Over 10,000 vehicles are stuck in a traffic jam on a highway between Tibet and Beijing… again.
Traffic on this particular highway was cleared just over a week ago following a 9 day, 100km long gridlock. This time, the standstill is estimated to be about 120kms long.
The massive backlog of vehicles is largely due to the needs of Beijing’s population of 20 million. Constant supplies of food, consumer goods and coal are required to keep the city running properly. Combine the flow of those deliveries with a little bit of roadwork and you have yourself a parking lot.
In an effort to stem the bleeding of Anglican church membership nationwide, Halifax-based Anglican Rev. Lisa Vaughn has asked cellphone, laptop, and technological gadgets in to receive a special blessing this weekend.
Vaughn says in an interview “It’s not just about please don’t let my cellphone drop calls today. It’s about, you know, help me to be the best Christian, the best person I can be in my conversations, in my communication.”
Personally, I’m not too hopeful of her chances of increasing attendance too much with this initiative, but I am a little curious. If I had her bless my Xbox controller, would I be playing with the Holy Fist of God on my side?
Treyarch has announced that Call of Duty‘s newest installment, Black Ops, is getting a multiplayer overhaul. But wait, for those of you thinking “thank god, finally the game won’t reward players for being camping shit eaters,” think again. Treyarch hasn’t decided anything of the sort.
Several new modes have been announced, including an offline mode vs. bots, one more way to hate playing this game. I wonder if the AI will camp like a bastard too?
One good thing about this game is the introduction of CP (CoD Points) used as money to upgrade and unlock new weapons. Much preferred over unlocking as you progress, where you often get items you care very little about. To my understanding, you can spend the points on whatever you want.
But here we are, the money shot, 4 new game modes, 3 of which seem to be 1-shot-kills tomfoolery designed to make you camp and wait for a kill, actively punishing those players out to play the game. Thanks for making sure that the assholes of noobs everywhere are more accessible to every dick on the internet, Treyarch.
Watch the video above to see Rick “Never Gonna Give You Up” Astley belt out a mundane pop song while the camera swings around him. Sadly, this new single, called “Light’s Out,” does not live up to Astley’s historic ballad.
German games developer Kaasa Health has been revealed to be working on a WiiWare title called Pelvic Floor Muscle Trainer. A rating from European ratings board PEGI let the news out.
Kaasa’s Nico Kaartinen explains that the title is being made for mothers whose pregnancies have led to problems with their pelvic floor muscles, or Kegels.
No real information has been give as to what the game will look like or entail. Hopefully, men will be able to participate in the Kegel exercises as well. Wikipedia tells me that said exercises can help men in profound ways, granting stronger erections, restoring erectile dysfunction, preventing premature ejaculation, and even allowing for multiple orgasms.
We reported earlier that things over at social networking/link sharing site Digg.com got a little wonky with a recent site redesign. When Digg v4 launched, there was an uproarious user protestation due to a wealth of bugs, absence of features, and what was seen to be the “selling out” of Digg to large sites and corporations.
Most of the tech problems have gone away, and founder Kevin Rose has promised fixes for most of the missing features. Unrest regarding selling out, however, has burgeoned into full-on revolt. On the new Digg, users are encouraged to follow other users, who are able to auto-submit entries from their own websites. Large sites with strong Digg followings already in place have been able to dominate.
Hilariously, that has never been more true than today, with legions of Digg users subscribing to the feed for Digg competitor Reddit, and voting up that site’s posts (which link to Reddit, and then on to the actual web page of interest). Essentially, Digg has been transformed by its own users into a massive advertisement for its rival.
The image to the right is a screen shot of the most popular entries on Digg today. Every single one of them is a link to Reddit. The comment section of every one of those, as well as just about every other entry on Digg, is filled with anti-Digg, pro-Reddit sentiment.
Reddit has been kind enough to respond by putting a shovel in the hand of their mascot, and starting a help thread for new users.
I’ve seen plenty of mass-user reactions before. I’ve seen community revolts, forum invasions, and 4chan topics that evolved into real-world protests. I don’t recall ever seeing so many users of a site so valuable or popular manage to screw things up so badly for that site’s owners.
September 3rd, 2010 by 
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