Free Online Games

1:47 pm in Gaming

These are some free online game sites. You’ll enjoy countless hours of fun at no cost. What could be better?

Here are some of the funnest sites out there, I highly recommend all of them!

Free Online Games

Addicting Games

Mini Clip

Free Arcade

Daily Games

Online Flash Games

Played Online

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Shameless Advertising In The Sports World

1:10 pm in Sports

Looking on the court of the Big East Tournament I was dismayed by what I saw. In big print letters on the court was an advertisement for Free Credit Report.com, I couldn’t believe it. Not even a reputable company like AT&T or Gatorade. That company has been known to do shady practices such as hiding the fact that they charge you $15 a month for you to see your credit score, so it’s not free at all.

I dread that this could become a big problem in the near future. You could see Nike, Verizon, Pepsi, Coca Cola, all sorts of shameless advertising right on the hard wood. I’m sure the advertisers were thinking what better ad spot than the court where players run back and fourth and the fans eyes are fixed on it the whole time.

Do we not have enough advertising between game breaks and right as we come back from break. The announcers even shamelessly promote TV shows from the same network during the game. They didn’t used to do that in the eighties and before. Heck, once I even saw Kobe drink a Sprite after winning the NBA Finals. Yeah, because Sprite really quenches your thirst, ludicrous! Sure Gatorade has carbs, but it also has lots of sugar and high fructose corn syrup to fatten you up. So the regular joe who drinks it has to work out like an NBA player just to stay in good shape. There really is not substitute for water, but there is vitamin water.

Nowadays you even have ads on the DVR menu screen. There are ads by the scorekeepers bench and the commentators. You know the banners next to the tournament logo where the players sub in to the game. There is plenty of advertising so we don’t need to ruin the reputation of the game by putting ad logos on the court. Eventually it might become like Nascar with ten different logos on the basketball court, how trashy would that look? Or are we going to have ad logos on the team’s jersey because the team owner is short on cash? Hopefully this was a one time event and the league doesn’t want to ruin it’s reputation by continuing down this road. Unfortunately usually in money deals with ad companies it is a slippery slope. Once you start giving out ad spots you rarely go back and remove them.

Natasha Richardson Skiing Accident

11:36 am in Movies

British actress Natasha Richardson was recently involved in a skiing accident. She was taking lessons at the famed Mont Tremblant ski resort located in Montreal when she suffered a head injury after falling. She was rushed to the hospital and is in critical condition. Her husband, Liam Neeson stopped work on his upcoming film “Chloe” to head straight for Montreal. Our thoughts and prayers are with Natasha and her family.

Pure Digital Flip Ultra Series F260 Camcorder

4:00 pm in News

Here is a review for the new Pure Digital Flip Ultra Series F260 camcorder. Has some nice features and easy portability.

The Guild 2: Highly Addictive

3:01 pm in Gaming

“The Guild 2″ is a game that has every aspect you could want in a game. If you are okay with a long tutorial and learning a lot of features, you will thoroughly enjoy this PC game. It has elements from The Sims, Pirates, Dynasties, Law and Order, Politics and other cool concepts. Besides that, the graphics are awesome to top it off.

You design your character and choose his starting stats that build up with experience. This is typical of most rpgs(role playing games). You can be a craftsman, rogue, scholar or patron. Their is 3-5 subclasses in those categories depending on who you pick. Such as miners, woodcutters or black smithy. You can hire employees to help your business (rogues can hire thugs, patrons hire servants). This is highly immersive as their is real time economy in the game. You mine the iron, sell it in market, then a smith can buy it, make something and sell that item (armor, swords, etc.) in the market. Then the computer or real player can store it in his house or carry it. A rogue can then go to his house and steal it. So an item is never lost unless a character dies. He can even pass his items on to his children if he is of old age. Plus the prices in the market fluctuate depending on supply. You can make money just from buying and selling in various markets.

The game is multiplayer as well, online or network which makes it really enjoyable. You can compete in the markets or in elections. Vie for the city mayor or accuse each other of crimes in court. Or you can ally and try to take out the other computer guilds. Their are multiple cities in each map and tons of room to run your own city and show it off to your friend in game. You can even move different characters in your dynasty from town to town. So if you get bored of one town you can switch towns.

There are also titles in the game, you can go from commoner to baronet. You also pass your titles down to your children, so your dynasty can prosper. There is also a feature where your children take the attributes of you and your wife. So their stats will be good if you and your wife have great stats. You can control three people from your dynasty. This leaves plenty of room to have variety and keep things interesting. Since each character can’t change classes, you can have your wife and son be two different classes or you can specialize on one skill and refine it throughout generations, so your kids can be born with a mastery of skills in that craft.

Freenapkin.com

1:01 pm in News

I found this great site, Free Napkin (freenapkin.com) where you can get all sorts of stuff in your local area for free. People post stuff they are trying to get rid of and the first person to claim the item gets it. There is no catch, everything is free on the site. There are items ranging from speakers, lamps, dryers, even dogs! All you have to do is sign up for the site and claim the item you want. I believe you might have to pick it up yourself though because the giver won’t want to pay for shipping on an item that’s not making them a profit. There is some really great stuff, so check it out today!

Don Imus Says He Has Prostate Cancer

12:28 pm in News

(AP) NEW YORK – Don Imus said he has prostate cancer, but the radio personality expressed confidence in a full recovery.

Imus, 68, made the announcement Monday on his morning show from New York, which airs on ABC Radio Networks and cable’s RFD-TV. He said he wrestled with the idea of making it public, but figured he should because he might have to miss some work due to treatment.

“I’m changing the name of the Imus Cattle Ranch for Kids with Cancer to the Imus Cattle Ranch for Kids with cancer and me,” he said, referring to his charity to help children with cancer.

Imus said he has early stage cancer, which means it hasn’t spread outside the prostate.

A one-time shock jock who now does a show heavy on the media and politics, Imus was fired by CBS Radio and MSNBC in spring 2007 for a racial slur of the Rutgers women’s basketball team. He later apologized. He’s built his radio network back to the level it was before the incident, although his influence has waned.

Imus said he was surprised more than anything about the diagnosis, since he’s been focused on following a healthy diet for the past decade.

He noted that doctors seemed reluctant to talk about one of his big worries: What prostate cancer treatment will mean for his sex life.

Howard K Stern Arrested

4:16 pm in News

Anna Nicole Smith’s longtime doctor and partner, Howard K Stern, has been arrested for conspiring to supply controlled drugs to an addict. Stern turned himself in last night as well as doctors Sandeep Kapoor and Khristine Eroshevich have been charged with the same crime. The two were colleagues of Stern’s.

Smith died aged 39 in February 2007 after overdosing on prescription medications, just months after her 20-year-old son Daniel also died of a lethal combination of drugs. It’s too soon to say, but her son’s death may be suspect to conspiracy as well.

John Stewart-Jim Cramer Video

12:00 pm in Television

Here is the video of the recent John Stewart rant against Jim Cramer’s stock picks and Cramer’s retaliation. I think John Stewart is just targeting Cramer because he is one of the few well known stock analysts on TV. Cramer has some valid points about the whole market coming down but he did recommend Bear Sterns.

The Boondock Saints Debacle Explained

8:46 pm in Movies

The Boondock Saints was one of the greatest cult classics of the last century. From the very beginning it had been plagued with setbacks and complications that eventually led to the film being released straight to DVD. The film has been arguably the most successful cult film, winning over millions of fans and becoming highly popular in a sense that it managed to become part of an almost mainstream type of pop culture for many teenagers and remains so to this day.

Director Troy Duffer wrote the screenplay after witnessing a horrid scene: he came home to find that a woman had died in a drug dealer’s room across the hall from his apartment. The film would be plagued itself with bad luck. After impressing Miramax with his script, Harvey Weinstein had decided to give it a $15 million budget. Everything seemed on track for a major launch at the theaters.

Then Duffy happened. After repeated arguments with Duffy over casting, Miramax dropped the project. Due to these troubles, Duffy was forced to find a smaller independent company to finance the film, with a smaller budget and not the cast originally hoped for. Nonetheless, the film he made would become a blockbuster sensation, but not in the way anticipated, and in more ways than one.

The release of Boondock Saints in theaters in 1999 was, according to Duffy, unfortunately timed. Due to the Columbine High School shootings recently occurring, the film was reduced and limited to only five screens in the entire United States, and even then, only for one week. With help from Blockbuster Video, who had discovered it to be widely popular in their stores, Troy Duffy secured financing to re-release the film in 2006. Due to word-of-mouth, Boondock Saints had gained a cult following, which some critics might argue is undeserved. The other die-hard fans have proven it to be a success despite the monumental problems it’s release faced.

With this given trend of bad luck, especially in the development and production of the film, when Duffy announced a sequel to have financial backing in 2002, many would be right to be skeptical. The release date of 2005 never came to be, and Duffy made clear later on this happened due to litigation with the company in control of the film rights. 20th Century Fox would eventually step in and agree to back the production of the sequel. It finally seems that for now, the troubles for Duffy and the crew may now be over. The film has been marked as in post-production, and Duffy states possible release by the end of the year.