Raedyn's Blog: 2/1/09

Friday, February 6, 2009

BYU Accidentally Proves Violent Video Games Lead to More Sex

"However...clear correlations were seen between frequent gaming and more frequent alcohol and drug use and lower quality personal relationships, as well as more frequent violent gaming and a greater number of sexual partners and low quality personal relationships."

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Husband dumps his wife through online message

A wife has spoken of her anger and humiliation after her six-year marriage was ended in the 'world's first divorce by Facebook'.

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Playstation 3 sales hit 20 million worldwide

Playstation 3 sales have now passed the 20 million units mark. The console reached that milestone during the last week of January after 117 weeks on sale and is set to pass lifetime sales of Nintendo’s Gamecube in the coming months.

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Kid Breaks World Record (and a Controller) in Guitar Hero

At a Best Buy store in Midtown Manhattan, Danny recorded a score of 973,954 with a roughly seven-minute rendition of DragonForce’s heavy-metal shredder “Through the Fire and Flames,” the game’s most difficult song.

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Sane MySpace user prevents Webcam suicide

Coltrane, a 22-year-old from New Jersey, befriended a teenager from the Sacramento area on MySpace. About a month later, the teen revealed in a Webcam chat that he was cutting himself and intended to take his own life.

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Michael Phelps suspended 3 months by USA Swimming

Michael Phelps was suspended from competition for three months by USA Swimming, the latest fallout from a photo that showed the Olympic great inhaling from a marijuana pipe.

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Stephen Colbert Goes Christian Bale on Steve Martin

A lot of fun has been had with the audio of Christian Bale being an asshole on the set of the new Terminator movie. Remixes, soundboards, ringtones, You’re the Men Now Dog, they’ve all been somewhere on the funny spectrum. So, good job, internet. But what you do doesn’t involve Steve Martin, and that’s why I prefer Stephen Colbert to the internet.

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Treasury overpaid to the tune of $78 Billion! WTF

The chairwoman of a Congressional TARP ovesight panel just dropped a bombshell nugget in a Senate banking Committe Hearing. She says that Treasury -- using TARP money -- vastly overpaid in its first 8 purchases -- to the tune of 78Billion dollars. This means that more than 10% of the 700 Billion in TARP funds were essentially wasted.

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Teen attempts suicide to give liver to dying father

A 13-year-old Chinese girl tried to commit suicide because she wanted her family to donate her liver to her cancer-stricken father.

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Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Sony PS3 Fan creates NEW PSN Experience

A PS3 fan going by the name Emissark(PSN ID) has posted some interesting concept art on a New PSN Experience.

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Leaked PS4 Details - “flatly denied” by Sony

A couple of days ago, a leaked specs report took the Internet community by storm. See, this was no ordinary specs report. The supposed data was said to be the much-speculated about PlayStation 4 model, and according to the original story, it will be targeting casual gamers.

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New Sims 3 Trailer

EA to launch 'Sims 3' June 2

Electronic Arts said on Tuesday that The Sims 3, the third full iteration of one of the most successful video game franchises of all time, will hit store shelves on June 2.

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Belly Buttons May Signal a Woman's Vigor

Many mammals have virtually no noticeable belly button. We humans, however, are left with an umbilical scar that is not only obvious but which varies dramatically. Some are seen as beautiful. Others are deemed ugly. Aki Sinkkonen at the University of Helsinki in Finland thinks the belly button, aka the umbilicus, serves a greater purpose.

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Cops: Man puts 911 dispatcher on hold to buy drugs

CLEVELAND (AP) -- Police in Cleveland say a man called 911 because he felt he was in danger - then asked the dispatcher to hold on while he made a drug deal.

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Tuesday, February 3, 2009

NFL Fantasy Files: The Best Players

Player skills you don't see everyday. This is what sets them apart from the rest of the crowd.

Madden 09 picks Super Bowl winner and nearly nails score

Madden is 5-1 at predicting the Super Bowl winner! Move over Nostradamus and Magic 8-Ball!

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Street Fighter and Resident Evil invade PlayStation Home

Capcom plans on supporting PlayStation Home in a big way. Famitsu has revealed brand new Home content based on Capcom's upcoming games, Street Fighter IV and Resident Evil 5. SFIV will receive a post-release patch that will allow players to meet in Home and then jump directly into a Street Fighter match.

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GM & Chrysler sue taxpayers... with taxpayer money

As California’s attorney general, Jerry Brown, pointed out on NPR:“The irony here is the auto companies want a bailout, in many ways because they weren’t building the kind of cars that were compatible with today’s energy market – and at the same time, they want to keep going with their lawsuits, which have already cost millions and millions."

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Beautiful, Stunning, Huge "Mothership" Over Childress, Texas

"A rare, mother ship cloud formation hovers over Childress, Texas. Tornado-chasers there covered seven hours and 150 miles (241 kilometers) tracking the supercell thunderstorm that produced this cloud formation. Supercell thunderstorms are known to spawn tornadoes with winds exceeding 200 mph (322 kph)." Photographer: Carsten Peter

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