Living with First-Person Shooter Disease isn’t easy. Just ask Gene Simkins, a normal dude whose infatuation with games like “Duke Nukem,” “Halo” and “Doom” has given rise to this rare and bizarre condition.
Watch a hilarious clip about First-Person Shooter Disease on the Laughing Squid.
The story lines of porno flicks have always been an afterthought. But films like Debbie Does Dallas and Deep Throat employed fairly elaborate story structures, and they’ve been celebrated for their campy appeal for decades.
Now, the online way of doing porn – in efficient three to five minute clips – is killing the demand for story lines. That means no more randy housewives, no more plumbers cleaning the pipes and no more cheerleaders squads struggling to make it big.
This is not progress.
Yesterday, the shortlist of nominees for the 2009 Polaris Prize was announced. The four-year-old prize is awarded to the best Canadian album of the year and it’s based solely on artistic merit – not sales or popularity.
This unusually high-minded criteria means that in our view, the Polaris is the most meaningful prize in Canadian music. Plus, any award that systematically excludes Nickelback is good in our books.
See this year’s shortlist, with a blurb about each album, on Metro Canada.
Coca-Cola’s global distribution network is unparalleled: Travel just about anywhere, and you’ll be able to find a cold bottle of the sweet, fizzy stuff.
Now, an organization called ColaLife is piggy-backing on Coke’s phenomenal infrastructure, fitting boxes of “social products” (malaria pills, water purification tablets, etc.) in the spaces between the pop bottles.
Amazing how far a little common sense can go.
Last night, Google announced that it would be releasing its long-awaited operating system, Chrome OS, by the second half of next year. The OS will come standard on some netbooks, and will be geared to users who spend most of their time online.
Antitrust concerns are already being raised, and legitimately so. We share those concerns. But mostly, we’re just excited because of an increasingly universal truth about Google: Anything anyone else does, they tend to do better.
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