Wired has some funny quotes authority figures have spouted over the years aimed at various forms of pop culture from novels, to movies, to the telephone, demonizing them all.

This is some funny shit. The folks here have made a talk show in Halo 2 on Live, in open games. One moment they will be discussing the guest's work and the next moment they are having to take cover and return fire at people who joined the game. Give it a shot, and watch a few segments before ditching it, I almost got bored with the first 2 segments ( Read more... )

It's happened again, teenagers influenced by violent and immoral video games have gone and imitated them in real life, only to be thwarted by the authorities. If the bomb squad hadn't shown up, we might have had a serious problem with... super mushrooms. Five girls from ohio may be facing charges for attempting to play a "real life version of Super ( Read more... )

People often talk of bringing together two things they love, which then supposedly combine into some super-wonder-dyno-carebeariffic better thing. But do they ever consider the wisdom of bringing together two things they dislike ( Read more... )

Fear for your sanity, Cthulego has awoken.

So Texas came up with an ingenious idea. Why not arrest people for public intoxication... inside bars! And that's just what they are doing. They are sending undercover officers into bars to arrest the drunks ( Read more... )

Gizmodo has a story about slumping sales on Sony's UMD disks. Sony blames 'piracy' for the slump. I agree with the author in that the real reason is because it's a shitty format. Sony's track record here isn't exactly steller. Sony Memory Stick has been called the worst portable media format (yes, even compared to CF, even today...) ever created. ( Read more... )

Happy Valentines Day.

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hmm... you know I've had ff7: dirge of cerebus for a few days now but have no urge to even try it. that probably says something about how much I care...