- The funniest hotornot type site I’ve seen in awhile is beersex which asks how many beers you’d have to drink before having sex with someone.
- Mad Libs alert: 210+ Star Wars lines with word replaced with ‘pants’ creating lines like: I find your lack of pants disturbing
- Amazon’s A9 gets gutted
- B5 Media which I once enthusiastically referred to as “another sweatshop blog network” closed a venture capital investment for $2 million. In a strange but eerily prophetic move, one of the key investors Rick Segal barely mentions the B5 writers in a ‘why we invested post’ and goes as far as to say “All of this translates into an opportunity to grow a business that is about the intention economy.” Segal tries to explain what an “intention economy” is but it reminded me too much of the attention trust stuff which couldn’t keep my attention. Bingo! Yes, my BS bingo card is now full. The ever snarky Valleywag doesn’t think B5 Media deserves the money. Later today we have a live interview planned with Jeremy Wright, one of the B5 founders who is also an author of a book on blogging that has recently earned out. The interview was scheduled before this VC news was known but I’m sure we’ll get into all this and more. Looking forward to the chat later today, Jeremy.
- Guess the Screech save my home t-shirts weren’t selling well, so now a Screech sex tape is making the media rounds with an alleged Dirty Sanchez scene. Even though I’ve worked with adult webmasters and sites for years, I had no idea what a Dirty Sanchez was and for those of you who know what one is, you are sicker bastards than me.
- Greg explores experience-based leveling in non-gaming environments. I like the idea of giving something extra to those who spend time at your site, it seems only natural. I’d like to do something experience-related here someday. I’ve been noodling some ideas on this front for awhile. Got some good additional ideas, feel free to tell me about it below.
- Dude turns his basement into an 80s style arcade. This would be a good thing to use the extra rooms for when our teens leave the nest.
- Pac-man in Excel. Works in 1997 or 2000 [Thanks Scott]
- blogger loses libel suit
- dramatic video reenactment of Mark Foley having an IM conversation with a 16 year old boy [via YouTube]. I’m with Adam Ash on Foley helping the Democrats. Let’s see this scandal eviscerate some more of the Republican party because it’s well past time for a change. And yes, Foley was a Republican, not a Democrat, FOX. Major faux pas there or intentional? The Huffington Post says the AIM username Foley used Maf54 is still online.
- While talking about the House and politics, US House passes law to outlaw online gambling. Now it’s waiting for Bush to sign — which he will do. This is already having repercussions as my friend from Sweden who works for an online poker company told me his job is now jeopardy.
- Xbox 360 goes eyetoy-ish with the vision camera and a free Xbox Live Arcade game called Totem Ball. Major Nelson reports that the free offer has no time limit.
- Don Dodge lists over 1,000 jobs currently available at Microsoft and is looking for 20 great people so he can bag a referral bonus and take his family on a nice vacation. He indicates he got his job this way. Referral programs do work.
- For those brave enough to install beta AOL software (hint: use a sandboxed machine) AOL Open Ride offers what looks like from screenshots like a curious user interface that combines browsing, IM, email and media player and fills up screen space based on what you are doing [thanks Nathan]
- cocaine energy drink has 280 caffeine per serving

- Google now allows adding some 1,220+ widgets which they call modules to your webpage. Add TD Keno v0.3 to your blog or website. Check it out below (might not work in some RSS readers, so clickthru to the site if you don’t see it), the screenshot above is v0.1 which is what you’ll find in the Google directory (they’re a bit behind) but the most current version is 0.3:

You can change the border color of the gadgets.

- Xbox 360 point whores will allow slacker gamers to pay for Xbox 360 achievement points at about $1 per 10 points.

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