Hey sports announcers, the obsequiousness was cute back in the late 1990s, but could you get off Tiger Woods' dick, already?  He's not a "superhero," as you boasted on NBC earlier today... he's just some guy who plays golf, and evidently not as well as the other contestants in the US Open.  Stop treating him like he's some amazing novelty act and ( Read more... )

A few days ago, a friend of mine was accosted by some douchebag who claimed he was worthless, because he contributed nothing to society. I was a little hurt that the friend speculated that I was the douchebag in question, but utterly incensed by the idiotic notion that a man's worth is directly proportional to his contributions to society. ( Read more... )

I'm moving back to the farm with my parents shortly, and I'm not going to have access to high-speed internet, possibly for a long time.  This almost feels like a walk down the green mile... I've lived so much of the past four years online that it's going to be hard to imagine being without it.  I'll surf on their 56K connection whenever I can, but ( Read more... )

EGM's coming back!  Yay!

But it's being edited by Steve Harris again!  Boo!

Oh life, you give with one hand, then stab me in the heart with the other.

For the longest time, a lead actor from Star Trek has never appeared in any Star Wars franchise.  Sadly, George Takei ended that streak by appearing in the lackluster animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, lending his pompous voice to the villain Lok Durd.

(He looks like a Lok Durd, too.  Imagine an overfed, anthropomorphic slug with glass ( Read more... )

I shouldn't laugh, but man, this is so good it just has to be fattening...

http://www.mikeandheth.com/games/97-connect-wii-usb-hard-drive.html

This hack makes the Wii more open to software piracy than ever, and there's not a damn thing Nintendo can do about it.  Frighteningly enough, they did successfully petition Amazon and eBay to have all listings ( Read more... )

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All right, I don't get too hung up on logical flaws in television shows, but sometimes they're so egregious that even I can't help but point them out.  The "manatee jokes" in each episode of Family Guy are routinely and deservedly mocked for interrupting the storyline while contributing nothing of value to it.  Now the random jokes don't even make ( Read more... )

So I wasn't actually banned from posting on Wired... turns out that Conde Nast was in the process of redesigning the comments system, forcing posters to sign up for individual accounts to cut down on spam.  After they made the switch and I registered for my own account, I was free to post to my heart's content on Game Life, Gadget Lab, and all of ( Read more... )

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