It would seem, in the grand tradition of WalMartSucks.com, an annoyed Guiness drinker registered a slew of domain names, all with the basic elements of “Guinness Beer Sucks”. And frankly, that hurts. But it’s his perogative, right? Well, apparently not.

Guiness paid their $2000 (I don’t know what that is in punts or pounds), and had them all taken away with the help of the WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization.

The link above is the arbitration brief between Guiness and this guy, and he loses because the domain names he registered are “confusingly similar” to Guinness.com (which is currently unavailable, I might add).

Though I love a good black pint, this sort of ticks me off. Idiots are confused by “GuinessSucks.com”, sure… but does that hurt Guinness all that much? I don’t really think so. I value the internet because it puts the average Joe on a level playing field with the corporations… but then this happens.

According to this article over at Daily Radar, Sony’s EverQuest, the massively multiplayer online role playing game has topped 300,000 players, with 68,000 simultaneous users at peak.

Just to make things worse, “Evercrack”, as it is known to the junkies, is due for another expansion (read:another hit), “the Scars of Velious” in December.

Fun Fact!: “The Scars of Velious” was originally named “The Track Marks of the Damned”, but changed for obvious reasons.

This article is dedicated to Chuck Pearsall (aka BovinaLoca), who I’m sure we will not hear from until the spring thaw after the release of “Scars…”

You know, I find Daily Radar informative, and their Direct Hit pretty funny, but sometimes, they are just huge assholes.

WARNING: those of you who may become queasy or ill of the vapors upon seeing the gratutitous destruction of a highly coveted gaming console SHOULD NOT click the link above.

Ladies and Gentleman, I give you the better of two evils, a candidate that casts a blind eye towards justice, stands up for chicken rights and family values… it’s Mike the Headless Chicken.Org.

As most of you know, from a previous story on thLocust, Mike the Headless Chicken was decapitated for dinner on September 10, 1945… but then he didn’t give up. Rather than over-reacting and “running around with his head cut off”, he calmly jumped off the stoop and began pecking for cracked corn. (These are called “phantom” pecks, by the by). Mike then rode a wave of fame (pulling in up to $4,500 a month) until dying in a chicken-feed induced bender while on the road.

This is the sort of hard-fought determination I respected John McCain for! We need a leader like Mike, and I’ll be the first to say it. “I Like Mike!”

(p.s. – rumours that Mike frquently called his captors “crackers” are unsubtantiated)

Hey folks, I just got my interview with Adam and Jase from Does Humour Belong in Technology? back! And boy is it long… You can check it out here.

For those of you who don’t know what DHBIT is, it’s a Canadian LIVE technology web-streaming radio show. Whew! They give a show each Sunday at 7PM PST, and you can listen to it with any MP3 player, and even interact in a chat room while listening. Check them out here.

By now, no doubt you have noticed the drastic redesign of theLocust.org. Well, frankly, the old style was pretty ugly, and somewhat graphics heavy.

So, i went through and ditched everything that did work, or didn’t need to be here, and here we have it. I also slaved away to make the page look as much the same as I could in both browsers (which, I might add, it still doesn’t work quite well in Netscape, because NETSCAPE SUCKS.) That’s right, I said it… Netscape 4.75 sucks. Go check out Mozilla or get the Preview Release of Netscape 6, which is based on Mozilla. The site now looks the same in Mozilla/NS 6 and IE. Yee-haw. Thank god for standards.

But, a more pressing matter is this: “Does it look good to you?” I hope it does, I think this looks much more stylish than the previous funk, and not to mention the fact that it loads faster, too!

So, let me know what you think, oh, and if you should have any ideas for additions to the site, let me know.

Oh, and for Ronen, I added the functionality if you should happen to forget your password, you can have it reset via email. Enjoy!