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Get Raped in Second Life

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No, seriously. This time it’s not trading real money for fake property or fleecing some media company into opening a bureau in the game. Nope, this time it’s honest-to-simulated-God avatar rape. You even get of a Choose Your Own Deviant Sexual Adventure feel as well. There’s Victim, Rapist, or Participant, where you get to help, […]

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Second Life Sucks – Someone Calls BS

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Clay Shirky pegs the issue with the graphically-awful, over-hyped, socially-devoid virtual life that is Second Life. Finally, the current mania is largely push-driven. Many of the articles concern “The first person/group/organization in Second Life to do X”, where X is something like have a meeting or open a store — it’s the kind of stuff […]

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Just What a Young Facist Needs for Christmas

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Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer and self-appointed censor of many bad words in others’ products, has been carrying a Nazi-logo’d T-shirt for months, now into Day 22 since they said the shirts would be removed. You can follow the whole saga at The Consumerist (warning, Gawker site; get your Adblock on.) Can’t have a Sheryl […]

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The HurriQuake Nail

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What’s that phrase about necessity and invention? Check out this nail (yes, a nail) that has twice the “uplift capacity” of standard nails. That means it can hold something down twice as well as a standard nail in, say, a storm. Link [via Neatorama]

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Ohio State Defeats Michigan 42-39 In Ultimately Meaningless Game

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“I mean, come on—we could have lined up in alphabetical order in the end zone dressed in nothing but helmets and socks and whacked off for 60 minutes, and the BCS would still send us to the Tostitos Championship Game,” Tressel told the assembled reporters. “Hell, you’d all still vote for [Buckeyes quarterback] Troy Smith […]

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