Technology connoisseur, hardware mod artist, and Crashnaut extraordinaire Brett_N added another feather to his cap this weekend, with his tragic yet uplifting video tail of a terminally ill Xbox 360… and some delicious scrambled eggs.

Way to go Brett, I can’t wait to see your PS3 souffle!

Friendster, Xanga, MySpace, LinkedIn, Gather, when will it all end?? I only have myself to blame of course. Each journalist’s effusive review that “this latest social networking site finally gets it right” attracts my attention like a moth to a light bulb. So, I will bounce around Vox for a while and see what the vibe is all about. I can say off the bat that it is a lot more attractive than most of the aforementioned locations. Vox also seems much more full-featured, including things like spell check and Flickr integration. The site is a product of Six Apart, best known for their blogging software Movable Type, so there would seem to be some pretty capable folks working on it. Only time will tell, of course, whether Vox will become the next great thing or another MySpace ghetto.

Here’s a strangely addictive animated music video that is making the rounds on the interwebs this morning. It’s a little story about love in the early 2000s, when the landscape was dominated by AOL and IRC. Enjoy trying to get this little jingle out of your head for the rest of the day! <3

Usually I leave posts about electronics and game industry happenings to the big boys, but this story struck a nerve with me, and I couldn’t resist.

Yesterday Sony, merciless, all-powerful corporate juggernaut, filed multiple lawsuits against Japanese game importer Lik-Sang, which resulted in the company closing up shop for good. This idea of a company being sued so hard that they are completely destroyed, wiped off the face of the economic map, just sounds really funny to me. It’s like Sony has litigated first-degree corporate murder, and the gaming community is the heartbroken spouse at the funeral.

It’s sad really, lots of consumers got the products they craved via Lik-Sang, and these were legitimate retail products: not pirated copies. Maybe the appeals of innocent gamers everywhere will resurrect Lik-Sang in some fashion.

Of course then the gamer’s training will kick in and they’ll probably put a shotgun in the drooling maw of zombie Lik-Sang to finish the job: for good.