So the new blog is located at http://www.jaksplace.net/blog and I have already imported the recent posts. They are not formatted correctly but I am too fucking lazy to actually go fix them all. Anyway, please update your feeds/bookmarks to the new site =)

News
Hangover-free Buzz: Star Trek’s Synthehol Now Possible
AOL Censors Email Tax Opponents
Jack Thompson sues Florida Bar
Videogames Help Burn Calories

Articles/Features
Get rid of the Windows Update reboot nag
The Top 25 web sites of 1994

Random
Tokyo Looks Like Gotham City?
How to use your ink cartridges until they’re (really) empty

Today’s Featured Comic
Paris Gets What’s Coming to Her

Today’s Useless Fact
Zachary Taylor, formerly a professional soldier, never voted. He didn’t even vote in the election that elected him U.S. president.

News
Ubisoft Dropping Starforce
Afghans selling US army secrets on USB Drives
Blizzard Bans 5,400 WoW Users and Suspends Over 10,000 More
Lucent Technologies Sues Microsoft Over Xbox 360
Battlestar Galactica game under consideration
Spy Hunter movie script leaked?
1930′s Noir Title announced for Revolution – Entirely in Black and White
Vista Aero Unavailable for Pirates
Girl’s heart restarted after ten years
Coca-Cola with Real Coca Leaves Bottled by Indigenous Tribe
200 GB Blu-Ray Drive?
Sega Handheld is April Fools Joke
‘South Park’ Creators Skewer Own Network

Articles/Features
Retronauts – Earthbound
PS2 Due for a Price Drop?
Simon Pegg Talks to CVG
Game Shops Might Screw you out of a PS3
Game Ads A-Go-Go: The Dirty Mind of a Gamer
Nickel and Dime Your Way to Financial Security
Best Light Gun Games for a Re-Revolution
How YouTube became hot property in online video
Would You Like A Franchise With That? (Games, Comics, and Movies From A Hollywood Perspective)
Playstation 3 To Be Fat And Retarded

Random
Game of The Week – Somari the Mario/Sonic Hybrid
Google Calendar is Live
PS3 currently too big and too clever?

Today’s Featured Comic
A little under-dressed?

Today’s Useless Fact
Gold was first known to be used as jewelry in parts of Central and Eastern Europe in 4000BC.

While I had vague memories of this show, they were indeed fond ones. I remember getting up for school early just to watch this every morning before catching the bus. I also remember it being one of my favorite shows at the time it was on TV right along with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. However, while I could recall specifics of TMNT (Even before I owned all 4 released DVD’s of the original series), I could not remember a damn thing about this show other than it was 5 different colored Samurai warriors.

So upon re-watching the series (only the first 4 episodes thus far), I can easily see why I loved it. While the voice acting is fairly crappy (I have the english translated version) the overall show has aged remarkably well. Since it was a 80′s Japanese Anime, it has the look of Macross, Robotech and such.

Much like other Japanese anime of the time such as Dragonball, it is one continual story over 39 episodes as opposed to a episodic series (ala TNMT). The premise of the story is that thousands of years ago, the evil emperor Talpa attempted to conquer the Earth. Defeated, he was banished to the Nether Realm and his armor was divided into 9 separate suits. Now, he has returned to conquer Earth, having reclaimed 4 of the suits which have been given to Talpa’s warlords. The other 5 are in the possession of the Ronin Warriors. Now, all Talpa needs to conquer Earth is those 5 suits, but the Ronin Warriors have no intention of giving them up.

So far, I am really REALLY enjoying this show. The fight sequences are frequent and awesome and it has a very dark feel to it which belies its nature as a childrens series. They talk often about death and killing and even use profanity (Thus far Damn, Hell and even Shit). Obviously, I am watching an uncut version which makes me wonder how things were changed in the version shown on TV.

I fully intend to pick up the boxed set within the next few weeks and am probably going to scrounge around for some figures to go with my TMNT collection.

News
Paramount Pictures Teams up with XBox Live
Sega’s New Handheld?

Articles
Sad Story of ‘Boy in the Bubble’
Games that were Too Wild for the West
Top 10 Tuesday: Modern Vaporware
Silent Hill Movie Interview
How I Got My First Computer, and How I Got My First Computer Back
Would You Like A Franchise With That? (Games, Comics, and Movies From A Hollywood Perspective)

Random
Pop culture references in Warcraft
Sexual Moments in Video Game History

Today’s Featured Comic
Vegeterian = Culinary Masturbation

Today’s Useless Fact
During the Renaissance when Charles VIII’s armies entered France, he also brought with him his passion for perfume. Charles even had his own personal perfumer. Rose, orange blossom, and rosemary oil were favorite scents in his court.

News
Virginia Seeks New “M” Label
Jail employee fired for allegedly striking his wife over Dungeons and Dragons toys
The truth about the Light at end of the tunnel over near death experiences

Articles
The Most Controversial Video Game Ads of All Time
Games That Defined The Dreamcast
Only from Japan – Games of the Far East
I don’t want Windows on a Mac. I want OS X on a PC.
A Multiplayer Melee on Female Gamers
How Wal-Mart Controls Your Games
Getting things deleted from Google’s cache
The Making of 3D Monster Maze

Random
Macintosh Ads Circa 1984
Interesting XBox Live Project
Your favorite NES games, voxalized
Ending to NES Life Force
Awesome Graphics Card Comparisons
Copy and paste between computers
Play Quake III in Your Browser

Today’s Useless Fact
There is evidence to suggest that ginger root is effective against motion sickness and nausea when taken in powdered form

Today’s Comic Goodness
Commissioned Comic

“We’re biased as all fuck, but we try to be honest”

The show airs Mondays at 10p and I highly recommend watching it or downloading (as I do since I have no TV). I have seen every episode from seasons 1 to 3 and have already downloaded both episodes from season 4 (Boy Scouts and Prostitution). I have yet to find a show I didn’t like and there have only been maybe 1 or 2 that I personally disagreed with.

The show is always entertaining and always informative so check it out. The first two seasons are available on DVD and well worth purchasing.

News
Burger King To Sell Xbox 360 Games?
Uwe Boll Bites Back
There IS a problem with global warming… it stopped in 1998

Articles
Apple vs. Me
Only ‘freaks’ waste their time with Linux in Oklahoma
The Glory of the Shooter
Ten Castlevania sequels you haven’t played

Random
Unintentionally Freaky Mario Lego Creation
Zelda Soundboard
The Xbox 360 And PS3 Controllers In LEGOs
Lara Croft XBox 360 Case

Today’s Useless Fact
The declawing of a pet cat involves surgery called an onychectomy, in which the entire claw and end bone of each toe of the animal are amputated. Cat owners considering it should know that it’s a controversial operation, with potential adverse physical and psychological effects on the cat.

News
Star Wars Kid Gets Paid
Next Oblivion Add-on Priced
British FBI-style Logo Compares to Thundercats

Articles
Running Oblivion/Half-Life 2/F.E.A.R On a Machintosh
Tetris from the Top: An Interview with Henk Rogers
Nerds Make Better Lovers

Random
Star Wars Origami
The Top 10 weirdest keyboards ever
Jack Thompson Toilet Paper
Mega Man on Something Awful
11 Craziest Mental disorders

Today’s Useless Fact
Heinrich W. Brandes made the first weather map in 1815, based on data gathered in 1783. Brandes waited so long because it was the only way he could be certain the information was correct.

I have a multitude of things available to me to keep me occupied however none of them seemed particularly interesting.While I am almost through my game queue, I am unable to summon the desire to play any games. I also am in the middle of reading the Halo Trilogy (Currently on The Flood) which is a great series, but I do not feel like reading right now. I also have a ton of backlogged web articles to read, podcasts to listen to and so on. However, NONE of it strikes me as particularly entertaining this weekend.

So yesterday, while sitting in my chair contemplating what to do to occupy my time, I suddenly had a huge urge to indulge in retro movies. So I began downloading things that I wanted to watch. Obviously, this took some time so I was still bored for most of yesterday. However, last night and this morning, I was able to satiate my boredom with movies I had not seen in far too long.

First on the list was The Goonies. It has easily been 5 years since I last saw this film and I was curious if it was still as good as I remembered. Luckily it was and I sat there in a nostalgic haze remember what life was like back then.

Next up was The Wizard, a film that has (rightfully so) been criticized as being a 90 minute commercial for Nintendo. However, I did not care about that. While there were a few groan worthy parts (Anything with the Power Glove), it was still really enjoyable. Video Game geeks like me can point out any number of factual errors in the video game scenes, but who cares! I was reminded how much I loved this movie when I first saw it and I still love it today. I just wish they would release it on DVD in the U.S. (Lucky Europeans)

Then we had License to Drive which was made at the height of the Cory Haim/Feldman craze. While it also has its share of groan inducing scenes and dialog, it was still fun. I did not enjoy it nearly as much as I did when I was a kid, but I do not regret re-watching it. I wonder how many of the Haim/Feldman collaborations are still enjoyable today, and which ones are complete ass (IE Dream a Little Dream 2).

The next viewing was of Stand By Me. I can honestly say it had been about 10 years since I last saw this film but the scene that I always (and will always) remember was the Lardass Hogan scene. I discovered that yeah, it still grosses me out even now. The movie really is amazing though and I will be purchasing this DVD for my collection.

After that I watched Transformers: The Movie, which I can honestly say I had never seen (at least that I can recall). I was more into GI Joe and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles myself. However, I really did enjoy the movie and I think I will start picking up the DVD’s of the G1 series.

Finally, I watched The Monster Squad which is another film I had not seen in about 10 years. The only thing I remembered was “Wolfman’s got nards!” and I sat there with a shit-eating grin on my face when that scene came up. All in all, this was still a great movie and I will try to watch it more than once a decade.

I am still downloading Flight of the Navigator which will be done within the next few hours. Now that I have time in-between movies, I attempted to do something else but again found I have no desire to. Most likely I will sit here browsing the web until the next one is done upon which time I will happily start it up and regress to a happier time in my life.

Luckily, tomorrow I should have two movies from my Blockbuster Online queue arriving. Those being Rashomon and Throne of Blood which are both Akira Kurosawa flicks. As some of you may know, Kurosawa is my favorite director of all time so I can always enjoy his films.