Stardock working on freeware MMOG. [via]
“Sims meets Total Annihilation.” As I understand it, they’re doing this to drive traffic to TotalGaming.net in the hopes it will result in sales for the company’s other products.

United draw, Ferguson concedes.
If the Premiership awarded points for hitting the woodwork, United would have won the title by now.

Loony Toon.
It’s not unusual to see football players sent off for fighting but the Newcastle-Aston Villa match saw two players from the same team dismissed for that offence. Specifically, the teammates were sent off for fighting each other. Bizarre but not unprecedented.

Konami’s Specter: another masked rider. [via]
Choseishin Gransazers and Genseishin Justirisers were both aimed at the same young audience as the sentai shows and it would seem Specter is aimed at the same (older) audience as the Kamen Rider shows.

Hibiki’s Rider no. 3: Todoroki.
The opening theme, Kagayaki, will undoubtedly be guitar-heavy when he debuts.

GaoGaiGar Final: Grand Glorious Gathering. [via]
With new scenes and dialogue, this will be a nice promotion for Takara’s upcoming GGG merchandise.

WordPress.org’s dodgy fund-raising.
There are better (and more upfront) ways to raise funds.

Words that sound dirty but aren’t. [via]
“Windfucker”? Seriously, what the hell is wrong with ornithologists? On a related note, someone ought to make a list of words that are innocuous in one language but sound dirty in another. For instance, the name of Garfield’s teddy bear would elicit giggles in Malaysia while the line “by the hair of my chinny chin chin” would probably crack someone up in Japan.