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Puppy Vs. Robot! Epic Battle For Territorial Domination!

Oh man.  Screw your HTML 5, Semantic Web and your little blog too!  THIS is why 'THE INTERNET' was inventored.  To bring us vicious, territorial fights ending in complete domination by one side or the other.  Which one will win?  WIll blood be drawn?  Will children run from the room screaming as their parents faint dead away from the shock of it all?   Nah.  It's just a puppy fighting a robot... but holy crap is it awesome.

We've watched it about fifteen times already and we're still ignoring that car alarm going off in the parking lot outside out offices and the annoying stabs of hunger shooting through our guts.  We just gotta watch it ONE more time.

        

Ahhhhh... that's the good stuff.  Bet you don't see THAT on Metacafe.  We love the slums of YouTube.  We feel so at home there.  *sigh*

The Cooper Lawrence Effect

We won't go on and on about this because it's pretty simple and can be summed up in one sentence contained in Lawrence's 'mea culpa' to the NYT. 

"I had asked somebody about what they had heard..."

That's where we stopped reading because everything else is meaningless after that doozy.  There's your journalistic integrity and commitment to professionalism folks.  Just ask SOMEBODY about what they heard.  From that point on you're golden.  Shoot your mouth off endlessly and without bothering to dig into the source of your story.  Third hand information is good enough.

Original story here.

Can't Wii all just get along?

We tried to stay on the sideline here, we really did.  But our hand has been forced by the overflow of console madness sweeping through the nation.  Once every five years or so 'THE SHIFT' happens.  Old consoles get shuffled off to the Bushnell Home for the aged and the new hotness is ushered in with midnight on-sales, media blitzes and countless blog write-ups.  *cough*

What prompted us to actually weigh in on this one was a nice Gamasutra overview of which console those actually employed in the Gaming Industry were planning on picking up first.  Of course it's the Wii.  What reason do you really HAVE to pick up a PS3?  One and one only friends... hype.

It IS possible that Sony's behemoth will eventually live up to it's reputation as 'The most advanced computer system that serves as a platform to enjoy next generation computer entertainments in the home..'  (WTF scei.co.jp?!  Does Borat write your Press Releases?)  However in the near term, it certainly is seeming more and more unlikely.

PS3 is hardware focused, Wii is gaming focused.  So which one are gamers going to pick up more often?  Thaaaat's right sunshine.  When you add in the fact that you can buy TWO Wii consoles for the price of one PS3, plus the better line-up of launch titles over in Nintendo-land... things just look rougher and rougher for Sony.

Clearly, the big shiny black box is a more powerful, sleeker and future-savvy monstrosity, capable of impressing your friends at 50 yards away.  But when you get up close and personal, for our money, it's the Wii that has our hearts (and cash). 

More on the PS3 here.

More on the Wii here.

Oh, and 360 + G.O.W. / XBL x HD-DVD > Your Face...  bitches.