Hit ‘n’ Run, 12/16/2003

The OctoDog – Turn your weiner into an Octopus [insert your own joke here]

WinAmp 5 – Finally! Taking the best from 2.0 and 3.0 (2+3=5, get it?), the long awaited WinAmp 5 has arrived. However, it also introduces the first ever version of WinAmp to charge for additional features (ripping MP3s, full speed CD burining).…

Eat Hot Death, my friend

If you like UNO, then you should check out these variants of the game. In a nutshell, they are new cards that you add to the regular UNO deck.

Just imagine the fun if during a game of UNO you drew a card like:
Quitter – Next player is out of the game
Spreader – Force every player around the table to draw two cards
Glasnost – A player laying the Glasnost card makes the player of his choice lay all his cards down face up on the table for everyone to see

Sounds downright nasty…and fun.…

Spider-Man, nobody knows who you are

Heee, I loved “The Electric Company” when I was a kid. Crank, Rita Moreno, Easy Reader (aka Morgan Freeman), and of course, Spidey!

I sure being a fan of Spider-Man is due in no small part to that silly PBS show.…

The Most Dangerous Game

Did you ever have to read that story in College or High School? “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell is a short story and though it is pretty tame by today’s standards, it makes for a good read. A modern equivalent would be the old movie “The Running Man.” It also was the first thing I thought of when I read about this new game called “Manhunt.”

It has already been banned in New Zealand and who knows what country will be next?…