Posted by Jeremy
That’s right — in line with our pre-order initiatives on T-shirts, you can now pre-order our own unique brand of olympic wear: the 2010 Canadian Olympic Slacking Team shirt.
You can get red on white, red and white on black, or any number of other combinations. I think I’ll get the red-sleeved ball tee myself, as it’s pimp. As usual, if we get fifty pre-orders, we’ll do the run; if not, everybody gets their money back. For more information on our pre-orders, go here and check out the video at the bottom of the page. Shirts start at $18; you have until Feb 26. GO!
Tags: 2010, canadian slacking team, LoadingReadyRun, pre-order, shirt, t-shirt
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Posted by Jeremy
This preview pic is actually much more descriptive than the last one we showed you … though not nearly as sexy. In fact, go back and look at that picture again … it’s hot.
Whatever could it be?
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Posted by Jeremy
Every week, Paul, Graham, Kathleen and I get together to write ENN. Over the week, each of us actually writes stories separately, then we get together on Fridays to choose what to use, what to revise, etc. Sometimes the stories we throw out aren’t very good; other times, they are too obscure for a wider audience. Even so, sometimes very good stories have to be thrown out because there is just not enough space for them in the episode. Here are two of those stories for this week’s episode:
Dragons in Dungeons
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected the plea of prisoner Kevin T. Singer to be allowed to play Dungeons and Dragons. Officers at the Waupun Correctional Institution where Singer is incarcerated were pleased with the decision, saying “We can’t have prisoners exploring an enchanted fantasy realm while in custody, what if he were to find a Cape of the Mountebank? That would allow him to cast a dimension door spell once per day and he could easily escape.”
Proof: Tomb of Horrors designed by psychopaths
New Pokemon
Nintendo announced last week that the Pokemon Company is hard at work on a new series of entries in its award-winning franchise, to be released later this year. When asked what makes this game so original, Sotori Tajiri noted “We’ve actually managed to enclose an entire Z80 processor into the DS cartridge–what makes the new Pokémon so unique is its ability to look and sound exactly like a Game Boy Color game–a feat we have yet to achieve on the DS.”
Tags: dungeons and dragons, ENN, escapist news network, LoadingReadyRun, LRR, pokemon
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iPotato
February 2nd, 2010
Posted by Jeremy
This week’s video was not supposed to happen … or at least it was not planned in the way that such things usually are. Despite the rigorous scheduling that has kept LRR on track for the last few weeks, there’s always room for a bit of spontaneity–that’s where we started from, after all. When Steve Jobs took ill last year, one of my regrets was that we’d never been able to lampoon his ever-popular keynotes; we all love him, so we’re happy he’s better … and we’re happy we got the opportunity to make this video as well.
The rule around the office this week has more-or-les shaken down to the following: anytime someone new enters a conversation, that conversation becomes a heated discussion of the iPad. Personally, I would love it if some mathematically-minded person could up with an equation for this. It would have to represent the conversation as a thing of changing states; the iPad would either be one of those states, or just the initial state (as most conversations start with the iPad as well, let’s not kid ourselves). So it would end up as Con(whatever state) + New Participant = Con(iPad). If you can put that into a cool-looking equation for me, you are my hero.
iPotato began its life as a hypothetical example from Paul as to how we might do an iPad keynote parody. As with many of Paul’s ideas, his rough draft came out so fully-developed that we decided to run with it. Tim pointed out math errors in the script, I covered them with that liberal arts line, Graham added a late international release date; it’s great when a team comes together.
We can’t wait for you to go watch it yourself.
We think you’ll really enjoy … the iPotato.
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Posted by james
A question that has rung true throughout the ages, and will continue to do so if you pre-order our swanky new T-Shirt!
Our very talented and good looking Graham Stark designed this one of a kind upper body apparel, and he would very much like you to buy it.
Pre-Orders close tonight at 9PM PST (Monday Feb. 1, 2010)
Remember if you pre-order you can pick your style (Hoodie, Mens, Baby-doll or Long Sleeved) and colour (Black, Grey, Dark Blue) If you don’t pre-order you will still have a chance to pick this shirt up but only in Mens Black, and only standard sizes (Small, Medium, Large, X-Large and then a couple 2,3,4 X Large)
UPDATE: Pre-orders are now closed and we blew our target out of the water! So, if you ordered, rest well in the knowledge that we’ll be printing the run in the next week, and shipping everything out as soon as they’re ready. Thanks everyone!
It interesting to note that, like we said in that video, the vast majority of the shirts ordered were Unisex style, on black. Ha!
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