From Gamers With Jobs comes an article asking video game developers to design games using the female sexual response cycle. An excerpt:

I bought a Namco Museum plug-in handset a couple of months ago for sixteen bucks, and to date I’ve played it more than any game I currently own. This could be because I’m an old fart and newfangled video games piss me off. Or it could be because Pac-Man kicks ass. Looking now at the acceleration of difficulty in Pac-Man, I realize that it more closely models the female sexual response cycle, which, as a man, I’ve spent quite a bit of time adapting to. Perhaps that’s another reason why I like it so. No matter how difficult the game gets, no matter how long I play it, I will only ever be asked to perform the same, basic set of maneuvers that I learned to perform in the very first few minutes of play.

By the way, Gamers With Jobs cater to a more refined and mature audience. It eschews L33+-speak and script-kiddie pablum for usually well-informed content. One guy there had an interesting series of articles on an insider view of your local EB. (Thanks, punctual_shrimp, for the lookout on the site) .

This site made me chuckle: http://www.turdwords.com/top10.cfm

Many, but not all, have to do with the ol’ Number 2. Definitely not work-safe, in a text-based sort of way.

I can’t wait to give someone a Credit Card:
Definition 1: To catch an unexpecting person bent over, you proceed to swipe your hand from the bottem through the crack of their ass.
Usage Example: Jimmy bent over to pick-up his breifcase and I gave him the old “credit card”.

This is really fun. Try stackopolis. It’s like a Lego puzzle game.

This site has it that Kevin Smith is doing a sequel to Clerks… The Passion of the Clerks:

The sequel picks up 10 years later. “It’s about what happens when that lazy, 20-something malaise lasts into your 30s. Those dudes are kind of still mired, not in that same exact situation, but in a place where it’s time to actually grow up and do something more than just sit around and dissect pop culture and talk about sex,” Smith said during an interview at his Hollywood office. “It’s: What happened to these dudes?”

I liked Clerks as much as the next person, but I don’t feel particularly invested in any of the characters. Take away the dialog of pop culture and sex? What’s left? The discussion of snowballing helped keep the first one afloat.

This is a short film (6min) that is played back in reverse. It’s a guy that unmakes cairns. Sounds boring, but it’s quite good.

All this talk of the good old days prompted me to investigate Sesame Street further. There’s a pretty good Wiki entry about it, but check out this great character encyclopedia.

Both favorites:

• Shhhhhh. Hey, bud. Wanna buy an invisible ice cream cone?
  
• I love how the customer at Grover’s restaurant is just called “Fat Blue”:
  

…and some more favorites:

• Someday I hope to have eyebrows/hair like this guy:
  
• The first time I witnessed masochism was with Don Music. After that, I had slight fear of composers, and a particularly strong dislike for Randy Newman.
  
• Let’s not forget this guy, who, I believe, is responsible for The Telephone Rock:
  

Your favs?

All this talk of The Monster At the End of This Book made me look it up on amazon.com. Let me preface this with the following: Elmo is a pale imitation of Grover. Now peep this:

More info about this abomination available by clicking here.

Read the first reviewer’s description – I agree whole heartedly, even before reading the damn thing.

Click this and behold the majesty that is the exclusive Wizard World Comic Con 2005 Super Grover figure.