He gets very emotional and as a Reddit user pointed out he’s doing the right thing, for the right reasons but the right thing just shouldn’t be that hard. Related article is here. Part of the reason for the sudden reversal was the fact that his daughter is gay.
Canadian coppers admit making up $30 billion... →
They’re the first ones to admit what everyone else already knew.
Trent Reznor advises fans to fight the good fight,... →
Reznor views labels as greedy entities — charging progressively more for records without passing any additional revenue to artists. Once the band’s contract with Universal is finished, Reznor plans to sell music directly to his fans for about $4 an album.
So the Ryan Estrada business was far more widespread than I noticed. Fleen has a long list of 37 comics he found but the total may even be higher. The whole thing was basically a promotion for Ryan launching his Cartoon Commune. He’s currently posting one guest comic on his site every five hours.
“When I go to my local off-licence to buy a bottle of wine, I am not told that...”
– Jeremy Clarkson - Dial M for a mobile I can actually work
“It’s not fair, they could be having sex. With women. Why do they want my...”
– Mike Krahulik, aka Gabe The Dorks Behind Penny Arcade, an Obscure Webcomic Turned Vidgame Empire Yes, I know this article is almost a month old, I finally got around to reading it.
“To be honest I still find it hard to believe that the person, Sweetie, who wrote...”
– Couple divorce after online ‘affair’
What is going on here? A lot of my webcomics have a guest strip by Ryan Estrada up right now. He must have been pretty busy.
MediaDefender internal emails leaked →
This is great. If you don’t know who MediaDefender is, they ‘police’ peer2peer applications, mostly bittorrent, working for the RIAA and MPAA. They have many backhanded tactics, most recently involving a fake video sharing site designed to catch people uploading copyrighted material. (Thanks Marco)
According to Google, here’s a sampling of the 25 most ‘similar’ sites to mine: Four pages of law stuff. I’m thinking it’s mostly because the word ‘confessions’ is used. Four pages about fake bombs. Ummm, I have no idea. I must have posted about how stupid the Boston police are. Nine pages about the iPhone, mostly about the iPhone in corporate...
“Twenty-eight percent [of Americans] believe that the First Amendment’s...”
– The Christian States of America That is downright scary. (Found via a link from Ghostvirus)
“A good bug, I mean a really good, pound-your-head-on-the-desk-for-a-week bug, is...”
– stevenf: Bugs Are Magic Tricks (Thanks Marco)
Apparently, there are negotiations to make a new Tron movie. I was horrified at first but they seem to have some good people backing it including the co-writer and director of the original and writers from Lost. We’ll see I guess…
