When I read this article on a study that said guys are more into video games than women (it's infuriatingly titled "Games Are a Guy Thing"), I thought I'd do a poll about it — and then I realized what a big Duh that was. Of course video games aren't "a guy thing" — but do our reasons for playing them differ based on our genders?

The study says that video games appeal to a man's need to conquer, which I can't argue with, because I think I play video games out of my need for fun, not because I want to be the dictator of Sims land. Games, they say, activate the mesocorticolimbic (I dare you to pronounce that correctly) center, or the place where addiction and reward are based. There's more activity here in men's brains than women's, which is interesting, to say the least. Sometimes I feel very addicted to a certain game (I can quit anytime, I swear!), but I have always felt my boyfriend needs to play a little more than I do.

I would really like to see a video game/brain study on what causes video game burnout, but in the meantime, what are your thoughts on the video-game-as-guy-thing?

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As much as I can appreciate a one-of-a-kind print on Etsy or at the MoMA's Color Chart exhibit, I'm no art snob. I like it all — including stuff that's not quite Louvre worthy, and I've found where to get my fix of it: The Museum of Bad Art!

MOBA, the deliciously ironic acronym, houses an online collection of art that's creepy, odd, and just plain bad, as well as works that came from great artists that inexplicably ended up bad.

Yes, some are so bad they're good, and some, to quote Ghost World, go "past good and back to bad again." And some, like with "Mama and Babe", pictured here, are just plain nightmarish. Pick up the poster version and horrify your friends!

• Get your black or purple Motorola W755 thin clamshell phone, which comes with GPS navigation, a Bluetooth, camera and a microSD slot from Verizon's website for $70 with a 2-year contract. — Phone Scoop
• Susi from Shiny Shiny got her hands on a new eeePC 900 laptop and by the sounds of it, it boasts lots of great features! — Shiny Shiny
• Apple has just made its 10.5.3 version of Leopard available via software update. Lots of bug fixes and updates are said to be included so jump on it if you haven't already. — Engadget
• Beware brides! Target doesn't accept returns or exchanges on gifts purchased through its wedding registry. . . That is only if you have the receipt (weird!). — Consumerist
• It's giveaway time! Be sure to log in to your TeamSugar account for your chance to win a Wii Fit! — geeksugar

If I was pitched a movie about the dot-com bubble bursting and the rise and fall of a start-up, I'd be Fandango-ing already — but then, again, I was the girl who loved Pirates of Silicon Valley. Hollywood execs know that nongeeks need to be drawn to see their movies, too, so they add sex and flash — which they did here with the upcoming film August. And it works!

Josh Hartnett is the CEO of fictional start-up Landshark, which appears to hit the big time in the early 2000s, and his swagger is not Hollywood crafted, rather, he seems like he did his research on Valleywag to get into character. I'll be first in line!