Rampant Exclamations

Of cardboard boxes and a need for popcorn

Hope you’re ready to sit still for a while: MGS4 reportedly has cutscenes, some up to 90 minutes long. Get the popcorn, dim the lights, and settle in for a little Solid Snakin’.

This made me giggle

In Mexico, a donkey was put in jail for 3 days, for biting and kicking two people.  In America it probably would have been put to sleep; in Texas, put to shotgun blast to the head.  You think the Mexican authorities really thought jail would teach this donkey a lesson?  According to the article they’ve also [...]

Color me baffled.

This is a video of deaths that just wouldn’t work in Super Mario Bros.

I understand what they’re doing here, but I guess the question is - why?

Kodachrome, Scientology, and Spam

What do all these things have in common?
They’re all younger than John McCain.

How to kill a coat

If you’d like a little supplemental language learnin’ (because I doubt these can stand alone), you might be interested to know that there are free podcasts to help learn 35+ languages in iTunes.
Oh, and an exhibit at NY-MOMA has died. It’s a coat. Allow the article to elaborate:
One of the central works in the exhibition [...]

Bonus maps ahoy!

Greg might want to take note, as he’s the only other person I know as excited about these two games as me:
1. The PlayStation Blog today covers downloadable content in echochrome, as well as a good long look at how the level creator works. It’s basically a tutorial. Unfortunately it appears only the PS3 version [...]