I guess the first one didn’t take.
If region coding wasn’t an issue, I’d have surely imported one of the ones stores are selling for under $200.

I want one. Like right now. But I don’t have the spare cash, and if I get a second job then I won’t have time to play it or anything else for that matter. Whats a gamer to do?
I’m going to try to gank one for free. After examining security and risk factors of my local Best Buy, I decided the safest way is to follow up on one of the billions of pop-up and banner ads telling me I can get one free or win one.
First things first, I made up a new gmail account just for email pertaining to these offers, surveys, and contests. I want this free, but I’m not going to flood my own inbox with new spam.
Next I just dropped “Free xbox 360” into google and clicked the first link. It asked me for simple information first like “Where should we ship your free gift?” and then asked me to check out some “great” offers. After clicking “No” to college degrees, cell phones, and diabetes treatments… i was taken to another page of offers. And a lot of them were repeats.
After turning down roughly 70 offers, I get to the meat of it. I have to complete 2 trials off a list before proceeding to the “shipping” phase. At this point, I finally go down to the disclaimer at the bottom. I must complete 2 trails now, with 4 more trials in the future in order to get to the 360. That doesn’t sound too bad, as long as I can cancel these when I’m done and still get my Xbox.
I’ll update later as I get closer and detail any time or actual dollars spent in pursuit of my reward.

By the way, within 20 minutes of starting I already had 3 spam messages in my new email.

NBC’s remake of the Merchant/Gervais BBC comedy “The Office” has managed to become surprisingly brilliant on its own, exceeding the originals depth of characters and uncomfortable humor.
Taking it a couple steps further NBC presents 16 fake “More You Know…” PSAs featuring the cast of the show.

Since I was so enraged by both the Matrix video game and the delay of New Super Mario Brothers, only one thing could make up for it.

A shot-for-shot remake of a scene from Matrix Reloaded with Mario and Luigi.

Its a good thing this show is free.
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I heard Maurice LaMarche on Al Franken this week doing voices for a skit about a Werewolf Senator that bites Dick Cheney in the face. When it was all over, Franken introduced LaMarche by his most notable role: The Brain.
So its with great please that I see Pink & The Brain hit dvd along with the series it spun off with, Animaniacs. Both of these shows offered rare inspired lunacy from Warner animation that picked up right where the Looney Toons shorts of yesterday left off. Tiny Toons was OK, but derivative. New Looney Toons cartoons are passable at best. Animaniacs created a massive cartoon world with a cast of dozens and never let a split second pass without a gag.
As far backed up as I am with my DVD collecting, I’ll still have to add these to the list.

I get frustrated sometimes deciding what to play.
Do I play Pac-Man or do I play Zelda? Puzzle or adventure? Reflex or Logic?
Now I can do both

I saw Michael McConnohie is scheduled to appear at TransformersCon in Toronto next month, and I suddenly remembered when I saw him back in 2004 at the Official Transformers Convention voice actor panel. As you can see, he was really excited to be there and quite an entertainer.

EDIT: Ok, this is getting pretty popular and some folks asked for some other versions of the file. All these links are via rapidshare, which is a page that offers reasonably fast downloads and hosting with tons of ads. Just click the link, scroll down and find the button that says “FREE” and click it. it’ll probably make you wait 45-60 seconds before your file starts, but just leave the page open and the download should begin automatically.
big .mov version(should be ipod friendly 7.6MB)
really big .mov version (TV resolution, little compression 9.5 MB)
audio only .mp3 (1.4 MB)