Just spend a minute or two really examining just what the hell is going on in this painting.

[click photo for full size]

At first you think it’s sort of making some sort of statement.  Washington, Bin Laden, it looks like this is totally political.  But wait, is George Washington riding some sort of triceratops looking thing? Then you see Waldo, The Fonz, Robocop, Steve Irwin–and you’re like “alright, now this is weird.”  Oh wait, now I’m looking at the sky there’s a bunch of flying dragons and wait–what’s that?  Yeah, that’s the Deathstar in the distance.

With estimated unit sales approaching 100 million worldwide, Nintendo has proven itself time and time again as the industry ruler of the portable console market. With the DSi–the second refresh of the Nintendo DS–we’re starting to see the company move in an evolutionary direction with its flagship handheld.

The DSi takes with it most of the features the DS Lite had to offer, but adds new multimedia capabilities. The DSi has been on sale in Japan since November 1 of last year and has already sold well over an astonishing 1 million units. Now that Nintendo has announced that the DSi will go on sale April 5 in North America, it certainly leaves everyone asking one big question, “Should I buy one?”

First, let’s look at what exactly separates the new DSi from the DS Lite. In terms of actual form-factor, the difference between the two portables is negligible. The DSi is slightly slimmer, but you’re not going to see the massive change in size like we saw when Nintendo upgraded the original DS to the DS Lite. What you may notice is that both screens are a quarter of an inch larger. The DSi hardware also actually eliminates the Game Boy Advance slot found on the Lite, so you won’t be able to play older Game Boy Advance games or DS titles that make use of the port, such as “Guitar Hero: On Tour.”

Read more »

Dan Levy on The 404 made for a great show back when we had him on back in January.  Little did we know that Dan would be kind enough to return the favor by letting the three of us on his On the DL Podcast show earlier this week.

If you’re even marginally interested in the more serious side of The 404, I highly recommend checking it out here.

I’m never, ever going to be swimming with any sharks.  I don’t care if they’re de-toothed, blind, and half-alive–I’m too terrified of that nightmare Jaws-eque feeling of something nibbling at my toes and then biting a sizable portion of my torso off.

The reason I bring up the sharks is because Fox and Friends host Clayton Morris stopped by the show today to explain how he just survived doing just that.  He was shooting a live segment for the Fox News Channel this morning at 2 a.m.

So check out today’s show with our long-time buddy Clayton!

Streaming Video by Ustream.TV

[The 404] [Download podcast] [Clayton Morris | On Twitter]

Veronica Belmont was cool enough to wake up early to talk to us on The 404 this morning.  I gotta respect that–I haven’t seen 8 a.m. since 1998.

Streaming live video by Ustream

[The 404] [Download podcast]

Hey everyone.  I’ve seen a significant spike in traffic here.  That embarasses and confuses me.  I’m embarassed because I havn’t done shit with this site in months, and confuses me because I don’t understand why anyone would come here in the first place.

Well I’m going to try and make this a place you’d wanna come.