MSN Bot loves me

Woo woo, total views of my collection of original Google videos (Gameshelfs and Jmac's Arcades) surpassed 1,000 not long ago. I only have about 30 RSS subscriptions between the two shows, though, according to Feedburner. Most of those are for the Gameshelf; I bet I could get a lot more for the Arcade if I just promoted it.

For some reason the Scramble video makes up about half of the views, spread over time. Does it have an obsessive fan somewhere? Or just a broken video-scraping bot?

There is a half-constructed new episode of each on the stove but they'll simmer for a while yet coz I'm workin on other stuff.

Someone gave 5 stars to the YouTube instance of the Missile Command one. That was nice. I don't think any of the shows on either site have attracted comments from strangers, except for the "Space Games" Gameshelf which got praise from a Star Control 2 fan and a request that we plug Toys for Bob's efforts to mobilize their fan base and get Activision to fund a true sequel. (Star Control 3 was the Highlander 2 of Star Control.)

Not that there's anything wrong with that

[Poll #866806]

Dr. Beardy McSkinnydude talks about YOU

I need a life-extension icon. I'll use Shatner for now because he's a rather spritely 75-year-old, isn't he. (Yes, he's only 50 in this picture, but do you deny that he's still got it?)

From BoingBoing, some Aubrey de Grey stuff: a brief text interview, where he interestingly pooh-poohs the effectiveness of CR in humans, and the full video of a presentation he gave about how he'd like to fight aging, starting with the prerequisite fight to raise awareness of aging as something that can be fixed.

It's frustrating that my plan to be rolling in ca$h money by now hasn't really panned out because I had been planning from the start to pour a lot of it into things like SENS and the MPrize. I'll keep trying.

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It seems that "life extension" is the term on the rise for this whole thing. I like it better than "immortality", which has the air of divine unattainability baked into it, or "clinical immortality", which sounds too, erm, clinical. I'll have to go adjust my LJ tags to match, sometime.