Love Love Hamster A new Nintendo DS game lets you raise hamsters, much like Nintendogs. And they have a panda hamster!
Monthly Archive for August, 2006
Video Games Live! at Massey Hall (Friday, September 1, 2006) A videogame music concert finally comes to Toronto and this is the first I hear of it?! Must be coinciding with FanExpo…
Music thing: 10 greatest beat-making videos ever* Ever they say!
Apropos of Something » It’s-a me, Mario! It’s a collection of Mario related YouTube goodness. Why aren’t you clicking through yet?
William Shatner was roasted on Comedy Central last week. I LOL’ed at this clip…
Bhuvana Sundaramoorthy’s Blog » 50 COMMON INTERVIEW Q&A
37. Are you willing to put the interests of the organization ahead ofyour own?
This is a straight loyalty and dedication question. Do not worry about
the deep ethical and philosophical implications. Just say yes.
The Escapist - Learning The Gaming Way
“When I first heard of Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Age, I wrote it off as a clever marketing ploy. I mean, come on - a videogame that helps your brain do anything other than plot violent rampages in schools? Ridiculous. We all know that videogames were created to subvert children.” Shawn Williams describes how he and his wife learned to live with her multiple sclerosis, helped, in large part, by a video game.
The Escapist - Anne Died Of Dysentery
“The first hundred or so miles came and went without much fanfare, but when I came across my first river, I made a terrible, terrible decision. While I thought it would be smart to pay the $5 to use the ferry to cross the river, I succumbed to peer pressure and decided to ford it. It was catastrophic: Oxen died, we lost clothing and the whole party lost some of its vigor. With many more rivers to cross, we learned a valuable lesson early on: Never, ever try and ford the God damned river.”
The Gnotorious Gnarls Biggie The Gnarls Barkley beats being rapped over by Biggie Smallz
Antipixel | Blog | Yakushima forest (psst… it’s pretty)
Who is Reading Books (and who is not)
* One-third of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives. Many do not even graduate from high school.
* 58% of the US adult population never reads another book after high school.
* 42% of college graduates never read another book.
* 80% of US families did not buy or read a book last year.
* 70% of US adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.
These stats are so crazy I’m forced to say I think they’re fake. But in all honesty, they’re probably pretty accurate.
Saving Electricity: How to Save Electricity
A fun (to me) website about how residential electricity use. Fun tidbit: in a typical year, the clock on your microwave consumes more electricity than the actual oven itself.
Stop Pong! On one hand it’s an American Express marketing website for the Rogers Cup. On the other hand, it’s Andy Roddick vs. Pong!