I’ve discovered two new TV shows in the past month that my friends need to discover as well: Spaced: Spaced may be old news in the UK (1999-2001) but it was just recently released on DVD here in the states. Written by Simon Pegg, directed by Edgar Wright and starring Simon, Jessica Stevenson and Nick [...]

Stumbled across this interesting editorial which only helps to cement my decision to avoid Blu-Ray adoption at all costs. The basic problem mentioned here is the same as I expressed in an earlier blog: Consumers don’t really have a reason to upgrade. Blu-Ray is nice, but DVD is “good enough” and costs much less. It’s [...]

When I was younger, I had this copy of a Guiness (from about 5 years before I was born) that I loved thumbing through all the time. For whatever reason, I only remember two records from the book: The guy with the longest fingernails (because the picture grossed me out) and a guy that ate [...]

I know, I know, I’m wayyy late to the scene on this, but I’m excited as I’ve never actually modded any of my video game systems. It took hours of digging through tons of horribly written tutorials online, but I have successfully converted my Xbox (as in, not 360) into my HaxBox, a fucking sweet [...]

I’ve seen this twice today, this stupid circulating email with some variation of “take the 85 billion used to bail out AIG and split it evenly among US citizens! Everybody gets $279,000 and the government gets $25 billion in taxes back! Everybody wins!” I love how people just blindly go “OH SWEEEEET” and forward it [...]

I’ve been looking forward to the VP debates for some time now, not so much out of interest but because Schadenfreude is a helluva drug. My GF and I started watching tonight, catching about 30 minutes before she left to go catch some anthropology lecture so she could, I dunno, learn somethin or somethin. Despite [...]