Rampant Exclamations

If you ever happen to be out at a bar with Greg, and he offers you a green iguana, say no. “Of course it doesn’t have tequila in it!” He’s a damn dirty liar.

Here’s some stuff that cropped up over the weekend.

- Woohoo! The writers’ strike may end tomorrow! And apparently, an internet video is worth $1200 for one hour, because that’s the flat fee the writers are getting for television broadcasts played on the ‘net - at least for the first year.

- Lifehacker covers a new private beta app, Digsby, that aims to combine everything ever. Well, okay, not everything ever - just lots of IM apps (almost all of the major players), email (Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, anything that supports POP or IMAP), and social networks (Facebook & MySpace, at least). Looks like it could be worth keeping an eye on. (It also looks a lot like Pidgin. Just sayin’.) And if you’re still using multiple chat clients at once - why? Seriously? Just get Pidgin or Trillian and move on with your life, specifically your life without AIM’s frickin’ talking ads.

- Here we go again: a kid brings a gun to school and threatens to shoot his classmate unless he gives up all his Pokemon cards. Remember what Greg said, folks.

- Destructoid interviewed my personal vitriolic hero, Ben ‘Yahtzee’ Croshaw.

- Neil Gaiman’s gotten the greenlight to release one of his books online for free, and you can vote on which one. If it does well in terms of sales, chances are he’ll get to do more. Hooray!

- Meanwhile, in the ‘things you can vote for’ category, Capcom wants to know which Capcom characters you’d like as alternate costumes in We Love Golf. Apparently every character is going to have a Capcom character as a costume - we get to decide which. They’ve got some obscurities in there, like Captain Commando and Balrog (our Balrog, not everyone else’s).

- Also at Siliconera, and probably only of interest to me: Can English of the Dead teach kanji too? and an interview with Keith Dwyer, Sega’s producer for Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer, on the localization process for that game (several years late, we’re finally getting it on the DS).

- And, last but not least, The Club takes a nod at Gears of War’s ‘Seriously’ achievement with its own ‘No, Seriously’ achievement. SRSLY.

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