Fast Car, Small Penis?

In Australia, the New South Wales Roads and Transportation Authority wants young male drivers, probably the most reckless demographic behind the wheel worldwide, to slow down. So the organization has come out with an ingenious plan:

Convince men that if they speed, women -- even elderly ones -- will assume they have undersized genitals.

Safety issues aside, the ancillary lesson, I guess, is this: If you want to get some action, putter around at 5 miles an hour in a Yugo, or maybe on a moped. I knew when I started blasting around in a souped-up, fire-engine-red sewage truck at savagely high speeds that I was probably not doing myself any favors, but didn't realize I would be hitting myself below the belt.

New Killzone Trailer Feeded

The well known 'Halo Killer' for the PS3 has made apperance early at E3 press conference.

Any doubts you may have had after seeing that dull screenshot released on the 9th of July will be blown clear out of the water by the incredible detail of the footage you're about to see. The massive detail, destructible environments and character models are superb.

Enough chatter. Get with the watching by clicking the video player above. Cue the E3 '05 trailer comparison rants. This is the full E3 trailer packing nearly three minutes of amazing in-game footage.

Researchers Says; M-Rated Games Good for Children

Could it be that violent video games
actually have a positive effect on adolescents?

Possibly, according to a new study.

This new Report highlights research done by Cheryl Olson, an Sc.D. at Massachusetts General Hospital. Olson, who surveyed more than 1,200 7th and 8th graders, said:

"We found that most boys 12- to 14-years-old are playing mature-rated video games, so this idea that M-rated games cause shootings or major violence just doesn’t hold water.
We don’t know whether playing to get anger out is a good thing or a bad thing for any individual child, but we suspect that it might be healthy for a lot of kids."

Olson also credited playing video games as a social activity.

"They’re more likely to play with a group of friends in the same room or over the Internet, so this stereotype of a solitary violent gamer up in his room wasn’t borne out, at least in our study.
[Video games are] not going to ruin them. They’re not going to go out and pick up a gun. Violent video game play is typical and normal for kids nowadays. That doesn’t mean that parents have to like it, but they shouldn’t panic about it."

Olson’s study was published in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

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