Dudes. I’m going to Italy for two weeks. I haven’t been there in ten years! Unless I can find free Wifi at hotels and feel compelled to post from my PSP, this will be the last you hear from me for a while.
Archive for May, 2006
LikeThere’s not a whole lot of information out there about it, but “Undiluted Platinum” is a PSP modchip!
It won’t let you play backups by itself, but it will let you switch between firmware versions of your choice.
This is super awesome news and means that you’ll be able to play groundbreaking games like Loco Roco which require firmware 2.7, then switch back to the homebrew-enabled 1.5 to play Super Nintendo games and other neat things like PSPRadio.
I just hope this isn’t another one of those things that sounds awesome and then never sees the light of day. I’m looking at you, ICE!
Background downloads are coming to the Xbox360. Finally. That was the one thing that really annoyed me about Live.
There’s plenty more included in next week’s dashboard update, and Joystiq’s got the scoop, complete with screenshots.
Kohl’s would like you to know that they are SENSITIVE TO THE PLIGHT OF THE DISABLED.
I did some shopping yesterday and inside my local mall I saw this vending machine. BOOM!
That’s a nifty beast. I wonder what it’s selling?
iPods and iPod accessories!
For a minute I thought I was in Japan. I looked around and didn’t see any Japanese people, so I’m not sure how this vending technology made its way to the city of Orange. Vending machines are cool.
If you’re a regular listener to Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me on NPR, you know that the prize for winning is to have Carl Kasell do the message on your home answering machine.
I believe this to be some kind of cruel joke on the winner and Mr. Kasell!
Carl Kasell usually reads the news on NPR, but he has got to have one of the drooliest, slurriest, old-manniest voices of all time. Why anyone would want to have that on their answering machine is a true mystery.
If I had a microphone on this computer I’d do a good Carl Kasell impression for you, but you probably wouldn’t be able to understand what I was saying anyway… Yes, I really am that good.
Remember about a year ago when I complained to the Discovery channel for sucking so bad? Remember how I pleaded with them to go “back to their roots”?
Well.
Apparently I wasn’t the only one complaining!
They’re moving American Chopper to TLC where it belongs and “network executives have said they are looking to return Discovery’s programming to its roots in science and nature.“
Witness the power of BRETT!
Piracy on the PSP in the past has been limited to the number of game ISOs that you could fit on a memory stick. I don’t know if you’ve been paying attention, but memory sticks are not exactly the cheapest form of flash memory.
Today with the release of the “Dax ZISO Loader 0.62” you can now stream ISOs to the PSP via USB. That’s pretty hardcore. There’s a tutorial here.
Here’s some great ideas I’ve been thinking about lately.
The first is a restaurant that I (or someone) would open. It would be called “Chocolate For Lunch”. It’d only be open for lunch, and it’d only serve chocolate. Chocolate bars, truffles, you name it. But not just a little bit – I’m talking platefulls of the stuff. Enough to fill you up around lunchtime. Can you imagine being served a plate that contains nothing but chunks of dark chocolate? I can. And believe me, brother, you’d want to be there.
Another idea I have is for a painting. If I were an artist, I’d paint a picture of a FedEx guy and a UPS guy wearing their uniforms and holding hands in a grassy field of daffodils with a big blue sky behind them. They’d be doing that thing where you face each other holding each other’s hands and lean back while you spin around in a circle. They’d have big smiles of laughter on their faces because it was a beautiful day and they were the best of friends. Also this picture would not seem gay.
Aren’t these great ideas? At least one of them is! But which one?
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