Tragically Unhip

This speaks for itself.

Another video from the new Bruce album. Pretty good song, too. Can’t wait to hear the whole album. More good bass playing from Garry Tallent (and check out at around 1.15 when he lifts his fingers off the bass strings and the furrows cut into his finger tips from playing look like you could drive a car through them.)

This is crazy…

“2009 to arrive not a second too soon
‘Leap Second’ added to 2008 so Earth can catch up to super-accurate clocks”

More here.

Cool stuff. But the part where they mention “the world’s irregular but gradually slowing rotation,” kind of made me worry. Like, no rotation, no gravity. Er…

Ok, so if you know me, then you know what a Star Wars nut I am. So, as my daughter was getting a Wii from Santa, I thought I’d get The Force Unleashed. It is, after all, my one chance to kick ass with a light saber.
I’ve been playing it for a few days, and admittedly am not that far in, but something already had occurred to me I wanted to share with the thousands of loyal readers to this blog every day. I’m good like that.
So, game Pro list:
Light sabers!!!! ‘Nuff said! You get to swing your controller around and live put every boyhood fantasy you ever had! Sweet.

Unleashed force powers. The force is whacked up and out of control, so everything you do you do BIG. Surrounded by enemies? Not a problem, just hit their asses with Force Repulse and they are going down!

Cool story. You are Darth Vader’s secret apprentice, in the days just before A New Hope. Together, if you prove worthy, you’re going to topple the emperor and rule all.

So, Con list…
I really have only one, but it’s a big one. Boss fights! Or rather – how to end them! When you have a boss almost beat, the screen will show an image of either the nunchuk or the remote, at which point you are supposed to furiously wave it about in the air like a madman until the icon for the other one appears and you wave that about instead. While you do this the fight becomes automated and the scene plays out itself, and will end one of two ways. If the system decides you’ve waved and controllers about in a suitably crazy (and seemingly random) fashion then you’ll beat the boss. If not, he’ll throw you off, the user-control returns and he has most of his life back! WHAT? There just doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to it. It’s referred to as a finishing move but that’s just it – it ISN’T a move, it’s you trying to swing the controls for dear life (not easy on the short cable that joins them) and trying not to miss the on-screen prompts for which one to wiggle about. Miss it, or not swing it crazily enough, and your chance has passed. The fight resumes and your enemy is suddenly a lot stronger again. It’s irritating as hell. I’m pretty low on patience, so it’s maybe partially me that’s to blame here, but I don’t call standing in my living room for an hour on the same boss fight fun, I call it annoying. Who ever came up with this ending to All of the fights should be beaten and fired.
Perhaps in reverse order, I’ll leave that to the good people at Lucasarts.

Indexed is a good blog. So, I thought I’d do my own.

Rockin’ Good News….

Screenies here…

Looks pretty close to what we have already seen. I like it, but I do think that even with the changes in the taskbar, it’s still not enough. The whole format should have changed. But what the hell. The new functionality is still cool.

(.. um… that’s it, really!)

This would be funny if it was in a TV show. The fact that this bigot is the head of the Catholic church, however, kills the laughter right in your throat.

“Anger after pope homosexuality comments
A suggestion by Pope Benedict XVI that homosexuality is as much of a threat to the survival of the human race as climate change has sparked outrage among gay rights campaigners.

In his end-of-year speech at the Vatican yesterday, the pope said gender theory blurred the distinction between male and female, and he called for ‘an ecology of the human being’ to protect mankind ‘from self-destruction’.”

More here. Via Travors.

I really don’t know how many years I have been watching The Muppets, but just this morning, watching The Muppets Take Manhattan, (mis-spelled Mahnattan by TV3 on every ad break) I noticed his eyelids are his sunglasses!

From the same behind-the-scenes footage as My Lucky Day.
Good vid.