• I wrote chupacabra and a little green guy with red eyes appeared. He left a dog alone, but he instantly attacked a goat I summoned. (This alone makes it game of the year.)
  
• God will kill a zombie, but a vampire will turn God into a vampire. I summoned a phaser to shoot the vampire but hit god-vampire instead; he was killed. The remaining vampire ran from my cross. 
• As the review mentions, you can summon a time machine and ride it, which takes you to a realm of knights and damsels. 
• In that medieval world, I accidentally destroyed a drawbridge with my sword. The princess on the drawbridge happened to fall in the water, so I summoned a shark to eat her. I tried summoning a school of piranhas to eat the shark, but as you can only do one at a time the shark kept eating them.
• The game knows roflcopter. It looks different than the helicopter.
  
• Try writing I win button.
• An evil clown looks like a clown but thinks evil thoughts. 
• Pirates kill ninjas.
• A succubus attacked me, but a cherub nailed her with arrows... after which she liked me. (I could use the cherub's bow to make other creatures turn good.)
  

Good news: Got a free MP3 player!

Bad news: It’s a Zune.

Worse: It’s a brown Zune.

Bottom line: Better than catching a disease! C+ (I’d give an iPod a B in comparison)

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Price: $400
Street date: April 1, 2007 [Check it out at Amazon.com]
Review score: Respectable!

I had the opportunity to use Harman Kardon's first in-car GPS today and thought I would share my impressions and some screen shots. After some use it's clear that this is a pretty nice unit, if you don't need a ton of features. What it does do, it does pretty well.

If you ever stop to think about who the "pioneers" of electronic music are, you might cast your mind back to early Detroit techno. You might tip your hat to Anne Dudley's fantastic band "The Art of Noise." You could go way back and talk about the '70s artists Tomita and Bob Moog. But you would probably overlook two of the most important people in the history of the genre: Louis and Bebe Barron. They were doing some of the first electronic music as far back as 1952. Their most famous work is the musical score to the 1956 sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet--though this fascinating work still languishes in relative obscurity.

Film Rating: A-
DVD Video: Adequate, though grainy at times.
DVD Audio: Clean rendition of dialogue and sound effects.
DVD Extras: Two commentaries
Bottom Line: You don't watch Primer. You wrestle it. If you are paying attention, you will find yourself intrigued, aggravated, confused, chilled, and in turn perhaps even awed by this indie sci-fi film. This is not a movie to veg out with. Invite your geekiest friends over, stock up on snacks, and watch Primer twice in a row.

Primer at Amazon.com publisher: New Line Home Entertainment released: 19 April, 2005

I like label printers. I used to think my Brother PT label maker was pretty cool, but I have a new toy: the Brother QL-500. This thing used to be $160, which was too much for my cheap ass, but recently the price came down to $60 after rebates. At that price point I had to try it—and it's worth every cent.

Brother P-Touch QL-500 Manual-Cut PC Label Printing System publisher: Brother Printer price: $80.99 (new)