So I’m quickly checking my Gmail, and I open my spam folder to empty it out, when I notice something odd about the google news ticker thing.

Now for those of you that don’t know, Google searches for keywords when using adsense to display relevant ads to the user. For example, if you search google for “candy” the ads will probably be for various types of candy. But adsense is in other places besides google, such as gmail. Adsense searches through your email for keywords to display relevant ads.

And now I see Google News must do the same thing, because these are the headlines that showed up:

Spam Imperial Tortilla Sandwiches – To serve, cut each roll in half
Vineyard Spam Salad – Combine grapes, spam, peapods and onions in large bowl
Savory Spam Crescents – Bake 12-15 minutes or until golden brown
Spam Fajitas – Serves 8, add extra salsa if desired
Spam Breakfast Burritos – Bake 5-10 minutes, serve with salsa
Spam Swiss Pie – Bake 45-55 minutes or until eggs are set
Spam Skillet Casserole – Broil until golden
Spam Quiche – Makes 4 servings

Amusing, to say the least.

Hey Mike can I try this on your DS?

Now, you may want to make sure you have a strong stomach before watching this one. For those of us that love our DS Lite like it was a third arm, these hooligans that decided to stress test a DS Lite LCD screen have a video up that will just make you squirm. Apparently, this crew decided to stroll into a local Wal-Mart and squeeze the little guy to see if it’d break under the immense pressure of a gamer’s superhuman strength thumbs. Thankfully, the unscientific results are a success and the DS Lite came out alive. Still, there’s something about this video that is just utterly disturbing to watch.

Via Joystiq.

Still Cali. I haven’t actually played this game yet =m=

Following the rockstar reception Harmonix’s Guitar Hero has received, it appears Konami might try to emulate that success by bringing the heretofore Japan-only Guitar Freaks series to the US under the recently trademarked moniker, Guitar Revolution.

Filed on 6/29, the Guitar Revolution covers, “video game machines for use with televisions with video game controller in the form of an electronic toy guitar, sold as a unit.” So we think what they’re trying to say is you’ll be able to buy a killer guitar controller to shred your way through a game. Now it comes down to who gets what songs and whose guitar controller rocks harder. That one just ain’t cutting it, Konami.

[Via Gamespot]

This is Cai here blogging for Mike. Tim Burton = <3

According to an amateurish looking blog dubbed The Movie Center linked to from NeoGAF, director Tim Burton has shown interest in a script based on … Grim Fandango. Sure, this sounds like a fanboy’s wet dream, but the quote presented is not only unsourced, it contains two major spelling errors! “Well, I’m currently woerking on Sweeny Todd, which will be released in mid-2007. After that, I’m gonna start working on a new script that was sent to me recently: Grim Fandango.”

We ain’t saying these rumors are false, just that they’re skimpy. It takes a lot more than some unsourced blog postings to get our fanboy knickers in a knot.

Via Joystiq.

Although I could care less, about this story, my girlfriend reads this blog and probably would want to read this. Here you go cai:

As I’ve mentioned before, with Pirates of the Caribbean 2 landing in just a few days, Johnny Depp is all over the news this week. According to Contact Music, Stephen Cannell is looking to revive his 21 Jump Street series and turn it into a feature film starring none other than Johnny Depp. You’ll remember Depp played Officer Tom Hansen on the original television series, but left the show on bad terms. However, the actor recently said he’s keen to bring back the character, but only he gets to play him a certain way. Depp says, “He’s out of his mind. He’s really old now. But he thinks that he’s really young. That I would love to do.”

Via Cinematical.

When he isn’t busy dressing us down for bullying up on student plays, Ron Gilbert — the lead designer behind adventure-game classics like Maniac Mansion and The Secret of Monkey Island — apparently has lengthy chats with outlets like Gamasutra on what’s missing in gaming today (the stories, stupid) and how to fix it (make his game).

This excites me. I cannot wait, as I am a huge fan of adventure games and the monkey island series. I’ll keep a blogging eye on this guy.

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The lucasarts SCUMM engine emulator has been updated to Ver. 0.9.0, the most notable improvement being the new pretty GUI. W007.

I’ll have to wait to get home to check this out, but the GUI looks pretty. I can’t wait.

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