“Maybe Mr. T is pretty handy with computers. Had that occurred to you, Mr. Condescending Director?”
Video @ GameVideos.com, via Wired’s Game | Life. Author Susan Arendt describes this as “the single greatest videogame advertisement ever created.” I can only agree.
When something is billed as “the best 5 second clip on the Internet,” you have to check it out.
In his latest “Geek in Review” column, Wil Wheaton weighs in on the Star Wars saga, reserving some extra-special venom for the prequel trilogy.
The prequels, especially Episode I, are a kick in the balls to us. [...] It’s obvious now, especially after watching all of them and seeing what Lucas does when he’s left entirely to his own devices, that the movies are just excuses to show off his special effects and sell toys.
It’s a good read (as is most of Wil’s stuff); you should check it out.
Chris sent me this awesome link:
What Some of Your Favorite Superheroes Are Thankful For!
Have you ever wondered what some of your favorite superheroes are thankful for, come Thanksgiving season? Me neither, because frankly, that’d just be pathetic. But hey, there’s a first time for everything, and now that you’re reading this, you’ve thought about it already, even if just to think about how glad you are that you’ve never actually wasted time and brain power thinking about it, so you may as well just keep reading at this point.
Forgot to post this little gem that Cindy emailed me yesterday: Line Rider.
According to the Line Rider page on Squidoo (which has a bunch of sample video clips):
Line Rider is not a game but a toy according to the author. Basically you take a pencil and draw curves and lines on a white background. You can then press play and it launches a guy on a sled into your line drawing. The sled slides down the lines. If you make them too steep the guy crashes. If you make them too flat he just comes to a halt. If you make them just right you can get a crazy rollercoaster going on.
It’s quite amusing. Check it out.
Via Mark Evanier comes this OMFG video clip:
It’s amazing that “new” footage of the World Trade Center disaster should emerge five years later but some has. A couple who lived 500 yards from Ground Zero shot home video that day and has now released their footage on the Internet. It runs about fifteen minutes and is very chilling because…well, because you hear a family watching the tragedy, wondering what’s happening and commenting as they see it unfold before their eyes, practically in their back yard.
Here’s the clip: September 11, 2001: What We Saw
The editor in me finds this hilarious:
TORONTO—It could be the most costly piece of punctuation in Canada.
A grammatical blunder may force Rogers Communications Inc. to pay an extra $2.13 million to use utility poles in the Maritimes after the placement of a comma in a contract permitted the deal’s cancellation.
The full scoop, including the passage of text with the extra comma, is available at the Fort Frances Times Online.
Hey, check it out:
My friend Scott, whom some of you know, has started a-blogging over at Scott’s Daily Routine. Woo hoo! Welcome to the blogosphere, Scott!
(Scott: You may want to check your blog/comment settings: I tried to enter a comment, but WP said I had to be logged in, and the “users can register themselves” option apprears to be disabled. Oh, and get a WP key for the Akismet anti-spam plugin. Trust me on this..!)