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Play much rock, paper, scissors? Well, you might if you had access to all the super-advanced play options in what can only be deemed Rock, paper, scissors – the next generation.
And there’s more where that came from. Oh so much more. That clip is but a small sample of the full-blown guide, so get over there and see what your RPS game is missing.
[tags]Rock/paper/scissors, Advanced RPS[/tags]
If you don’t know American Gladiators, you don’t know the meaning of pure eye-candy television. And now, you’ll get your chance to see it real soon now.
NBC is getting into the ring with “American Gladiators,” which has been revived by the Peacock for midseason.
The competition skein — which featured players with names like Nitro, Turbo and Laser in its campy, early ’90s syndie incarnation — will be updated for the 21st century with new technology and twists. MGM TV, which was behind the original hit, is producing along with Reveille.
. . .
Plestis said he was particularly interested in the original U.K. version of “Gladiators,” which focused even more on the characters and the behind-the-scenes stories of common folk going up against the show’s powerful stars. The new “Gladiators,” he said, “will have the scale, scope, different characters and family drama that the U.K. version had.”
So – look for it soon.
[tags]American Gladiators, Televised eye-candy[/tags]
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This 
one is really just for the hardcore gamers. Here’s the image for a shirt coming from SplitReason in the near future.
For those not familiar, it is the Red Ring of Death that many XBox 360 consoles have suffered since the console’s release. Red Ring = Blue Screen to those who suffer it, only the Red Ring of Death requires returning the console to Microsoft for repair rather than simply rebooting as you would do for a computer that gets blue. (via TheBBPS)
[tags]Shirt, Red Ring of Death, Microsoft[/tags]
As 
you probably already know, the airline industry hasn’t been in the best shape since the 9/11 attacks. With delayed or cancelled flights a growing problem in the US again (and a direct view of the data as compiled by the US government) after years of steady or improving tardiness, flyers have more to gripe about than probably any time in the past.
With the extreme delays some flights/airlines/airports have suffered lately – such as JetBlue’s 11 hour JFK delays and American Airlines’ 9 hour Austin delays – some passengers have had just enough of this crap, and one in particular has taken steps to force the airlines to handle these delays better.
Continue reading “The angry traveller – a crusade against airline incompetence”
It’s a small step forward, but hopefully this is the beginning of something good – NBC will offer some of its programming for free download the night of broadcast with viewing possible for up to a week after each show airs.
NBC’s move comes as companies throughout the television business search for new economic models in the face of enormous changes in the business. Networks continue to lose audience share, and viewers – especially many of the highly prized viewers under 30 years old – are increasingly demanding control of their program choices, insisting on being able to watch shows when, where and how they want.
. . .
Jeff Gaspin, the president of the NBC Universal Television Group, said, “The shift from programmer to consumer controlling program choices is the biggest change in the media business in the past 25 or 30 years.”
That comment is the biggest challenge facing the content producing industries right now. As technologies have improved for capturing, storing, time- and place-shifting, copying, and working with this content (i.e. music and television programs), the producers of the content have lost so much of the control over how this content is used. So many big-wigs in the companies affected by this fear it and have resorted to tactics like legislating loss of consumer rights (I’m thinking of you, DMCA) rather than trying to find ways to make consumer choice work to the industry’s advantage.
Continue reading “NBC to offer free content downloads briefly after shows air”
My brother shared this with me. As you might guess from the title, it is absolutely Not Safe For Work (NSFW).
Here is a video parody of REM’s End of the World as We Know It. Video included below the break.
It’s an age old question, really – which is more insanely awesome and power: a Pirate or a Ninja? And might I point out that due to their awesomeness, both MUST be capitalized when asking which is more insanely awesome. Of course, there has been debate over the ages. The Pastafarians believe Pirates to be more insanely awesome. Anyone in on Int3rpipe memes knows that this Ninja is pretty freakin’ awesome. But who wins in the ultimate showdown? Could either REALLY beat Chuck Norris?
Thankfully, development team Blazing Lizard has stepped in to help answer the question. From the team comes
Yes – the ultimate face-off between the ultimate foes: Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball. And why should we car and trust these guys? Well, this team is composed of some folks from Volition/THQ, the developers responsible for such awesomeness as Freespace and Red Faction.
Blazing Lizard was founded by three former THQ/Volition veterans who were behind games like Red Faction, Freespace and Saints Row. Now expanded to a mighty team of four, they intend on releasing their first (of what they hope to be many) PvN-themed games in January 2008. That is, as soon as they sign a publisher and actually decide on which downloadable platform is right for them (PSN or Xbox LIVE).
If you aren’t pumped about this, you just aren’t a gamer. If you are pumped, check out Joystiq’s Pirates vs. Ninjas gallery for more pretty pictures.
(Oh, and with all the links, if it isn’t clear what you need to click for all the goodies, just click the pretty picture above)
[tags]Pirates, Ninjas, Pirates vs. Ninjas, Flip out and kill people, Real Ultimate Power, Joystiq, Kotaku, Freespace[/tags]
Over at some random site I found while searching for eye candy I could post on the site, I found this post showing a few Hollywoodies photochopped to redheads. Normally, I’d look and move on. However, I just had to post when I saw this before and after of Hayden Panettiere.
As you may or may not know, I have a special weakness for the redheads. And while she’s already such a fine-looking young lady, the redhead look just makes her even better. Sadly for me, I also found this buzz-killer picture of Ms. Panettiere.
Happy 25th birthday, smiley face emoticon!
A lot of people have asked me about this, so I thought I’d put the information here, linked under my home page:
Yes, I am the inventor of the sideways “smiley face” (sometimes called an “emoticon”) that is commonly used in E-mail, chat, and newsgroup posts. Or at least I’m one of the inventors.
Fahlman, the author of the above quote and web page, may not have been the first to ever use the now-well-known emoticon, but there seems to be no evidence of anyone doing so before he proposed the iconic characters. For even more details, read more of the history of the smiley, which includes links to even more history.
[tags]Happy Birthday emoticon, Iconic smile, Online community[/tags]
Knoxville. My old stomping grounds. Seems some hicks near Knoxville found out they had a child-oriented sex-offender and decided to send him a message. Unfortunately, the message they sent him involved his wife dying in a fire.
Everybody in this little mountain community knew that Timothy Carl Chandler had been arrested on child pornography charges. It was in the newspaper and all over the TV news.
Two of Chandler’s neighbors decided to do something about it, police say. They’re accused of trying to scare him off by setting fire to his tiny house tucked away in a hardscrabble Appalachian hollow.
Chandler, 53, escaped from the flames. But his wife was killed in what authorities are calling an example of vigilante justice.
Ahem – that is, allegedly dying in a fire, or something like that. Wouldn’t want to poison the jury pool.
[tags]Stupid, Vigilante justice fail, Drinkin FTL![/tags]
It’s a little embarrassing how much of a work-out the stupid category is getting here on the Blahg, yet I’m realizing I should have instituted it earlier. Hell, I might need to start StupidBlahg just to track all the stupid in the world these days.
That said, here’s a new story of stupid, that, sadly, is something of a repeat of stupid like we’ve seen before. This time we have news of a man in China who died after a 3-day gaming marathon in an internet café.
A Chinese man dropped dead after playing Internet games for three consecutive days, state media said on Monday as China seeks to wean Internet addicts offline.
The man from the southern boomtown of Guangzhou, aged about 30, died on Saturday after being rushed to the hospital from the Internet cafe, local authorities were quoted by the Beijing News as saying.
And I know it’s unkind and maybe a bit politically incorrect to call this man stupid, but I don’t know how else to call it. I love gaming, but even I know to get my fat ass away from the computer every once in a while and do something else. (via Wired’s Game|Life blog)
[tags]Man dies after gaming marathon, Stupid, Gaming addiction?[/tags]