http://www.blatantlyrandom.com Randomness and Other Stuff for Your Viewing Pleasure Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:10:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Youtube, those glorious bastards, have won today. I can't be bothered to do a fake post on here, mainly because they have managed to do a fantastic Rickroll of so many people at the same time. Go to http://uk.youtube.com/ and look at their featured videos. Normal, right? Click them. Yes, they lead to ... http://www.blatantlyrandom.com/2008/04/01/no-april-fools-youtube-already-wins/ Beatbox is usually something to be looked down by most people. Mainly because it's done very basically or very badly. And then you get the occasional person that (a) does the whole Beatboxing thing, (b) does it well, and (c) uses comedy. Like, say, Beardyman. A fantastic example of which ... http://www.blatantlyrandom.com/2008/03/29/beardyman-beatbox-genius/ As you may know, I'm not one to go to the cinema all that often. Indeed, you might want to say that I dislike the cinema experience. And that is true for the most part. I would rather wait for the DVD to eventually get released than to go to ... http://www.blatantlyrandom.com/2008/02/21/3-reasons-cinemas-suck/ I'm sure everyone has heard of the story that if X amount of people put their religion down as "Jedi" on the Census, it becomes legally recognised. Granted, that may or may not be completely true/legal/whatever, but some people do take things a bit too seriously. I mean, what are ... http://www.blatantlyrandom.com/2008/02/20/jedi-academy-to-open-in-surrey-wait-what/ Recently, I've had some free time to go and visit a few important people in my life. As part of that, I had to get some shopping to avoid that whole "Eat them out of house and home" scenario. As usual, to collect my usual supply of Coke Zero and ... http://www.blatantlyrandom.com/2008/02/20/the-official-24-energy-drink-it-exists-but-sucks/ According to many sources, including Engadget, HD DVD is now dead. Blu-Ray has won, and the world of entertainment is now decided for the next few years. We now have our modern VHS and Betamax. Huzzah... ...And I don't really care. Why? I don't have anything HD, excluding my computers (monitor ... http://www.blatantlyrandom.com/2008/02/19/hd-dvd-loses-to-blu-ray-i-remain-indifferent/ Yes, 100 Kirbies. As in Kirby but plural. And in costumes. Kick-ass costumes. Like ones that don't really exist. Really! I want a Poster... Now... [Via VG Cats] http://www.blatantlyrandom.com/2008/02/19/100-kirbies/ I will readily admit that I have a liking for Lost and other epically strange programmes that stray from the norm. I will also admit to liking weird concept films (I'm still excited over the entire idea of Series 7: the Contenders, the film that's a TV series that's too ... http://www.blatantlyrandom.com/2008/02/07/midweek-movie-cloverfield/ As you might be aware, Midweek DVD has been a semi-regular feature of Blatantly Random, whereby I would talk about a random DVD for a few hundred words, usually telling you to watch it for reasons that most normal people won't care about. Well, thanks to a recent cinema trip ... http://www.blatantlyrandom.com/2008/02/07/midweek-dvd-now-midweek-movie-do-not-panic/ So yeah, there was this guy "Ben Heckendorn" (fantastic surname by the way...) whom decided that he wanted to beat all the DS and PSP owners in the world by making the ultimate portable gaming console. And he did. A portable Xbox 360. Looked good, and deserved a place on ... http://www.blatantlyrandom.com/2008/02/05/xbox-360-elite-laptop-greatness/