Oddness from the interwebs:

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How awesome is this guy?  He looks like a 9″ tall maroon sharpei monster!  To top things off, he has light up eyes.  He’s made by a Japanese company called CCP.

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Now I don’t know if this video is real or not (I doubt it) but it’s still pretty awesome.  This shows the master, Bruce Lee, playing ping pong with a pair of nunchaku in what’s sure to be the best ponging sequence since Forrest Gump.  This is a Chinese Nokia ad that, in the way of Amercian ads of late, doesn’t really have anything to do with the product.  But hey, it’s cool none-the-less.  Next up is disc golf with throwing stars.

Article from Gizmodo.

Original site (in Chinese, so have fun translating!)

From the folks that brought you “The Texas Chainsaw Musical”:

Presented by New Millennium Theatre.

This has been around for a while but I finally jumped on the bandwagon because I am bored.  Put anyone on notice at this fantastic, and Colbert approved, site As you can see I created my own.

Check out this awesome little Reindeer Dunny figure from Kid Robot.  Is that meant to be his standard harness or some sort of S&M getup?  Probably both.  He’s read Santa’s list and he knows that you’ve been naughty.

Get him from our friends @ Rotofugi here.

These images of these awesome cartoon colors-inspired NECA TMNT figures are courtesy of Geek Creek. What makes Geek Creek a particularly cool blog to me is that it is just as much about photography as it is about action figures/customization. Check it out here.

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Here’s new video for the second single off of Dig Out Your Soul. This is probably my fav off of the new album. Plus, it was written by LG, so that’s cool.

First, I announced yesterday that Microsoft had launched their new NXE which is a new dashboard design and provides many new features. What I forgot to mention was the coolest feature of being able to load games to your HDD. Now you don’t load the full game and have no use for the disc anymore but this will definitely help with loading and performance times for most games. Most games….what doesn’t work you ask. Well probably the biggest would be Halo 3. Yes the most popular game on the system performs worse when you install it to your HDD. Bungie, the creators of Halo, responded as so:

Basically, the game was programmed to copy map files from the disc to the HDD to speed up load times. If you install the game to the HDD, it copies the files from your HDD to…another part of your HDD, which is a lot slower than a disc-to-HDD transfer…….we shipped Halo 3 before Microsoft finalized this particular feature. As a result, we were not able to take advantage of it (or any other potential optimizations we discovered after shipping Halo 3)

No word on if there will be a patch to address this issue or if they will just recommend not installing Halo 3 on your HDD.

On a lighter note below is a video highlighting all the fatalities from Mortal Kombat vs DC. Some of them are kinda weak, but that is expectable for a T rated game. I hope to have my hands on this game soon and will provide my thoughts/analysis on the game. Spoiler alert…I guess.

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And two Microsoft posts in a row, I must be sick or something.

Nerd City was at the “We Need Each Other” art show @ Oh No! Doom in Chicago. Where the fuck were you?

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This man is Sam Calagione, and he got Max stinking drunk one time.  He is pictured above with Randall the Enamel Animal, a dry hop apparatus which has occasionally forced him into intimate moments with the TSA (pic taken from DFH’s website).  Once again, this is a beer which is not currently being distributed in my home state; but every time I go to Wisconsin to buy New Glarus, I always pick up some Dogfish Head too.  Their entire line-up is filled with everything from total hop bombs to beers with ancient and esoteric ingredients.  You might not enjoy everything they make, but you’ll never be bored by it.

This article is pretty long, but does a good job depicting the origin of the brewery and the mastermind/mad scientist behind it all.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/11/24/081124fa_fact_bilger

NECA has some really cool looking Street Fighter 4 figures coming in early 2009. As seen here, you will get Ken and Ryu in wave 1. Not pictured but also slated for release in the first wave is Crimson Viper.
Images used without the blessing of TNI. Sorry.

The only description I can find on the new movie Moon is the following: “Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter while stranded on the moon for a three-year period.”  The vague and mysterious summary is only amplified when accompanied by the linked photos below.

Now, I’m not a sci-fi/outerspace fan, I freely admit to that.  However, when they involve someone going insane or perhaps a creepy “encounter”, you can count me in.  Throw in Sam Rockwell, and I’ve signed the dotted line.  For me, there haven’t been many space movies that awe me with chilling visuals of how vast, lonely and desolate space is.  Moon seems to pull it off.  Enjoy the pics, from Bloody-Disgusting.com.

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World War Z, Max Brooks’ fictitious epic oral history of how and when the zombie pandemic happened, is being made into a film as you may have already known, and they’ve found their director in Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace, Monster’s Ball, Stranger Than Fiction).  Even better is the screenwriter, J. Michael Straczynski, who has written episodes of He-Man and Masters of the Universe and The Real Ghostbusters, not to mention numerous comic books including The Amazing Spiderman and Fantastic Four.  Brooks himself is known for his prior work, the cult hit The Zombie Survival Guide.  What I’m trying to say is that this movie has the potential to kick major ass and make zombiephiles cream their jeans.  The only thing that has a chance at surpassing it in overall zombie greatness is Zack Snyder’s next project, Army of the Dead.  Read about it here.  All this zombie talk is making me giddy.