Only at Wal*Mart, baby!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=st...lar_bill_1

Quote:Police: Woman Tried to Pass Fake $1M Bill



COVINGTON, Ga. - A woman was caught trying to use a fake $1 million bill to buy $1,675 worth of merchandise at a Wal-Mart, and was later found with two more of the bills in her purse, police said.

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The United States Treasury does not make $1 million bills, but people can buy souvenirs of such a bill at some stores, police said.



"It looks real, but of course there's nothing real about this," Covington Police Chief Stacey Cotton said Tuesday. "People do crazy things all the time. I think it's just another example of some odd things that occur."



A clerk at the store immediately noticed the bill was fake when 35-year-old Alice Regina Pike handed it to her on Friday, Cotton said.



Pike then tried to use two gift cards with only $2.32 of value on them to buy the merchandise, but when that didn't work she again asked if the clerk could cash the $1 million bill, Cotton said. The store then called police.



Pike, of Porterdale, was charged with forgery. There was no listing for her phone number in directory assistance, and she could not be reached for comment Tuesday.



Covington is 32 miles southeast of Atlanta.

http://www.lanceandeskimo.com/flash/quest.html

73 - A Truly Evil Plan

Eh.. guess there are no U2 fans here. ...

From Nintendojo!

Quote:The latest Issue of the United Kingdom’s GameCube magazine NGC, contains an exclusive interview with Shigeru Miyamoto, legendary game created and one of Nintendo’s top producers. In the interview, Miyamoto-san revealed that he is in fact working on two mystery games that could be released by the end of year 2004.

Miyamoto was quoted as saying, ”I am however working closely on Pikmin 2 and two other undisclosed titles alongside it.” He continued, “I hope we will be able to release both of those titles before the end of the year.”

What are these games? Are they updates to existing franchises or entirely new concepts? Do they feature bunnies? Stay with Nintendojo for all your Shiggy needs. (zp)

Source: NGC

...this game needs to get a stateside release! Just check out these screens from IGN. Most impressive 3D GBA engine I've seen so far.

Quote:The entertainment publication Variety says that film and TV powerhouse Jerry Bruckheimer will purchase a Prince of Persia license in order to make a feature film out of it. Jordan Mechner, one of the main game designers of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, would help write the script for the film with supervision.

He says that it would stick close to the game but have additional, original parts similar to what was done for the Pirates of the Caribbean movie, which was based on the Disney theme park ride and was also produced by Bruckheimer. The film would be released by Disney.

Tax cuts? Kerry would support tax cuts if they were for people who actually needed them! Note how he supports keeping the Bush tax cuts for people who make less than $200,000... I myself would rather we got rid of all of them, but his position is consistent with his beliefs.

Iraq? He voted to allow Bush to move troops to the reason and attack as a last resort. Now of course he should have known better and known that Bush would take "last resort" to mean "as soon as I can manufacture enough "evidence" to attack before everyone else can get fully organized against it", but he didn't... I myself supported our having troops in the Gulf to threaten Sadaam as threats were all he understood. The problem wasn't the law that was passed it was how the administration interpreted it... still I have a problem with Kerry voting for it. He should not have been tricked by Bush into thinking that he'd actually wait for any kind of proof or "last resort"! I'd like to think he' s smarter than that... but he believed them and didn't think that they'd quickly go to war like they did, I think. From that position voting against the $84 billion makes sense. Now I do think that once we're in we've got to pay for it and accept the consequences, but until we get rid of Bush (and bring in the UN and give it what it wants) we won't get any significant foreign invenstments in Iraq so we have to pay. We have no choice until Bush is gone.

Calling fellow soldiers criminals? Well in Vietam we did a whole lot of criminal things!

Special interests? Bush saying one word about this is absolutely hilarious and one of the most absurd things I have ever heard. Bush is the biggest pro-special interests person around and trying to stick that label on his opponent... totally outrageous.

And as for the Patriot Act, it was sneaked through right after 9/11, given the name PATRIOT, put to vote before people could really tell all of what was in it... I don't blame anyone for voting for it. They had no clue.

http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Story/2....03638.htm

I've noticed that TV seems to actually censor drug use. Not just the ugly effects, but talking about it. I don't have any idea why though. I mean, kids have just about everything about drugs pounded into their brains from kindergarden these days, so what possible reason would they have to censor it? I'm not talking in the sense of "oh they shouldn't worry about censoring violence", I'm talking in the sense that censoring this is like censoring someone stealing a magnifying glass from DD.

It lasted 13 years, but SNK has finally given up on the Neo-Geo and is moving to Sammy's Atomiswave.

http://ps2.ign.com/articles/493/493670p1.html

Quote:SNK to Atomiswave
Company puts an end to the Neo Geo.
February 20, 2004 - After first announcing plans last year to develop games on Sammy's Atomiswave arcade board, SNK Playmore delved into specifics at today's AOU arcade show, now running at the Makuhari Messe convention center just outside of Tokyo.

The company revealed that it has finalized a partnership contract with Sammy. As part of the deal, SNK Playmore will put an end to development on its 13-year-old Neo Geo arcade board with the next installment in the Samurai Spirits series, due for Japanese arcade release this Spring. All future development from the company will take place on the Atomiswave board.

Sammy's Atomiswave board, first announced two years back as a low cost arcade board solution, makes use of a scaled down version of Sega's Naomi arcade chipset. So far, the board has received support mostly from Sammy itself, with Guilty Gear being the biggest name to appear thus far.

Getting things off to a big start on its new arcade home, SNK Playmore announced three titles for the board: The King of Fighters 2004 (tentative name), Samurai Spirits AW (tentative name) and Metal Slug 6.

SNK Playmore is promising to make use of the more advanced capabilities of the Atomiswave board to give these titles features that couldn't be achieved on the Neo Geo. King of Fighters will have upgraded sound, graphics and gameplay as well as new characters. Metal Slug 6 will feature network compatibility. Samurai Spirits AW promises some interesting changes, although the company wouldn't delve into specifics.

It was also revealed that development on the tentatively-titled The King of Fighters Neowave, announced by SNK Playmore for the Atomiswave last year, is still continuing. Details on the title were not provided at the show.

We'll have more as we learn it.