If you didn't see this last Sunday on BBC2 then make sure you get it on Youtube.
The Great Louie Theroux meets the Phelps family. Otherwise known as the most hated family in America. He's really one of those human beings that we'd be screwed without like Stephen Fry or Penn Jilette. His ability to get under people's skin without pissing them off or getting thrown out of the community is brilliant.
The video isn't really that terrifying or offensive because this lot are such a fringe group. Plus they're leader is gonna kick the bucket soon and in addition to that the family members are discouraged from having relationships or reproducing. Dispite this the documentary is still fascinating, Louie is still one of the few documentary makers (along with Morgan Spurlock) who can hold my attention for a whole hour.
Friday, April 06, 2007
Bad Friday
Meh, its aethiest hell really. A national holiday for religeous reasons. Still, its sunny and warm so I got coke and a pork pie on the desk, the windows open to let the crisp spring air in and British Sea Power on the speakers. Talk about making the most of a bad situation.
You Don't Know Jack April 6th 2007
Category: That Ball Has Some Mustard On It
Score: $3,116
Rank: 12th
Good one, I do like my baseball.
You Don't Know Jack April 6th 2007
Category: That Ball Has Some Mustard On It
Score: $3,116
Rank: 12th
Good one, I do like my baseball.
Thursday, April 05, 2007
Bodging Brilliance
Setting up for its 10th series now is one of Channel 4's best shows. Like all great shows its had its issues, dull series', presenter changes and spin-offs but finally after 2 years off Scrapheap Challenge is finally back.
The application form for Scrapheap is pretty much in line with the rest of the show. There are no fancy graphics and the whole thing's done on a word processor rather than a big Photoshoppy graphics program. The series 10 application form calls for 'Budding Backyard Brunels' to take on 12 of supposedly their best challenges yet. The build-time is still set at 10 hours and hasn't changed in the main series since series 1 which had teams building until sunset. Which was probably 10 hours really.
The form asks for the team member's names, their team name and any reason behind it, their relationship and interests in the first section. Interesting requests in the next section include nicknames with 'Go on, even the bad ones' in brackets next to it and any unusual hobbies, talents or skills as well as passions and any amazing facts.
Then comes the mechanical skills, this year the applicants must (it says at the top) be proficient in handling welding and cutting machinery. Then they're asked to rate their skill level (from beginner to great) in these areas. Welding, Cutting, Sawing, Joining, Turning, General mechanics, General electrics, Familiarity with engines, Hydraulics and most interestingly Swimming. Team members are then invited to give their ideal challenge. Its an interesting form, if a little badly formatted.
Scrapheap started in 1998 as Scrapheap. Without the Challenge though its always been abbreviated to Scrapheap by its friends. Sally Gray was an original host as well alongside the ever reliable Robert Llewellen. 2 teams who were the same each week would compete to build a different machine each week from whatever they could find on the scrapheap. Whoever's machine performed best in the test were the winners. Easy.
Series 2 changed the format. Now there were 8 teams competing in a knock-out competition. Each team had 3 members and would be joined by an expert in the field of whatever they were building to provide assistance. Sally Gray was also gone, off to present the first series of 50/50 presumably and replaced by series co-creator Cathy Rogers.
The rules as they were for series 2 still exist to this day. Teams get 10 hours to build their machines with help from their experts. Each team has a captain who can only venture outside the team build area onto the scrapheap itself if the team's 2 scavengers (normal non-captain or expert members) can't get a piece of scrap out by themselves even with the help of the quad bike they have to get around (complete with trailer). If specialist equipment is needed such as rockets they are provided, but hidden on the heap. The exception is for stuff like vehicle seats which will be provided for safety reasons if the ones the teams have don't meet the requirements. Once the build time is up the machines are transported to the test site where they are allowed an hour of tinkering time to make any required modifications or repairs using their basic tools.
From series 5 onwards Robert Llewellen has presented the show alongside Lisa Rogers. I'm assured she is no relation to Cathy.
There have been multiple spin-offs. First came Junkyard Wars, the American version produced and co-presented by Cathy Rogers with the very able assistance of Tyler Durden. The British and American shows have joined together multiple times to pit the UK against the USA. Annoyingly this usually takes place on our heap and we get beaten.
Three teams competed in Scrapheap Mega Challenge. The USA, the UK and China all came together to fight the ultimate challenge. To create a multi-purpose vehicle for 3 tests. Because of the enormity of the challenge teams were given 20 hours of build time over 2 days. China got beat by a long long way.
Cathy Rogers popped up again in 2002 for spiritual spin-off Full Metal Challenge. 27 teams had constructed multi-purpose vehicles in their own time and were then brought to an abandoned nuclear power plant where a sadistic funfair had been constructed to test these machines. The teams were building blindly not knowing what their challenges would be. The series took the form of a knockout tournament with 3 teams per heat with only the winner going through. Personal favourite challenges for me include Roller Coaster, a tricky winding track not that dissimilar to Trackmania. King of the Hill, a race to capture 2 coloured mounds and then climb a giant hill in the middle of the arena and then Grand National, the series' grand finale race around a tough waterlogged course over multiple fences. FMC lasted only one series, which was a shame.
Then came Zero to Hero. Again not a Scrapheap affiliate but no-doubt inspired by and pandering to the same crowd. 2 teams of 3 each with an expert would scavenge equipment from a warehouse and try to create the equipment to transform one of their members into a superhero! Or as was more often the case, a lycra clad idiot with a vacuum cleaner strapped to their back. An ex-Marvel artist and costume designer were on hand to create the look and the whole thing was immensely entertaining. It lasted 2 series'.
Then came The Scrappy Races. 4 teams this time built road legal vehicles (again in their own time) and then travelled to 4 different scrapheaps across Britain to adapt their vehicles for 4 different challenges. This was a proper Scrapheap spin-off and as such had many familiar teams involved. It has had 2 series' so far with the second series extended to 5 stages. Build time was shorter than normal Scrapheap though at 8 hours.
Then finally is Scrappy Races Rally. Again 4 teams, again 4 vehicles built in their own time and again 5 challenges with 8 hours build time. However speed was everything. As soon as the klaxon for the start of the build went the teams were on their own time. Once they were done they had to pack up and leave the scrapheap to stop the clock. The time was then totted up like a normal rally so building quickly was the key to victory as well as driving well and having a mechanism that worked fast. In this series simply doing the job wasn't enough, it had to do it well.
After every series the series winners take on the Champions. Originally the previous series winners and since a title that must be defended like a challenge belt in boxing or wrestling. The Champions title was held by the Megalomaniacs for 2 years until they were beaten by 2001 winners the Cat-ylists, a team of Jaguar engineers. The Cats have defended the title relentlessly ever since.
Scrapheap's 10th series (dispite only running for 8) is a time for celebration. So we shall overlook the mind-numbing boredom of series 8 and look forward to this new dawn.
Scrapheap Challenge returns to Channel 4 Sunday April 8th at 5:40pm.
The application form for Scrapheap is pretty much in line with the rest of the show. There are no fancy graphics and the whole thing's done on a word processor rather than a big Photoshoppy graphics program. The series 10 application form calls for 'Budding Backyard Brunels' to take on 12 of supposedly their best challenges yet. The build-time is still set at 10 hours and hasn't changed in the main series since series 1 which had teams building until sunset. Which was probably 10 hours really.
The form asks for the team member's names, their team name and any reason behind it, their relationship and interests in the first section. Interesting requests in the next section include nicknames with 'Go on, even the bad ones' in brackets next to it and any unusual hobbies, talents or skills as well as passions and any amazing facts.
Then comes the mechanical skills, this year the applicants must (it says at the top) be proficient in handling welding and cutting machinery. Then they're asked to rate their skill level (from beginner to great) in these areas. Welding, Cutting, Sawing, Joining, Turning, General mechanics, General electrics, Familiarity with engines, Hydraulics and most interestingly Swimming. Team members are then invited to give their ideal challenge. Its an interesting form, if a little badly formatted.
Scrapheap started in 1998 as Scrapheap. Without the Challenge though its always been abbreviated to Scrapheap by its friends. Sally Gray was an original host as well alongside the ever reliable Robert Llewellen. 2 teams who were the same each week would compete to build a different machine each week from whatever they could find on the scrapheap. Whoever's machine performed best in the test were the winners. Easy.
Series 2 changed the format. Now there were 8 teams competing in a knock-out competition. Each team had 3 members and would be joined by an expert in the field of whatever they were building to provide assistance. Sally Gray was also gone, off to present the first series of 50/50 presumably and replaced by series co-creator Cathy Rogers.
The rules as they were for series 2 still exist to this day. Teams get 10 hours to build their machines with help from their experts. Each team has a captain who can only venture outside the team build area onto the scrapheap itself if the team's 2 scavengers (normal non-captain or expert members) can't get a piece of scrap out by themselves even with the help of the quad bike they have to get around (complete with trailer). If specialist equipment is needed such as rockets they are provided, but hidden on the heap. The exception is for stuff like vehicle seats which will be provided for safety reasons if the ones the teams have don't meet the requirements. Once the build time is up the machines are transported to the test site where they are allowed an hour of tinkering time to make any required modifications or repairs using their basic tools.
From series 5 onwards Robert Llewellen has presented the show alongside Lisa Rogers. I'm assured she is no relation to Cathy.
There have been multiple spin-offs. First came Junkyard Wars, the American version produced and co-presented by Cathy Rogers with the very able assistance of Tyler Durden. The British and American shows have joined together multiple times to pit the UK against the USA. Annoyingly this usually takes place on our heap and we get beaten.
Three teams competed in Scrapheap Mega Challenge. The USA, the UK and China all came together to fight the ultimate challenge. To create a multi-purpose vehicle for 3 tests. Because of the enormity of the challenge teams were given 20 hours of build time over 2 days. China got beat by a long long way.
Cathy Rogers popped up again in 2002 for spiritual spin-off Full Metal Challenge. 27 teams had constructed multi-purpose vehicles in their own time and were then brought to an abandoned nuclear power plant where a sadistic funfair had been constructed to test these machines. The teams were building blindly not knowing what their challenges would be. The series took the form of a knockout tournament with 3 teams per heat with only the winner going through. Personal favourite challenges for me include Roller Coaster, a tricky winding track not that dissimilar to Trackmania. King of the Hill, a race to capture 2 coloured mounds and then climb a giant hill in the middle of the arena and then Grand National, the series' grand finale race around a tough waterlogged course over multiple fences. FMC lasted only one series, which was a shame.
Then came Zero to Hero. Again not a Scrapheap affiliate but no-doubt inspired by and pandering to the same crowd. 2 teams of 3 each with an expert would scavenge equipment from a warehouse and try to create the equipment to transform one of their members into a superhero! Or as was more often the case, a lycra clad idiot with a vacuum cleaner strapped to their back. An ex-Marvel artist and costume designer were on hand to create the look and the whole thing was immensely entertaining. It lasted 2 series'.
Then came The Scrappy Races. 4 teams this time built road legal vehicles (again in their own time) and then travelled to 4 different scrapheaps across Britain to adapt their vehicles for 4 different challenges. This was a proper Scrapheap spin-off and as such had many familiar teams involved. It has had 2 series' so far with the second series extended to 5 stages. Build time was shorter than normal Scrapheap though at 8 hours.
Then finally is Scrappy Races Rally. Again 4 teams, again 4 vehicles built in their own time and again 5 challenges with 8 hours build time. However speed was everything. As soon as the klaxon for the start of the build went the teams were on their own time. Once they were done they had to pack up and leave the scrapheap to stop the clock. The time was then totted up like a normal rally so building quickly was the key to victory as well as driving well and having a mechanism that worked fast. In this series simply doing the job wasn't enough, it had to do it well.
After every series the series winners take on the Champions. Originally the previous series winners and since a title that must be defended like a challenge belt in boxing or wrestling. The Champions title was held by the Megalomaniacs for 2 years until they were beaten by 2001 winners the Cat-ylists, a team of Jaguar engineers. The Cats have defended the title relentlessly ever since.
Scrapheap's 10th series (dispite only running for 8) is a time for celebration. So we shall overlook the mind-numbing boredom of series 8 and look forward to this new dawn.
Scrapheap Challenge returns to Channel 4 Sunday April 8th at 5:40pm.
3 Maid Outfits.....
.....being watched in My Ebay. Only one can be chosen for the Canadian Adventure and my cosplay grand finale as it were.
It has the potential to be immensely fun, immensely embarrassing or just terrifying. Chances are it'll take a lot of guts to pull off.
Now, some ash snorting.
You Don't Know Jack April 5th 2007
Category: Smack That Ash
Score: $3,572
Rank: 7th
ONE MISSED!! The most painful thing in a DisOrDat is missing the last one.
It has the potential to be immensely fun, immensely embarrassing or just terrifying. Chances are it'll take a lot of guts to pull off.
Now, some ash snorting.
You Don't Know Jack April 5th 2007
Category: Smack That Ash
Score: $3,572
Rank: 7th
ONE MISSED!! The most painful thing in a DisOrDat is missing the last one.
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Breaking The Habit
Sick of contradictions, championing repetetive crap and the fact that its become an immense rip-off (now a whole 70 pages!) I have kicked my £2 a week habit and stopped buying NME. With occasional relapses whenever there's a free CD. I do like my free CDs.
This cheapskate attitude may explain my new music magazine choice. Well choice for this week, I bought Uncut this week (free CD and sister magazine to NME) and on payday next week I will try out Q. Its the first step in picking a constant magazine, though Uncut's free CD every month promises to keep me there even if the magazine is awful. 16 tracks lasting just over 1 hour for the princely sum of £4.10. Lots of good on here too, 4 of the bands I've heard of. That gives 12 artists I'm hearing for the first time without constant hopping between MySpace pages.
You Don't Know Jack April 4th 2007
Category: Will The Real Dark Lord Please Stand Up?
Score: $1,881
Rank: 116th
I know Dick Cheney. I know Darth Vader. I should have got way more than that.
This cheapskate attitude may explain my new music magazine choice. Well choice for this week, I bought Uncut this week (free CD and sister magazine to NME) and on payday next week I will try out Q. Its the first step in picking a constant magazine, though Uncut's free CD every month promises to keep me there even if the magazine is awful. 16 tracks lasting just over 1 hour for the princely sum of £4.10. Lots of good on here too, 4 of the bands I've heard of. That gives 12 artists I'm hearing for the first time without constant hopping between MySpace pages.
You Don't Know Jack April 4th 2007
Category: Will The Real Dark Lord Please Stand Up?
Score: $1,881
Rank: 116th
I know Dick Cheney. I know Darth Vader. I should have got way more than that.
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Review - Puzzle Quest
Game Info Box
Title: Puzzle Quest: Challenge Of The Warlords
Publisher: D3
Developers: Infinate Interactive, 1st Playable, Engine Software, Vicious Cycle
Format: Nintendo DS
That's right. 4 developers allied to D3, a publisher who holds the western rights to Naruto and also produced the excellent PSP game PQ. So I have but one question. How could a publisher with a pedigree like that produce this soul-numbing slice of derivative crap?
Puzzle Quest is currently being regarded as the second coming of puzzle games. A second coming that really started when Meteos and Lumines came out, but we'll gloss over that. It is nearly impossible to find anywhere and even my copy was the last in the shop. So what do we get from such immense hype and build up?
We get Bejewelled. Or Zookeeper. Or a different name for the same freaking game that's been rehashed millions of times since Yoshi's Cookie on the SNES. Only wrapped up in a faux-RPG plot and presentation so thin that even a supermodel would eat it without puking. Swap pieces to make sets of 3, 4 or 5 and score points. Puzzle Quest tries to make this more exciting by having 2 players fight on the same grid taking turns to make moves. This means that they need a way of causing damage in the form of skulls on the board which cause damage to your opponent. As well as gold and experience points on the board alongside the standard 4 colours of mana gems its a fairly exhaustive set up, but easy enough to understand.
The main quest mode works by your character picking up quests and completing them. These quests follow a simple pattern of going to a location, fighting a few battles and returning home. And that's about it, there's a plot of some sort underneath it all about undead attacking the land but most players will ignore that as its really not that interesting or important.
Then there are single battle modes which have you either picking an enemy yourself or having one chosen at random. This is where the smart player will spend their time, free from random battles and trudging around the map.
There are capture puzzles to capture enemies you've defeated 3 or more times. These are just challenges to clear the board of all gems with no extra pieces falling from the top. They are hard and easily the most entertaining part of the game.
Then spell learning which gets you to play a basic game with no enemy just trying to clear the required number of gems. This is fairly boring in all honesty.
If it was just these game modes that bothered me I wouldn't feel so strongly about the game being poor, its the enemy AI. It is so terrifyingly unbalanced and unfair that you start thinking 'What's the point?'. Enemies in the quest mode are rarely, if ever a lower level than you and always seem to do immense amounts of damage through massive chain reactions and their spells. Its this AI that ruins the game, if it was more balanced and human then the game would be better.
Again, this could have been fixed by using that staple of modern DS games. Wi-Fi. But nope, Puzzle Quest is not online enabled and this is the final nail in its coffin.
In One Line
Poor AI, boring gameplay and a lack of online play means this game is not worth anyone's time.
Score
Two (2)
Title: Puzzle Quest: Challenge Of The Warlords
Publisher: D3
Developers: Infinate Interactive, 1st Playable, Engine Software, Vicious Cycle
Format: Nintendo DS
That's right. 4 developers allied to D3, a publisher who holds the western rights to Naruto and also produced the excellent PSP game PQ. So I have but one question. How could a publisher with a pedigree like that produce this soul-numbing slice of derivative crap?
Puzzle Quest is currently being regarded as the second coming of puzzle games. A second coming that really started when Meteos and Lumines came out, but we'll gloss over that. It is nearly impossible to find anywhere and even my copy was the last in the shop. So what do we get from such immense hype and build up?
We get Bejewelled. Or Zookeeper. Or a different name for the same freaking game that's been rehashed millions of times since Yoshi's Cookie on the SNES. Only wrapped up in a faux-RPG plot and presentation so thin that even a supermodel would eat it without puking. Swap pieces to make sets of 3, 4 or 5 and score points. Puzzle Quest tries to make this more exciting by having 2 players fight on the same grid taking turns to make moves. This means that they need a way of causing damage in the form of skulls on the board which cause damage to your opponent. As well as gold and experience points on the board alongside the standard 4 colours of mana gems its a fairly exhaustive set up, but easy enough to understand.
The main quest mode works by your character picking up quests and completing them. These quests follow a simple pattern of going to a location, fighting a few battles and returning home. And that's about it, there's a plot of some sort underneath it all about undead attacking the land but most players will ignore that as its really not that interesting or important.
Then there are single battle modes which have you either picking an enemy yourself or having one chosen at random. This is where the smart player will spend their time, free from random battles and trudging around the map.
There are capture puzzles to capture enemies you've defeated 3 or more times. These are just challenges to clear the board of all gems with no extra pieces falling from the top. They are hard and easily the most entertaining part of the game.
Then spell learning which gets you to play a basic game with no enemy just trying to clear the required number of gems. This is fairly boring in all honesty.
If it was just these game modes that bothered me I wouldn't feel so strongly about the game being poor, its the enemy AI. It is so terrifyingly unbalanced and unfair that you start thinking 'What's the point?'. Enemies in the quest mode are rarely, if ever a lower level than you and always seem to do immense amounts of damage through massive chain reactions and their spells. Its this AI that ruins the game, if it was more balanced and human then the game would be better.
Again, this could have been fixed by using that staple of modern DS games. Wi-Fi. But nope, Puzzle Quest is not online enabled and this is the final nail in its coffin.
In One Line
Poor AI, boring gameplay and a lack of online play means this game is not worth anyone's time.
Score
Two (2)
Boredom
Yep, it strikes again after the relative excitement of yesterday. So lets unroll the big pink condom shall we? My sister calls it that.
You Don't Know Jack April 3rd 2007
Category: EPA-Okay!
Score: $3,667
Rank: 40th
Naruto vol. 1.2 disc 1 is in my DVD drive. Don't know when I'll actually watch it mind.
You Don't Know Jack April 3rd 2007
Category: EPA-Okay!
Score: $3,667
Rank: 40th
Naruto vol. 1.2 disc 1 is in my DVD drive. Don't know when I'll actually watch it mind.
Monday, April 02, 2007
Big Day
Passport application was well and truly wanged off through the post today. Then I worked a relatively pleasant shift at work before coming home to news from Sarah about cosplay stuff for the Canadian Adventure. I also got The Hives' second album and also we have a game to play.
You Don't Know Jack Episode 5
Score: $-25,884
Rank: 191st
Overall Rank: 1,252nd
Kids, learn from scores like this. They aren't big and the people who produce them aren't clever.
You Don't Know Jack Episode 5
Score: $-25,884
Rank: 191st
Overall Rank: 1,252nd
Kids, learn from scores like this. They aren't big and the people who produce them aren't clever.
Sunday, April 01, 2007
Albums of the Month: April
Month 4. we're a quarter of the way through the year.
2nd April
Maximo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures
The Academy Is - Santi
Fields - Everything Last Winter
Yourcodenameis:milo - They Came From The Sun
Scootch - Four Sure
Bis - We Are Bis From Glasgow Scotland
Slipknot - Slipknot
9th April
Bright Eyes - Cassadega
Hayseed Dixie - Weapons of Grass Destruction
16th April
Avril Lavigne - The Best Damn Thing
Mark Ronson - Version
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
Shitdisco - Kingdom Of Fear
23rd April
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
Switches - Heart Turned To D.E.A.D.
Polytechnic - Down Til Dawn
30th April
Rush - Snakes and Mirrors
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81
James - Fresh As A Daisy
Hanson - The Walk
A lot of good once again.
Next Month
Get a loan because we've really got incoming next month. Linkin Park, Travis, Funeral For A Friend, The Maccabees, Mumm-Ra, Fountains of Wayne, The Thrills, Holy Ghost Revival, Maroon 5, Marylin Manson, Biffy Clyro, The Pigeon Detectives, The Coral, The Used, The Cribs...
And the Manic. Street. Preachers.
2nd April
Maximo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures
The Academy Is - Santi
Fields - Everything Last Winter
Yourcodenameis:milo - They Came From The Sun
Scootch - Four Sure
Bis - We Are Bis From Glasgow Scotland
Slipknot - Slipknot
9th April
Bright Eyes - Cassadega
Hayseed Dixie - Weapons of Grass Destruction
16th April
Avril Lavigne - The Best Damn Thing
Mark Ronson - Version
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
Shitdisco - Kingdom Of Fear
23rd April
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
Switches - Heart Turned To D.E.A.D.
Polytechnic - Down Til Dawn
30th April
Rush - Snakes and Mirrors
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81
James - Fresh As A Daisy
Hanson - The Walk
A lot of good once again.
Next Month
Get a loan because we've really got incoming next month. Linkin Park, Travis, Funeral For A Friend, The Maccabees, Mumm-Ra, Fountains of Wayne, The Thrills, Holy Ghost Revival, Maroon 5, Marylin Manson, Biffy Clyro, The Pigeon Detectives, The Coral, The Used, The Cribs...
And the Manic. Street. Preachers.
April 1st
Albums of the month coming later, but its April Fools day. Which means the 2 hotbeds of pranks are up to their usual tricks, Google and OC Remix.
Google
Google have a long history of quality fake products on April 1st. However there are 2 this year, could one be real? First is Google TiSP. Simply flush the fibre optic cable down the toilet and bingo! Free wireless internet. Yeah. Then there's Gmail Paper. Go read Slashdot as I really can't describe it.
www.google.com
OCR
Its ReCapitated. 18 high-quality, yet unbelievably shit remixes of the Icecap theme from Sonic 3. Leading the charge is Remix OCR001565. Otherwise known as OCRAPRIL01. Its djpretzel's Love Hurts remix (from Sonic 1) with the Icecap theme layered on the top. Naturally, drama has erupted at the review level. Go and see, its hilarious as always.
www.ocremix.org
icecap.ocremix.org
Destructoid
Brian Crecente's Mildly Pirate Themed Hair Palace. Yep, the Destructoid blog has today transformed into a brilliant tribute to the Kotaku editor.
www.destructoid.com
Think Geek
Oh boy, TG have really gone for it with a load of new products. Like the WiiHelm. A helmet to hold your Wiimote. Oh dear. Also the 8-bit tie. And the WiFi Donation alarm clock, which donates your money to charity if you sleep past the alarm.
www.thinkgeek.com
Youtube
Oh yes, everyone's favourite website has gone for it too. Staff members reveal their innermost secrets, find out who's a Bollywood star, who's dating Nalts, who's Renneto's secret cousin and who turned Jewish to piss off her boyfriend's parents.
www.youtube.com
Buzzerblog
Has transformed into Litterblog for a day. Some people just don't put the effort in anymore.
www.buzzerblog.com
VG Cats
Being a Sunday the office webcomics of CAD and Penny Arcade are unavailable. Scott Ramsoonair however has gone for it with Solid Snake's MySpace page.
www.vgcats.com
That seems to be it, nothing from Wikipedia unfortunately. Though how they'd top last year I have no idea. Haven't seen BMW's thing either, though they always do something.
Google have a long history of quality fake products on April 1st. However there are 2 this year, could one be real? First is Google TiSP. Simply flush the fibre optic cable down the toilet and bingo! Free wireless internet. Yeah. Then there's Gmail Paper. Go read Slashdot as I really can't describe it.
www.google.com
OCR
Its ReCapitated. 18 high-quality, yet unbelievably shit remixes of the Icecap theme from Sonic 3. Leading the charge is Remix OCR001565. Otherwise known as OCRAPRIL01. Its djpretzel's Love Hurts remix (from Sonic 1) with the Icecap theme layered on the top. Naturally, drama has erupted at the review level. Go and see, its hilarious as always.
www.ocremix.org
icecap.ocremix.org
Destructoid
Brian Crecente's Mildly Pirate Themed Hair Palace. Yep, the Destructoid blog has today transformed into a brilliant tribute to the Kotaku editor.
www.destructoid.com
Think Geek
Oh boy, TG have really gone for it with a load of new products. Like the WiiHelm. A helmet to hold your Wiimote. Oh dear. Also the 8-bit tie. And the WiFi Donation alarm clock, which donates your money to charity if you sleep past the alarm.
www.thinkgeek.com
Youtube
Oh yes, everyone's favourite website has gone for it too. Staff members reveal their innermost secrets, find out who's a Bollywood star, who's dating Nalts, who's Renneto's secret cousin and who turned Jewish to piss off her boyfriend's parents.
www.youtube.com
Buzzerblog
Has transformed into Litterblog for a day. Some people just don't put the effort in anymore.
www.buzzerblog.com
VG Cats
Being a Sunday the office webcomics of CAD and Penny Arcade are unavailable. Scott Ramsoonair however has gone for it with Solid Snake's MySpace page.
www.vgcats.com
That seems to be it, nothing from Wikipedia unfortunately. Though how they'd top last year I have no idea. Haven't seen BMW's thing either, though they always do something.
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