My take on the video game censorship debate can be summed up in a single quote.

"If Mommy and Daddy are too stupid to understand 'M - MATURE' means don't buy it for a five-year old, how did they figure out how to 'insert Tab A into Slot B' to make the five-year old in the first place? ... Should such parents really be raising kids in the first place?"

- Scott Twining, SegaWeb, on the AAFP proposal to color-code ESRB labels.

So Cathy Freeman won the Gold in the Women's 400m...

Big fat hairy deal...

Sorry, but I'm going to take what I know will be an unpopular standpoint on this issue and say "Enough with Cathy bloody Freeman, already...". Sure, she won a Gold Medal. Hoo-bloody-ray. But why has there been so much rejoycing over something that was bound to happen anyway? Everyone knew that Cathy was going to win, especially after her nemesis, Marie-Jose Perec, mysteriously dropped out of the Games. Fine. Go ahead and have a bit of a celebration. But just dont go overboard. There was never a celebration on this big a scale for any of the other equally-worthy Gold Medalists. What about Nathalie Cook and Kerri Pottharst's winning Gold in the Beach Volleyball? Or our women's Water Polo team? Grant Hackett? There wasn't even close to this amount of joy when Thorpy, Klim and Co. won Gold in the Men's 4x100m relay.

I'm not saying don't celebrate Cathy's win. Just celebrate our Medalists equally, Gold or otherwise. Dont just be impressed by a name you know. Be impressed by the achievements that these people have reached.

I spent WAY too much time on this

We were watching the great Manga release, Ninja Scroll, the other day and as you would know if you've seen the film, they seem to go through an awfully insane amount of ninja throwing stars and one villain utilised a special type of ninja-thread-string-thing weapon which also doubled as a long distance communication device. This lead Hatch and I to wonder where the hell they got all of these devices. There would have to be some kind of Ninja-Mart where your friendly neighbourhood ninja could stop off on his way home from ninjing to pick up some daily supplies.

Clerk: "Hiya. Welcome to Ninja-Mart. What can I get ya?"
Ninja: "Oooh.. gee... lets see... I'll have a 50-pack of shurikens, umm... twenty - no, make that thirty metres of Ninja String, a loaf of bread, and a tub of 'I Cant Believe It's Not Ninja Butter'."

Got an email yesterday with a bit of positive feedback from Kiyote, and he writes:

"G'day, tis Kiyote... Just like to say you have like a ripper of a website u gots yerself goin there....

Extremely funny, its like exhilirating....

It's like how they say life is like a circle, which is bullshit, its a square...

Goin in one direction, then turning and going in another direction
just like your site!

Keep up zee good work MikeyMan...

Kiyote the glorious blind website critic..."

Thanks buddy. May your toeses always smell like roses to your noses.