Some people should wear funny costumes outside. Some should not. Others shouldn't even venture outdoors. A Japanese thread has popped up laced with truly standout costumes. Yes, there are worse, way worse, but this is a good start. Part of me feels like a cruel bastard posting these pics. Not so much because all those Japanese commenters are laughing at this folks, but because of the visual pain I am inflicting on our lovely readership. For that, forgive me. Brian Ashcraft

Koitsu... Yabai! [2 Log]

Just about everyone has pointed out just how painfully obvious that the "All I want for Xmas is a PSP" website is really just a bad marketing ploy for Sony. Well everyone, but Sony.

Today Sony joined the club and apologized for the marketing deception:

Busted. Nailed. Snagged. As many of you have figured out (maybe our speech was a little too funky fresh???), Peter isn't a real hip-hop maven and this site was actually developed by Sony. Guess we were trying to be just a little too clever. From this point forward, we will just stick to making cool products, and use this site to give you nothing but the facts on the PSP.

Sony Computer Entertainment America

Ouch. That's gonna smart for awhile. I don't know what's been going on with Sony advertising lately, but it just isn't coming together. The only thing worse than no advertising is exposed viral marketing.

All I want for Xmas is a PSP, the confession [Viral Blog]

In the coolest move they've ever made, gaming network G4's Attack of the Show has posted a very sincere, very well-worded apology to our darling Aeropause.

G4's slight, as mentioned earlier today, was using Aeropause's instructional Dead Rising video on Attack of the Show without giving credit for the fantastic clip, which demonstrated how to attain the coveted Megaman blaster by destroying nigh unto 60,000 zombies.

The Attack of the Sorry:

What happened was awful, embarrassing and it doesn't matter why it happened, it was wrong. We're a corporation (although we have Space Invaders on the carpeting) and we take copyright law extremely seriously. We get pissed off when people show our stuff and don't give us credit; I wouldn't expect anyone out there to feel differently.

Like I said before, we take our role as citizens on the information superhighway very seriously. However, unlike a lot of people out there in the universe of the worldwide web, we aren't afraid to fess up to our mistakes and say we're sorry.

And so on. But they don't stop there! Not only do they fill a page with gracious explanation and apology, they go above and beyond and actually compose a little I'm Sorry song to Aeropause, complete with acoustic guitar and stylish hat.

Let this be a lesson to all tubedwellers: eating humble pie earns you a high score. As a bonus lesson, let it be known that a slick little grandpa hat and some nice glasses can dress up your jeans n' teeshirt geek uniform something fierce. Eliza "I wish I had a grandpa hat. And a song." Gauger

This post goes without a photo because our uploader is broken.

Attack of the Show apologizes as great length [G4]