Chappelle – Grand Theft Auto

Great Grand Theft Auto sketch by Dave Chappelle

Watch it here

Link found at Google video.

I’m With Stupid ->

I love these two photos. Our mate John has been nicely owned.

Facts about Chuck Norris

Found at this site, 5 pages of useful Chuck Norris trivia.

Here are a few examples;

• Chuck Norris does not eat. Food understands that the only safe haven from Chuck Norris’ fists is inside his own body.

• The show Survivor had the original premise of putting people on an island with Chuck Norris. There were no survivors, and nobody is brave enough to go to the island to retrieve the footage.

• It takes 14 puppeteers to make Chuck Norris smile, but only 2 to make him destroy an orphanage.

Hilarious!!

• Every time Chuck Norris smiles, someone dies. Unless he smiles while he’s roundhouse kicking someone in the face. Then two people die.

UFO… Behind the scenes

UFO is a parody of Hollywood behind the scenes documentaries on how they made the movie. Directed by Steve DePena, it was featured on the ground floor, a sketch comedy show on Manhattan Neighborhood Networks in NYC.

Found on Google Video – UFO by Steve DePena
Send in the AirForce!!

Keyboards, whats new

Here are links to two new keyboards in development.

The Tactapad which is something completely new and possibly quite hard to use. Looks intriguing though.

And then there is the Optimus which looks pretty standard until you realise that every key has a small LCD screen. In theory you can switch between a standard QWERTY keyboard to a Cyrillic Layout to a program specific layout in which the keys would take on the image of the symbols/buttons on the menus.

A Firefox for music?

Link to Songbirdbirdnest.com
John Borland, Special to ZDNet

December 23, 2005

If digital-music veteran Rob Lord wanted to court controversy with his new open-source start-up, he probably couldn’t have done much better than to compare Apple Computer’s iTunes software to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser.

Lord’s new five-person company, the ambitiously named Pioneers of the Inevitable, is building a piece of digital-music software called “Songbird,” based on much of the same underlying open-source technology as the Firefox Web browser.

Batman Meets his end

Batman Concludes.

Linked from Google Video. I love this. Short but sweet.

Deadly plague hits Warcraft world

By Mark Ward
Technology Correspondent, BBC News website

A deadly virtual plague has broken out in the online game World of Warcraft.

Although limited to only a few of the game’s servers the numbers of characters that have fallen victim is thought to be in the thousands.Originally it was thought that the deadly digital disease was the result of a programming bug in a location only recently added to the Warcraft game.However, it now appears that players kicked off the plague and then kept it spreading after the first outbreak.Since its launch in November 2004, World of Warcraft (Wow) has become the most widely played massively multiplayer online (MMO) game in the world.Its creator, Blizzard, claims that now more than four million people are regular players.

Game Year in Review: 2010

Commentary by Lore Sjöberg

Well, 2010 was quite a year. Sony’s attempt to hang onto its thin lead in the gaming market by only selling the PlayStation 4 to six carefully chosen celebrities seemed like it might backfire, but the hype has never been hotter. Children’s crayon drawings of the PS4 are going for over $400 on eBay, and Paris Hilton is reported to have held the new console briefly at arm’s length before throwing it in a closet. Better yet, Sony is expecting to ship over 38 units to the general public next week, and gaming fans are already lining up outside their local Thunderdome waiting for a chance to fight for them.

Meanwhile, Nintendo has once again drawn controversy by announcing that its upcoming console, the Nintendo Apocalypse, will lack any sort of game controller whatsoever. Instead, you will direct the onscreen action by grabbing a household pet by the front legs and “making it do a little dance.” Gamers reacted with shock and disbelief, but Nintendo faithful pointed out that this will still be better than a gamepad for first-person shooters.

On the handheld front, Sony and Nintendo continue their fight for the minds and backpacks of the nation’s gamers by releasing ever-larger portable consoles. The Nintendo XL features six screens, a folding seat and a selection of overpriced candy bars, while the PlayStation Still Ostensibly Portable can now play all known forms of media, including 2-ton cuneiform tablets. The cuneiform tablet version of Ghostbusters is reportedly flying off the shelves, or possibly collapsing them.

As for the current generation of video games, the big news was the long-awaited release of Grand Theft Auto: West Bloodbath. Gamers were appalled by the violence, specifically the wussiness of it. “Wait,” they said. “I’m still limited to shooting, beating or running over hookers? Kill Death Die Hurt Maim let me chop off their fingers one by one while they begged for mercy, their cheap eyeliner merging with their tears and darkening the pools of blood at their feet. Are you sure Mario isn’t in this wimpfest?”

Speaking of Mario, Nintendo and LucasArts are still locked in competition to bring their aging iconic characters to every genre ever invented. The year 2010 saw the release of Darth Maul’s Star Wars Tennis, Mario MMORPG, Clone Trooper Golf, Mario’s Dating Sim, Jar-Jar’s Dating Sim and Mario Storms the Beach at Normandy. Plus, handheld versions of all those.

2010 was also the year that the world got tired of Katamari Damacy. Katamari 6: Now You Can Roll Up a Total of 1,024 Types of Sushi came out, along with the usual glut of Katamari clones, including Roll Things Up, Let’s Roll, Mario Rolls Stuff Up in a Big Ball and Star Wars: Adhesive Death Star. A spokesman for the gaming press made this announcement: “Dear game developers: We are so sorry. When we praised Katamari Damacy for bringing a zephyr of originality into the moribund miasma of sequels and me-too clones, we didn’t know what we were unleashing. Never again will we praise a quirky, low-cost game full of whimsy and joy. Please stop. We beg of you.” In related news, Tommy Lee Jones has been tapped to play the King of All Cosmos in the movie.

The mainstream gaming public finally started to go online in droves this year, motivated by increasing ease of use, fatter broadband pipes and more sophisticated online experiences, but mostly by the Xbox’s revolutionary Verified Gender technology. By guaranteeing that the hot, busty elf chick next to you is biologically female — if not actually hot, busty or an elf — Microsoft attracted millions of horny consumers looking for awkward, semi-anonymous online avatar sex. Microsoft is looking to expand this previously untapped market further by introducing cybersex ranking ladders.

Perhaps the biggest newsmaker of 2010 was the announcement by a number of major online gaming sites that they were going to abandon the pretense of reviewing video games. Instead, they explained, they will now simply assign a numerical ranking to the press release and go back to playing World of Warcraft. “This will allow the consumer to receive our objective, well-reasoned review of the game weeks ahead of time, making their purchasing decisions easier. Plus, the game companies have promised to keep sending us free stuff either way.”

Wired News:

Atari goes to the movies

Bruno Bonnell, CEO of Atari, confirmed today that work had begun on a movie adaptation of Atari’s classic arcade game PONG. “We are all very excited to bring PONG to a new generation through the art of movie magic,” stated Bonnell in a press release.
Head writer for the screen play is Steven E. de Souza, know for other video game works such as Street Fighter and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life. Souza told Variety that “PONG is the classic story that all other video games are based on. PONG: The Official Movie of the Game will take you past the pixels.”
Few details have been released about the plot of the movie, but director Paul W.S. Anderson let a few hints slip out. “There will be awesome hand to hand combat, I can tell you that much,” blurted Anderson. “If you’ve played PONG, it will be like discovering it for the first time all over again. If you’ve never played PONG, it will be like discovering it twice. Twice much,” continued the Mortal Kombat director.
New Line Cinema head Robert K. Shaye confirmed “we are sitting on the green light button for the sequel. If PONG: The Official Move of the Game has a great opening weekend, you will be sure to see PONG: Double Agent from Hell in theaters for 2007.”
Paul Anderson let out one more bit of information to tease fans. “Antonio Banderas like you’ve never seen him before. He will play both ‘padz,’ as we’re calling them. Brothers separated at birth and trained to eliminate the other. Banderas was the only one I would consider for the job,” boasted Anderson.
Look for PONG: The Official Movie of the Game to be released in theaters for Christmas of 2006.

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