EGM’s New Report Card

Electronic Gaming Monthly and it’s website, 1up.com, are ditching their current rating system of 1-10 and adopting a grading system like you remember from school, A-F. Their reasoning is that readers are confused by the current system; for example, when EGM gives a rating of a 5 out of 10, they mean the game [...]

Oh, Lindsey…

Lindsey Lohan cut off the paparazzi by posing completly nude for New York Magazine. That’s right, naked. As in not wearing any clothes. Not much news here, just some good pictures.
Here’s the site: http://media.nymag.com/fashion/08/spring/44247/
Click on the “Slideshow” button.

Guitar Hero and the Like

As of late, there have been some official and unofficial Guitar Hero announcements from Activision. The first is that there will be four GH games being released this year. They did not mention if one was Guitar Hero IV, but they did say that the first will be called “Guitar Hero: Aerosmith” and [...]

Polls

If you want a good place to check out a lot of different polls concerning the presidential race, check out: www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president.

Some Protest, a Little Prayer, and Starbucks!

I was browsing Facebook recently and saw that someone had posted a protest event in my city’s network. Actually, it was listed as a protest but the description said “Prayer vigil at Planned Parenthood.” And after reading into it further, I realized that it was just a reason for so-called Christians to make [...]

Nintendo’s DS goes to the Opera

After being out in Japan for almost a year, Nintendo is set to release an Opera browser for the DS this June in the United States. This will allow DS owners to browse the internet on their handheld in any wi-fi hotspot. The top screen will display the webpages, while the touch screen [...]

Score One for Gianormous Entertainment Corporations

File sharing has been a much debated topic since its inception and it teeters on the fence between legal and illegal. Record and film companies report losing millions of dollars to the technology, while “downloaders” use the excuse that they are sampling the music and movies or the more believable excuse that they only [...]

OnSpy: The GPS Privacy Invasion

After buying your new Cadillac, you take it out for a test drive on a windy, country road. The open sunroof provides a warm breeze that waves through your hair. You reach down to adjust the stereo and you don’t notice a bend in the road and you and your new car are [...]

Space Elevator

Here’s an abstract from a patent held by Lockheed Martin:
“A Space Elevator for transporting a payload from one point to another in outer space, includes a first structure, located at a first relatively fixed, non-zero orbital distance from the surface of the earth, for receiving payloads, a second structure, located at a second relatively fixed [...]

LIGO

If you are ever in my neck of the woods, check out LIGO at Hanford. It is an amazing project that is trying to detect universal gravitational waves. If one is found, it could prove the Big Bang Theory.

Tom Green Live Plug

So Tom Green is back on the air, kind of. He is doing a talk show from his living room and streaming it live online weeknights at 8 pm PST on tomgreen.com.
As lame as this sounds, it’s actually pretty good because the producation value is decent to good and the FCC can’t [...]

The Many Uses of Gravity

The other day, I was thinking about how much I hate my seatbelt, and I thought about why we need seatbelts. Seatbelts help us from following our inertia through the windsheild when our car is impacted from the front or back. Well, if the only thing that is holding us back is inertia, [...]