Weird, Wonderful & Just Plain Odd

ON THE PLUS side, my copy of S.T.A.L.K.E.R arrived this evening in the post, so tonight shall be spent trying to forget the insanity of work and I’m looking forward to some full immersive gameplay. As for the topic of this post, well I just decided to throw out some of the weird and wonderful things I’ve come across today on the ‘net, a collection of oddities

Oh – and it has nothing to do with the photo on the left, except that the photo itself is a kind of oddity. It’s from the “Topless” collection and you can read more about this from a previous post entitled “This is Legal In New York” if you are interested. AndI just l like the photo.

So -on to the oddities for today then…

What can you do if you’ve been banned from an online game and want to get back in? How can you possibly convince the game admins that you are worthy of being admitted back into the fold? Well, in China you can do this by donating blood – a pint of blood to be precise. It’s an interesting move by a Chinese game company after banning 120,000 users for ‘abuse’ and if the story is true could mark an interesting twist for future blood drives!

Over in Cincinnati (USA) a pizza company has decided to put the mugshots of those deadbeats who avoid paying child support on the pizza boxes, essentially naming and shaming anyone who tries to avoid the legal burden. It’s an interesting approach I suppose, but where will it end?

Then for the techies among you, and especially those of you who always wanted a touchscreen laptop but couldn’t afford one – the answer is at hand and the best bit is you don’t have to replace your current laptop to get it working. I’m not too sure about this one but go check it out for yourself.

Last but not least we have the worst case of irony I’ve seen in a while. In the US, an 18 year old teenager decided to lament the passing of his 14 year old friend who had been killed earlier that evening in a tragic accident while driving his mother’s mini-van (yeah I know… 14?); he did this by bringing his guitar to the very spot of the accident and singing a song to the memory of his younger friend… and was promptly killed in a hit and run incident. The irony is so think you could walk across it.