So the Nintendo Revolution has a new name. It’s going to be the Nintendo Wii. Not as in ‘why’, but as in ‘we’. This is just bizarre. It’s not an intuitive name, it doesn’t particularly mean anything, it’s too close to looking like wifi for people not to automatically say ‘why’, insert complaint here, etc. [...]

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I mentioned that Zazz! had gone online a while back, but something else has grabbed my attention about this site: honesty. The copywriter for the site doesn’t seem to have too much of a concern about calling a spade a bloody shovel. A couple of days ago, they were selling a 10 pack of Lazer [...]

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And we’re off again. Big Brother 2006 has begun and the usual bunch of suspects have appeared: tarts, skanks, beefs and brats. Decidedly younger and even more hormonally affected this year, it looks like sex is again the driving marketing ploy behind the series. Even though Uncut (sorry, ‘Adults Only’) will apparently be toned down, [...]

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