Burst Attention Span

I don’t normally play flash games, I’d pretty much written them off as unfulfilling time-wasters with repetitive gameplay poorly derived from 80s ‘classics’ written purely to serve a cynical marketing plot…

But, despite being a viral, and being from Sony, Toon Crisis is actually rather good. As you would expect from a music player advert the ‘toons’ from Gogol Bordello are brilliant, setting a manic ‘Turkish bazaar’ background to the 2.5D shoot-em-up action. I’m definitely gonna get some of their track for my iPod :)

I haven’t had this much fun with a flash game since that monkey asked me to spank him…

Summer’s gone, day’s spent with the grass and sun, but I don’t mind, Winter’s time for Fondue fun…

It plugs into a USB port and heats up cheese, could be great for stinky lunches at work. I haven’t checked what our health and safety regs are regarding hot fat and pointy bread forks in the workplace though.

It had to happen sooner or later, the golf market being Segway’s primary consumer revenue stream: the Segway x2 Adventure.

I’d love to see how good this was on the North Shore…

Clearly a lot more adventurous than the Postal version, it still lacks in some rather important features, key among them being battery life. You can tilt and wobble yourself along at a face-flattening 12mph, but if speed’s your game, make sure you only go half an hour out of town, cos you’ll need the other half to get home before the battery dies.

Golfers should be OK in that respect, but the rated carrying capacity is only 118kg – unless I’m very much mistaken, that’s about a golfer and a half… the heavy clubs will have to ride on another Segway with a svelte Filipino caddyboy at the helm.

If you still covet the Segway technology, but think the two-wheeler is just a little bit gay, hold out for the Concept Centaur… can travel on 4 wheels controlled by thumbstick, or just on the back wheels as the ultimate wheelie machine!

“Look at me, I’m just cute as a button!”

To celebrate my successful pre-Wii-order, here’s an Apple spoof comparing the two systems. The Wii definitely comes across as more ‘pick up and play’… but the PS3 seems like the candidate for those long evenings on the sofa. She’ll need her own, I’m afraid…

Two guys get really excited over the Pokemon movie

“Excuuuse me, Snorlax fuckin owns you!”

Switzerland, 24 July 2006: The quiet town of Morges is shocked by a naked American who burned a bible, broke a stained glass window and then jumped into the lake to escape Police, biting those who tried to rescue him. Upon his arrest and subsequent recovery, the Massachusetts man claimed he was under the influence of mushies he’d brought from Amsterdam!

I wonder if he’s heard of the Sacred Mushroom Church of Switzerland? [Official Site]

George Galloway on the BBC saying what few would dare.

It’s deeply refreshing to hear a counter to the mass-media partisan whitewash most people are subscribing to.

Two soldiers kidnapped and the whole country goes off on one. This is the kind of thing that should be on the news.