Rampant Exclamations

How to kill a coat

If you’d like a little supplemental language learnin’ (because I doubt these can stand alone), you might be interested to know that there are free podcasts to help learn 35+ languages in iTunes.
Oh, and an exhibit at NY-MOMA has died. It’s a coat. Allow the article to elaborate:
One of the central works in the exhibition [...]

Forwards from Phil: Mar. 25, 2008

- Sinistar meets Dick and Jane.

- If you’ve ever replied to an email that ended with ‘donotreply.com,’ here’s where it ends up: in the hands of a programmer from Seattle, who purchased donotreply.com 7 years ago or so. He’s gotten personal information from bank customers, info on troop movements in Iraq (!!), and more.
- Because [...]

Forwards from Phil: Mar. 10, 2008

Well, anyone who was getting tired of reading about Smash updates… you’re in luck. As I now own the game, Sakurai’s Smash Dojo is no longer of general interest to me, so I’ll probably only post if he posts something extraordinary.
In other news, we have Smash. We’re actually able to play it, too, unlike some [...]

Ugh.

The “games made me do it” defense is officially being tested in a trial right now in Alabama, where a 24 year old guy brutally murdered an 80 year old man during a botched robbery attempt.  Unless the guy was unbalanced and playing heavy doses of Super Elderly Kill Spree I don’t see how this [...]

Forwards from Phil: Feb. 27, 2008

Morning, folks. And it most certainly is morning: proof that winter is almost over is here in the form of the sun coming up earlier. I didn’t even realize it - it’s crept up on me - but it is, in fact, morning even earlier than before. That’s never a bad thing.
Two things from the [...]

Forwards from Phil: Feb. 6, 2008

Ever feel like someone’s got your head in a C-clamp, only instead of putting it outside your head, it’s through your ear? That’s pretty much how I feel right now: lots of skull pressure. Hurray for crap weather.
Quickly, on to something more entertaining!

- I posted this yesterday on my own blog, but it bears repeating: [...]

Wii facts, Jack Thompson is the dumbest ‘lawyer’ alive, and more.

Stealing Greg’s format? Don’t mind if I do!

Let me blow your mind for a second: Amazon sold 17 Wiis per second in 2007. Wait, Amazon had Wiis in stock?
Yeah, I went there.
Jack Thompson calls out the DoD for forging an ‘unholy alliance’ with videogames. Apparently he’s gone from being cheeky and saying videogames are the [...]

9 Unflattering Words Named for Real People

I was just going to throw this in with the rest of the Rampant Exclamations for this week, but I found it so interesting I give it the honor having it’s own personal space.  This is an article explaining the origins of 9 words that actually came from real people; if you’re a fan of [...]