I know it’s been a long time since I’ve last talked to you, Man to Country, but I think it’s time that I said something…
Earlier this year, Barack Obama ecame your president. Your leader. And whilst most of the world rejoiced in the fact that no longer will we have to put up with “Dubya” in charged, others felt there was a reality distortion field of Steve Jobs levels in effect. Indeed, I was a bit sceptical, thinking that Obama was just an ordinary man and would do as normal politicians do but in a big white house, and that not much would change.
However, something has changed. Obama swatted a fly in an awesome manner. This showed impromptu competency, something missing from US governance for the last decade.
This is awe-inspiring, and I can only apologise for not trusting popular opinion sooner…
Filed under: Japan, TV, Video — Malcolm Owen @ 10:10 am
In a continued effort to make people work faster, here’s how some Japanese people on TV envisage getting your kid ready for school in 5 minutes or less.
Watching it, I think some things are there for show. Such as the trowser pulling up without hands. And the bed acrobatics. Sadly, it doesn’t encourage me to get ready for work faster…
I didn’t believe it at first, as I inherently know that you cannot possibly train cats to do anything on command (which is opposed to what you can train dogs to do, all it takes is time), but a video has proved me wrong.
There’s a father and daughter team out in Moscow that trains cats and runs the Moscow Cat Theater (and it really, truly exists, the New York Times, along with a quick Googling, proves this…) It runs like a circus, with “high-wire” acts, balancing, etc.
Yes, it sounds crazy, and if there weren’t video, I wouldn’t have believed it. What I want to know is, what possessed someone to do this in the first place?
Filed under: Other, Video — Malcolm Owen @ 10:52 am
Everyone knows the usual chicken dance, head going back and forwards all the time as it moves. But what when it’s sitting still? Well, they keep their head still. Even if they’re being moved around, the head doesn’t move… Strange…
[Chicken Head Tracking - Pennywhistle Productions]
Theory: Videogame movie starring beautiful women like Holly Valance, Devon Aoki and Jamie Pressly fighting each other on an island in an underground tournament whilst wearing skimpy clothing. And there’s an ulterior motive of the tournament, where the evil host wants to record all of the experts (in skimpy clothing) assembled’s fighting styles to sell to the highest bidder. And there’s volleyball. And skimpy outfits. It’ll be fun!
Practice: There is little or no reason to watch DOA: Dead or Alive except to stare at the stars covorting around in bikinis or otherwise (example – Valance coming out of a shower in a towel, then puts on her underwear in a fight scene). Indeed, the fights themselves seem a bit underwhelming and have the most tenuous of plotpoints.
If you’re watching it for the story, then you really need to get out more. It’s less story and more “excuses” for things to happen. Such as a fight on a boat against pirates. In swimwear. Or the oriental palace, leaving the clan by jumping over a wall which has a sheer cliff face on the other side, and whilst plummeting, allowing the oriental garb to tear away revealing modern clothing and an automatically opening hanglider. Or the volleyball being there just to fill up screentime with good looking women in skimpy outfits.
Is it a videogame movie? Yes.
Does it continue the trend of videogame movies? Yes.
Is it worth pointing out that the movie could be ignored except for the Holly Valance towel/underwear scene because for the most part the movie isn’t worth most people’s time unless they’re out to see women fighting, in skimpy outfits? Yes
Your first thought is probably “Dude, OMGWTFBBQ!”. Don’t worry, that was mine too. It’s an advert in spoken Japanese (Except the end catchline), subtitled, ending with a giant rubber duck destroying Japan because it hates water. It’s random, but it sure got my attention. There’s even a website with a few games to play, with instructions from the main stars of the advert.
Note to the drink Oasis: Any chance of Rubberduckzilla t-shirts? That would be awesomeness…
Remember when you were younger, and you used to get a Scalextric set (or cheaper versions depending on how loved by the family you were) for some special occasion (Christmas, Birthday, etc), and you often thought it was fantastic to make the little car shoot around the track at a stupidly high amount of acceleration which in real life would mean way too many insurance claims for whiplash?
Well… VW have created a website (GTI Project) where you “test drive” a new Golf GTI. And by “test drive”, they mean “Control the acceleration of a slotcar that has a camera on it that you view from”. And just like real life, you can fly off the track with too much power and then waste a ton of time waiting for an engineer to put you back on the track. There’s even a contest to be able to “own” the car that’s being advertised for 3 months.
My current time: 23.92 with no crashes. Current fastest is nearer 13 seconds. It’s so damn difficult and addictive…
Filed under: Internet, Video — Malcolm Owen @ 10:02 pm
So yeah, there’s this site called Boffer. I’m a bit addicted to it. I have multiple BOCs and occasionally I get a damn fine product (that goes for a small profit on Ebay). Cue them releasing the Bit on the Side. It’s like a reverse auction, where the price goes down constantly but you only have a limited amount of stock available. Namely 1 item. But having one item for sale would be a bit boring. So what about 50 different items for sale at the same time? Sounds better? More info can be found at this video…
(Yes, it’s a thinly veiled attempt at getting a free t-shirt, you can’t blame me for that, surely!)
It’s a cliche and a half that games are not good for you (I should know, the strongest parts of my body are my fingers and wrists from Wii Bowling and WoW), but one man and one man alone will find out if you can lose weight through gaming.
No, it’s not me. I’m too fat for that… It’s Ken Barnes from gaming blog RewiredMind.com
He’s going to be using a combination of Wii Fit, DDR, the drums from Rock Band 2 and other games in an effort to lose 67lb in 6 months for charity (The Prostate Cancer Charity) under the name the RewiredMind Fitness Challenge.
He starts tomorrow, and I wish him well in his endevours. I only hope that his blow-out tonight before the half-year of dieting doesn’t cause him to crack after 10 minutes of exercise…
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