shivan.org

Check out one guy’s rodent problem. The smell must have sucked. (Originally spotted on Engadget)

A number of lengthy World of Warcraft movies from beta can be found here at 4players.de.

Make sure to check out the trailer for this future smash hit summer movie. Two thumbs up!

Sadly, No! does its civic duty and mocks part of the GOP convention website. Check out what happens when dirty minds discuss the bio of a brainwashed stuck up child in a woman’s body: The Lance Armstrong of Professional Virgins.

Ewww… mommy… Unmarried kissing!

I strongly recommend that any MMORPG fan check out this EverQuest II E3 movie hosted by Nvidia. I’d also recommend that you take the time to grab the 147mb 8.5 minute version.

EQ2’s player models seem a tad weak from the movies but the environment looks quite nice. If they do everything mentioned in the video as well as they are hyping it then expect EQ2 to be more addicting then EQ.

Apparently having sex while driving a car is not a good idea according to this police report.

The trailer for the pilot episode of Stargate Atlantis is up. Please please please please please don’t let it suck. Of course Stargate SG-1 was quite weak during its first season but eventually developed into a kickass show that is now heading into its 8th season. So… as long as Atlantis isn’t too horrid during its first few shows there is always hope.

Washington Post - Parties to Allow Bloggers to Cover Conventions for First Time (washingtonpost.com) (as seen in the forums of Daily Kos):

But he and other Democrats said the plan also gives the party a chance to reach a larger audience. Although television networks have cut back on their coverage of the conventions — saying they yield little news — some bloggers have attracted sizable audiences. Lina Garcia, a spokeswoman for the convention, said she hopes the bloggers will help the party reach young people. “A lot of young people blog now, and they’re important to us,” she said.

Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, a Berkeley, Calif.-based lawyer who runs one of the most popular liberal blogs — Dailykos.com — predicted that many bloggers will beam a reliably pro-Democratic message back to their readers. “We’re all partisan. We don’t pretend to be otherwise and would not be constrained by bounds of having to balance out what we write with the other side,” he said. “So it’s a much more direct way to get out the party’s message to its constituents and potential constituents.”

More evidence of online social forums affecting the “real world”. Add in the fact popular blogs such as Daily Kos help raise money for local congressional races from a national audience and you can see this is the first federal election cycle where the Internet is very noticeable.

Sites such as Daily Kos are a positive thing because they help encourage small donations from many donors as opposed to money from special interests and the upper class. The downside is it also exposes how your average senate or house seat election involves money from outside the represented districts. The only new thing here is the fact more small donors from the outside are donating and joining the larger contributors.

(Hint: The BugMeNot Firefox extension helps you avoid all those forced registrations to read free content.)

Hey kids, get your Disease Trading Cards from the CDC right here!