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The quote’s from this GigaOm story on Marvel and Cryptic’s new found mutal appreciation society. Marvel caused a bit of a stir a couple of years ago when it sued Cryptic Studios for copyright infringement because its superhero online game City of Heroes (they also do City of Villains) allowed users to customise their avatars so they were too similar to Marvel superhero franchises. Anyway, they settled and now, Cryptic have been hired by Marvel to create the “Marvel Universe Online” (you can now download a trailer). Shall be interesting to see how they manage to resolve the dilemma that not everyone can be Spiderman or Magneto (I imagine you can only have one of each character per server). The GigaOm mentioned the Star Wars Galaxies flop, but that actually had more potential in that playing a jedi is theoretically pretty cool in itself, you don’t have to be Luke Skywalker. Maybe the Marvel Universe Online will involve playing archetypes based on the original characters, so you can have spiderman’s powers but be able to tweak the costume, that could very well appeal. I’d play the demo anyway.

Size-eight women make freak appearance on runway

Designer Leesa Fogarty, of MaraJoara swimwear, was responsible for such a repulsive runway faux pas that Vogue Australia swiftly deleted all photographic evidence from their Web site. Fogarty’s dreadful offense? She scrapped typical skeletal fashion models for fleshier everyday Aussies in her runway show during Australian Fashion Week and, to hear the Herald Sun tell it, the fashion world is reeling.

So it’s cool to have rats on the runway (a la Tsubi’s debut) but not normal women. The Herald Sun link has some pics of the girls involved and they are all pretty attractive and what most people consider slim. Some where a little on the curvy side, but no one was what most would consider “fat”, though this comment is misleading:

Lo and behold, the average Australian isn’t a size zero, but a size 14.

There’s no such thing as a size zero in Australia, not because we’re all heifers, just America has a different system. Apparently according this online clothes conversion: 0=4, 2=6, 4=8, 6=10, 8=12 and 10=14. So really, the average Australian woman, if size 14, is an American size 10. Not too bad really. Very strange how warped the fashion world is.

Maybe a chlorine truck did have that accident… there was an incredibly distinct smell of it in the air again this morning.

Or maybe I’m just developing a brain tumour.

Wii is starting to grow on mii.

my backyard this morning

the air was amazing this morning, it was like being at the pool, it seemed to both be foggy and wet which was quite strange because every time I’ve seen fog, it just lifts to a perfectly clear day. Maybe a chlorine truck had an accident overnight, but there was the most amazing wet mineral smell in the air. Is there a difference between fog and mist?

I can just hear the Nintendo marketers saying “it’s like “we” but with two “i”s so it’s modern and cool”.

They had a brilliant name in “revolution” and they replaced it with a word synonymous with “urination”. What next? They’ll be changing the DS to “FiiCiiS”…

Must be the trend of the moment to replace cool codenames with crap real ones. Microsoft who for the first time showed some modicum of creativity in calling their new portable computer “Origami”, on releasing it, announced it was actually just going to be called Microsoft new portable computer (well, something like that, the title was so boring and descriptive, I’ve plain forgotten it).

Who is doing their market research, do they even consider to test their original codenames? Coke recently stuck with their codename Black (well, they had to change it a bit for crappy trademark reasons to Blak) because they found that it did so well in their tests. I cannot believe that “Wii” would have outscored “Revolution”, well at least not in any English speaking world.

Nintendo announces Revolution’s real name

Nintendo plans to be so wealthy they’ll all be taking golden showers

(Edit: In a future post I admit the name is growing on me. And now I love it. I still think Revolution is a better name but the cuteness of the Wii is overtaking it’s puerile factor (and even that can still provide many wanted chuckles. Edit#2: Hate Revolution Love Wii Now.).