If you're like me, you watch crap television late at night and you watch The Discovery Channel. That also means you know who Mike Rowe is, and you've seen your fair share of infomercials and home shopping programming. Who knew that he used to work for QVC, hocking shoddy wares for shut-ins? Who knew that he was as irreverent then as he is now? I sure as hell didn't. So I present to you a list of 13 reasons to watch home shopping. Not only is Mike Rowe present, berating cats and lusting after The Little Mermaid, there's a dirty old man on another channel praying to get fired.
To save time, here's a link to Mike Rowe on QVC videos at YouTube. If you don't like it, then I truly need a new direction in life, and rediscover my sense of humor along the way.
Guwange: Like 1941, but on foot and maniacal.
Have you ever played one of those vertical scrolling shooters and thought: "I like this, but I'd prefer to be on foot, I'd rather shoot upside-down doll faces in huge jars, and hell... why can't this game melt my face?" Here's the game for you. Paul downloaded the rom (and promptly deleted it, right?) and I have three tips if you choose to try it.
1. Get a gamepad.
2. Get a second player to help you.
3.) Blindly know exactly where the credit and 1p start buttons are, since you can not take your eyes off the screen.
No Wii hard drive.
Further to Paul's post regarding the Wii's new capabilities, my favorite new game site, GamesRadar, has posted an FAQ regarding the new Wii channel to come out next year. WiiWare will allow users to create their own games for others to download, and you figure that the internal 512Mb flash memory would top out eventually. According to Nintendo, it will. There are no plans whatsoever to release an external hard drive for the Wii any time soon. Better start deleting all those VC downloads if you want to play your friends version of nude tetris.
Obligatory Wired link
So... the iPhone launches in the States today. Being a sucker for Apple products large and small, I checked out the newly unveiled plans from ATT/Cingular/Bell South/Whatever, factored in exchange rates, taxes, and how much I actually talk on a cell phone, and I came up with this:
"Mom, if you're reading this... I want an iPhone for Christmas"
I know I've been decrying it... to a certain extent. But look. Unlimited data transfer rates. How's about this... once Rogers gets on board and they release it here in Canada, I'll trade you two slightly used Nanos for one iPhone. In the meantime, read Lore Sjöberg's nice little column on the
The Math of Love
I leave you with the series finale of the best reality show that never aired.
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