The Joy Of, um, Less Successful Videogame Play

If you’ve ever killed off your Sims or crashed your car in GTA, then you should check out Clive Thompson’s new article. Thompson, whose videogame commentaries have appeared on Slate and Wired, explains the Joy Of Sucking.

Best of Niner Niner July 06

Niner Niner, a collaborative weblog network, has over 25 great blogs and this “Best Of” highlights just a few of the posts that were written by some of the Niner authors, in topics that range from High Heels, Ajax, HIPAA Privacy Regulation to gadgets, books and health. 

     

In Ajax Blog, Sreejith introduces us to a few new things. First is Vox a new blogging service from Six Apart that uses WYSIWYG with a taste of web 2.0. After that we learn about Krun.ch and Wishlistr.

   

Blogging Naked: Scarification and lip plates are shown to be some of the newest and more popular form of “self-expression” in recent years.

Bookadoodle: Nancy Callahan posted more in her series “Getting Published” and this latest edition was part 5.

Boomer 2.0 had posts that pointed out that boomers can still have that second career and another that shows many are not even planning retirement anytime soon.

In Class Action Questions find out about lawsuits involving pyramid scams, hair raising beauty product claims and why State Farm was penalized.

Credit Cardenza: Unfortunately, millions of people are drowning in  credit card debt, have to worry about credit scams and fraud, and let’s not even talk about the international fees.

  

Dealsneak managed to sneak more than a few deals pass us this summer including, the Samsonite laptop case, a gorgeous leather bench, and a sweet looking Thermaltake Tsunami computer case.

Feed Money discusses the fact the Ebay has jumped on the contextual ad bandwagon as well as blog feeds and a program called RSS To Blog.

If you need to Fix Your Finances one of the first steps is learning how to save your money. After that you can check out Mvelopes to learn all about budgets.

At Games For Money you can find places to play free online gambling games and also learn some card counting tricks and tips.

  

The High Heels Blogs show us which killer heels are on sale including boots, sandals, slides and mules. Also take a look at some killer wedding heels for this summers nuptials.

 

A few notable gadgets that were blogged in the HyperGadget blog were the Kurzweil-National Federation of the Blind Reader, and the jumbled and messy looking organizer.

Over at the Medcare Forum, Kathleen Milazzo tells us more about that scary mad cow disease and our medical privacy laws.

Find out just how much house you can afford before you go running off to get that mortgage. And is the housing bubble really ready to blow? All this and more in Mortgage Updates.

At My Secret Side Biz learn how to make a profit, how to get your own powerwash, and simple business and Ebay tips.

On Healthy Living: Sarah White tells us all about a new study that could help with asthma reduction when it comes to do light exercise that involves stead breathing like yoga.

On Movies has a decade of super heroes list that includes recent and unreleased movies. Leafworks reviewed The Omen and we got to see the trailer for the new Ghost Rider movie.

Powersellers Blog: Ebay has done it. They finally reached 200 million members and they are also expanding into new ideas. Also people are fed up with Paypal while crooks are finding more ways to defraud your account.

Seo Updates: Yahoo one of the biggest email services was hit with a worm and Google expanded into real estate but won’t be making a browser, at least not anytime soon.

Get some free exercise tips from The Diet Logs. You will certainly need them if you plan to take a bite of this $100 burger.

Living the Single life? Well take a look at some great break up lines and if your looking to meet people Leafworks posted a great review of club La Rumba.

Thumb Gods: Nintendo is no, no to the name Wii for their new console a game system that is at the end of this long list containing The Evolution of Video Game Consoles.

Las Vegas Revealed that it was ill prepared for a massive disaster, but til then you can still get married and get comp’d in Vegas.

 

Wander the World, well the State of Colorado with Leafworks. He takes us to the Cherry Blossom Festival, Gothnic in Denver, Old Colorado City, Plaza del Arte Festival in Downtown Denver and Garden of the Gods.

Angry At The Daily Show

A few weeks ago Jon Stewart of Comedy Central’s Daily Show did a segment on the fact that Congress was busy blaming video games once again because they have nothing better to do. In it he showed Congressman Joseph Pitts of Pennsylvania and showed us an unedited clip of him speaking. Meaning that the daily show did not mess with or misconstrue his words. They let ol’ Pitts speak for himself and boy did he put his foot in it.

He says that poor kids are the ones to be worried about when it comes to violent video games. Apparently because they are poor they will see players in the video game robbing cars or shooting guns and say “well heck I should go do that”.

However he also says that rich kids can look at these same video games and know it’s wrong. They are better able to play these games and know they are just a game, but the poor kids, not. Obviously no money means no brains?

Now Joseph Pitts is angry at Jon Stewart and the Daily Show because he didn’t like the way they portrayed him, but like I said they just showed the clip, he was a fool all by himself.

Watch the Clip Here

Game Companies Want Your Casual Dollars

People who big gaming companies consider casual gamers are being targetted for their cash. Gaming companies such as RealNetworks Inc. notice that games such as Soduku is catching on with people who don’t usually play video games and are looking for a way to capitalize on it.

Unfortunately for these companies many of those games can be found for free offline and on so they are trying to come up with ways to make people want to spend money on something that they can get for free. I doubt that will be a problem considering that people spend millions on bottled water when they can get it for free from the tap.