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Oh, look: someone else who loathes U2 as much as this one. “Anyway, U2 has a new album coming out now, and based on the commercial, it sounds like the same pseudorock pseudoedgy schlock they’ve been putting out since at least 1993. If you like that kind of thing, feel free to download it and play it on their overpriced, underuseful Ipod. [sic]”

Oh, incidentally: If you knew who Bungie was before Halo, you must see Red vs Blue #43. Brill’.

Bungie.net is carrying a new interview with the RvB guys. “I don’t think you can call internet famous actually being a celebrity. I have never been recognized anywhere, but Gus gets it all the time. When he goes to Best Buy or Fry’s, he’s recognized about fifty percent of the time.”

I need to clarify something. I’ve been playing a lot of Gamecube games lately, which is odd, because usually there’s nothing to play on it and it just sits there like a bookend. I had some early calls on games that haven’t turned out to be accurate, and it’s something I want to rectify. Most recently, it’s Mario Tennis, which I felt you could skip safely when first I played it. After several days of play, I’m not so sure about that.

As seen on Slashdot, the Dallas Observer is running an article on the SMU “Guildhall” video-game programming graduate program, from the perspective of the brutally overworked students.

Metroblogging Houston:
“It appears that, at least in the location I use (Westheimer ramp), the attendant leaves at 2am (on weekdays). As a result, because there’s no way to pay if you don’t have exact change, both lanes are open for you to use without paying. In other words, free access on the Beltway after 2am.”

“Like most of the nation’s ten-year-olds, I had an intense, private relationship with Snoopy, the cartoon beagle.” Comfort Zone: Growing up with Charlie Brown, a lovely exploration of Peanuts and life in the 70s, by Jonathan Franzen, in The New Yorker.