I’m sure everyone is well aware of the issues regarding the 360′s internal design shortcomings and the problems that it can cause. Microsoft’s reputation as a console manufacturer has been severely tarnished over recent months after rumours of a 33% hardware failure rate (aye right!) and the following knee jerk reaction to extend the 360…
Hundreds of rubber ducks are expected to appear in the waters around Cornwall and eventually be washed up on the shore.
No, this isn’t some bizarre PR stunt, the ducks were part of a consignment travelling from Hong Kong to the US that fell overboard along with thousands of other plastic animals during a storm in January 1992.
The rubber duckys have been floating the seas for the past 15 years, covering 17,000 miles with some finding themselves washed up on shores as far flung as Alaska and Austrialia. Collectors are willing to pay up to £1000 per toy, far outweighing the reward of £50 offered by the manufacturers!
It’s not often an online game gets my attention like Desktop Tower Defence has, so I felt it was only right that I share it with you.
DTD is war. War against creeps – tiny little critters that scurry around the game screen from one side to the other. Your mission is to stick weapons in a minesweeper-meets-maze style layout, forcing the creeps past all your firepower and hopefully kill them all before they make it out the otherside and escape.
Being flash based, the puzzle/strategy game doesn’t need anything installed other than the Flash plugin. High scores can be saved online for all to see and you can even create high score groups so that all your work colleages/schoolmates scores are listed together.
Every few seconds sees another wave of creeps launched into your maze, each with their own characteristics. You may be fighting against speedy creeps, slow but seemingly invincible creeps or even creeps that fly above your towers ignoring your fiendish maze layout.
Once you get the hang of it, a flawless victory can be had on the Easy setting but it will take some practice and clever maze construction to master Medium and Hard!
Check it out for yourself and let me know what you think.
Automotive piss-taker Richard Porter’s Sniff Petrol website is undergoing a bit of a change.
The old version has been around for as long as I can remember and never fails to disappoint with some classic news, quotes from industry execs and of course the adverts – all spoofed for your reading pleasure.
Sadly Sniff Petrol died when Richard’s PC went tits up (where were the Tech Guys with their Phoenix-style consortium, rushing in to sell the website to the Far-East?) he took the initiative and decided a revamp was in order. Sniff Petrol MkII is here.
Using the Blogger engine means jibes at the latest BMW model and TVR owner Nikolai Smolenski can be posted immediately for us all to see, rather than wait for the site to be updated once in a blue moon.
Have a look for yourself and see what you think.
Uttered by veritable cult comedians Noel Fielding (of Mighty Boosh fame) and Russell Brand (of sexy time fame), “Pieces of broken rainbow” is one of those phrases that doesn’t mean a thing but can be interpreted in many different ways.
I’d like to see pieces of broken rainbow become the ultimate put-down, replacing “your mum” as king of the playground cusses where saying it to the face of bigger kids will see seven shades knocked out of you.
Then in an completely different sense, you could be making a get well soon card for your Nan who’s in hospital recovering from a hip op and “Pieces of Rainbow” could be written with a glue pen and covered with multi coloured glitter.
Joy.
Jet Li is in negotiations to play the mummy in the third installment in the popcorn action-adventure series The Mummy. The movie is set to be filmed and to take place in China.
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