The NES library is host to a slew of bizarre licensed games, but Fester's Quest might be the weirdest of them. Released by Sunsoft in 1990, about a year before The Addams Family movie brought the clan back into the public consciousness, it dealt with Uncle Fester running around the mansion grounds and trying to rescue other members of the Addams ( Read more... )

A common trope of sci-fi is that computers would one day destroy the world. The conventional wisdom dealt with computers gaining access to nuclear weapons, as with WOPR or Colossus or Skynet, and causing the destruction of society as we know it ( Read more... )

At the White House Press Correspondents Dinner, Jay Leno killed. And by "killed," I mean put the whole room to sleep, with only sporadic, nervous laughter here and there. The polite kind of laughter where you're trying to humor the fellow's act so he doesn't embarrass himself. But then the guy just keeps on going, seemingly unaware of how much ( Read more... )

A couple weeks back, Warner Bros. put out a newsletter about their Property Department. Apparently you get to see this in the studio tour, but there's an inventory of some 10 million cataloged props, dating clear back to Casablanca, with new acquisitions every day. You need an Oval Office? A sci-fi bridge? A creepy old mansion? The set ( Read more... )

I saw this commercial the other day and laughed at its sheer awesomeness:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t94QyEoqr5k

It's a send-up of the popular Big Red gum commercials from the 1980s, except this time they've appropriated the jingle for Verizon.

If you like this, there's a whole channel on YouTube dedicated to old 1980s commercials. Some are ( Read more... )

I've always thought of Congresswoman Bachmann as an idiot of the most dangerous caliber - the kind with the power to change law. The latest target of her ignorance? The Internet itself. According to her, net neutrality, the principles that protect the Internet from the greedy interests of ISPs that wish to subjugate and divide it, is "censorship ( Read more... )

Most people know Uncle Sam as the personification of the US. Here's an interesting Wikipedia page about the personifications of other countries:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_personification

The governor of Washington made a bizarre threat toward the local state representatives we have here. She said, about the passage of a massive $800 million tax package, "There isn't an alternative. The alternative is we're done, we go home, and I impose 20 percent across-the-board cuts ( Read more... )

After playing through BioShock 1 and 2, it's clear that the underwater dystopia of Rapture can play host to some pretty fascination locations. Here are three ideas that I think would be interesting in a future game ( Read more... )

My crude law of anime: "The quality of an anime is inversely proportional to the number of sliding images in the intro sequence ( Read more... )