There's another one at coaches.guitarhero.com that shows the band tying the coaches up to a tree and then destroying the house.
From Drudge Report...
NANNY STATE: GOVERNMENT WEBSITE TO WARN OF SADNESS/CRYING OVER ECONOMYIs anyone else finding this order of words to be a little less than encouraging?Mon Mar 30 2009 18:43:56 ET
The U.S. government is set to offer an online emotional rescue kit!
"Getting Through Tough Economic Times" will launch Tuesday with a media push across all platforms. The site is meant to help people identify health concerns related to financial worries.
The feds will warn of depression, suicidal thinking and other serious mental illnesses. It will raise warning flags for: Persistent sadness/crying; Excessive anxiety; Lack of sleep/constant fatigue; Excessive irritability/anger.
The guide will be available starting at midnight at http://www.samhsa.gov/economy.
Developing...
"The feds will warn of depression..."
"The feds will warn of depression..."
"THE FEDS WILL WARN OF DEPRESSION..."
Barack Obama is fast building up his legacy as the Great Emasculator.
"Your warranty will be safe. In fact, it will be safer than it's ever been, because starting today, the United States government will stand behind your warranty."And you thought "womb to the tomb" policies were bad. Now the federal government has got your car covered bumper to bumper.
And Obama's firing the head of General Motors apparently didn't take well with the markets today: they were down all over, including the Dow at -254 points.
While we're waiting for Duke Nukem Forever to finally come out (it's been in development since early 1997), a trilogy of Duke Nukem games is coming to Nintendo DS and PSP this fall. And to promote 'em Apogee and Deep Silver are holding a nationwide contest to find someone to pose as a real-life Duke Nukem.According to the story at USA Today: "The contest will travel to New York, Los Angeles and Dallas seeking out potential Duke Nukems. As the press release describes, 'aspiring Dukes will be judged on how well they personify the character's take-no-prisoners attitude.' The winner will be revealed during the Electronic Entertainment Expo in June."
Blast here for the official website of this gimmick.
And if you've never had the politically incorrect pleasure of playing a Duke Nukem game (or you have already and can't get enough of Duke's crude humor) GOG.com has Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition for purchase and download - and guaranteed to run on Windows XP and Vista machines - at the great price of $5.99!
Maury Marler, you sound like a good man... and this blogger is gonna salute you for it :-)
If they ever go away completely... wow. I was a computer lab manager during all four of my years at Elon. So was my filmmaking partner "Weird" Ed and a lot of others. 'Twas some of the best work that you could ever do as a student. Most of the time you were sitting on shift for three or four hours with nothing to do but surf the 'net. That is, until another student... or an instructor... came to you about "there's no paper in the printer", or "the printer is jammed", or "THE MOUSE ISN'T WORKING!" That one happened to me more than once. And it was from a faculty member who had apparently never used a computer before, and they were waving the mouse above the top of the table trying to move the cursor!
Tellin' y'all here and now, that computer lab managers were - and still are - a breed apart. We all got our war stories to tell. We are a proud but dwindling race. And now we go quietly into that long night, brought on by ubiquitous laptops and personal wireless networks.
Next time you go to Red Lobster and order a succulent, mouth-watering lobster or some crab legs, it may or may not interest you to know that according to a new study lobsters and crabs and other crustaceans are now said to register the sensation of pain throughout their neurobiology.And incidentally, there is already talk about legislation that would protect crustaceans from "cruelty" like cultivating them so they can be thrown into cooking pots, etc.
That makes no sense. I mean, for the longest time we've been raising cattle on farms and ranches, for the explicit purpose of eventually slaughtering them so they can be turned into steaks and hamburgers. Same thing with pigs destined to become a plate of barbecue or a slab of ribs. What next: a study showing that bananas scream in agony when they're plucked from the stalk?
'Course, there's always this compelling evidence from a 1988 episode of Garfield and Friends demonstrating that lobsters not only have sensation, but they can feel lonely too. Here is "Maine Course"...
Ooohh-kaaaaay...
That's definitely one movie poster that doesn't give anything away.
If this ain't bad enough, then I sure as hell don't know what is...
President Barack Obama has effectively FIRED Rick Wagoner, the CEO of General Motors.
What this means is that the United States federal government has pretty much nationalized and taken over a private company. It's likely not going to be called that officially, but the policy is still the same.
Has a President of the United States ever done anything like this, in the history of this country? Certainly not in recent memory. The closest I can think of is what happened between Ronald Reagan and the air traffic controllers' union... but not Reagan or any other President in living recollection ever seized enough control of a company to call the shots about who it hires.
Scary stuff.
Go out and play now! :-)
If this new money becomes a reality, it's gonna need a name, just like for the dollar and the euro and the yen, etc.
"Global Reserve System", eh? Well then, how about we call the base note of this proposed cross-borders currency...
- the greaserMy favorite pick is the grue. Like, you can have several grues in your wallet (where they like it dark). And just like the grues of the Zork games, they are always eager to devour the unwary.- the grisly
- the gross
- the grue
- ?
Got any ideas? Let's hear 'em! :-)
It's actually my second attempt at "Twittering". Yeah, like I've said before when it comes to new technology I'm much like the Amish: I have to come to trust it first, before I adopt it. Hence why I let the last go at it lapse. I'm gonna keep that one as a "personal" line for friends and family. But theknightshift one will stay public.
The purpose of the explosion was to see if socks could literally be "blown off" of a mannequin. Can't wait to see that 'un :-)
Well, Sayid's done and gone scrooooooowed things up now, hasn't he?
"A twelve-year old Ben Linus brought me a chicken salad sandwich. How do you think I am?"After half a season of reconfiguring its style every which-away, Lost returned to familiar roots tonight with a Sayid-centric "flashback" episode. Didn't make it any less of the thrill that we've come to expect lately. "He's Our You" was the payoff for last week's show, which a lot thought was a step-down from the recent intensity.
Leave it to Lost to crank it up again and break the needle right at the end of an episode.
It's always good to see William Sanderson in anything. But his role as the torturer might have been the creepiest character that I've ever seen him as. I thought it was one of the more inspired bits of Lost casting that we've seen (and that's saying plenty good). Also loved seeing the circumstances of Sayid's presence on Ajira 316 being revealed.
And did anyone else catch the DHARMA logo on Hurley's jumpsuit? Heh-heh... wouldn't it be nifty if an official Lost: Hurley's DHARMA Initiative Cookbook wound up on bookshelves? :-P
Excellent episode, as usual. Can't wait for next week's, titled "Whatever Happened, Happened".
(And the Internets will be burning up for the next seven days about whether he "lives or dies", no doubt...)
I'm thinking of getting an iPhone in the next few months (probably after the next version is released, now said to be in June or July). If/when that happens, id Software's classic Wolfenstein 3D might be the first thing that I buy from the iPhone App Store. You can now take B.J. Blazkowicz's one-man war against the Nazis with you anywhere. Kotaku reports that the iPhone version is "better" than the original. Some of the coding for this port was done by id's John Carmack, who is now also saying that Doom will be coming "fairly soon" for the iPhone as well.Here's the pertinent info that's on the site...
It's here! Michael Giacchino's brilliant soundtrack, which follows every mysterious twist and turn of Lost's addictive Fourth Season. Exploding with excitement, Lost reached new heights in the fourteen episodes of its fourth season. More than three months after their fateful crash, the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 discover that the only thing more dangerous than the island might be the people who have come to rescue them. The mind-blowing story was told with original flashbacks and mind-bending flash-forwards. There was no shortage of drama in Losts thrilling Season 4 ... just what you would expect from one of the most groundbreaking shows in television history.More than anything else on this CD, I want it to include the music from when Ben is turning the frozen wheel in the season finale. I thought that was the single best track of the season and one of the all-time most wonderful from the entire run of the show.Michael Giacchino's music has played a huge role in the series from the very beginning and fans have been dying for our latest collection of Lost musical highlights — over 75 minutes of Season 4's emotional and thrilling score.
LOST: Season 4 is now available on DVD and BluRay from ABC Home Video.
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