I have some extra invites to GMail, with most of my friends covered already, so I can give a couple away. Asa is giving some away too, as is Pav, and now that I have extras, I’ll join the club. I have no idea how I’ll pick, so just throw your name in the hat, and we’ll see. 🙂

Wow. I like Monopoly, and so while I was picking up cables and whatnot at a local store, I saw in their games aisle a 3D Monopoly game, with network play, for ten bucks. So I grabbed it. I like it, well worth ten dollars. But the nutty part was what I saw when reading the End User License Agreement for the game. I grasp companies have to limit their liability and all but I found this clause just plain funny:

You acknowledge that Hasbro Interactive is not responsible for the Internet or whether it should continue to exist in its present form or whether or not a government or governmental agency, either foreign or domestic, will control, regulate or disband the Internet.

I can see making it clear the Internet isn’t their responsibility, but the rest is bizarre.

References here and here. This is most definetly brand necrophilia. Not even just brand necrophilia, this is just horrible bastardization of a brand that tried to die an honorable death (and failed, also thanks to AOL). So we have a Yahoo toolbar, Google toolbar, NEtscape toolbar, and a dozen others, along with self installing malware in IE. Can IE users even see webpages anymore with all these toolbars?