ok, I didn't predict this but I'm sure Liz did. And check out this ambiguosly gay superman comic book that looks like goatse.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-superman2jun02,0,7901483.story

From the Los Angeles Times

How Will a Gay Icon Fly at the Box Office?

Superman appeals to gays. Should that be a selling point? Or could it be kryptonite?

By John Horn
Times Staff Writer

June 2, 2006

STUDIOS love magazine stories that breathlessly hype their summer popcorn movies, so you would think that Warner Bros. might have been happy with Alonso Duralde's cover story about "Superman Returns," which gushed, "Superheroes — let's face it — are totally hot."
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Ok, yeah we all knew this was happening and it was only a matter of time before the media reported it as such but I was like, 15 when I called this one. I predicted it and it came true. I did the research, I knew it was going to happen when the US went in there. What could I do but get thrown in jail and tasered from protesting it? Nothing. Hooray bureaucratic states of a "representative" America. Taking back power for the man since 1776 and ignoring the scientific and philosophical triumphs of the enlightenment.

Official: Iraq in 'Undeclared Civil War'

Apr 8, 4:15 PM (ET)

By MARIAM FAM

(AP) Iraqi mourners carry the coffin of Ahmed Ali, an engineering student who was killed in Friday's… Full Image

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) – A car bomb killed six people Saturday near a Shiite shrine south of Baghdad, and the death toll from the deadliest attack of the year rose to nearly 90. A senior official warned Iraq was in an "undeclared civil war" that can be curbed only by a strong government and greater powers for security services.

With sectarian tensions rising, U.S. Marines on Saturday beat back the largest attack in weeks by Sunni Arab insurgents in the western city of Ramadi – another sign of the crisis facing this country three years after Baghdad fell to U.S. forces.

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Sometimes I predict things and then they come true. So, I decided to create a new category just for when this happens no matter how trivial the prediction. The thing I predicted that came true today was an easy one that any adbusters loving/ video game playing youngster like myself saw coming when we were playing GTA3 and even before that.

Source

April 5, 2006
Advertising has been creeping into video games in the past few years as virtual billboards that hawk real-world products like soft drinks and computer gear.

The publisher of online science-fiction game Project Entropia is taking the idea one step further by giving players the tools to put up their own advertising in the game.

The latest release of the game, created by MindArk PE AB of Sweden, features advertising billboards. Through a PowerPoint-like system, players create animated ads and buy time on the billboards.

So far, the ads have been promoting player-organized in-game events like fashion shows and hunting competitions, as well as businesses like stores and hunting grounds, said Marco Behrmann, MindArk’s directory of player relations.

MindArk said it was the first player-oriented advertising tool built into a game.

In another virtual world, Second Life, players who master its tools can create almost anything they want, including advertising, and enterprising players have created their own ad-exchange program on a website.

MindArk also announced a collaboration with New York-based Massive Inc., which distributes ads from companies like The Coca Cola Co. and Warner Bros. for inclusion in more than 100 games. Ads distributed by Massive will show up on billboards in Project Entropia.

Project Entropia has 400,000 registered users, far behind the 5.5 million users for the most popular online game, World of Warcraft. But Project Entropia has a sophisticated economic model, including a virtual currency, convertible to real-world dollars at a fixed exchange rate.

AP