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I Love xkcd from NoamR on Vimeo.

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Yes it’s apparently real and unequivocally awesome.

Who doesn’t like inside jokes? Who doesn’t like song parodies ala Weird Al Yankovic. Putting the two together are songs over at Palette Swap Ninja.

I decided to do a quick post about this since the songs have been giving me smiles every time they are played at the end of the OXM podcast. Check ‘em out. It’s great how it relates to any respectable gamer.

This is one of my friends Nate. It’s not a bad video considering it was taken using Cycorder on the iPhone.

Over 100k tracks, all tagged correctly, many rated, I tunes fucked up. The recently released Itunes 7.7 which was supposed to bring among other things … a new firmware and apps to the Touch and Iphone have made me unable to update my Touch because an updated Apple Mobile Device Support won’t install. Every damn document and discussion in Apple forums tells me to “uninstall Itunes and related software” … the problem is, Itunes doesn’t want to uninstall! It keeps rolling back. So how the hell do I uninstall Itunes? Way to go Apple. My apologies I’m not an asstard Apple fanboy. I only love you until you fuck my tunes over.

I should fire up my newsreader a bit more, but in this case, I’m kinda glad that this sad sad news is getting to me late. My favorite game reviews Zero Punctuation is going to that horseshit of a show called X Play. I’m still pissed off about TechTV taking over G4 and bringing all their hogwash with them, now another good tech/gaming show is infected.

It’s great Yahtzee is doing great and all, but please, please to God keep the show yours and let us view them and future episodes in it’s pristine form. G4 can edit and cut them all they want for general consumption, just give us our version.

Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? ‘No!’ says the man in Washington, ‘It belongs to the poor.’ ‘No!’ says the man in the Vatican, ‘It belongs to God.’ ‘No!’ says the man in Moscow, ‘It belongs to everyone.’ ‘No!’ says the man at Netflix, ‘It belongs to us.’ I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose … Rapture … or at least some kind of fair warning when a service charges my credit card.

After putting my Netflix account on hold because honestly, I didn’t get my money’s worth when I couldn’t even watch the movies I rented, Netflix decides to take my account off hold and charge me. I was aware that my account would eventually be taken off hold after a certain period of time, it still seems pretty sleazy for anyone to just charge you without telling you and give you any warning aside from two e-mails one after the other. Neflix has of course thought of this and one cannot get any sort of refund since cancelled accounts forfeit the remainder of their paid time.

Note to Netflix, it is first of all bad customer service when you take the control of one’s account from the account holder to re-activate their account even if you say so. Netflix, would you kindly change your sleazy company policy. I guess not.

eh, it’s four in the morning and my level of caring about losing fifteen bucks has sunk to ‘who cares’.