UPDATE: Congrats to our winners: Jason (Dad-bot), Jason Burich (BurriedInSnowBot), and Sean K (Cleverbot)! Please email contests@maroonersrock.com your address so we can ship your prizes.

To help celebrate the recent announcement of Orcs Must Die, the new game being worked on by the fine folks at Robot Entertainment, we will be giving away some nifty Robot swag!

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Update: Congrats to our winners: wetware, Trin, Katy Vaz, Parker Scott, Samuel and Chris!

Hello everybody! World of Meh feels like getting in the holiday spirit so for the next 8 hours, we are having a giveaway extravaganza!

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If you weren’t paying attention over Thanksgiving, you might have missed out on Steam’s latest giveaway idea.  Do a “thing”, get a chance to win the top 5 games on your Steam Wishlist!  (I moved all the expensive ones to the top ^_^ )  Last time, they selected 5 people every day for the duration of the holiday sale.  This time we have to work for it. Read the full story

World of Meh has been around for awhile now. Some of you have been with us from our humble beginnings, and many of you have just recently joined us and are only familiar with the current version of the site. On December 27th, which marks the 2 year anniversary of the site, a huge change is coming and we are really excited.

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Yesterday, Chris and I went on to Central Valley Buzz to promote our site and help spread the word about our Blogathon fundraiser for One Love for Chi. Since we haven’t been on anything live in awhile, I was a little anxious, but I think we did a great job.

For those of you who were unable to tune in, the repeat already aired early this morning, but I can give you a rundown of what went on. When we got there, the room was rather warm due to all of the lighting, and the fact that there was a guy prepping for a cooking segment. It also didn’t help that he was making a salsa with Habanero peppers, so while we were waiting to go on, my eyes started to sting a little.

Once we were on air, I got a little tripped up at first, but Chris was there to explain the history of World of Meh!, and what inspired us to start it. We, honestly, started this site just as a creative outlet, so clearly things have evolved! After we described what our site is all about, we were kept on for a second segment that touched on how the two of us met (through an online dating site, if you must know), and then we shared with everybody the amazing story of Chi, his progress, and our efforts to help him.

Chuck Leonard, host of the show, autographed, on air, a pair of clippers that were used on a recent show to shave his head. He then donated them with the hope that it will help attract more people to our site, and boost donations. Pretty awesome, eh? After we we were done, I logged in to check our site states and there was a considerable spike in hits, so thank you Chuck!

If you are a fan of Central Valley Buzz, or are an evil scientist that wants a piece of his DNA to do some crazy cloning experiment, donate to our One Love for Chi fundraiser and earn a shot at winning those clippers, amongst other prizes!

- Me

Like helping others and earning a shot at winning some great prizes by Activision, EA, and others in the process? Check out our One Love for Chi fundraiser and spread the word!

Alright friends of Meh, I promised that today we would be getting something special in the mail for our One Love for Chi/Blogathon fundraiser, and it’s here!

Originally the delivery was slated to arrive around 3 in the afternoon, so I was surprised when the FedEx guy came around 11. Each box weighs about 26 pounds, and it reminded me of the days when I worked at GameStop as an Assistant Manager. I loved shipment days.

Courtesy of the amazing folks at Activision, Team Hero, and Dan Amrich (otherwise known as OneOfSwords), we were given not one..not two…not three, but FOUR complete Band Hero kits to give away as prizes during the Blogathon starting on July 31st!

Each kit includes: the Band Hero game, a microphone, guitar, and drum kit. This is the real deal folks! We have two kits for the Nintendo Wii, one kit for Xbox 360, and another for Sony PlayStation 3. All Band Hero equipment is fully compatible with Guitar Hero, which is awesome, and all kits are retail sealed.

Band Hero comes with an impressive 65 tracks straight out of the box, with some notable songs and artists like:

• Bravery, The – Believe
• Carl Douglas – Kung Fu Fighting
• Cheap Trick – I Want You To Want Me (Live)
• Culture Club – Do You Really Want To Hurt Me
• David Bowie – Let’s Dance
• Devo – Whip It
• Duran Duran – Rio
• Everclear – Santa Monica
• Fall Out Boy – Sugar We’re Goin’ Down
• Filter – Take A Picture
• Finger Eleven – Paralyzer
• Go-Go’s, The – Our Lips Are Sealed
• Hinder – Lips Of An Angel
• Jackson 5 – ABC
• Janet Jackson – Black Cat
• Joan Jett – Bad Reputation
• Katrina And The Waves – Walking On Sunshine
• Maroon 5 – She Will Be Loved
• Marvin Gaye – I Heard It Through The Grapevine
• Mighty Mighty Bosstones – Impression That I Get
• N.E.R.D. – Rock Star
• No Doubt – Just A Girl
• No Doubt – Don’t Speak
• OK Go – A Million Ways
• Papa Roach – Lifeline
• Pat Benatar – Love Is A Battlefield
• Poison – Every Rose Has Its Thorn
• Roy Orbison – Oh Pretty Woman
• Snow Patrol – Take Back The City
• Spice Girls – Wannabe
• Styx – Mr. Roboto
• Taylor Swift – Love Story
• Taylor Swift – You Belong To Me
• The Rolling Stones – Honky Tonk Woman
• Tonic – If You Could Only See
• Turtles, The – Happy Together
• Village People – Y.M.C.A.
• Yellowcard – Ocean Avenue
• …..and many more!

Band Hero has some pretty awesome features as well. With Party Play, your friends can drop in or out of any song, without fearing you’ll fail it, and at the push of a button. You can also switch your personal options, such as instrument or difficulty. Sing-Along mode allows you and up to 3 friends to jam out, karaoke style. Just like in Party Play, Sing-Along allows your friends to drop in or out. Perfect for harmonizing at certain places in songs.

Should you wish to have four singers, four drummers, or four guitarists, you have that option in Band Hero, amongst other combinations. Xbox 360 players who have Xbox Live Gold subscriptions can use their Avatar characters and rock out in any mode, whereas Nintendo Wii gamers have access to an exclusive mode called Mii Freestyle. In Mii Freestyle, players can create their own songs, and be able to record/edit/share their videos showcasing their Mii’s. In addition to being able to use your Avatar or Mii, both Taylor Swift and Maroon 5 frontman, Adam Levine, are playable characters. Guitar Hero owners will love how you can import your tracks from Guitar Hero: World Tour and Guitar Hero 5 straight into Band Hero. So much better than having to constantly change out discs, no?

Want to win one of these? Then donate, or help spread the word to earn entires into our raffle. Each one of these kits sells for around $150.00 retail, not including tax, so wouldn’t you love to win one just by donating $10 dollars? I’d say that’s a pretty good deal!

I can’t even begin to express the amount of gratitude I have right now, because I am completely overwhelmed by Activision’s generosity. They have gone above and beyond, and I can’t thank them enough.

So donate, tell your friends, get them involved, and spread the word about our great cause because it’s all about Chi!

- Me

** Update – Since writing this post, prizes from Activision, Central Valley Buzz, Mumbo Jumbo Games, and the ECA have arrived. More packages are expected any day now, so check back often!**

Hey there readers! So I know that on July 1st we were supposed to start with our Blogathon fundraiser, but there was an issue with their site and servers. We were told to wait until Monday, and it’s already halfway done, with no mention of starting in sight. So, instead of waiting any longer, let’s do this!

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Well, it’s Monday, and it’s 11:00 A.M.

I am pleased to announce that the First Place winner of Harry Potter is – deaf omega! You will be receiving 1 of the Harry Potter posters and the slap bracelet. Hope your little one enjoys!

The runner up, winning the other Harry Potter poster is – Ancientwolf13!

Don’t forget, you have 48 hours to email me your address so we can get these things shipped out.

Ccongrats to both of you!

- She Who Has The Last Word

Today we are feeling charitable. Very charitable. Right now is the start of our first giveaway during the Blogathon.  You guys and gals are competing for some very cool goodies.

How might one win these great freebies?

Post a comment!

For the next 24 hours (6 PM PST 7/25/09 – 6:00 PM 7/26/09) when you comment on this blog, it counts as an entry. You don’t need to spam the post with crazy comments so please keep them on topic. Replying to other commentors is encouraged, so don’t think you can’t start up a nice little Harry Potter conversation. Also, feel free to get creative with your posts.

Here’s the twist. Want more entires? DONATE! Obviously we are blogging like crazy to help raise money for our charity, Reading is Fundamental, so when you donate to our charity that counts as an entry.

And like any crazy infomercial, they always follow up the good stuff with “but WAIT! There’s MORE!” If, for example, you donate $1.00 to our cause… that donation won’t count as 1 entry, it will count as 10. See how we did that? We knocked off the last 0, and counted the rest as entries.$2.00 will get you 20 entries, and $3.00 will get you 30.. so on and so on and so on. Hell, if you want to donate $100.00, that gets you one THOUSAND entries lol

Oh, I should probably add that we are giving prizes to TWO people, not just ONE, so competition is going to be fierce.

And now… I present to you the PRIZES:

First Place wins two items: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince promo poster and a slap wrist bracelet for the official video game that Electronic Arts put out. Cute thing is that the bracelet are in Gryffindor colors.

Runner Up wins one item: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince promo poster.

The contest is only available to people who live in the CONTINENTAL United States. Sorry Hawaii and Alaska, it costs too much to ship there. Sorry to all of the other countries too.

Winners will be announced Monday morning at 11:00 AM PST so please check back then to see if you were one of the lucky ones. Winners will need to contact us within 48 hours via email (that is provided on our site) with appropriate mailing information.

So, spread the word, post away, and help out our charity!

GOOD LUCK!

- She Who Has The Last Word

As you already know by now today is the Blogathon. I was so excited over it that I couldn’t sleep!

Chris has been taking on the posts starting at 6:00 AM, and since he is at work, I figured I would step in right now to relieve him. There is a lot going on today for us, as he already mentioned in a previous post, so we will be doing the Blogathon in shifts.

For my shift, I will be mixing things up a bit. We will be having prize giveaways throughout the day but to win them… you will have to post a comment on the blog post. In each prize giveaway blog, there will be more info.

To give you all a little teaser… the prizes will be Harry Potter related, and also Legend of Zelda for DS related. I might think of a few more things we could have contests for, so if I do check the blog!

- She Who Has The Last Word