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All sorts of randomness is welcome here. Post pictures, videos, special Chat information, or just discuss news and current events.

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Rock Band: The Great Unifier...

As I type, I'm currently waiting for a new Rock Band bass drum pedal to arrive and replace my broken one (snapped on me last week - was bound to happen, but still). In any case, hopefully I can confirm that EA's warranty policy is solid for this game if this piece arrives sooner than later.

In the meantime, I came across a fun little feature about how Rock Band saved a woman's marriage. It'll leave you all warm and fuzzy-feelin' inside, I hope:

http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/05/27/rock_band/

Cheers.

Matrix Ping Pong

Wow, this is from a show called Kasou Taishou. Interesting...

Real Men of Genius

So today I was secretly praising the guys at Budweiser for making a whole new set of Real Men of Genius commercials for the summer (T-Shirt Launcher Inventor) and so on a whim, I randomly searched for, and found, this.

Blame SG for this...

So, let's have some Russell Peters for today. Apparently, this stand-up comedian can do more than just make us laugh.

Oh, Filipinos got included in here a bit, but it's all good.

Efforts and Results

So I was bored today and noticed that myOtaku's comments layout is still pretty horrible even though it's been two months since Adam said people could submit new layouts for him to consider. I've no idea whether people never submitted anything decent or if he just hasn't had time to change the layout but I decided to whip something up.

After a few hours of tinkering I came up with this. It's still fairly simple (and I'm assuming avatars can be put back into comments since they're back on the main myO pages) but it's way better than the current layout at any rate. And it's completely valid XHTML! I figured I'd post it up here so people can suggest changes before I send it to Adam. What do you guys think?

And bonus points to anyone who knows where the post title is from.