Backhand of Justice

A $500 car off Craigslist beats $400k rally racers. This is a great story with some amusing videos and anecdotes. Definitely worth a read.

Keep reading for the Zoidberg hat, virtual piano and fatal beatings. Every post should involve at least one fatal beating.

Videogame Links

Interesting

The virtual piano + Zelda music: a winning combination.

McDonalds is using Nintendo DS to train its employees. Just in Japan for now, but Nintendo’s Big Mac Hero will soon be coming to all regions.

World of Lordcraft. This is really pathetic. It must be really depressing to be Chinese and know that your country doesn’t really generate anything original since the 18th century.

Bioshock: not just a shit game, but also a ripoff of old Batman episodes.

Jumpin' Jupiter, Batman ... a man chooses

Playstation Move is finally bringing Minority Report style interactions to your living room.

Great Ghost Recon: Future Soldier trailer. Ubisoft is on a roll with these live action trailers. At least as good as the Halo ones.

Funny

College Humor makes an old joke about RPG heroes being jerks. Fortunately, the last few bits of this video are worth the price of admission.

Michael Jackson is getting wild on the Normandy. Mass Effect 2: Thriller edition.

Watch out Geth ... Michael's here, and he's Bad

Delicacies from the Mushroom Kingdom. Poor frog Luigi, never had a chance.

Just Cause 2 wants to take you on a magic carpet ride.

I have brought great shame to my family

Japan proves it’s either the greatest or worst country in the world by bringing back the giant Gundam. This time with giant beam sword! Hail Gundam.

God of War III session ends in actual broken bones. This really sounds like one of those situations where the patient is leaving something out about how this really happened.

While this is pretty creative, it still goes into the shame category. Cheating the Pokewalker.

Oregon Trail with Mortal Kombat fatalities. FIGHT!

Olympic gold medal skiier teams up with Counter-Strike champion in a depressing ad. This is the real reward from winning a gold medal.

Mountain Dew Game Fuel is useful for getting cranked. Chug it and get wild.

Get CRANKED with GAME FUEL! EXTREEEEEME!

Non-Videogame Links

Interesting

Tracking a century of American eating. This is like that study they just did of the Last Supper that essentially shows we’re all huge fatasses.

The flame drawing tool – I feel like this is one of those things that can really create interesting images, unless you’re me and artisically incompetent.

The amazing survival abilities of the Ibex. Like the Ibex, I can run up vertical cliff faces to escape foxes. Practice makes perfect.

See Mr. Fox, if you wanted to kill the Ibex you should have been man ... the most dangerous game

Funny

Fatal beatings, with Rowan Atkinson. Much like people who only know Eddie Murphy from his family films, many only think of Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean. This is a tragic mistake.

Alien vs. Pooh. This is the book I’m going to be reading to my children pre bed.

Oh no! Somebody go get Christopher Robin! The forest is in trouble

The army toughens their training for ‘a generation softened by video games.’ We’ll see about that, army.

The Zoidberg hat. Great hat, or greatest hat?

Enter Sandman the smooth jazz version. I could use more smooth jazz in my life.

I have brought great shame to my family

Cary Grant loves his LSD. Gots to have it! Greatest thing in the world.

Great armored gauntlet for motorcycling, and also beating the hell out of people.

That’s all for this week. Did I miss anything? Hit up the comments!