Japan has definitely done something sensible this time. PlayOnline has opened up Final Fantasy XII Online in Japan first, instead of here in the US where gamers would bring new meaning to "griefer" in an game environment rife with romantics who actually managed to finish Final Fantasy X without needing a root canal from all the sugar-sweet touchy-feely moments in it.

If you doubt my words, the link goes to a PS2 with it's output being converted back to a multimedia stream.

Unix Users--Feed this URL to mplayer if you haven't configured something to handle asx for you already...

http://stream.pol.com/cgi-bin/navi-cgi?ff11/+ff11.asx

If nothing seems to be going on, wait a while or come back later. People know it's there and actually monkey around in front of it. It also changes from night to day pretty smoothly.

Live Webcam of a ****ing video game

WELL... That was certainly interesting. A nice little 5.2 not particularly far from where I am for a change. Followed by several smaller ones.

This time I had a chance to say "OOOO! OOOO! AN EARTHQUAKE!". :)

Earthquake List for Map US2/36.38.-122.-120

I think everyone interested in preserving their personal safety against all odds should take a look at this, just in case you need the information.

Then and again, I could probably find a winning lottery ticket stuffed into my ear tomorrow.

Zombie Alert -- Home Protection for Sophisticated Families

Wow. This looks like someone we know.

deviantART; Urban Angel 2 by jasinski

...by making people blind, and by shattering their minds with insanity such as the page amongst the many in there which tells you what you should do if you recieve spam from any of the IANA reserved netblocks (yes, that's right, she actually advises you contact the IANA if you get spam from 192.168.0.0/16, and thinks the IANA condones spam sent from these IP addresses.)

A new way to fight spam

Civil unrest indicator. The magic 5-ball says "Sell".

New Slavery

Absolutely astounding. As if Ratemyface wasn't silly enough. :)

(warning: The link may offend children and the feebleminded)

www.ifuckgirls.com, do you?

Good god almighty, a million dollars. ...and SOME people were ignoring my warnings about the advisability of a similar situation elsewhere (which thankfully never happened so any RIAA lawyers who might come across this can fuck off.)

<JEDI>You will listen to the Dagmar.</JEDI>

Reuters Wire | 04/09/2002 | Recording industry collects $1 million fine

These guys are my new heroes... A law firm in San Fran that's actually going after a spamming company for violating California's Anti-Spam laws. Whoo-hoo!

BBC News | SCI/TECH | Why one spam could cost $50

I saw this comic and chuckled at the lettering of the television, then it occurred to me that as sarcastic as the author may have intended, it's more or less exactly what goes into TV ad spots.

Yech.

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