Evil Bear For Sell

Big soft cuddly teddy bear. Needs good home. Did I mention that it's possessed? Yeah. This big ol' softy is hardened by the forces of evil and pure putrid hate. He'll drive your girlfriend crazy, kill your cat, decapitate your other childhood stuffed animals, and then once he's destroyed everything you love in your life he'll come after you with a kitchen knife. And you can have him for about $350 on eBay. No joke. However, you better hurry because the auction ends in 2 days.

This guy has spun this incredible "possessed evil bear" back story for this one item, a mangy ol' teddy bear with no eyes. BUT, it's working. The auction is already up to about $360. Now, I've done some thinking and this is an ingenious tactic. Take a regular item, and give the people a huge backstory for it. Make the item into something more. I'm sure a couple pages of creativity and a piece of junk you don't want is worth about $200 plus.

Check out his eBay auction for the entire backstory. The real joy is reading the questions that people have left for this auction.

If the auction goes down I've provided his backstory in a .txt file for Download.

Evil Bear eBay Auction.txt
Evil Bear eBay Auction Questions.txt

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The wonderful world of eBay - What We All Want (props to Au$10 for alerting me to this)
Large Stuffed Bear - Haunted/Demonic Presence - eBay Auction
Knife-wielding devil teddy bear rampages through eBay - The Register

"I Need A Weapon"

So, last night my girlfriend calls me up and has me look at the moon. I looked at it, but there were alot of clouds far up in the atmoshpere that blurred it. She said that where she was, about 20 miles north of my location, she and her friend could see a big ring around the moon. She wanted to know if I knew what it was or what caused it. I had never heard of such so I assumed that perhaps it was a planet behind the moon. She guessed that it could be moonlight refracted. Well, this morning I checked into it. She was right.

Rings around the moon, or Lunar Halos, are caused by Moonlight that is being refracted from six-sided ice crystals looming in cirrus clouds high in the atmosphere. The halos have diameters of 22 degrees, and sometimes there could be a second halo with a diameter of 44 degrees.

Lunar Halos also foretell bad weather, such as storms. Why is that? Well, the nature of high altitude cirrus clouds is that they usually precede an oncoming warm front by one or two days. Warm fronts are associated with low pressure systems, which are.... storms. It is believed that the number of stars located within the halo indicate how many days before the storm.

Solar Halos can also occur in the same manner.

Your Phone's Ringing, Dude

The New York Times has an article about phantom rings/ringxiety. It delves into why we think we hear phones ring during tv commercials, while water is running, when a car passes by, or anytime. This has happened to me far too often. I'll be playing a game, like I usually do, and then I hear my phone ring. (My ringtone is a pretty shoddy .midi of the theme from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.) So I leave the game to check my phone, and no one has called. It's annoying, and very commonplace in this day and age. It also turns out that sounds around 1,000 hertz are very difficult for humans to locate. That's a fun fact, eh? What are some of your phantom ring stories?

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I Hear Ringing snd There's No One Around. I Wonder Why - The New York Times

Bark At The Moon!

Do you like guitars? Do you like heroes? Well, grab yourself a PS2 and Guitar Hero, and rock hard! That's what I've been doing. This game will keep the PS2 alive for quite sometime. Even after the next gens (Wii, 360, and PS3) are out and ready to consume the consumers. Guitar Hero will still be rawkin' on PS2. This game also includes a little guitar controller with 5 fret buttons, a strum bar, and a whammy bar. However, the best part is the star power! The guitar has a built in tilt sensor, and once you've acquired so much star power, you crank your guitar vertically like a rockstar and pump up the point multiplyer.

This game is however missing a few things, and one of them is an online leaderboard so that you can compare your scores with others around the world. That's why ScoreHero.com is here. Just play your song, upload your stats and compare. This program has some great features too. You can download a ScoreHero spreadsheet and input your scores, and then upload your spreadsheet to the page for multiple score uploads. The only thing this site is missing right now is a "friends" option. I would love to be able to add my friends who play, and compare my scores with just them on a page. If you stop by ScoreHero.com check out me, 3kalb, Gabe, hauz20, and Evan, ONE. Also, if you're one of the fotunates to have Guitar Hero and are posting on ScoreHero.com leave your username in the comments and we'll compare stats, y'all!

While you're here check out this incredible video of this Guitar Hero pwning "Cowboys From Hell" on Expert. Check out his fancy fingerwork and fill your shorts with frothy goodness. This video gets insane towards the latter half of the song.

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Wiiiiiiiiiii

In case you don't know by now, but I'm sure you do, Nintendo's Revolution is now called Wii, but why? Hmmm... Why indeed? First, the trailer for Wii.





And now what Nintendo officially has to say about their name selection.

"Introducing … Wii.
As in “we.”
While the code-name “Revolution” expressed our direction, Wii represents the answer.
Wii will break down that wall that separates video game players from everybody else.
Wii will put people more in touch with their games … and each other. But you’re probably asking: What does the name mean?
Wii sounds like “we,” which emphasizes this console is for everyone.
Wii can easily be remembered by people around the world, no matter what language they speak. No confusion. No need to abbreviate. Just Wii.
Wii has a distinctive “ii” spelling that symbolizes both the unique controllers and the image of people gathering to play.
And Wii, as a name and a console, brings something revolutionary to the world of video games that sets it apart from the crowd.
So that’s Wii. But now Nintendo needs you.
Because, it’s really not about your or me.
It’s about Wii.
And together, Wii will change everything."

It's cute and clever, eh? Yeah. Whatever it's called, Wii, Mee, Youu, it's still going to kick ass.

In celebration, or subtle defamation, of Nintendo's official name for their new console
YTMND.com has some great pages to offer. Here's a couple of my favorites.

Kramer likes to Wii!

Wii!!! (Gonads and Strife) (refresh?)

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Google 2 AVI Is As Easy Pie

How many times have you been watching a classic google video like "Angry Gamer on Xbox Live" and thought, "Man, I wish I could download this to my computer." No? Never? Just say, yes otherwise this post won't work. Yes? Good! Well, now you can, and all with the click of a button (bookmark that is.) Thanks to Google Videos As AVI you can. It's simple.

1. Add Google Videos As AVI to your bookmark list
   
2. Go to Google Video and find something you like
3. Click on the Google Videos As AVI bookmark and select Save As... and select your destination
4. BLAMO! It starts saving as an .AVI file

There is one catch though. The .AVI files don't seem to work in Windows Media Player. No biggee just download this great universal player entitled Media Player Classic. It's the cat's meow, babe! Not only will it play the MPEG4 encoded .AVI files created from Google Videos As AVI, but it also plays .RM (Real Media) files. So, now you don't have to put up with all the bullshit of Real Player.

Rube Nintendo Contraption

You like Rube Goldberg contraptions? You like Nintendo? Then feast your eyes on this dandy piece of work.

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DANCE PARTY HALF-LIFE!

Got 74 seconds to get down with yo' techno-self?

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