They can never make enough video game-themed movies for my taste (that is, if you disregard Resident Evil, Tomb Raider, and Street Fighter).

This one, by Black20, however, achieves instant classic status.

Wowza! Incredible psychedelic renderings in the new opening sequence of this Guitar Hero spinoff.

Admittedly righteous trailer for new game, Star Wars: The Old Republic.

That’s not to say I can’t nitpick a little. I mean, aren’t these Boba Fett-gadget types getting a little bit overpowered (a la Iron Man on steroids)? The one in the trailer seems like she could take out the entire Jedi brigade by herself.

And does every Sith Lord have to have the full-body cybernetic breathing suit? Is there no other way to use the Dark Side without suffering full-body disfigurement? Meh.

You can watch the trailer here.

(Removed the embed because it was annoying as all get out.)

Full-sized view.

Electric feature from Wired Magazine delving into the different types of lightning strikes. Particularly intriguing is the legendary ‘ball’ lightning, which sounds like something that Raiden would conjure up.

Unfortunately, there’s no mention of pine-cone lightning…

I received this flyer in today’s batch of junk mail. Apparently, there is now a (paid?) service that allows you to be a litigious dickhead even in the context of your fantasy baseball league.

On the one hand, this feels like proof that we finally have spawned too many attorneys in this country. On the other hand, I do like the idea of service industries evolving to the point that they exist only in digital contexts. It brings me one step closer to my dream of being a full-time, paid, fantasy baseball commissioner.

So torn!

Great response from Santa Monica BMW to a national Audi ad.
Via 37signals.

According to Kotaku, any visitor to ESPN’s main page can input the legendary Konami Code and turn the world’s premier sports website into a haven for frolicking unicorns.

Unfortunately, it seems that ESPN has caught on and disabled the code. I’m sure some Contra-nostalgic web designer is being shit-canned as we speak.

Serious Emu points go to the first person who can find another website that responds to the Konami Code.

By far, my favorite episode of the Meth Minute series…

In the Summer of 2006, Congress passed the Internet Gambling and Prohibition Act. To the chagrin of tens of millions of online poker players, the bill sought to restrict banks from allowing their customers to buy in to their preferred online poker sites.

Even though the bill didn’t impose any penalties on the individual poker player, it did seem to imply that the online poker player was doing something wrong, and possibly illegal. Major poker providers like Pokerstars continued to operate under the logic that the bill only outlawed games of chance. Poker, they argued, was a game of skill, and therefore not subject to this new ban.

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Flickr User Techthis, seems to be on a roll. Another excellent periodic table. Though I would nitpick here and mention that I’m pretty sure Intellivision was distinct from Colecovision. As such, it fails to get a mention.

Link to larger image.