Madness Factor

I’ve don’t usually do linkdumps, but I’ve come across enough interesting stuff on the internets today that I feel like, hey, what the hell. Without further ado…

From an article in the New York Times, billboards that address you personally. (Via Mental Floss.)
More proof some of us prefer ignorant bliss: 13 percent of Americans have not [...]

Time has named Wii Sports the top game of 2006.
There is no possible way to say this enough times: great graphics don’t make great games. Perfect Dark Zero looked like a Titian, but it was a snooze. Wii Sports—a mini-sports anthology that includes golf, boxing, tennis, baseball and bowling—looks like Colecovision. The little guys on [...]

It looks like Colbert cheated his way to dominance over the Decemberists in the guitar duel. I should have guessed! Read all about it here.
In other news, hubby got me a Wii for Christmas. It’s good fun — and more interactive than I anticipated. I played Wii Sports for several hours Christmas day, and the [...]

When its strap breaks, the controller for the Nintendo Wii can become a dangerous projectile, causing damage to humans as well as electronics. See video below, and check out this article in the Seattle Times. The video has a small bit of farce mixed in, but you’ll get the point.

Given that a lot of my time has been spent in the gaming world recently, I figured I might as well blog about it. One thing I can’t ignore—and this is true of the pro audio world as well—is that women seem to be an afterthought when it comes to product design and marketing. Even [...]