Hate me if you must, but I am not a football fan at all. It just holds no interest for me. I used to have a need to watch every Super Bowl though. Why? I loved seeing the advertisements.

Now however, thanks to Al Gore and whoever invented TiVo, I don’t have to put up with all the painted, shirtless obese men, or the nonstop grunting from amplified helmet mics anymore. I can just fast forward between commercials, or even better, find the websites that let me choose which ones I want to watch and when. If you feel the same way about the sport, or even if you are a pigskin fan who just may have missed an ad or two during some congratulatory chest-bumping, these are the best three sites I came across this year:

Spike.com/superbowl

Hulu.com/adzone

CBSSports.com

Enjoy! Oh, and before heading off to voluntarily watch the advertisements CBS played (at 2.5 mil a pop!) during the big game to help pay its bills, consider clicking on an ad or two every once in a while you visit us here. It’s a small something we’d be very appreciative of and would help us continue to feed the habits of Info Addicts everywhere.

Going outside. It’s quite dangerous. Just ask a World of Warcraft player. Gang fights, turf disputes, trade swindling, imposing authorities, Mr. T. – and we’re not even talking about WoW yet.

So imagine what happens when you mix those things, rampant drug and alcohol usage, internet anonymity, a cross between GTA-style violence and Harry Potter-style witchery, 13-year-olds, and good old FPS teabagging. You get a rather dangerous place called a “PvP Realm.” Roughly translated for those who haven’t yet mastered WoW-speak, it means “open season on your ass.” But since Blizzard has yet to debut its patented in-game butt cup (available soon for only $10, limit one per account) to shield your character (aka toon) from unwanted posterior intrusions, you’ll have to settle with my $5 “Don’t-even-think-about-going-there” tour guide, provided to you free of charge.

So, without further adieu, I bring you, ranging from “hunting guide for Dick Cheney” to “sparring partner for Chuck Norris,” the top 10 most dangerous world PvP areas of WoW.

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I tried to warn you, I really did. When I tore Champions Online a new a-hole for sucking in every conceivable way except character customization (apparently the only aspect of design Cryptic can do successfully any more), you all called me names and insisted it was a stunt to increase traffic. Now, several months after release, players are discovering that I was right, evidenced by this nifty editorial from MMOCrunch titled, quite simply, “Why I Quit Champions Online”.

Plan and simple, Champions Online lost its hold on me.  I continued to dive into the game, move around the world, soak up the atmosphere, read about its future and most importantly, evaluate the content beyond my reach.  What I definitively learned, and I hope my review hinted at, is that the game lacks legs.  The atmosphere has always been incredibly disjointed thanks to the instancing of most zones.  Even though all of the settings make sense in the universe, they lack a cohesive flow.  And the multitude of characters aren’t employed effectively either. Because of these continued slip-ups through the middle to later levels, Champions Online gets boiled down to its diverse arcade-y combat.  In essence, it becomes a soulless experience.

When I tore Star Trek Online a new a-hole for the very same reasons, I was once again called every name in the book and, like Champions Online, it will take a few months before I am once again proven correct. I’m trying to save you people money, I swear. I die a little inside every time I hear someone has foolishly purchased a lifetime subscription.