D’oh! Pagans irritated by Homer Simpson

Homer vs. God of Fertility

The large white guy you see to the right in the image above is a great Fertility Symbol for the Pagans, named simply as the Cerne Abbas giant. The large white guy you see to the left in the image above is a great Cartoon Character for Americans, named simply as the Homer Simpson. And Pagans don’t like him.

The figure of giant above is supposedly from the 17th century and is regarded by the Pagan community to be a great fertility symbol. Heck, I can see his great fertility symbol right here, folks. He is located in Cerne Abbas, Dorset (which is in Great Britain) and has been revered for centuries. Well, some time ago he’s got competition.

The image of Homer Simpson armed with a donut and underwear was drawn with biodegradable paint to promote the upcoming Simpsons movie. A fine marketing idea, in my opinion. But the Pagans have been enraged by ol’ Homer.

Ann Bryn-Evans, joint Wessex district manager for The Pagan Federation, said: “It’s very disrespectful and not at all aesthetically pleasing.

“We were hoping for some dry weather but I think I have changed my mind. We’ll be doing some rain magic to bring the rain and wash it away.”

She added: “I’m amazed they got permission to do something so ridiculous. It’s an area of scientific interest.”

Rain magic? Predict that, Weather Channel! The Pagans are further irritated that bringing cascading down will cause a mess as it washes Homer and his donut away. Is it a Church conspiracy? Who knows. But it sure as hell is funny.

[Via The Sun]

Cloverfield, another look into madness

[Update] – Check out more of our Cloverfield Coverage!

Okay, Garbled Zombie posted two articles about this movie a few weeks ago but much of the article is littered with information that has since been proven false. EthanHaasWasRight is not related to Cloverfield, this has been confirmed by producer J.J. Abrams, in fact it seems to viral marketing for a game called Alpha-Omega. So, while EHWR is not for Cloverfield there are viral Marketing sites out there. One of those all-but-confirmed sites is Slusho, but there is evidence backing up this claim. A scene in the trailer shows a character wearing a shirt with the slusho logo and name on it.

Picture of character with help from the 1-18-08 fanblog

Now, not only is that in the movie, but the company has been tied directly to past Abrams works. The name Slusho was in an episode of Alias, which was produced by Abrams himself, as an Icee type company. The site itself has been stated as a marketing site for Cloverfield by an inside source according to NBC, but not by Paramount of Abrams. The site is strange to say the least. The product’s history is riddled with more than it’s share of Engrish translations and shows a very mysterious past about the company’s creator and his family. The likelihood of the site being fake is slim, but still possible.

third official picture

Now since the last few posts another picture has come up. It doesn’t provide much, if any, information, but it’s definitely after the “attack” by the parasite. The smoke could be anything, an expulsion of gas from the parasite or just smoke from the falling debris of the surrounding buildings. Something that has been pointed out in the the last picture though, a girl in the lower right hand corner of the party has a photoshopped number on her, the number 9. The significance of this has yet to be seen.
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Blizzard working on new, unannounced title

Blizzard Entertainment

Blizzard dropped a bomb when they announced StarCraft II. It looks like Blizzard is doing it again. During a discussion with Gamasutra, Blizzard’s senior vice president of product development, Frank Pearce said that a team of 40 people is working in “team 3”.

The diplomatically chosen revelation was found in the following context, straight from Pearce:

“Our global headcount is 2,700, and most of that is customer service for World of Warcraft! In terms of development staff it’s probably around 350. World of Warcraft is about 135 people, 40 for Starcraft II, 40 for team 3, our cinematics team is about 85 guys. Then there’s sound and Q/A and that sort of thing.”

Pearcesaid further that Team 3 is working on “something really awesome” (they always say that) and that he couldn’t give any hints. Gamasutra has confirmed that this is not the vaporware Starcraft Ghost, though.

Blizzcon starts 3rd August, which is not far away, as your friendly calendar will tell you. Is it possible that this new game, under construction by “Team 3” will be announced there? Most likely. What is this new game? Nobody knows for sure, though most fingers point towards Diablo 3. We’ll just have to wait for Blizzcon.

[Via Gamasutra]

Forget the PSP, I want a PMP!

The PMP

Yes. First off, I’m talking about PMP, not a PIMP. But pimp jokes are going to be rather common now, with this sweet little device in action. It may not look like much, but this PSP-killer is packed with more stuff than your grandma’s attic.

The manufacturer of this beauty, the Portable Media Player is “3rd party”, but I and Engadget are pretty sure it was made in China. I mean, we just need a Chinglish instruction manual to prove it. But regardless of electronic ethnicity, the PMP is able to:

  • Emulate NES, SNES, Sega MD and SMC.
  • Play AVI, MPEG-4, DivX, XviD, MP3, WMA, and FLAC files (with an “Equlizer”, OMG.)
  • View JPG, GIF, BMP images.
  • Capture videos with a 1.3 megapixel MPEG-4 video camera.
  • Record sound (MP3).
  • Read E-Books.
  • Support 4-goddamned-gigabytes via SD card.
  • Smash Sony’s teeth and swallow it whole.

Yeah, that above list contains more things than your godforsaken computer can. The PSP costs $200 and can’t emulate the SNES. The sweet, sweet PMP can, at a mere $109.68 (or 850.00 in Hong Kong currency). I freaking want this.

[Engadget via Gizmodo. Buy it here.]

Championship Gaming Series

Video game tournaments have never been treated with much of any respect in the US. The Championship Gaming Series aims to change that by having high octane adrenaline gaming all a TV channel away – If you have DIRECTV!

From what I’ve seen they actually are trying out new things such as giving coaches to teams. These coaches actually yell at players as they are playing the game. This does add some nice action every now and then.

Check out some clips for yourself in our media player below. You can see the full shows on channel 101, every Monday and Wednesday at 10 pm EST/7 pm PST throughout the month of July.