Friday, April 15th, 2011
Complete with handgun and digital stereo system! From Failblog: see more funny videos, and check out our Yo Dawg lols!
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Friday, October 8th, 2010
Diane Medved at TownHall writes: Help me here. What is it about “virtual goods”–imaginary own-ables in online community or commercial fake-world games–that leads Americans to shell out a projected $1.6 billion this year in our jobless economy? Facebook hosts and profits from the virtual barnyard antics of FarmVille (75 million monthly active users) and a [...]
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Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
I have always been offended by lotteries. Unlike casinos, there is no “fun day out”. Unlike fundraisers, there is no benefit for the needy. There are simply low-income people spending money every day, desperate to win millions of dollars, encouraged by a $5 or $10 every few months. Well, the Consumerist (a blog I haven’t [...]
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Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
In 1990, a game was released for the Sega Genesis called “Action 52″, a series of 52 arcade games which were priced as “52 games at a discount” rather than the price of a single cartridge. The game consisted of simple arcade-style jump-and-shoot games with goofy graphics. Not a bad idea, but definitely not worth [...]
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Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
I’m an eBay addict, and if you are too, you know it’s very easy to buy used and cheap CDs. You can even get rare and out-of-print CDs, some obscure ones go for over $100! However, often times people take advantage of the rarity of some CDs to sell unsuspecting (or, sometimes, desperate) people bootlegs. [...]
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
These quizzes have been around for ages, but I haven’t been to BBSpot since way before xcopfly.com came into existence. So I took a bunch of these quizzes again. Which OS are You? Which File Extension are You? How White and Nerdy Are You? Which Caffeinated Beverage [...]
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