Wednesday, June 18, 2003

Deloitte and Touche Consulting has released a free software add-on to MS-Office called Bullfighter that claims to bring to your attention any instances of business speak (or as those of us in-the-know refer to it, econobonics).  It's designed to help you cut through the bullspeak so prevalent in business today.

It's fun, it's techy, it's a marketing ploy to salvage what shred of respect is left for the management consulting industry.  While I applaud them on an ingenius solution to increasing their rep, I have a little problem with a program that claims to help me cut through the BS and launches a Flash demo when it installs.  Other than that, it's definitely interesting and I like the feature which allows me to submit "new bull" as well as download an updated bulldictionary from the internet.


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Ninja Baseball Batman is by far the craziest game I have ever played.  The Japanese arcade game (known as Yakyuu Kakutou League-Man in its homeland) is the story of 4 baseball playing ninjas who go after an array of extremely wacky enemies to get back their beloved golden sports equipment.  Trust me the game is soooo much crazier than it sounds.  First you get attacked by giant anthropomorphic baseballs while touring a factory, then in the next level you take a cruise on a huge ship and battle electrical squid in battle armor!

The fun thing about this game is it's hard to tell who's a friend and who's an enemy so you just end up swinging bats at everything.  In one part of the game, a bunch of sunglasses-wearing baseball chicks (batgirls?!?) fall from the sky and start groveling on the floor and shooting energy out of themselves (I think from their breasts, but it all happened too fast to really tell) into your enemies.

The title in Japanese literally translates as "Baseball Hand-to-Hand Fighting League-Man". 

If you ever find this game in an arcade do yourself a favor and play it! This game will convince anyone that drugs are very, very bad for you.

 

 


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