Plunderbund

Hilarious.

5 long, grueling years.

GTAIV came out today, and I actually took a vacation day from work to play. Yes, I know. My wife thinks I’m nuts too.
Anyway, here’s an advert for what seems like a pretty cool Irish pub!

And a recruitment video for Liberty City’s finest.

In the never ending struggle between corporations trying to screw over consumers in pursuit of the mighty buck, and consumers trying to protect their own rights, we consumers continually lose out (mainly because our government backs “content creators” to an insane degree). Now, the thing anti-DRM advocates have been warning about has happened - […]

That’s one of the radio stations in the upcoming game Grand Theft Auto IV. They completely nailed the tone of right-wing talk radio, didn’t they? Very funny.
Now there is some misogyny for you! And hatred of foreigners, and liberals, and midgets, and…
(You can enjoy a brief sample of some of the other […]

Israeli researchers have concluded that approximately 70,000 years ago humans may have narrowly dodged extinction as drought killed off all but an estimated 2,000 people (according to researchers at Stanford) scattered about sub-Saharan Africa in the pre-Stone Age.
The new study looks at the mitochondrial DNA of the Khoi and San people in South Africa which […]

If you are an average woman, today you caught up with your male peers… for their 2007 income.
Today is Equal Pay Day. If you’re a woman, today marks how far into the year you must work, on average, to earn as much as man with a comparable job earned in 2007. It’s sickening to think […]

I mentioned this a few months back (and am not motivated enough to track it down), but this past weekend Ben Stein’s new “documentary” Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed opened to sub-Uwe Boll numbers. And it’s been absolutely eviscerated by anybody who knows anything.
Rarely has a movie subtitle so capably assessed a movie’s content as […]

I actually find sumo wrestling fascinating. Honest! But, for those of you who find it a giant snoozefest, perhaps kicking it up a notch with fighting game visuals will bring you around.

Absurdly dope.

In case you missed this, it was in the NY Times yesterday. It’s a good read.
In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave of criticism over Guantánamo Bay. The detention center had just been branded “the gulag of our times” by Amnesty International, there were new allegations of abuse from […]

Eric just had his third child: Liam, 7-7 & 19″, born at 5:09 AM. His posting will, obviously, be light.
Congrats, Eric & Holly. Great name for the kid, BTW.

Building a house is incredibly draining - I opened my RSS reader in something like 2 weeks, I fell two weeks behind on watching TDS and Colbert, and I don’t even read my own blog daily right now… and we’re still trying to spec out the home and haven’t picked a builder!
So here’s a little […]

Was reading the Dispatch online while eating lunch, and stumbled across this gem.
Republican state Sen. Joy Padgett says many flags carried in parades around Ohio are not made in the country they represent. Testifying before a Senate panel yesterday, Padgett said it was paramount that Ohio bar the sale of flags manufactured in China and […]