If you’re my age or a little older you know that Snood is a knockoff of the classic Bubble Bobble derivative, Bust-a-Move. However, when the great Snood boom of 1996 hit the Internet a with a viral force researchers compare to that of Elf Bowling and Hampster Dance combined. (While I’m on the subject, why would HampsterDance.com have any other content but the original? Talk about not knowing your audience…) So, back to the matter at hand. It is absolutely mind boggling that people are still playing Snood. You can play thousands of shitty games online for free and yet it seems people (in my analysis it’s always girls) are still playing Snood.

It has come to my attention that some fortunate people out there may be completely in the dark about Snood. Such as @Mahaviraband who asked “what is ‘snood’???”. My dear friend this is Snood:

The basic idea is that you have to get 3 of the same faces to touch and then it knocks them and anything below them off. You have to clear the board in a certain number of moves as the brick wall lowers throughout the game. It’s a ridiculously simple puzzle game which take about 4-5 seconds to completely master and get over.

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Recently the world has become all a twitter over the latest internet social-networking site to wow the web. I am of course talking about the Netscape Forum Center Twitter. I’m sure most of you are familiar with the site, you may even be members. If you are a member I would encourage you to follow SmartassRadio (DJ) and myself, if you are so inclined. Twitter is a bit of an enigma for me: I don’t know why I like it, yet I do. I have a problem with most everything on the site, specifically the jargon that it has developed. For example, DJ now tweets more often than he roars and I (someone who I have always thought of as independent) am guilty of being a follower in 27 cases. Also, the idea that anyone is actually “networking,” rather than “self-promoting” is a little suspect. Ultimately, I have come to the conclusion that the reason I like twitter is because I like to communicate with the world at large. I enjoy the reassurance I feel knowing that someone can know how I feel. The stain of the whole system is that I have to be inside on a computer procrastinating to really be compelled to tweet.

Well, not anymore. Unlike the webmaster of the Netscape Forum Center, when I am presented with a flawed system I try to fix it. And fix it I have. Today, I would like to introduce the latest venue for social networking: Chirpper ™.

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As we continually try to expand our horizons here at SAR, we are forced to socially network constantly. As such, we set up this kickass twitter account. The background pic is of my good friend Quinn, doing his best Kip Winger circa 1990 (sorry, dude it was too sweet to not use). If you have an account please follow us, I try to update whenever I have something to say that just isn’t long enough for a full blog post (ie. sick links, or funny thoughts/quotes exchanged between me and Roy). It’s also a good place to get updates about events related to the site – upcoming interviews, in-progress interviews/shows/whatever.

Check out the dudes I’m following as well – metalsucks and metalinquisition are both excellent blogs and their tweeting habits defintely reflect that.