Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Robotripping/Mind Games

Some interesting news items today.


According to iReport and CNN, L'il Wayne has just released a second avant-garde video for his single "Lollipop." The video is meant to simulate the experience of being inside Weezy's head. Or at least the experience of drinking a bottle of Nyquil.


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In other news, China has announced that it will be playing Mind Games. And no that doesn't mean this, this, this or any of the other trazillion pages that came up on google before the thing that happened TODAY and which I'm actually talking about: this.

The Olympics and the Paralympics won't be the only global multi-sports events held in Beijing this year.

The Chinese capital will host the first World Mind Sports Games from Oct. 3-18, featuring five events and - yes - doping controls.

About 3,000 competitors from more than 100 countries will be competing for 35 gold medals in chess, bridge, draughts (or checkers), Go and Xiang Qi (or Chinese chess), the International Mind Sports Association said Wednesday at a sports conference in Athens.

In the wake of the late announcement, ESPN and Spike TV are naturally sprinting to be the first to gain US broadcasting rights.

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