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Jarro-Dophilus EPS™ is a Stable-Dophilus™ due to its stability at room temperature and enteric coating. Eight (8) different strains of probiotic bacteria are delivered directly into small intestines where probiotic bacteria fully exert their beneficial effects.

That's all well and good. We know it's important to keep our bodies local populace balanced and beneficial, I'm sold. But why should a descriminating consumer such as myself purchase Jarro-Dophilus over that other leading brand? Because Jarro-Dophilus are smiling! Don't believe me? Well there's an anatomically correct picture right on the box:

See? They're happy to be chillin' in some intestinal pockets. I can read a face - and these say "Mmmm, I'm content and hearty". (Heck, that one up top even looks like it has boobs.) How do I know what those Solgar brand probiotics are like to be around? There's no pic of them! Me and these little guys will be spending a lot of time together and trust me, it's a very intimate (and hopefully longlasting) relationship.

It's like guitar hero for the piano . . . on your computer . . . using MIDI . . . for FREE!And did I mention MIDI? As in using an actual piano-style keys? Did someone say educational? Well I just did. Too bad it has revealed the fact that I am not so quick on the ebony and ivory.Check it out here.

these adapters made by retrozone look pretty awesome. they allow you to play vc titles on the wii with the original nes and snes pads.i wonder how well they work. hmm hmm. i'll be ordering soon then a full review to come. http://www.retrousb.com/wii.html xo-chad

i've always been a Nintendo fanboy. i know it. i've tried seeing other systems. Sega genesis - the bad girl who smoked behind the school. she even talked me into buying a Sega CD and suffering through Sewer Shark.Playstation 1 2 have teased me over the years mostly because of Final Fantasy. *darling Yuna!* and yes i've given in a few times. i've even had my eye on a new xbox 360 - setting timelines for my wii, ok wii, i want online by christmas or else but it knows i don't mean it. i always come back to Nintendo, the reason: they have all my favorite games. hands down. it's true! but it also may be why i'm so behind in the online world. i've missed all the big online experiences; World of Warcraft, Halo, Quake, Everquest, City of heroes...etc. who knows what else. they all looked fun (well most did anyway)i know Nintendo is starting to come out of it's shell - stop brooding alone in it's room.
-Chad

Guitar Hero can't come soon enough to the 360, I am no longer able to fight the stereotypical terrorist videogame enemy. I know it's the in vogue game enemy of the day, but it's starting to feel like a cop out in these games. Mr. Clancy do we not have real nations to fictionally square off against? And poor Mexico, what did they do to piss him off so badly that every game revolves around that country's seething miscreant strength?! Does he know something we don't? Alas I am of to destroy hordes of giant ants in Earth Defense 2017, I think it the only way . . .

UPDATE: Exciting gaming news = COD4 Modern Combat (http://www.charlieoscardelta.com/). Yes, the next Call of Duty will not be framed by Nazis and Thompson machine guns but by . . . . . wait for it . . . . TERRORISTS!SHITBALLS! Just as one damn cliche shows signs of die-off another one bloats and gurgles. MEH!It seems that UKResistance (http://www.ukresistance.co.uk/) has a similar opinion (http://www.ukresistance.co.uk/2005/11/blue-sky-in-games-campaign-launched.html) about gangs in games.

This guy made a pretty amazing OS X app that lets one control beat triggering and pitch using the wiimote via bluetooth. Give it a go. I had trouble loading the actual loops, til I figured out that Stuffit was corrupting the audio files when I unzipped it.

Man, I love me some next-gen, texel shaded, dynamic luminescence transmogrified, 1200x aliased, straight up hi-tech good game graphics(no offense, lil' Wii). But in these next-gen worlds of lighting bloom, selective focus, and generally striking realism - I actually get a kick out of a glaringly obvious graphical glitch. I don't know why exactly, you'd think It would collapse the suspension of disbelief, spoil the realism, the tension. Perhaps it is somewhat disarming to the intended drama and I enjoy that. So aaaaanyway, I snapped a few blurry, badly angled ones from R6Vegas I thought I'd share with the class, Click on (index.php?option=com_easygallery act=categories cid=16 Itemid=28) to see.

Crackdown really is an amazing game. I love crackdown, there simple, said and done. . . . But really I'd say crackdown's not actually an amazing game, it's an amazing game world. yeah . . . ok an amazing sandbox. And there's some awesome toys in that sandbox; * cool weapons (well not a buch, but they're cool, right?)* great agency vehicles that transform as you progress (but gangs don't have comparable super attack battle tanks to challenge me?)* Bunches of aggresive enemy AI (that never seem to even come close to being a challenge, c'mon - they didn't have an evil agent they could throw at us?!?)* Cooperative sweetness (no versus bitterness?) I hate to gripe- really I love the game, and I know how much blood sweat and tears Realtime Worlds probably put into it - but it's just as IGN(or some other gaming site) said, It seems like a bit of an empty shell. An awesome building jumping, supercar morphing, orb grabbin', car throwin, game setup that maybe got a kick in the but out the door in the name of H3 beta and the promise of downloadable content to flesh it out. But man, we needs lots o' fleshin'! (yeah that last line sounds gross)

UPDATE: DAMN! They made good with the new downloadable content. Now the whole game seems much more complete.

So you spend an unmentionable amount of time connected to your console of choice. You realize games aren't just for kids anymore, but you still feel conspicuous taking out your DS on the subway(even though you bought the black one because it seemed less obvious). What of your other hobbies? Your first life as it were. Well if I learned anything from people who are successful at doing something they love; it's the fact that they do what they love. And they do it a lot. So gamer, how 'bout a website, a blog if you will(and I know you will). Vent unexpressed longings, ideas, expressions and predictions. Celebrate the glitches and social oddities involved in your obsessive passtime. So time may still pass but at least the ideas that come with it will stay put.