Miscellaneous Links 2009 - The Re-Vengeance

[DjinnAndTonic]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m14BEO1M7C0
(video) Crazy commentary of a "Let's play".

Ow. My Brain-meats.

Warning to others: Do not watch while sleepy. It makes the whole experience painful.

[NotMiki]

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_gawande?printable=true

Fascinating look at the most expensive and cheapest medical care in the US.

[NotMiki]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologynews/5417221/Guantanamo-the-Xbox-game.html

Just a bit controversial.

[TranceHime]

Mega LSD Quest. Posted that in chat the other day.

[Grefter]

http://www.mosnews.com/weird/2009/05/29/chair/

Maniac kills 5 with self-made electric chair

.....

designed a device with which he planned to kill people who passed by in their cars – one part of the machine would remotely stop the car engine and the other part, resembling a door mat – would electrocute and kill the exiting driver.

While staying in the pre-trial detention center, the criminal said that he also planned to make a device that would erase people’s memory with an electro-magnetic ray.

Russia has better crazies than anywhere else in the world.

[TranceHime]

http://christwire.org/2009/04/more-proof-marvel-and-dc-comics-promote-homogay-agenda/

I hope this is a joke.

[Ultradude]

http://christwire.org/2009/04/more-proof-marvel-and-dc-comics-promote-homogay-agenda/

I hope this is a joke.

It's a Christian agenda to troll the internet.

Because everything is part of an 'agenda' nowadays.

[Shale]

I would be very depressed if it wasn't, because "homogay" is too great to be thought up accidentally.

[superaielman]

That is some fantastic trolling. I also like the link to Sarah Palin for President in '12 as well, it gives it that authentic feel.

[hinode]

http://www.telltalegames.com/monkeyisland

[Shale]

I....I..........wow.

No Ron Gilbert, sadly, or Tim Schafer (not that that one had any chance of happening unless Doublefine made the game). But still...holy shit.

Edit: Wow, the remake of the first game looks great. The fact that it's shot-for-shot and puzzle-for-puzzle doesn't enthuse me, but the presentation is first-rate and funny as hell. I'm glad nobody walked past my workstation and saw me grinning like an idiot at my monitor instead of, you know, working.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Regarding the trolling link:

"Recent posts: God Blesses America With Super Laser"

Kojima-calibur trolling skills at work, indeed.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

I would be very depressed if it wasn't, because "homogay" is too great to be thought up accidentally.

They're not that clever. Mango from SNL used it a decade ago, and getting to speak that word was the single high point in Chris Kattan's career.

[Ultradude]

The 404 Error message was created by an unholy menagerie of vile atheists, Democrats, liberals and Godless Soviets in the Year of our Lord 1992. We're told through electronic pathogens and demonic incantation rituals, they managed to create ways to electronically limit the amount of lost souls and seekers of truth that 'web servers' could process in a given minute.

Though their machinations are evil and everlasting, through hope, prayer and clicking refresh you can eventually overcome these wicked limits during times when tens of thousands of people flock to ChristWire per hour to discover the works of True Christians.

Mmhmm.

[Shale]

No Ron Gilbert, sadly

Spoke too soon there.

http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=20052934#itemanchor_20052934

Ron Gilbert's working full-time at Hothead on his new game, but he came by Telltale for a few days to help us beat up and break the season story arc, massage the character motivations, and brainstorm some puzzle design, etc, with the design team. That guy's a pro. I'm looking forward to Deathspank a lot more than I was after working with him even for just a few days.

[NotMiki]

http://christwire.org/2009/04/more-proof-marvel-and-dc-comics-promote-homogay-agenda/

I hope this is a joke.

Can't read the article, but it reminds me of the days when I first started reading Marvel comics (and they didn't use words like gay, kinda like how they didn't say the word 'pregnant' on the Mary Tyler Moore show) when James, the dude that ran the local store, explained to me why, in The Incredible Hulk, Achilles thinks it's so funny that Hector and Northstar seem to hit it off so well (or why Achilles was so annoyed when Hector complimented him on his build).

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/01/cool-guys-dont-look-at-ex_n_209798.html

Also, apparently something worthwhile came of the MTV music awards, go fig.

[OblivionKnight]

Hopefully everyone keeps up with the 2nd best Abridged series out there by TeamFourStar

If not, watch this, and get involved:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V06DISKajss&feature=PlayList&p=6EC7B047181AD013&index=6&playnext=7&playnext_from=PL

[NotMiki]

ugh, so annoying.

"America identifies with the underdog, and you've been an underdog many times in your life, but always the top dog," Reid, D-Nev., said of Sotomayor...

Is there such a thing as not mixing your metaphors?  This sentence annoys the hell out of me.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/02/reid-praises-sotomayor-as_n_210353.html

[Hunter Sopko]

http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/blog/devil_ball_golf/post/The-world-s-toughest-golf-tourney-one-hole-thr?urn=golf,167776

Not a golf fan, but this is pretty cool. Nine strokes on a three mile hole? Jesus.

[NotMiki]

http://www.thenewstribune.com/topstories/story/765250.html

He'd better get a damn good grade on that paper.

[metroid composite]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW2N2O7OcAA
(video) Face transplant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-KQh87_V2Q
(video) A movie about Nazi zombies.

http://www.thebeatlesrockband.com/cinematic.php
(video) Rather awesome cinematic for Beatles Rockband.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERbvKrH-GC4
(video) cute little animation on philosophy and music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCCuOrRzoSc&feature=dir
(video) Autotuned news 3.

[superaielman]

http://www.thenewstribune.com/topstories/story/765250.html

He'd better get a damn good grade on that paper.

That belongs in IotD, not Misc links.

[Cotigo]

http://www.thenewstribune.com/topstories/story/765250.html

He'd better get a damn good grade on that paper.

That belongs in IotD, not Misc links.

Agreed, but only because his target audience was a bunch of high schoolers with no influence on political policy whatsoever.  Otherwise I agree with his argument and find the tactic evocative if nothing else, which is probably more important than the poignancy of the rest of his argument.

[AAA]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6KMAm_228s

Mega Man romhack that looks promising. For some reason I think this was linked before, but I don't remember it and it's awesome enough to warrant another one

http://www.threadless.com/profile/708623/Blake_B/blog/441167/Pokemon_With_Human_Faces_51_75

See the URL

[DjinnAndTonic]

Our Lady of Metaphors:
http://vandonovan.livejournal.com/1088311.html?#cutid1

This may have been posted before, but I've only just discovered it.

An... interesting example of Purple Prose taken to the extreme. The LJ posters cover the topic pretty well, but I wanted to share.

"Her face had the fragrance of the gibbous moon."

Yeah.