Last year you guys might remember me musing about how the NBA got the MVP call wrong by basically handing out a lifetime achievement award to Kobe Bryant. Well this year they got it wrong too.
Don’t get me wrong, I think LeBron James is great for the league, he’s an inspirationally leader, media magnet, and needs to make more commercials for The LeBrons. But as for the MVP of the 2008-2009 NBA season, sorry guys, look south, way south. Continue reading Eat My Sports: MVP wrong again
The corporate world can get down right nasty. The trademark and copyright industry can be even nastier. If you take something that belongs to someone, be prepared to pay, no matter who it is. Even a company that’s currently putting an image of “Happy Fun Time We Are Nonthreatening.”
Nintendo found out that a small dental firm in Malmö, Sweden, “Wii Smile”, had been using the name, and threw their lawyers of doom at the partners, forcing a change. One of the firm’s two partners, Christer Wihlborg, claims innocence, saying that his name starts with “Wi” and there are two owners, which apparently led to a completely independent and innocent decision being made about the surgery’s name. Of course, that doesn’t really work, considering that “Wii” has been a trademarked name since 2006, a year before the firm came into existence.
The weirdest part though? Nintendo says that the only reason they’re taking legal action is (other than the whole trademark and the total same names thing) because they claim the original 2006 trademark applied to not only home video game consoles, but dentistry as well. Yes, you read that right: dentistry.
Be prepared in late 2009 for the next great party game, “Super Mario Cavity Search.”
Researchers discovered that toddlers with autism have, on average, a 13 percent larger amygdala than their non-autistic peers.
It appears that both toddlers brains start to develop normally, but the autistic’s amygdala may begin accelerated growth around year one and stops by year two, huge and proud like a prize pumpkin.
The amygdala is the part of the brain that, normally, allows us to study and interpret faces. When oversized, it leads to inabilities like discerning motive or joint attention. (I point to the stubble on my legs, you then look down and shave them. That’s joint attention.)
So what does this all mean? Medical science is closer to isolating the cause of autism and a vaccine may be on the way!
… Oh, sorry, Jenny.
America’s favorite slow motion runner appears to be off the wagon again, but in severe denial. David Hasselhoff is denying rumors that he was hospitalized over the weekend for alcohol poisoning.
All this proves is either Hoff can’t hold his booze, or he is a liar. Either way, America sheds a tear.
What is it with former astronauts these days? Two weeks ago they were denying global warming and saying that the government is keeping UFOs a secret from us, now, they’re “paying respects” to chimps. CHIMPS.
These guys were beaten into space by some chimps, arguably in one of the most creative attempts to kill animals in U.S. history, and now here they are, worshiping these beasts for their accomplishments. Have they no sense of pride? Do they not realize this is the equivalent of making out with Yuri Gagarin?
If there’s one consolation, it’s that these chimps were traumatized by their trip into space (not to mention the hundreds of electric shocks they endured while they were being trained), they have a Mercury capsule sitting within plain view of the pen, just to mess with them.
