While looking up the prices on some DS games today, I noticed a listing that made me do a double take. Apparently, there's a game called Jackass. I hope that's not what it makes me think of, but at the same time, I can't think of anything else that would fit the name. If it is what I think it is, it seems like a rather strange property to ( Read more... )

When I looked at Wikipedia's recent deaths page just now, the very first name on the list was Michael Jackson. Naturally, that made me do a bit of a double-take. It turns out it's another Michael Jackson that had died, a British writer and beer expert. Still, it gave me a bit of a "bzuh?!" moment.

Okay, that's a little freaky. Last night, I had a dream that Edge (the wrestler) had died from his injury somehow. I'm not sure what spurred that on, except that I saw that he really did get injured in real life before I went to bed. Anyway, I looked up the recent deaths page on Wikipedia just now, and a wrestler has in fact died. John Kronus ( Read more... )

I was all set to post about a funny call at work today, but then I saw this and now I'm just sitting here in shock. Holy shit. o_O

I got an e-mail from Gaia Online, telling me that my account has been blocked following nine failed login attempts. I haven't been online at all today until just now, and I haven't even looked at the Gaia site in years. o_O And yet, somebody decided they wanted to try to break into my long-dormant account. name_go_here theorizes that someone probably saw ( Read more... )

You know that scene in that one Simpsons episode where Bart's walking through a mall and every other store is a Starbucks? I had a similar experience at UCO today. During the tour, the guide pointed out that there was a Starbucks, among other shops, in one of the buildings. At another building later in the tour, she mentioned that there was a ( Read more... )

"In October 2006, the attorney Jack Thompson sent a letter to Midway Games, demanding they cease and desist selling Armageddon, claiming that the game was illegally profiting on his likeness, because gamers could use the Kreate a Fighter option to make a character who looked like him."
-from the entry for Mortal Kombat: Armageddon...wow. Just... ( Read more... )

So, yesterday I was watching a movie and saw the NARC arcade game in it at one point. Feeling a bit nostalgic about it, I looked up the Wikipedia article out of curiosity. Apparently, despite the "strong anti-drug message" of the game (maybe "overblown" might be a better word, but I digress), Nintendo forced them to remove all drug references ( Read more... )

Gee, I haven't checked the Dancemania site in a while. Let's see what new albums they've released lately. Hm, Speed... something. Heh, too bad I can't actually read Japanese. I...

Wait a minute. "Guerrilla Radio?" As in Rage Against The Machine? The hell? Man, is there anything that SAIFAM won't make a dance cover of?

Fox plans to broadcast an interview with O.J. Simpson in which the former football star discusses "how he would have committed" the slayings of his ex-wife and her friend, for which he was acquitted, the network said.

I'd provide some sort of smartassed commentary about this, but it's just... huh.