Friday Links: Parapsychology Edition
Improv Anywhere does Ghostbusters in the NY Public Library. It’s better if you scroll down to view the photo series and don’t bother with the anticlimactic video. Back off man, I’m a scientist.
Keep reading for Dakar damage, Team Portress and the immortal Keanu Reeves.
Videogame Links
Interesting
Team Portress: Team Fortress 2 with the inclusion of the Portal gun. Something like this is the hope for Episode 3 when it finally comes out in the neo-Triassic age or whenever it is finally released.
Along the Team Fortress 2 line: the aesthetics of creating a female medic and heavy. Impressive … most impressive.
Ultra-realistic Cloud cosplay from Final Fantasy VII. The best yet? Goddamn those graphics were bad in hindsight. What was I thinking?
The 10 greatest Mario moments caught on film. Unfortunately, I can’t load the second half of this article, but the first half is good enough. I remember that 11 minute clear of Mario 3; ridiculous.
They’re introducing the mobile auction house for World of Warcraft, and it requires a subscription fee! They’ve got you by the balls now.
A classic, but well worth a look if you haven’t seen it. The heroic video game marching band.
Marching bands: usually not cool. The video game marching band: cool. I know ... crazy
Funny
Blur steps forward with a fantastic ad campaign. Although I doubt they’re going to out-sell Mario Kart. But good luck anyway.
You know I love you Blur ... but don't mess with Mario Kart
Penny Arcade: always good for a laugh. Especially when they make fun of TLC shows. Or when they have some great Prince of Persia stuff.
Starcraft on the NES. Needless to say, this game would have sucked man sack.
Kevin Butler strikes again. Well, this time it’s really Jack Tretton doing the striking. You know you’re running a solid ad campaign though when the CEO of the company wants to get in on it.
Gabe Newell. Baller, shot caller.
I have brought great shame to my family
Pixel Kombat, an interesting video about fighting games. This is like some tiny cultish segment of the game market where the community is small but super passionate.
John Romero is sorry about trying to make you his bitch. The real gold in this story is reading the letter sent to him by the marketer for the ad which is officially a sick burn.
Non-Videogame Links
Interesting
Ah those Finns, they really know how to throw a birthday party. Although I don’t know how everybody knows the bus driver. Maybe staged? Still worth it.
Gigapan of Dubai. It’s amazing how much bigget the Burj Dubai or whatever the new name for it is vs. the rest of the city. I wish I would live to see photos of it keeled over in ruins in the desert.
What, a gold vending machine? Not crazy enough ... dammit people I want crazier! You, in the back, what? An island shaped like a palm tree you say? I like your moxy kid, you're hired
The history of body snatching. Forget the viking funeral; I need one of those cage mausoleums.
The Predator, made from scrap metal. I think this is just what the next film needs. Forget regular cloaking, he just blends in with garbage.
Some teachers just have more passion about their topic than others. These are the really effective ones.
The 2010 Dakar rally did over $500k of damage to Chile’s archeological sites. Still – it’s the Dakar rally. You can’t stop it; you can only hope to contain it.
Cool time lapse video of the volcano in Iceland. I believe it’s called asdasdfa;lk;lasdkf;asdf. Either way, slow eruption is less cool than an epic Mt. St. Helens style explosion.
Computer algorithm that can detect sarcasm. This is the beginning of the end. I can only hope that Skynet spares me now because it is amused by sarcasm, my only natural talent.
A sarcasm detector? That's a real useful invention
Imagine having an office half filled with these things. It’s enough to freak me out. It’s clearly been using those neck expansion rings.
Funny
‘Sandstorm’ played on a toy trumpet. This is gold, although until about halfway through the song when it broke into the chorus I was like ‘what the shit is he playing?’
This man is the greatest man currently alive today now that Roosevelt is gone.
Move over Kanye ... you're no longer Earth's greatest man
This should really go in the videogame section I suppose but it’s good enough for everybody. Videogame played entirely by screaming.
Empire Strikes Back, if it was done in the 1950’s. Thank god it wasn’t done in the 1950’s, by the way.
I have brought great shame to my family
This guy really went all out on his custom Iron Man suit. This could have been used in the film.
Keanu Reeves is immortal. Whoa.
Whoa
Yet another one of these ridiculous European art thefts. This time in a museum I’ve actually been to, and which has real security! Where was Pierce Brosnan last night; that’s the real question.
This guy flew hundreds of flights with no pilot’s license, just because he’s good at falsifying documents. I don’t know what’s more interesting – that he had no incidents, or that the penalty for doing this is so trivial?
That’s all for this week. Did I miss anything? Hit up the comments!
