Can someone tell me what a seven-year old is doing playing Halo 2? And while you’re at it, can you tell me why he’s probably a trillion times better at it than me? Lil Poison, indeed.
Asides
Carnival!
There’s less than a week to get your submission into the Carnival! Don’t delay!
Wanna buy a blog?
I normally wouldn’t post something like this (it’s one step removed from a ok-cupid quiz) but I got a laugh from finding out how much buttonmashing.com is worth. With the hullabaloo over Weblogs, Inc. being sold last week, who couldn’t wonder what their blog is worth.
My blog is worth $41,211.42.
How much is your blog worth?
Madden rules!
This auction is the best, ever (from Kotaku). “Hello stupid! Yes, I’m talking to you, the guy interested in buying this piece of garbage game from Electronic Arts for the 800th time so you can have updated rosters.”
Jack Thompson – Giant Killer
Seriously now.
Who else is going to be able to say their Granny was on MTV? Timothy will be able to. That’s hardcore.
Low IQ
Saw this a while ago but forgot to post it. I’m not a “professional” Game Reviewer, but even if I was, this would still be funny.
go.to hell
I currently use the WordPress plug-in WP-ShortStat (I’m thinking about trying out Mint. Is anyone using it out there?) that seems to do a better job of tracking visitors to buttonmashing.com than Statcounter, which I also use. Recently, I’ve noticed hundreds of hits from *.to addresses. They show up in the ShortStat logs but not the Statcounter logs. I figure these are hits from spammers. Weird thing is, Spam Karma isn’t reporting any comment/track back spam from these addresses. This is what a recent bit from the ShortStat report looks like:
buy-adipex.drop.to 10:14 pm
alprazolam.go.to 10:14 pm
alprazolam.go.to 10:14 pm
online-hydrocodone.drop.to 10:14 pm
buy-cialis.hey.to 10:14 pm
viagra-.get.to 10:14 pm
online-valium.get.to 10:14 pm
viagra-.get.to 10:14 pm
phentermine-.get.to 10:14 pm
hydrocodone.mysite.de 10:14 pm
online-fioricet.drop.to 10:14 pm
xanax.get.to 10:14 pm
Does anyone know what these hits would be accomplishing? If you go to one of the sites, you go to a spam search site hawking whatever the *.go.to or *.get.to is. If you go straight to go.to or get.to you get redirected to v3 Web Hosting. I imagine that’s a cheap place to get sub domains to redirect to your paid for search page. Anyway, it still doesn’t make sense to me.
Any other bloggers seeing these same kind of hits showing up? Is there any rhyme or reason to this? Or is it something I should just ignore? I’m not learned in the ways of the nefarious spammer. It’s just something that’s bothering me.
the end of EB?
If Best Buy enters the used video game market, does that spell doom for EB/Gamestop? Perhaps.
The new look
After poring through hundreds of themes, I ended up going with K2. It’s just got too many features to pass up. Right now I haven’t done much in the way of customizing it, but it seems pretty easy to do, so I will hopefully have some time in the near future to work on that. Also, having the “asides” feature is worth the price of admission alone (even though I can’t get them working currently). So K2 it is for the foreseeable future.
Also, I changed the feeds to contain the full text of the posts. I know a handful of people access buttonMashing with varioud feed readers, so I thought that would make it a little easier to read. I know I love feeds with full text.
Anyway, it’s late so that’s the extent of this update. More later.
Update: Got the asides working with some help from Foton. Thanks, man!