Diggnation Live: Except Not

On the latest Diggnation (Edward Cold Hands), Kevin Rose promised to broadcast the St Louis live show over the ‘net, using his Yahoo! Live stream. He also mentioned that he would post an announcement about it on his Pownce about it, just to make sure. Lo and behold, you log on to Netvibes to check the Pownce RSS… only find two things:

• You just missed the live taping of another show… by 8 hours.
• St Louis’ bars don’t all have internet.

What does this mean? There’s a new episode on the way, in addition to the live show… and there’s not going to be a feed to the live show. What a set-up!

They probably should have looked into it before announcing it, as opposed to just telling everybody “Oh, well, never mind, it’s not going down” eight hours before it was supposed to happen. I had this planned out for a few days now. Thanks.

Good Job, Jack Thompson. Good Job.

Just a funny excerpt from an article on FPSS (First Person Shooter Syndrome) that I found on Digg.

…”I don’t believe that FPSS makes a person more violent or physically agressive,” said Dr.Freeman. “I think it just increases your fear of abandoned buildings, sewers, and explosive barrels.”

However, vocal anti-videogame activist and “lawyer” Jack Thompson disagrees. After reading the public report on FPSS, Thompson spoke out.

“FPSS proves that video games are responsible for all murders ever. In history.”

When informed that First Person Shooters have only existed for the last 15-20 years, Thompson screamed that we were lying homosexuals, then sued us for criminal harrasment.

From A “Robot People Magazine” Article

Just Something Awesome

Yeah, yeah, I have real stuff to do, too. Like review the premier of Greek and Live Free or Die Hard. But I’ll do that later. Right now, here’s the best story I’ve seen in a while:

Don’t jump to concussions!

Finally, school is out! More sleep, less nagging, and even less rushed mornings. Yays.

Anyway, I was browsing Digg when I came across this article. After reading the entire thing (not that long), I started browsing the comments and found one individual who really did his homework. Way to debunk this entire thing: kudos!

I can’t stand PrisonPlanet.com. They make completely unreasonable assumptions. This article was based on their article, ” Blair Calls For Chinese Style Net Controls In the UK” which was based on a Telegraph.co.uk article which makes no mention of “chinese style net controls”. Actually, it makes no mention of any net controls. Both of these articles, claiming that Blair wants to completely censor the Internet, are based on the following quote from Blair; “As the technology blurs the distinction between papers and television, it becomes increasingly irrational to have different systems of accountability based on technology that no longer can be differentiated in the old way.” Blair is calling for a new form of accountability for the media, basically, making sure that the “media” is not lying to us. He does not say that the media should be accountable to the government. He’s not calling for control over, or censorship of the media.

And regardless, he only has 8 days left in office to take over the Internets.

Also, the last line is hilarious.