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Get In Line America!

Posted by bongo on October 26th

Read More: neocons, War, Sad

Tara Busterz!This week President Bush announced sanctions against Iran. If there’s one thing that America should have learned over the past eight years, it’s that war in the Arabian Gulf region does nothing for America. We do not have cheaper oil, we are no more safe now than we were before 9/11. We are not consuming all terrorist resources “fighting them over there instead of over here.” But where is there? Where is here? I suspect folks in Germany do not consider themselves integral to any war on terror. But Germany has been targeted. I am guessing Michigan, Florida, Chicago, (insert your state or town here), all count as “over here” but the question is: Even if we turn all of the Arabian region into a fun-filled theme park, would we have stopped these wackos from trying to carry out plots against Americans?

It took America five years to even figure out who was a terrorist. We’re still not REALLY sure. Bottom-line is: if we think you are, then you are. If we think you’re not, well…then you probably are, but we’ll let you in our country as long as you remember: YOU ARE BEING WATCHED AT ALL TIMES. Note: Cease communication and start running if you see someone approaching you sporting this lapel pin.

As you count your blessings over the course of the next few months of the holiday season, remember what makes America great. Next year will be election season and the hyperbole and exaggerations will be flying faster than a politician denying a crime.

We have a rule in America: If you are a politician getting a blowjob, then we try to run you out of office because you’re a sick, immoral pervert who lowers the standards of society. But if you’re giving the blowjobs, then we just pull out our peckers and get in line because after all, who doesn’t like a good blowjob?

Guess Why Kenny Is Wearing England’s Rugby Kit

Posted by Czech Air on October 17th
Read More: Funny, Sports, Scary

It seems the Limeys have adopted “The Gambler” as their fight song while waiting for matches to begin. It has seemed to work as England have advanced to the finals of the Rugby World Cup after beating heavily favored Australia in the quarter-final match and France in the semi-final. England’s opponent in the final will be South Africa. It is hard to choose who I will root for…will it be the people who repressed the Irish for years and will not let the country be unified, or those responsible for apartheid? Whatever the case, I will be at Brit’s this Saturday at 2 p.m. to watch it — as of now. There is a $20 cover ($10 for students) free pastries, free parking and $3.50 Heineken specials.

Send me an e-mail if you are interested in watching Saturday…

Oh, and Kenny, enough with the face lifts, OK?

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How Far Have We Come?

Posted by Czech Air on October 16th
Read More: Technology

Those who have worked with the Nextstep operating system know how advanced it was considering that at the time, Microsoft’s Windows 3.1 was the operating system of choice for computers around the world. A quick comparison of the two makes it clear that Steve Jobs was years ahead of the time. This video shows Jobs demonstrating the Nextstep OS 3.0 in 1992. It is interesting to watch, but it brings up an interesting question: How far have we come? In 1997 Apple bought NeXT and its Nextstep OS, the OS then became the basis for the new OS X. It’s been more than 15 years, and we really haven’t come that far when it comes to operating systems, eh? Just something to ponder is all…

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Kucinich on Colbert tonight

Posted by nikki on October 15th
Read More: Politics, Funny, Television

A couple of weeks ago Stephen Colbert issued a challenge to Dennis Kucinich to come on his show and empty his pockets. Tonight’s the night!

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Flocking behavior

Posted by nikki on October 11th
Read More: Science, Animals

Check out this post on Cosmic Variance about a group of physicists who study flocking behavior. The video is amazing.

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Fred Thompson was remarkably unspectacular at the debate yesterday and CNBC pigeon-holed Ron Paul and Huckabee just like the rest of the corporate whoring media always does.

Posted by Oscar on October 10th
Read More: Video Games, Breaking News, Wii, Title Unrelated to Content

Last night Super Smash Bros Melee was revealed to have Sonic in it. Which is super cool, but really not the best news to come out of Nintendo yesterday. The great news is that Capcom’s Monster Hunter franchise is coming. This is the best selling game in Japan at the moment and I love this game. I’ve played it on PS2 and PSP and it’s really a blast. At it’s core it’s a multi player game where people team up to go and hunt monsters all the while collecting loot and leveling up. With a decent wii interface and strong online play this could be the break out third-party hit that the wii needs to be considered a real console as opposed to something that’s aimed at my grandma and the 43 people who still think Metroid is a good game.

Here’s some of the sugar that this iteration of Super Smash will be packing: Apart from Sonic there will be Solid Snake and his box (mangina?) and pit (better known as Kid Icarus). Every other character that appeared in the series is expected back, even the ice-climbers. I expect we’ll see a few more sonic additions like Tails and Robotnik. There is a Pokemon trainer now which has the three starters in their evolved forms from Pearl/Diamond that the player can switch between. The online play sounds very robust. There is the standard friend code stuff but also random matches. There is a sort of ranking system and a tournament mode which allows up to 32 people to take part in a standard bracketed tournament either on or offline. It takes the winners and moves them up to the next round until the winner is determined. There’s also a cooperative (up to two players) beat ‘em up side-scroller called the “Subspace Embassy” complete with bosses and lots of meta-story to justify all of the characters participation. I can’t wait.

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Metroid Sucks and Vagisil is NOT Manly

Posted by Oscar on October 9th
Read More: Video Games, Arbitrary conclusions, No Shit, Wii, Feminine Products

As a wii owner for nearly a year now I’ve yet to feel like it’s a solid video game console.  Sure I still have fun with people playing wii sports and to a lesser degree wii play.  I even like to pick up some single player monkey-ball once in a while.  I’ve yet to try some of the sports games like The Bigs (baseball) and Super Mario Strikers (soccer) and I expect them to be passable but I’ve never defined my gaming experience by sports games and I doubt I ever will.  So where are the wii games that I want to play?

I had very high hopes for Metroid, I’ve always loved first person shooters (even on consoles) and I was psyched to use the nunchuck wii-mote as the natural fps controls that they are (I liked the controls of call-of-duty wii, but the game was lame).  So along comes Metroid and I was expecting something solid, and maybe it is, but it certainly isn’t fun.  I suspect I had too high of hopes, I really expected multi-player.  It was on the DS Metroid, why wouldn’t the wii have it?  I have no idea.  I’d have rather had a multi player only Metroid than a single player only, alas.

Metroid is a puzzle game disguised as an action game and with out a really fast puzzle-solve-time an fps is a terrible interface for puzzles.  Apart from the anti-intuitive design concept the game is full of other crappy game things like back tracking and looking for differences in textures to identify hidden shit.  I want to shoot things not spend my time combing levels through a black and white filter that requires me to hold a button for about three seconds every time there is something that might be necessary to complete the next section but usually isn’t.  Please.  In the review by Game Informer (a Minnesota grown gaming magazine) the editor had the balls to suggest that there wasn’t enough back tracking in this game and that the backtracking is what made Metroid special…  I’m canceling my subscription.

I guess there’s still some hope.  There’s a new resident evil coming, a shooter on rails that looks promising.  There’s also a new Fatal Frame being made by Suda-51 the guy who gave us Killer 7 one of the strangest games I’ve ever had the opportunity not to finish.  Apart from that powder is of importance.

Since I’ve been biking to work I’ve found that when wearing business clothes during the commute it’s helpful to apply a powder to strategic areas.  At first I used some powder I found laying around–Goldbond.  I liked the effect but Goldbond has a distinct mediciney smell that I’m not fond of.  Sometime later my significant other was heading to the drug store so I requested that she pick up some powder that was a little less mediciney, a little more manly and a little more sexy.  She brought me a big bottle of Vagisil powder.  She still claims this meets my criteria…  I disagree.

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You’ve Got To Get MAD!

Posted by Czech Air on October 5th
Read More: Funny

Hey, Minneapolis City Council…let me get something straight here. According to you, it is illegal to carry “fake” guns, yet I can get a concealed-carry permit and carry my real gun around? Are you seriously wasting your time with this shit?

Have all elected officials across this country gone completely mad? Is this some sort of joke?

Votes to condemn MoveOn.org…votes to condemn Rush Limbaugh…meanwhile hundreds of people are DYING in Iraq every day. And now we are sleepwalking toward a war with Iran. And all I can do is blog about it because I feel helpless to change anything. We the people? Fuck that…it ain’t we the people anymore. It hasn’t been for a long, long time.

I am mad as hell and I’m not going to take this any more!

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The World Series of Beer Pong

Posted by justin on October 3rd
Read More: Sports, Booze

menu-logo.gifA buddy of mine at work today informed me that he would be out of the office “for the next few months.” (This was all by way, of course, of filling me in on what I need to know to finish up all of his current projects…). It turns out that in his secret out-of-the-office life he is co-founder and co-ruler of bpong.com, a site that has established league play for the Beer Pong community. The time my co-worker is taking off is to prepare for the third annual World Series of Beer Pong, held January 1-5, 2008 in Las Vegas, in which 1000+ people will test their mettle against teams from around the country (globe?) for $50,000 in prizes. Dang. My college drinking time could have been spent drinking and training, not just drinking and… draining?

Bonus: the Flabongo.

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Welcome Back

Posted by Czech Air on October 3rd
Read More: Cute

Ahhhhhhhhh…

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