Playing the Wii is good for you, however obtaining one may kill you!

Wii Sports experiment

A man loses weight by playing 30 minutes of Wii Sports everyday while maintaining all other normal activity and eating habits.



Woman dies of 'water intoxication' after radio contest

A preliminary autopsy states that a woman died of water intoxication following a water drinking contest for a Nintendo Wii. News10 in Sacramento reports Station 107.9 The End's "Hold your wee for a Wii" contest had contestants doing exactly what the title says. The winner was the person who didn't release their bladder the longest.

Snakes on a Boxcar

Today Bridget and I went down to the Boxcar in Magnolia where Tawnya, a friend of ours threw together a Snakes on a Plane screening for some of our friends and a few sad Seahawks fans (Seahawks lost the game to The Bears this morning, but Snakes on a Plane seemed to cheer everbody up). Tawnya came up with a creative drinking game. She took a list of the character sterotypes from the movie and put them in a hat. Everyone drew a sterotype from the hat and whenever the sterotype appeared in the movie, the person who drew the name was required to take a drink! Bridget and I were given "bad ass", which meant that everytime that Samel L. Jackson's character did something bad ass, we would take a drink. Of course everything Samuel L. Jackson does in that movie is bad ass, so basically we had to take a drink everytime he was on screen... luckily were were drinking Pabst.

Autographed copy of "Snakes on a Plane" on eBay

When Snakes On A Plane was finally released on DVD on January 2nd, some people from Bridget’s work rushed out and bought some copies since several of them are featured on the DVD special feature “Snakes On a Blog”. Bridget took home a few copies of the DVD for us to sign, the idea being that people will have a nice memento with the signatures of everyone involved in the whole Snakes on a Plane experience. However these mothaf$*%ing DVD’s are now showing up on ebay!

Here is the text from the auction:
“This DVD is signed by the creators and staff of the weblog www.snakesonstuff.com. The creators and staff are featured prominently in the special features section of the DVD. Interviews and after party footage providing piercing insight into the development of what became an internet sensation SnakesOnStuff.com. Where else can you see snakes on, well, stuff. If you can think of it they put a wiggly, poisonous, slimy critter on it. See Bridget, Brian, Mike, Silent Eric and Rick weave their way down the red carpet at the premiere, dance the night away at the after party and leave the door open to more slithering fun in the.... shall I say it, Snaquel. You will want to be the only one to own this one of a kind signed by the bloggers edition. Good bidding! Motherfing DVD shipped in a Motherfing snake free container! ..... maybe!”

Anyway I laughed very hard when I saw the auction this morning! I guess I should really update the site since there has been so much publicity about it lately...

Nabaztag the wifi bunny.

Here is an item I am certain my wife will be purchasing sometime before Easter. Upon first inspection the Nabaztag (I don’t even know how to go about pronouncing this) looks like a glorified Furby. However the Nabaztag does much more than just sit there. These bunnies are wifi enabled! Features include everything from communicating weather to reading your email. Apparently they can even smell….

Here is the part that my wife found adorable:
“The Nabaztag are wifi enabled bunnies, with delightful features like communication-by-ear. 'Marry' two rabbits and give one to your sweetie, anywhere else in the world (with a wifi connection). When you adjust your Nabaztag's ear, the married rabbit's will move to the same position.”

Check out the Nabaztag website for a fun little introduction.

PS3 Scalpers

When the PS3 launched last November, Ebay was flooded with sellers trying to make a quick profit. One of the requirements by Ebay was that sellers include a photo of the PS3 "in their possession" with their listings. Members of the site Cheap Ass Gamer started a thread called the "PS3 Ebay Scalpers Wall of Shame" which nicely assembles a collage of those "holiday opportunists". Some of the photos are hilarious. Sellers use tactics that include showing fast cars, children, or even showing some skin to sell the product!

As it turns out, the eBay market was flooded with PS3's. People tried to make a quick buck, but soon realized that the fruits of their efforts weren't looking so good as grey market prices began plummeting soon after the launch. Kotaku’s blog entry, "The Decline of the PS3 Grey Market" focuses on this story.

The IRS requires you to declare "Stolen Property" on your tax return

See Page 90 of publication 17 here (note: links a PDF file). Under the heading of 'other income' there is a section entitled 'stolen property'. It says: 'If you steal property, you must report its fair market value in your income in the year you steal it unless in that year you return it to its rightful owner!'

Well... I hope this means that I can also declare my new lock-picking tools as occupational expenses!

Tree Goats!

Goats can climb just about anything.... but these ones climb trees!

I am not surprised. Whenever I see mountain goats they are always standing on some tiny rock on the some steep hill that nobody could get to eating some random patch of grass or something. I always thought they were kind of showoffs!

I am always fascinated with how fast internet trends spread. Less that 24 hour after this guy posted the blog entry on Tree Goats, people found this link, forwarded it to friends, and now someone is selling Tree Goat t-shirts! By the time I buy my goat tree T-shirt and get it sent to me in the mail, tree Goats will have been so January 4th, 2007!

Update: More Goats in Trees pics can me found here.

Create fake Google results!

Here is a fun site that lets you create a fake google results page with you own spelling corrections.

What Does 200 Calories Look Like?

Some foods have significantly more calories than others but what does the difference actually look like? Each of the photographs found here represents 200 calories of the particular type of food; the images are sorted from low to high calorie density.

I guess we better start laying of the glasses of Canola oil and stick with the celery.

Celebrity patents

Recently Google introduced its new Patent Search feature, allowing users to dig through 7 million US patents from 1790 to mid-1996. Ironic Sans digs up several bizarre celebrity patents that have been issued over the years. Examples include the Michael Jackson's patent for anti gravity illusion and Eddie Van Halen's patent for Musical instrument support.

“Snakes on a Plane” released on DVD today

Since Bridget and I created a web site called Snakes on Stuff and helped generate buzz for the movie, we were invited to Los Angeles to see the world premiere in August. While in Los Angeles we were interviewed for a featurette called “Snakes on a Blog” that is included as a special feature on the DVD.

The featurette is good. There were 6 of us who went to the premiere that represented Snakes on Stuff (which I find absolutely hilarious). We all get quite a bit of camera time. I was afraid we would look stupid, but it is put together very well.

2007 is the year of the Blog!

Welcome to our blog! Since everyone and there pet has blog these days, we figured we would start one.

We also have a Flickr page where you will be able to find many of our photos.

Enjoy!