Category: Linklog

Miami attorney Jack Thompson claims cheat codes make EA’s life sim, The Sims 2, a pedophile’s paradise by showing genitalia; calls for ban on T-rated game. Seriously people, it’s just a computer game!

HP has decided to stop reselling Apple’s popular iPod portable music player, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site Friday. The two companies have reportedly confirmed that H-P will immediately phase out sales of the iPod through its retail distribution partners, whom HP notified of the changes Thursday. “They’ve decided that reselling iPods doesn’t fit with their company’s current digital media strategy,” the Journal quoted Apple spokeswoman Katie Cotton as saying.

Learn to play the guitar with Mr. Fastfingers, then put your axe skillz to the ultimate test. Guitar solo wankery at it’s best…

A Flickr member posts pictures of his recent brain surgery on his photostream. Not for the faint of heart…

100 things to do in Scotland before you die. Let’s see, I’ve done about 19 of them… [via]

Today Yahoo! will announce the acquisition of Konfabulator, a Macintosh and Windows application that allows users to run mini files known as Widgets on their desktop. No price has been mentioned, but Yahoo! are on a buying frenzy as of late… It does mean that Konfabulator is completely free now.

Lance Armstrong sealed a seventh successive Tour de France victory amid chaotic scenes at the finish in Paris. Jan Ullrich must be cursing the day Lance Armstrong was born now… And I feel sorry for whoever wins it next year, there will be a stigma that they only won because Lance didn’t race…

Jason Kottke finds out about Lussumo Vanilla. Only a week later… That’s a “professional bloggerl” there people…

I’ve finally, after many attempts, been pimped in Google Sightseeing for Telstra Stadium (formerly Stadium Australia) in Sydney, Australia. Now if only my dozens and dozens of other sights would be pimped too…

James Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original “Star Trek” TV series and movies died Wednesday. He was 85. One to beam up…

Google extends Google Maps to the stars above, first stop, The Moon. Actually, it’s to commemorate the first lunar landing, which occurred on July 20, 1969. But I do advise you zoom all the way in, it proves the moon is, infact, made of cheese…

Mark Pilgrim puts Greasemonkey users on high alert after severe vunerabilities are found within the extension. And to top it off, here is an example of what can go wrong if you continue to use Greasemonkey. Though, I don’t see any big red flashing warnings on diveintogreasemonkey yet…

A Colorado congressman told a radio show host that the U.S. could “take out” Islamic holy sites if Muslim fundamentalist terrorists attacked the country with nuclear weapons. The congressman later said he was “just throwing out some ideas” and that an “ultimate threat” might have to be met with an “ultimate response.”

Fox’s parent company, News Corp., buys Intermix Media Inc., owner of the popular MySpace.com social networking site, for $580 million. That’s a scary, scary prospect right there…

Tom Cruise is nuts!!!! Tell us something we didn’t already know…