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Wow. I’ll never be able to approach a game room like these, but I can still lust after them. Next time I visit my parents’ dungeon basement, I’ll have to try and locate and reclaim my Commodore 128 and ColecoVision, that is, if there’s anything left of them…
Live Daily reports that “Duran Duran’s original five members are celebrating the band’s 25th anniversary by reuniting for a tour of the U.S. and Japan, and plan to release a new album next year… The outing will mark the first time in 18 years that John Taylor (bass), Nick Rhodes (keyboards) Simon Le Bon (vocals) Andy Taylor (guitar) and Roger Taylor (drums) have performed together; the original quintet last played at 1985’s Live Aid, according to the band’s publicist.” There’s more information at the official Duran Duran website; I for one will admit that I’d like to see them in concert, as I never did back in the ‘80s… 🙁
I have to admit that I’ve only seen Gilmore Girls once or twice, but I must say that it has a good soundtrack after coming upon this list of all songs played on the show, all available as downloadable MP3s. Sweet; let’s hope that I don’t Slashdot the site. Yeah, right…
The quarterly update to the OED addressed entries from “must” to “necessity,” as well as adding many new words and phrases to its comprehensive lexicon, including (scroll down to the bottom of the OED page):
bazillion and gazillion – terms thought too technical until recently
bitch-slap – up until now, there was no proper way to describe how to discipline one’s whore
cocksman – hee hee, they said “cock”
crotchless – the politically correct term had been “genitally accessible”
droid – C3PO’s heavy lobbying apparently paid off
gaydar – wrong on many levels
hat hair and hat head – I for one am glad to see the subtle nuance recognized
heli-ski – WTF?
imagineer – is that some Michael Jackson Captain EO thing?
IMO and IMHO – great, as if children weren’t descending into IM grammar hell already
iophendylate – Iodophenylundecylic acid has made the big time!
low rider – OK, I need audio to comment on this one… :-p
napkin rash – dare I ask?
queercore – I had no idea…
shit-eating (noun and adjective!), shit happens, shitload, – and shit, shit-for-brains – Holy Shit!
skanky – now you can describe strippers eruditely
techno-pagan – I have no idea.
Trustafarian – kind of a cool word, actually
warp speed, warp factor, and warp factor two – Trekkies rejoice!
Zorb and zorbing – fun!
There’s quite a mixed bag here, although I shudder at validating some of these entries as “proper” English…
In an article that shows how the RIAA’s poisonous anti-technology views are spreading, the Washington Post reports that Senator Orrin Hatch “favors developing new technology to remotely destroy the computers of people who illegally download music from the Internet.” Oh, but don’t worry: the “technology that would twice warn a computer user about illegal online behavior” and then “destroy their computer.” I realize that a lot of lawmakers are insulated from the Real World and are probably not technologically savvy, but this is ridiculous. I can just see RIAA lobbyists whispering Grima-like platitudes to Congressmen, slowly but inexorably convincing them that this is their only course. The article points out that “legal experts have said any such attack would violate federal anti-hacking laws,” but I’m sure that Congress won’t let anything as piddly as their own laws prevent them from doing their Corporate duty.
I suggest that anyone who is against this effort visit Senator Hatch’s web page and let him know how you feel.
According to a University of Maryland poll, not the average US citizen. The poll found that one-third of Americans think that WMD have been found in Iraq. Perhaps more amazing is that 22% thought that WMD were used during the war. It gets better. Over half of the people questioned think that some of the Sept. 11 hijackers were from Iraq. I don’t know whether to be sad or angry. What scares me is that we have an administration that is so willing manipulate the feeble minded masses. Just look back on history and think how many totalitarian regimes drew their power from the fear and ignorance of their populations. Damn, time to move to Sweden.
CrossFilms presents Eighties Ending, a short film combining the stereotypical endings of every ‘80s movie you remember. OK, not every one, but a lot of them. I must admit that I was hoping for a little more from the film, but it was still pretty fun. Shaft, we need to get to work on our ’80s magnum opus, because I know we can do at least as well…
Yo, I’m Dr. Juice AKA Ass Machine Jones. I’m on the fence about which one I like better…
Because $55,000 is not enough to pay for a Lincoln Navigator, Sean Puffy P. Diddy Hammer (get a real name!) is offering a souped-up version under the Sean Jean brand for $85,000. It’s all about the Benjaminz…
