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Hulk Hogan, He-Man, and Mr. T team up to fight Voltron and George W. Bush in BUSHGAME.COM - THE ANTI-BUSH ONLINE ADVENTURE! “A fun and fact-filled adventure about the most appalling presidency in the history of the United States.”

An article in the Village Voice details how high-ranking White House staffers, and the National Security Council’s top Middle East aide are meeting with fundamentalist, rapture-type christian leaders behind closed doors. These are people who have a very clear idea of what should be going on in the Middle East, especially in Israel, to bring about their vision of the Rapture and other biblical/apocaliptic events, and are more than willing to do whatever it takes to make sure things happen like it says in the bible. And these are the folks our leaders are consulting with before making their Middle East decisions. Read it, and be horrified.

Andy Kaufman Returns. No, really.

Thank you Nintendo, my lords and masters!!!

First Shot of the PSP?, originally uploaded by Katsushiro.

Well, this looks like the first shot of Sony’s upcoming PSP portable game system. Blurry and all, but it’s from E3 (by way of Gizmodo), and it’s official. Looks a helluva lot like the mockups that had been floating around the web for a while now. I saw some shots of the Nintendo DS around somewhere too, as soon as I can snag one I’ll put it up here so you can compare. I’ll also try and get some stats on both machines.. Mmm.. gooey portable gaming goodness.. (Notice my continued usage of Flickr? )

Saving Private Pug, originally uploaded by Katsushiro.

I just discovered this great little service that’s still in Beta but looks *r0xx0r*: Flickr. It’s sort of a file-sharing community that lets you upload 100 or so pics every month, and manage them, share them with other members of the community through a pretty nifty flash-based interface (that’s cross-platform compatible, no less!), form your own communities, edit your fotos, organize them in really nice, intuitive ways, and even upload them to your blog (as witnessed by the kewl Pug pic over on the side there), and place notes on specific areas of pictures that appear when you roll over them! On top of that, it has upload-by-email options, and a plugin for IE and bookmarklets for other, better browsers to upload images without even having to log in. Sw33t. I highly reccomend you give it a shot, if you do, let me know and I’ll email you an invite. Or you can sign up on your own, but if you let me send you the invite I get a referral, and those are good. Either way, stop by their site and do check it out, it’s really keen.

Just found the most wonderful little site: Evil Bible, which is dedicated to:

… spread the vicious truth about the Bible. For far too long priests and preachers have completely ignored the vicious criminal acts that the Bible promotes. The so called ?God? of the Bible makes Osama Bin Laden look like a Boy Scout. This God, according to the Bible, is directly responsible for many mass-murders, rapes, pillage, plunder, slavery, child abuse and killing, not to mention the killing of unborn children. I have included references to the Biblical passages, so grab your Bible and follow along. You can also follow along with on-line Bibles such as http://www.biblestudytools.net/ or http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/.

With such cheery sections as ‘Ritual Human Sacrifice’, ‘Rape’, ‘Murder’, and ‘Slavery’, this site is a great resource to show people all the stuff they’d like to pretend isn’t in there. Enjoy!

So, I was at the Absu’s crib the other night, and I got a little taste of La Pucelle: Tactics. For those of you who have not tried it yet, the gameplay can go a lot like this. Funtastic!

Just a quick note, since I’m still too busy to post regularly: I saw Shaolin Soccer last night, and loved every second. If Dragonball Z was about soccer, and live-action to boot, this is exactly what it would look like. If you haven’t seen it yet, make yourself see it, or else I’ll sick the Evil Team on you, biatch!

Mmm.. I can feel the E3 vibes in the air allready.. The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) starts next week, and I’m fairly vibrating with excitement. All the gooey new and upcoming game announcements, new gadgets, cool games, previews, movies, betas, booth babes.. ooh yeah.

I’m mostly excited about seeing Sony’s PSP (PlayStation Portable) and how it will fare against Nintendo’s weird dark horse, the Nintendo DS, which they say will have not one, but two touch-enabled full color screens. I’m also curious about a big mystery announcement Sega has.. and I’m hoping to get to play a bit in the Guild Wars pre-beta they’ll have going on live during the expo… not to menaion everything else that will be going on.. man, someday, I really, really have to find a way to go to E3. I know, I know, only industry insiders can get in.. but… I’ve got a gaming website, right? Doesn’t matter that I haven’t updated it in months, right? I can get in? Please..? *whimper*

Found this place through BoingBoing: John Gorenfeld’s weblog, where John discusses all sorts of things about theocrats with way too much power, especially Moon. Here’s what BoingBoing has to say about it:

Moonraker

Freelance writer and investigative reporter John Gorenfeld is the only person consistently digging up information on the extremely unnerving nexus between Rev. Moon and the US political power structure, which he then posts on his indispensable blog. Moon is nutty as hell, but he’s also super-rich, which makes for a dangerous combination. It also means that national-level politicians are eager to lick his boots and support his delusions.

Gorenfeld’s big, ongoing story at this point is the event honoring Moon which recently took place in a Senate Office Building and was attended by groveling members of Congress. Moon was literally crowned the Messiah and told the assembled officials: “The time has come for you as well to open your hearts and receive the secrets that Heaven is disclosing in this age through me.”

Just so there was no mistaking his role, Moon also told some of the most powerful people in the country that Marx, Lenin, Hitler, and Stalin–among others–”have declared to all Heaven and Earth that Reverend Sun Myung Moon is none other than humanity’s Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent.” (He often refers to himself in the third person.)

Although Gorenfeld focuses on Moon and the Unification Church, he also touches on other troubling theocrats who have way too much political sway.

So, yeah, yesterday Liza calls me and tells me I’m a dick because I never post on my weblog anymore, and.. well, she’s right. A combination of work, burn-out, and lots and lots of Final Fantasy X-2 have kept me away from this blog, and I haven’t even gotten around to moving this site and the others over to the new hosting I wanted to do.. sure, it’s because money’s been tighter than I wanted, and because it’ll probably take me a couple of full days to do it and I’m just feeling lazy about that, but I promise, I’ll do it soon.

In the meantime, here’s something for the rest of us who ahve our heads on straight to be horrified about:Darwin-Free Fun for Creationists, a little theme park in Pensacola run by some Creationists where they purport to tell children the ‘truth’ about dinosaurs (the being, of course, that they were created on the 6th Day by God. Which is bullshit). While they’re at it, they tell people that the Grand Canyon is proof of Noah’s flood:

At Dinosaur Adventure Land, visitors can make their own Grand Canyon replica with sand and read a sign deriding textbooks for teaching that the Colorado River formed the canyon over millions of years: “This is clearly not possible. The top of the Grand Canyon is 4,000 feet higher than where the river enters the canyon! Rivers do not flow up hill!”

And home-schoolers will be thrilled when they read this particular sentence:

Ken Ham, the group’s chief executive, said marketing surveys suggested that the complex would draw not just home-schooling families and other creationists, but mainstream church groups and curiosity seekers.

And this one:

A group of about 60 parents and home-schooled children who visited Wednesday, including the Passmores, spent all afternoon trying the games, which promote religious faith more than creationist tenets.

Remember: if you homeschool, you’re a fundie. Good grief.