Guys, we are facing a problem now...following quotes from kotaku.com

Hey, lady gamers: your ranks are increasing. A study by the NPD Group has revealed that the number of female console gamers is on the rise, reaching 28% of the console userbase earlier this year.

That mark represents a 5% increase over 2008, and was helped along by a 19% increase in Wii use across the board. "Last year was one of the most transformative in history in terms of defining the audience for gaming, says Anita Frazier, from the NPD Group. "Even with the increased competition from mobile and social network gaming, the console gamer segment added the most new participants to its ranks in the last year."

If you're wondering how they came across these numbers, they were drawn from a survey group of 20,000 people, aged 2-65.

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Okay my only problem with the survey is, 2-5 year olds can do a survey? My 2 years old nephew prefers throwing my controller to pressing buttons to play

One of the most nerve-wrecking times in a guy’s life is the day he finds someone that he realizes he actually wants to marry, and he needs to get up the nerve to ask her. If you’ve racked your brain for creative ways to ask someone to marry you, I’m here today to offer you a few suggestions that may help.

It goes without saying that these will all be Internet-based, so they’re perfect for the girlfriend who’s obsessed with the Internet - the one who can’t stop checking her Facebook account or surfing YouTube videos. These are also the sort of techniques that you can use to ask a girl to marry you when you’re in a long distance relationship, or maybe if you’re in the military and serving in a foreign country. Don’t let distance stop you. The following geeky tips will get her attention and they may even make her cry, but most importantly, they will also make her say “yes.”

How to Ask Someone to Marry You on the Internet (And Get Them to Say Yes!)

Let’s face it, it’s a web 2.0 world. The days of kneeling on one knee beside a restaurant table are long gone. Today, you’ve got text messages, instant messagin

Music sales have been on the decline for years—even if that decline seems to be slowing—with record executives citing illegal filesharing and downloading as one of the root causes for the downturn.

But are all those Sam Goody's closing and executives whining over just the rampant illegal downloading, not purchasing, of music? The Guardian argues that video game spending is contributing to, if not causing, the commercial music industry's woes.

At least in the UK, video game spending has risen from ￡1.18 billion in 1999 to ￡4.03 billion in 2008, as music sales sank from ￡1.94 billion to ￡1.31 billion. The Guardian argues that those of us disposing of our income are happier to dispose of it on a forty hour game than on four CDs—or on a game in which we can play the music we love. The publication also throws DVD spending into the mix, but the rise in sales there isn't as dramatic.

Last time I purchased a CD? About six months ago.

Originally from Kotaku.com

A research study at the University of Arkansas has indicated that excessive gaming interferes with sleep. Thank goodness that mystery has finally been solved.

Research studies sound like a great deal of fun. You get to arbitrarily assign values and definitions and then cull data based on those arbitrary assignments in order to get obvious answers! Take this University of Arkansas study, which was presented at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies on Monday, surveyed 137 students - 87 females and 50 non-females, you know, to preserve balance...somehow. They then separated the results for excessive gamers from the casual or non-gamers, defining excessive as those who spend more than 7 hours a week playing computer games or using the internet.

My mother spends over seven hours a week using the internet. By this study's standards, my mom is hardcore.

Principal investigator Amanda Woolems indicated that previous research has determined that excessive gamers spend less time in bed. True, though I'd say that depends on the frequency of save points in whatever game I might be playing at the time and whether or not I've fallen asleep in m

 Actually, I don't hate it, however when you finish watching the following photoshop works just as I do, you know what I am talking about! Some one says always trust your eyes, Oh really?

More photos here

Well I'm not here talking about how ugly they originally look, but everytime when you see the right side of each picture, how could you just realize these elements (most of them are important to the feeling of a photo) are fake? There's no doubt girls in current days like photoshopping their photos to make themselves look better, to me that's what I hate most, because I feel sad people only make friends according to appearance.

Well well well let's just cut the crap and take a look at these nerds and their cases. The last one made me laugh like a ****!

Star Skirmish
05/25/2007: On his way to a photo shoot for the Australian daily newspaper MX, a 32-year-old Star Wars 501st Legion member -- in costume as an Imperial Death Star guard -- was arrested for carrying his replica laser blaster in plain view. The "weapon," worth about $500, was sticking out of his backpack, causing concerned shoppers at a retail complex to alert security guards to the matter. The stormtrooper, spotted eating breakfast at the food court, was pinned to the ground and handcuffed by Victoria police. The arrest reportedly caused a wave of alarm to sweep followers of the Dark Side, who say they wish to maintain cordial relations with Earth police.

Second Death
10/25/2008: In Japan, a 43-year-old woman was physically arrested for a virtual murder. The woman, a piano teacher in Miyazaki, was upset when her virtual husband in the multi-player online role playing game MapleStory divorced her without any warning. Using his login information, which she had obtained while their MapleStory matrimony was still intact, the woman hacked int