Last year the legendary Pink Floyd finally reunited to play Live8 for the buddy Bob Geldof. Had Floyd toured, they likely would have set new concert revenue records but Roger Waters opted not to tour. While sad, at least we got to see the boys rock out to Comfortably Numb. Here it is in all it's "greatest guitar solo of all time" goodness.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008
And 10 Million Polyhedral Dice Fell Silent as a Million Nerds Suddenly Cried Out In Terror
Dungeons and Dragons creator dies
Posted by Armando Rodriguez on 03.04.2008
Before there were any role-playing video games, there were pen-and-paper role-playing games. This week brings the sad news that one of the founders of the most famous analog RPG has passed way. Gary Gygax, cocreator of Dungeons & Dragons, died on Tuesday at the age of 69. He had suffered from heart problems.
The news was first announced on the forums of Troll Lord Games, the publisher of Gygax's most recent works. It has since been directly confirmed by the company, which will post an announcement on its Web site later today.
Gygax was best known for helping create Dungeons & Dragons and Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, and pioneered tabletop RPGs. The first D&D rulebooks were released in 1974 by TSR, Inc., the tabletop RPG company Gygax founded with Don Kaye the year prior. Since then, there have been three full-fledged reworkings of D&D, numerous revisions and updates, and dozens of additional rulebooks, settings, and campaigns.
Since TSR was purchased by Wizards of the Coast in 1997, the game has seen even more expansions and updates. The company released Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition in 2000, and Dungeons & Dragons 4.0 is scheduled to ship this coming June. Although Gygax hadn't had much direct involvement with D&D for many years, he developed and contributed to many RPGs, such as Gary Gygax's Fantasy Worlds from Troll Lord Games.
If not for Gygax's contributions, video games would look much different than they do today. D&D's systems and mythos led directly to many marquee video game RPGs, including the Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights series from BioWare. Its influence can also be seen in many other modern fantasy RPGs, including The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and World of Warcraft. Another of TSR's pen-and-paper RPGs, Star Frontiers, was the precursor to many science fiction RPGs, such as Mass Effect.
Credit: gamespot.com
Posted by Armando Rodriguez on 03.04.2008
Before there were any role-playing video games, there were pen-and-paper role-playing games. This week brings the sad news that one of the founders of the most famous analog RPG has passed way. Gary Gygax, cocreator of Dungeons & Dragons, died on Tuesday at the age of 69. He had suffered from heart problems.
The news was first announced on the forums of Troll Lord Games, the publisher of Gygax's most recent works. It has since been directly confirmed by the company, which will post an announcement on its Web site later today.
Gygax was best known for helping create Dungeons & Dragons and Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, and pioneered tabletop RPGs. The first D&D rulebooks were released in 1974 by TSR, Inc., the tabletop RPG company Gygax founded with Don Kaye the year prior. Since then, there have been three full-fledged reworkings of D&D, numerous revisions and updates, and dozens of additional rulebooks, settings, and campaigns.
Since TSR was purchased by Wizards of the Coast in 1997, the game has seen even more expansions and updates. The company released Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition in 2000, and Dungeons & Dragons 4.0 is scheduled to ship this coming June. Although Gygax hadn't had much direct involvement with D&D for many years, he developed and contributed to many RPGs, such as Gary Gygax's Fantasy Worlds from Troll Lord Games.
If not for Gygax's contributions, video games would look much different than they do today. D&D's systems and mythos led directly to many marquee video game RPGs, including the Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights series from BioWare. Its influence can also be seen in many other modern fantasy RPGs, including The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and World of Warcraft. Another of TSR's pen-and-paper RPGs, Star Frontiers, was the precursor to many science fiction RPGs, such as Mass Effect.
Credit: gamespot.com
A Fine Job, Sir
Favre tells Packers he's retiring
ESPN.com news services
ESPN's Chris Mortensen reported that according to Favre's agent, Bus Cook, Favre informed Packers coach Mike McCarthy of his decision Monday night.
Mortensen said in a phone message Favre left for him Tuesday morning, the QB said he felt worn down by the demands of the game, adding that he and his wife Deanna thought anything short of a Super Bowl title would be a disappointment and not worth the mental wear and tear.
A sure-fire first-ballot Hall of Famer, Favre, acquired in a trade with the Atlanta Falcons, led the Packers back to the NFL's elite. He retires with 5,377 carrer completions in 8,758 attempts for 61,655 yards, 442 touchdowns and 288 interceptions, passing Dan Marino's touchdown mark last season.
As a player Favre was known for his durability, his willingness to take risks and turn broken plays into big gains, as well as for the way his love for the game was evident in the way he played. He went to a pair of Super Bowls in 1996 and 1997, winning it all on his first try in Super Bowl XXXI, and was named to nine Pro Bowls.
Monday, March 3, 2008
Hugo Chavez...Welcome to "Regime Change"
Colombia Files Show Chavez Funded FARC, Rebels Sought Uranium
By Helen Murphy
March 3 (Bloomberg) -- Colombia's police chief Oscar Naranjo said documents from the computer of a guerrilla leader killed last weekend in Ecuador show links to Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez.
The documents on the computer of Raul Reyes, the second in command of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, indicate that Venezuela provided the guerrillas with at least $300 million and would help Chavez in the event of a U.S. attack on Venezuela.
Naranjo said the FARC, as the group is known, was seeking to buy 50 kilos of uranium for bomb making with aim of getting involved in international terrorism.
WTF?
GOP Senate hopeful got rich diverting corpsemeat from burn victims to enlarge penises
Collagenesis specialized in processing donated skin off cadavers into cosmetic surgery products, and was subject to a blistering five-part investigative series by the Orange County Register beginning on April 17, 2000. “Burn victims lie waiting in hospitals as nurses scour the country for skin to cover their wounds, even though skin is in plentiful supply for plastic surgeons,” read the lede of the Register report. “The skin they need to save their lives is being used instead for procedures that could wait: supporting bladders, erasing laugh lines and enlarging penises.”..Kirby’s niche industry had proven financially lucrative. Collagenesis could take the skin off one cadaver and convert it into $36,000 of a gel injected to smooth wrinkles and inflate lips. Its lone competitor, a firm called LifeCell, estimated its potential revenues from such skin at $200 million a year — 10 times what it would earn if it focused on life-saving burn applications instead of cosmetic surgery.
Article stolen from Coach.
R.I.P
Blind guitar prodigy Jeff Healey died at the age of 41 from cancer. Most of you will recognize him from his turn as the singer in the house band in the movie "Road House". Here he is rocking a serviceable rendition of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps".
Saturday, March 1, 2008
All I Can Say Is...Really?
WiiWare Exclusive: Major League Eating: The Game
Posted by Jacob Lopez on 03.01.2008
Publisher Mastiff announced yesterday that their upcoming title Major League Eating: The Game will be a WiiWare exclusive. According to Mastiff, this game will make extensive use of the Wii Remote to help capture all the action of a professional eating competition.
MLE: The Game offers two player online play and a leader board to keep track of who's on top. You can choose from the world's greatest gurgitory atheletes like hot dog eating champion Takeru Kobayashi or current world champ Joey Chestnut.
Expect combat moves in the form of burps, belches, mustard gas and jalapeño flames to keep the action and laughs alive.
I like the idea, the guys seem to be having fun with it, just check out some of the words from the press release:
"Watching Major League Eating is like watching poetry in motion" says Bill Swartz, Head Woof at Mastiff. "Professional gurgitators have the grace of ballerinas yet the brute strength, mental focus, and intestinal fortitude to push their bodies and minds as hard as athletes in any other extreme endurance sport. Victory is sweet and defeat can be well, really, really messy. It's an experience we're proud to help bring into the home."
Posted by Jacob Lopez on 03.01.2008
Publisher Mastiff announced yesterday that their upcoming title Major League Eating: The Game will be a WiiWare exclusive. According to Mastiff, this game will make extensive use of the Wii Remote to help capture all the action of a professional eating competition.
MLE: The Game offers two player online play and a leader board to keep track of who's on top. You can choose from the world's greatest gurgitory atheletes like hot dog eating champion Takeru Kobayashi or current world champ Joey Chestnut.
Expect combat moves in the form of burps, belches, mustard gas and jalapeño flames to keep the action and laughs alive.
I like the idea, the guys seem to be having fun with it, just check out some of the words from the press release:
"Watching Major League Eating is like watching poetry in motion" says Bill Swartz, Head Woof at Mastiff. "Professional gurgitators have the grace of ballerinas yet the brute strength, mental focus, and intestinal fortitude to push their bodies and minds as hard as athletes in any other extreme endurance sport. Victory is sweet and defeat can be well, really, really messy. It's an experience we're proud to help bring into the home."
Now You Can Draw The Venture Brothers!!
These images all come courtesy of the blog of one Stephen DeStefano.He is the storyboard/design supervisor for the much anticipated Venture Brothers: Season Three. His blog illustrates how even pugs like me could learn to draw my very own Brock Samson or Dr. Venture. Check out his full blog for all the "how-to's" and much more.
Special thansk to The Coach for sending this to me.
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