Entourage Season 8 Extended Trailer
I’m so excited that Entourage starts at the end of the month, HBO and their full year between seasons kills me! Today HBO released the extended trailer of the final season and I don’t know what to think, I mean it’s only going to be 8 episodes so only like 4 hours for the season… Read the rest of this article…
Eternal Darkness Is The Best GameCube Game Ever Made, Period
As an Xbox fanboy, I bought my GameCube on a whim. It was the summer of 2002 and they were offering Super Mario Sunshine for free. Could you blame me? Right off the bat, I even favored the flagship Mario title over Eternal Darkness, which I had set aside to collect dust after a few levels. I remember the dishing the game received on the forums for having a visible sanity bar, which seemed antithetical to the on-screen craziness (like the game stating it had deleted your save) when you already knew it was coming. I thought it was an interesting diversion, being an M-rated Nintendo game for crying out loud, but it lost a lot of time against Sunshine and Animal Crossing. It wasn’t until college that my opinion changed…
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James Spader Joins “The Office”
It looks like Sabre (Dunder Mifflin) will have a new boss. I’m not just talking about regional vice president I’m talking about CEO! “He’ll have been hired over the summer as the new manager, but within hours, got himself promoted. Within days, he took over the company. James has an energy that is completely his own, and ‘The Office’ has no tools for dealing with this guy. We’re thrilled he’s joining our cast,” said Paul Lieberstein, one of the series’ executive producers and a series regular. Read the rest of this article…
Dear LEGO, Stop Fulfilling My Dreams With Expensive Toys!
The Super-class Star Destroyer, unveiled in The Empire Strikes Back, is my favorite ship design, fictional or non-, of all time. A sleek arrowhead shape capped with a rugged administrative/control section on top and propelled by powerful engines along its flanks, I had wanted LEGO to build an official version for years. While it took fifteen years, they did finally deliver the goods in the form of this grandiose, 3,000+-piece monstrosity. It’s not available yet and it’ll retail for $400 (!), much like its siblings in the Imperial Star Destroyer and Millennium Falcon, but boy if I had some crazy LEGO money right now, this would be my new prize.
Deadliest Warrior : Legends Releases On XBOX Live
Today, 345 games has released the second in the Deadliest Warrior franchise – inspired by the Spike TV show of the same name – on XBOX live.
Yeah…That dude just got his head chopped off. How awesome is THAT?!
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Rob’s Take On The Casey Anthony Verdict
Well, the internet is just buzzing away with screams about the not-guilty verdict handed down, yesterday, in Casey Anthony’s murder trial. People are completely shocked with the fact that she was acquitted of the murder of her daughter, Caylee, and only found guilty of 4 counts of providing false information to the police (which could net her as much as a year in jail and have her out on the street immediately with credit for time served. She will be back in court for sentencing on Thursday.).
There have even been death threats posted on Facebook and other sites.
I remember another trial, from years past, which got the same kind of reaction : O.J. Simpson.
- If the glove don’t fit, you must acquit!
Yeah, people had a raging shit hissy when he got acquitted, too. All kinds of activist groups were up in arms, people were whining and complaining all over the place and the news services were lit up from here to next St. Patty’s Day with people, jaws agape, questioning how he could have been found innocent.
And here we go again.
For the next month or so people will be talking about how they KNOW Casey Anthony killed her daughter. They watched every single minute of the trial (get a life, plz) and they just KNOW she killed Caylee. They’ve searched every corner of the interwebs and looked at all of the evidence and they are absolutely convinced that she did this thing.
Now I’m going to say the same basic thing I did back when O.J. was acquitted; You weren’t there, you don’t know.
I’ll say it again
You weren’t there, you don’t know.
There’s only one person on this planet who knows, with absolute certainty, if Casey Anthony killed Caylee Anthony. There’s only one person on this planet who knows, with absolute certainty, if Casey Anthony snuffed out that little girl’s life and then took steps to cover up the crime. There’s only one person on this planet who knows, with absolute certainty, if Casey Anthony formulated some cockamamie story about Caylee drowning in order to cover up an incredibly heinous and terrible crime.
That one person is Casey Anthony.
I’d like everyone to keep in mind the most basic of legal principles; the fact that, in our modern legal system, the accuser has the burden of proof. To break that down and clarify it, what that means is that the person or persons accusing someone of a crime or misdeed (in this case, the prosecution) must gather and provide enough irrefutable evidence to prove beyond any reasonable doubt that the accused person is guilty of the crime for which they are being tried.
If the accuser is not able to satisfy their burden of proof then the jury must, by legal mandate, find the accused not guilty of the crime or misdeed for which they have been accused and relieve them of any judgment.
This is exactly what happened here. The prosecution did not have enough evidence to prove to the jury, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Casey Anthony killed her daughter or had any culpability in her death – that is to say that she neither killed her nor caused her death. Since the prosecution was unable to provide that evidence then we must, as a society, accept that Casey Anthony is innocent and allow her to carry on with her life.
Now, before the shit storm hits – Do I believe Casey Anthony is guilty? Nope. Do I believe Casey Anthony is innocent? Nope. To be quite honest, I haven’t seen enough data or been provided with enough information to make a call, either way. I don’t KNOW if she did it, or not. I wasn’t there. I didn’t see what happened. None of us did and in the absence of direct, personal knowledge of what took place in Caylee Anthony’s final moments it was the duty of the prosecution to tell the story of her death in a way which would leave no doubt.
They failed.
So that’s that. Take from this what you will. The end of this story is simply that none of us know what happened and since we don’t know we can’t judge.
That being said, set your drama dials back to maximum and have at it. I know you want to.
Spotify + U.S. + Invites = Sexy
Yeah, it looks like Spotify, the music streaming company that spread across Europe like a wildfire and started working on plans to come to the U.S., months ago, has finally taken aim at our shores and will be here, any time.
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By Book or By Nook
I love the smell of books, I love the feel of them in my hands, how they look on the shelf, okay let’s face it, I just love books, but I also own a Nook. That’s why I was interested in Barnes and Noble’s new campaign that encourages reading. “By Nook or by book, I will read.” The love of books something that I took from my childhood, many people of my generation grew up in the booming time of electronics. The niftier the device the more attracted to it and the Nook is no exception to this, none of the e-readers are. The Nook combines the love of technology and love of reading, making over two million books, magazines, and newspapers available at people’s finger tips. People who had originally lost interest in reading have picked up a Nook and started reading again. Busy moms, single parents, business men, traveling people, and those who just thought that books were out dated have rediscovered the escape that lay with in the words of books. Read the rest of this article…
Google+ Go Public Or Get Booted
So…Digging around on Google+ reveals some interesting information. It seems that the fine folks at Google intend our profiles to be left public and, if we don’t want to be out in the public, they’ll kick us the hell out.
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New Sons Of Anarchy Teaser Released. Giggity Giggity Gig-Gi-Ty!
Sons Of Anarchy…That amazing FX show in which those lovable little scamps from “SAMCRO” so captured our hearts will be returning to FX this September. And they’ve given us another little teaser to keep the home fires burning. Be aware that the video has some very minor spoiler-ish imagery in it so if you’re a die-hard, don’t watch it.
For those who don’t mind seeing Jax’s new hair cut, check it out, along with a little more information, after the jump.
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