Cosplay

This is my favourite piece of cosplay ever:

This is my second favourite:

Hardee?s serves up 1,420-calorie burger

Hardee?s serves up 1,420-calorie burger
2,340 meal if you include a drink and medium fries. Just looking at this picture is making me want to poop.

Hardee’s serves up 1,420-calorie burger

2,340 calories in this meal if you include a drink and medium fries. Just looking at this picture is making me want to poop.

Paul Gleason, RIP

BURBANK, Calif. - Paul Gleason, who was in “Trading Places” and “The Breakfast Club,” has died. He was 67.
Gleason died at a local hospital Saturday of mesothelioma, a rare form of lung cancer linked to asbestos, said his wife, Susan Gleason.
“Whenever you were with Paul, there was never a dull moment,” his wife said. [...]

MTV Overdrive - Hamtrak ‘06 - Hamster Races

Fuck anyone who complains about MTV not playing music any more, their energies are much better spent coming up with shows like this.

Awesome, banned Xbox 360 ad

To celebrate my new Xbox 360 - an ad that’s somewhere between an episode of Spaced and the Grand Central Station scene from the Fisher King

When your magazine is called “Butterick”…

…you have to be extra-careful what parts of your name are covered up

First porn movie released under a Creative Commons license

Ushering in a new era of culturally-conscious boners.

The Loneliness of the long-distance RPGer

For a while there, I was deeply in love with Dragon Quest VIII: The Journey of the Cursed King. Western RPGs like Fable and Jade Empire had made me soft, and I was itching for some stone cold dungeon crawling, the type made famous by the Dragon Quest series. Classic RPG gameplay, [...]

Wii “Classic” controller

Hidden in Nintendo’s E3 press pack is a picture of a more “standard” controller. The filename itself is “Wii_Classic_0501.jpg”. I’m guessing this answers the question of how we’re supposed to play downloaded NES/SNES games on the Wii, since the Wii-mote doesn’t seem up to it.
Picture links to very high-res image of the [...]

Playstation 3 (or: Anything Wii can do, we can do better)

E3 this week. Biggest, most draining week in the gaming calendar. Not a chance of getting any serious work done.
First up, Sony annoucing their PS3s. First up, the facts:

Two versions
20GB version - EUR499 / 60GB version - EUR599
20GB version will not have

Wireless
Memory Stick / SD Storage
HDMI out
Same controller as the PS2 [...]

Original theatrical version of Star Wars to be released on DVD

Greedo goes back to shooting first at the end of this year!

Lost ARG

Everyone still watching Lost? Noone given up yet? Good.
With yesterday’s show in the US, the makers also re-launched thehansofoundation.org as part of the Lost Alternate Reality Game (ARG). I haven’t had much of a chance to play about with it yet, so I can’t tell you if there’s any spoilers. [...]

YouTube - Super Soaker Oozinator

YouTube - Super Soaker Oozinator
More like Super Soaker Bukkakinator. “Major Pumping Required” indeed.