So I bought two USB joypads for my laptop so I can really game with zsnes. Playing Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 on a keyboard simply isn’t the same thing… Setting it up was about as easy at could be thanks to hotplug and it’s running like a dream. Mmm… Linux…

Counter Strike/Half Life and other games may be great and nicely made, but nothing beats a good old-fashioned two-player game that doesn’t require two computers. I mean, there’s just something incredibly great about two people sitting next to each other, looking at the same screen, playing the same game on the same machine… Something that the heavy-graphics, networking games just can’t deliver. It might just be me swimming in a sea of nostalgia, but I don’t think I’ve ever enjoyed gaming more in my entire life.

Now, if I could only get xmame working, then I could play Bubble Bobble and Speed Ball. (If anyone is experienced with xmame please drop me a mail — it’d be most appreciated.)

Apparently someone has been reading/watching Ghost in the Shell (Stand Alone Complex)…

Make sure to check out the videos, they’re really cool. Especially these two.

Ok, Danes has this crazy tradition where we get together every X-mas and play with marzipan, chocolate, nougat, some nuts (e.g. almonds and hazel nuts), mix/molest it all into various shapes and combinations and call it “konfekt”, which we then eat later on in December. Well, I know it’s not a unique feature for Danes, but I also know that it’s not common all over the world, so I’d just make sure that was in place so most people won’t think I’ve been smoking crack or something.

So, we produced all kinds of weird candy tonight, e.g. the wannabe-Professor Hubert Farnsworth (of Futurama fame) head to your right, which was (mal)formed by my otherwise useless hands. Yay!

Well, that’s it! I just wanted to show off. ;-) Btw.: Read the blog entry before this one and give Fox News hell. I mean, seriously, read the Fox News story and send them your opinion. (If you think it’s good, then please send me an email containing your IP address and I’ll add you to the Lillesvin Networks Blacklist and tell all my friends that j00 m4d sux0r.)

I just read this “story” at Fox News… (It speaks for itself…)

Here is what I sent them.

From: “Anders K. Madsen”
To: afterhours@foxnews.com
Subject: Regarding: Does History Repeat Itself?
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 19:07:02 +0100

Hi there.
I just read Column One: Does History Repeat Itself
(http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,140612,00.html) and I must say that
I’m astounded by your obvious lack of journalistic integrity and basic
fact-checking.
At first I was shocked to see that you actually dared writing such a
thing on a world wide broadcasting networks website and I was planning
to write you an email with a whole lot of swearing and questioning of
your sexual preferences, but then I decided to just comment on it and
stay here and be happy I don’t live in the States. So I’ll just be
sitting here feeling sorry for you - while taking a great deal of
consolation in the fact that the media here in Europe isn’t as twisted
as it apparently is”over there”.

I think you owe the entire population of the Netherlands a very, very
sincere apology for that article, which I now you won’t give even if
every single person in the Netherlands filed a lawsuit against you.
I mean, it’s bad enough that a lot of Americans already don’t know
what’s going on outside that (relatively) small bubble called “The
States” — and if this is how you present it to them, it’s no surprise
that most Americans remain ignorant for the rest of their lives. (Yes,
you Cal Thomas!)

It doesn’t give the text very much credibility that there are no
references to any source what so ever… I mean, it appears to me that
Cal Thomas was in fact the one smoking dope while doing this, not the
Dutch.
And the fact that some of the so-called “facts” about Holland are
obviously false is simply embarrassing. (What other drugs than
marijuana/hash has been legalized in the Netherlands? — I don’t think
marijuana/hash qualifies as “most drugs”… Not even in the States.)
It’s obvious that Cal Thomas doesn’t know the first thing about the
Netherlands.

What is the point of that “story” anyways? There’s no clear theme or
anything, just random rambling and trashing of the Netherlands.
I mean, if you just want to bash the Netherlands, why don’t you just
invade them next! They’ve got as many weapons of mass destruction as
Saddam did. (Exactly, that’s “none”!)

Please keep your “journalism” off the web until you get some real
factual facts (that is, “facts” in the true meaning of the word).
Stop polluting the Web!

Oh yeah, one more thing it’s “The Netherlands”, not “Holland”. Why do
you think their TLD is .nl?

Madsen, Denmark/Europe

–
Anders K. Madsen — http://lillesvin.net
“Live free or don’t.”

I urge everyone to send an email to afterhours@foxnews.com and tell them what you think about that piece “journalism”.