Apologies for being out for the past week and a half. A power outage caused my computer's power supply to fail. Aside from that RitzRiot! Apparel is now excepting pre-orders for their fashion line. Click here to visit their website. Two new designs soon to come!

Here's the follow up to the $9.99 catalogue glitch. Expected Disappointment. Discuss this by clicking here.

So I found this on bestbuy.com, a 52" 1080p 120HZ LCD HDTV (Outlet/Floor Item). Its probably a glitch that is too good to be true but I made it to the check out page unlike many others who had tried. Follow this story to see what happens by clicking here!

XN-Somnia.com and RitzRiot will be working on a few designs for our website and ritzriot.com to start our own line of apparel. We expect the line to roll out sometime in the next 2-3 months. We will have more info within the next 8 hours after todays meetings! Below is the prototype for our first design. Click here to discuss this.

I can't sleep so I'm staying awake. Good morning everybody. Last night I had Marco DJ submit me some work to put up on our website and his remix's ain't half bad. Most of them from his album Far from Earth, near Andromeda! have been published on the "Stuff" page, the rest will be put up after the weekend. The music is FREE to download and in MP3 format. Expect the rest of the tracks to be uploaded by 8-04-09.

It's been a good 48 hours since i've gotten a proper, full 8 hours of sleep (Total sleep time: 4hrs) and it looks like i'll be crashing soon. Before I do I would like to give the visitors of XN-Somnia.com, members and guests alike a special thank you for helping us reach our highest quantity of hits in a single given day! We have reached 114 visitors on July 29th, 2009 and 54 forum posts in a 24 hour period. All plans to close XN-Somnia have been shut down and we are here to stay!

Major Updates Soon to Come:
- Aion Online Closed Beta Review, 7-31-09 - 8-01-09
- Sleep Related Articles by our forum community, 8-03-09
- XN Photography Competition #4, 8-04-09
- T-Shirts by RitzRiot (Currently provides music to our website), 8-30-09
- About Nothing Vol. 2, 9-25-09

Content Constantly Being Added:
- F'd Up News & I lol'd News - View it here

Wan't to submit your content and have it published on our website or eMagazine? Visit the Join Us page or contact Scabies on our forums so we can work something out for you. Major contributors get their own sponsored webspace & bandwidth for your own blog software, forums, CMS or whatever you want to host on it! (Note that by submitting your content you give us full permission as if it were our own property to publish, distribute, modify, sell, etc. (We will be very responsible with your work and we will not screw you over ^_^). We would like to compensate our contributers but at this moment it is hard to do so as it is hard to find sponsors and generate the sufficient ad revenue needed to even sustain website expenses.

XN-Somnia Supports Soma FM Radio!

The majority of our visitors are self proclaimed insomniacs. These insomniacs range from artists to gamers aswell as random individuals just browsing around. I personally would lay in bed for 3-4 hours at a time and try to sleep with no luck without a some type of sedating antihistamine. One of the major questions that I am curious to know is, What gets you sleeping at night ? Discuss and read the full topic here?

Thank you everybody who participated in completion of the first full issue of "About Nothing". Click here to check out the latest release! You can also and also DiscussThis!

After a good few hours of installing software to allow streaming video as well as scripts to play the actual video, converting etc, our testing is finally over! A perfect video to demonstrate our new flash video player would be the Starcraft II trailer. Expect many new videos soon to come and feel free to submit your own as well!

Vendetta Online announced earlier today that they are giving away 1,000 free trial keys to new signups (that may be added to current trial accounts). The current trial provided by Vendetta permitted 8 hours of unlimited game play. The new Vendetta Online promotional key extrends your trial time to 14 days of unlimited access, non restricted gaming! Don't wait for the keys untill the keys to deplete to obtain one now! (Remember its always better to travel with a pack). Obtain your 14 day pass now!

Vendetta Online is a cross platform, space combat based MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) game with a small online community. Within the game you may choose between three factions to start out. The Itani, Serco and UIT (Union of Independent Territories). Throughout the game you acquire licenses through combat, trade & mining. As you advance through out the game & obtain higher licenses you can purchase new ships, weapons, equipment and obtain new missions. The great thing about this game compared to other MMO's is that there is no set mission/quest path you must take in order to move to the next level... Read the Full Review

Razer, a popular company for gaming equipment, more specifically mice and keyboards, have set up two somewhat easy quests to potentially get you into Blizzcon for free! Unfortunetly only one may win the grand prize of 2 free tickets and airfare as well as a sweet hotel room for you and your buddy. But give it a shot, who knows you may win the grand prize... or a dinky T-Shirt. Click Here to get started!

Many of us gamers know of the Starcraft 2 real time strategy (RTS) game being released into open beta... apparently this month, however most of have not seen the trailer on Blizzards' other current project, Diablo 3 (With the focus being all on Starcraft & World of Warcraft and all...). Althrough a release date of open beta has not yet been anounced a trailer has long been available.

So over the weekend I had taken over 8,000 pictures, after looking through around 1,500 photos i've managed to narrow some of it down to 122 photos. If you have nothing better to do, take the time to look through em, send them to other people, light up your insomnia. (This is a hint on the theme for contest #4). Click the image to view all the pictures.

Check out our latest advertisement. Photo taken with a Sony Alpha DSLR - A300, Model Doomgard999. Sign up for the forums here

Voting is still underway for contest 2 (Thrive) and will be for the next few days. While that is taking place we can all focus on the weather and take our photos accordingly. Keep your cameras dry for this or you'll end up sending it in for repairs. Those of you who don't have a warrenty to cover accedental damage, this may not be the contest for you. The theme for this competition involves Heavy Clouds & Intense Weather. Submit your photos and be have it viewed by over 3,500 visitors a month! And also win a chance for your photo to appear in XN-Somnias eMagazine Vol. 2.

Our forums now display RSS feed data showing members the most recent post and news displayed on the forum. Now you can see what's going on before you actually visit it. For you mac users we've developed a beta widget of the RSS feeds. Installation is simple, download, double click, accept, AND YOU'RE DONE! (Widget Requrement: OS X 10.4.3 or later).

Visit this page to download the widget.

A new section added to our website to share F***ed up news with people about events all over the world has just opened up and is already caught alot attention. Our first three articles consists of a dutch PS3 website that had had their forums hacked, assault with a cheesy weapon and a strip search with out warrents of a teenage girl. Hopefully you can share some f***ed up stories with us by sending scabies a PM on our forums. At the end of each article, you'll either be in shock or laugh your ass off, however you'll catch your self at some point saying "thats F'd Up."

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1) "I just wish I could understand my father."
2) "The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone."
3) "Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists."
4) "I was a veteran, before I was a teenager."
5) "It's not just boys, and I've never invited just boys to come in my room. C'mon, that's just ridiculous.... I have never invited anyone into my bed, ever. Children love me. I love them. They follow me. They want to be with me. But anybody can come in my bed. A child can come in my bed if they want.'' (''Prime Time Live,'' 1996)
Click Here to discuss this news thread.

Its White Castle's 88th birthday and they're handing out downloadable coupons to celebrate! This year its one free slider! But be caireful, any true insomniac knows... You can't have just one white castle burger. You might walk home with an entire crave case after using this coupon! Use one a day... or twice a day... or however many you'd like... just avoid hitting the same location over and over for they'll get suspicions. Visit White Castle

After a month and a half of research and development, the first preview of XN-Somnia's eMagazine has been released! This release is only 7 pages long, but keep in mind this is just a preview of what is to come. If you would like to contribute to the eMagazine please contact us with your original material. View the page.

Soooo very sexy... Contest two has been announced with the theme "Thrive". This could be Living, booming, succeeding. As for everyone of our contests. It is up to interpretation. Take something good, put it up, let us review it, let the members enjoy it. Keep in mind that there is no minimum requirement for the camera type you use. Even a simple camera phone will do, as long as its pleasing to the eyes and worth looking at. Winners of this contest will appear in in the front page of XN-Somnia.com which reaches out to over 1,500 visitors a month as well as having their photo featured in the second issue to of XN-Somnia's eMagazine. There are many other perks of joining our competitions, so why not take the time to view the page.

XN-Somnia forum members now have a place to upload and share their photos in their own personal public gallery. Share with your friends, promote your own artwork or portfolio or perhaps just browse, comment and rate other members work! You may login-now to create and upload to your own gallery! View the bulletin board discussion topic here.

I know i am a couple of hours late however, for those gaming insomniacs out there who've been waiting for the release of StarCraft II to come out Blizzard has begun to select gamers for the new beta opt-in before it hits the shelves. The first step is to register yourself a battle.net account then hook up your blizzard games to it. After you're all set with that Blizzard will require you to upload DXDIAG files to obtain your system specs to check that your PC/MAC is compatible with the game. Click here to Opt-In!. Keep in mind, these betas are limited in seats so get off your lazy ass and opt-in !

Xenonlogic.com, a photography website made up of mostly the work of Rodger Turley (AKA Scabies) finally updated the front page from the old snow theme in his 2008 series photos to the new insomnia scene for the 2009 edition. The online gallery consists of over 580 photographs with over 10,000 views as of today. Check it out

Recent Updates : Two new songs added to our "Stuff", an additional competition under Shutter on the forum as well as some expansion on the Night Life Section. In other news... Our voice chat server now has a simpler host name. chat.xn-somnia.com. Chat with friends and meet new people on our 150 slot public ventrilo server. Free Sign Up.

New content from Ritz Riot! has brought us some new late night punk rock music about everyday life. You can check the music out in the "Stuff" section on the navigation above. More music will be uploaded every other week. If you would like to submit content such as music, short films, applications, interviews, photographs and other stuff we'd be interested in relating to nightlife either on the internet or outside please contact Scabies ASAP!

We are looking for approximately 15 people to assist in the development of XN-SOMNIA.COM.
Please send Scabies a PM on the forum if you are interested in any of the following.

• XIN - Primary Content Management

  • 2x - Nightlife Content - Outside of Internet Events/Reviews
  • 2x - Nightlife Content - Website Related Events/Things to Do
  • 2x - Nightlife Content - Game Reviewers - MAC/PC
  • 2x - Nightlife Content - Game Reviewers - PS3 Online /Xbox360 LIVE/ Wii Online
  • 1x - Download Content - Graphic Designers - Wallpapers, Icons, ETC
  • 2x - Download Content - Tutorials - Programming, Photography, Howto's ETC
• XIN - Secondary Content Composers

  • Please submit content.
• XIN - Cult/Store

  • T-Shirt & Hoodie Designers
  • Sticker Designers
  • Street Team Members