The Offspring's latest album Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace is still a little over a week away, but you can enjoy it right now thanks to an online stream of the entire CD. The only song I've heard so far is Hammerhead, which has been getting a good amount of radio play here in Southern California. Hit the jump for the embedded player, and remember to pick up the album when it ships next week.
Del Rey, a division of Random House, is allowing fans to download Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Betrayal, which is available in PDF, a free audiobook, free Amazon Kindle e-book and Sony Reader e-book. That's awfully nice of Del rey to offer so many formats, and you can't be the price.
The recently launched Hulu.com, a joint-venture between FOX, NBC, MGM, Sony Pictures Television, Warner Bros., Lionsgate and others, isn't wasting any time attracting attention, evidenced by today's arrival of all three seasons of Arrested Development.
The video is high-quality and everything is wrapped in a no muss, no fuss interface, which is always welcome. Hulu is kind of growing on me, if for no other reason than it doesn't come across as cheap, corporate shilling. Instead, it has an ever-growing library of good content. Hard to argue with that.
Need some Arrested Development while you pretend to work? Head here.
Personally, I prefer Monty Python and the Meaning of Life, which can be found here.
Just when I thought workplace productivity had hit an all-time low, I find out that South Park Studios is now offering up every episode of South Park to watch online for free. There's no registration, and no inundation of ads like you'll find on previous, less than official solutions like allsp.com and southparkzone.com. You'll find not only your favorite episodes from years past like 'An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig,' 'Cripple Fight,' and 'Hellen Keller! The Musical,' but also the most recent 'Britney's New Look' which aired just last night.
So what favorite South Park moment will you be watching over and over while pretending to get work done? It's tough to spotlight a single moment from a show that's provided us with AWESOM-O, the Trapper Keeper, Osama bin Laden's farty pants, Professor Chaos, and of course hilarious celebrities like Tom Cruise, Michael Jackson, and Paris Hilton.
Personally, my favorite moment will still always be Cartman singing Heat of the Moment before Congress in the episode 'Kenny Dies' from season 5, which I've embedded after the jump.
Jayisgames has posted the finalists for the 5th Annual Casual Gameplay Design Competition and there are some real winners here. Presented with a slick interface, you'll find 21 great time-wasters, some original ideas and, yes, old ideas given a little spit and polish.
It's the perfect prescription for your boring Monday at work. Just make sure you have a Bosskey handy.
Talk about a treasure trove! CBSis finally getting hip to this whole Internet thing, as evidenced by the sudden appearance of every original episode of Star Trek and the first two seasons of Twilight Zone.
Quality is actually pretty damn nice and the layout is easy to navigate. I'm not much of a Trekkie, but having quick access to classic Twilight Zone episodes makes me all giddy inside. As an added bonus, CBShas also made season 1 of MacGyver and, thank goodness, Hawaii Five-0 available for your viewing pleasure.
A word of warning: if you've never seen Hawaii Five-0, then please proceed carefully, as you will not be able to get the theme song out of your head.
If you're like me and are frequently at the office, in class, or otherwise away from a TV when your favorite program is on but always have a laptop with you, then www.channelsurfing.net is about to become your new best friend. They provide daily feeds of most sporting events, as well as some of the most popular television shows like The Office, Lost, and Celebrity Apprentice. As long as you've got a computer and an internet connection you can keep up on your TV from where ever you may be. Some of the streams only work in Internet Explorer, and others might require third party software, but for the most part many will play as-is in Windows Media Player. I won't go into the copyright issue, but be sure to read their Terms of Use as I get the feeling their services would be considered less than legal in some places.
Now you can enjoy March Madness from the comfort of your...er...desk.