Forwards from Phil: Mar. 6, 2008
March 6th, 2008 by PhilIt’s nice to see the world can get by without me for a day. What can I say, it was hella busy here yesterday. Brawl countdown: 3 days!
Actual news: a small bomb went off at a military recruitment center in Times Square today.
- In a shocking and unprecedented show of going along with standards established by people who aren’t Microsoft, IE8 is the first version of Internet Explorer to correctly render the Internet according to established standards. Yes, you read that right: rather than following their earlier policies of doing whatever the fuck they felt like doing, Microsoft appears to be making sure IE8 will deliver the web in the correct, standards-following fashion. Hell freezes over, video at 11.
- Bunch of good stuff from Cracked: the 10 most terrifyingly inspirational 80s songs, 7 insane conspiracies that actually happened, the 20 best “that guys” of all time, the awful truth behind 5 items probably on your grocery list, and the 7 most terrifying corporate mascots of all time.
- Fun fact: six (that’s 6, as in “the number between 5 and 7″) botnets are churning out 85% of the world’s spam. Just… wow.
- The director of the movie adaptation of Y: The Last Man, D.J. Caruso, wants Shia LeBeouf to portray Yorick Brown. Guess he liked him enough while directing him on Disturbia to want him in everything ever.
- Fun YouTube tricks: enhance your videos with a simple URL trick to get the higher-definition version. Or, better yet, install the Better YouTube Firefox extension and let it do it for you.
- Fortune not found. Abort, Retry, Ignore?
- Five rejected names for “Cooter” on the Dukes of Hazzard.
- The Vanishing Point has a neat segment about the secret tunnel under Niagara Falls. Seriously, though, go read everything else on the site too.
- The weird part about people who cosplay as Link from any of the Legend of Zelda games is that girls do a much, much better job of cosplaying Link than guys do. Maybe Nintendo’s second mascot is just a skosh on the waifish side. Whaddaya think?
- io9 has a video up on the SAGE, the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment, that kept us safe from those damn commie missiles starting in 1956. Indie rap aficionados will recognize this as the video Sage Francis sampled for the spoken parts of “The Buzz Kill.”
- Witness 5 works of insane architectural genius, from a palace built by a single untrained man, to a wooden skyscraper.
- From the “didn’t see THAT one coming” department: Ziff-Davis files for chapter 11 bankruptcy. That’s the people, by the way, behind EGM, Games for Windows, and 1UP.
- Zero Punctuation takes on Devil May Cry 4. Hilarity ensues, as usual.
- Pac-Man shoes! Delightfully dorky, delightfully cheap for shoes ($39 and change).
- EA considers takeover of Take Two Entertainment. Jack Thompson, in pursuit of his personal vendetta against Take Two (okay, seriously, did these guys steal his baby and use its ground-up bones to make GTAIII or something? Sheesh), offers to help with the takeover. EA tells wacko Jacko to get bent.
- A demo of Echochrome is on the Japanese PlayStation Store. I have absolutely no idea if I can get ahold of this, but I really, really want to, because it’s got an English-language track on it - oh, wait, here it is right here. On the other hand, the American version of the PS Store gets the full game of flOw tomorrow. I think the Japanese won this one.
And finally, your semi-required Smash Bros. spoiler.
- R.O.B.! That is all. Oh, and this is the cutest damned picture ever:
