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Get them away from the water!  They’re multiplying!

Finally, the mystery of the Rubik’s Cube has been solved: it takes no more than 20 moves to rectify, no matter how jumbled it is.  But how many moves until someone who still plays with a Rubik’s Cube loses his virginity?  The world may never know.  ( bbc )

This is an awesome elevator …

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Get them away from the water!  They’re multiplying!

Finally, the mystery of the Rubik’s Cube has been solved: it takes no more than 20 moves to rectify, no matter how jumbled it is.  But how many moves until someone who still plays with a Rubik’s Cube loses his virginity?  The world may never know.  (bbc)

This is an awesome elevator hack wherein you can bypass all the floors, and go straight to the one you want.  And to get back down even quicker?  Just cut them cables.  (iambored)

Cancer may still exist, but at least scientists have figured out that iPhone users have the most sex partners, compared to other electronic phone devices.  Thanks, science!  (mashable)

Jeffrey Jacob Abrams (“J.J.” to his friends) is at it again with the cryptic, viral marketing – this time for his new flick, Super 8.  Now, this is the same guy who wrote Taking Care of Business and Gone Fishin’, so perhaps, you know, we shouldn’t give him too much credit when it comes to being clever?  (iwatchstuff)

Turns out that cute girl bitch who quit her job via dry erase board was all a hoax.  Bitch.  (boingboing)

If you were at the SDCC this year, chances are you saw a really out of shape Batman standing by one of the entrances.  Nerd City saw (and mocked) this corpulent Caped Crusader but, then again, how could you miss him?  Turns out he’s made some funny videos.  (uproxx)

Several years ago I walked into a (then) brand new cereal-themed food chain called “Cereality”.  My mind was blown; cereal is very important to me – one of my 5 major food groups.  And it was there that my dream of eating a bowl of “just the marshmallows” became a reality.  A ‘cereality’ I guess you could say.  I was so eager to show my appreciation that I even applied for a job there.  They didn’t hire me, but I forgave them.  Not surprisingly, they’ve since closed — what do you expect when you sell overpriced cereal out of a Chinese takeout container?  However, if you still want to enjoy the childhood dream of a “just marshmallows” cereal without having to pick through endless boxes of Count Chocula and Lucky Charms, you can order some right here:  (thesmokingjacket)

6 movie plots that could have been solved in minutes.  Star Wars?  Don’t ever watch it.  How’s that for solving a problem?  (cracked)

Speaking of the most overhyped movie of all-time, here are some Star Wars cakes for all you fatfucks.  (weburbanist)

Some dude lets a stray baseball nail his girlfriend at an Astro’s game.  To be fair though, he’s an Astro’s fan so he probably isn’t that smart.  And she’s dating him, so she’s even more stupid.  Oooooh, take that BITCHES! (totalprosports)

Some guy sings your favorite childhood themes, a cappella.  Look, I hate to harp on such a cool idea that has been executed almost flawlessly, but if you’re going to go to the trouble of recording all those separate a cappella tracks, tuning them, layering them, dubbing what needs to be dubbed — not to mention doing several songs this way — wouldn’t you first make sure you’re singing the right lyrics??!?! It drives me CRAZY every time I hear this dude say “gunshoes” instead of “gumshoes” during the Chip and Dale theme song.  What the fuck is a “gunshoe”, dude????  (unrealitymag)

And lastly, to describe this video as “guy tries to chug tequila and pukes” simply isn’t doing it justice.  There is so much at play in this epic video, it’s like an I Spy book; I find something new to laugh about every time I watch it.  Unnecessarily loud and violent noises?  Check.  Truly loyal girlfriend who holds open a trash bag while repeatedly being sprayed with vomit?  Check.  Home garage that for some reason looks like a public garage?  Check.  Guy puking on only handicapped spot in said ‘garage’?  Check.  Watch this with someone you love.  I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.  (nothingtoxic)

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Our friends at ToyCutter have posted these incredible figures by Silof check em out here. …

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Our friends at ToyCutter have posted these incredible figures by Silof check em out here.

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The new Super Mario Bros. crossover is here!  Enjoy your wasted day.  ( supermariobroscrossover )

The title of this Lois Lane comic book is “I Am Curious (Black)!”  and I find that interesting (racist)!  ( sadanduseless )

25 different Truffle Shuffles.  You know who does it better than Chunk?  Any attractive woman.  ( …

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The new Super Mario Bros. crossover is here!  Enjoy your wasted day.  (supermariobroscrossover)

The title of this Lois Lane comic book is “I Am Curious (Black)!”  and I find that interesting (racist)!  (sadanduseless)

25 different Truffle Shuffles.  You know who does it better than Chunk?  Any attractive woman.  (holytaco)

8 most annoying types of video game levels.  I feel like I posted this before, but y’know what?  Fuck it.  It’s gay pride weekend!  Gays are a devil-may-care type.  (ranker)

So some British kid wears 215 pairs of underwear on his 10th birthday and gets into the Guinness Book of World Records.  Is Guinness really that desperate for entries?  (comedy)

The sexy ladies of Marvel movies.  Y’know, for all the woman out there.  (ugo)

Look, I love to waste my entire day on the internet, too.  But when we start compiling lists like “badass movie knives”, everybody loses.  Everybody.  (gunaxin)

This is a video of a guy singing Lionel Ritchie’s “Hello” whilst holding an AK-47.  I know that doesn’t sound like it’d make sense, but you’ll understand it when you watch.  (youtube)

I don’t care that someone has recreated every Star Wars film in GIF form, I’m still not watching ‘em.  (youthewhoa)

There is something strangely ominous and futuristic about the Mangroomer website.  (mangroomer)

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Well, Microsoft kicked off this years E3 with the first presentation from the big three companies and I’ll tell you it wasn’t that impressive to me. Don’t take that as I’m being biased (as you may know I’m not a Xbox fan) but this is my opinion as a gamer looking at what they had to offer. As rumored in my previous post, Microsoft did in fact confirm their new …

by Mike:

Well, Microsoft kicked off this years E3 with the first presentation from the big three companies and I’ll tell you it wasn’t that impressive to me. Don’t take that as I’m being biased (as you may know I’m not a Xbox fan) but this is my opinion as a gamer looking at what they had to offer. As rumored in my previous post, Microsoft did in fact confirm their new Xbox 360 that will have a 250GB hard drive, built in Wi-Fi and will retail for $299….oh and it will be available in stores next week.
New Xbox 360

Outside of this announcement, Microsoft used the remainder of their presentation to talk about Kinect (once Natal). Personally I’m not a fan of this or Sony’s Move system as I’m lazy and don’t want to be moving around all the time when playing video games. The games that were detailed, and Kinect will launch in November with 15 titles, were mainly casual games looked to hook the Wii audience and exercise games. Of course more games will support Kinect in the future but when it launches I don’t see many hardcore gamers picking this one up. But the Star Wars game, if done well, could lead to many people picking this up.

What I enjoyed the most out of Microsoft presentation is how Kinect will be used outside of gaming. Once you turn your system on, you will be able to navigate through your Xbox dashboard by voice or movement with your hand. Do you want to watch something on Netflix, just tell you Xbox to go to Netflix and it will launch immediately. While watching your movie you can pause, stop, fast forward and rewind all by voice or hand motions as well (it’s kinda like a fancy Minority Report computer). But is it so difficult to use a controller to do all this?
Next was an even bigger announcement in that Microsoft has partnered with ESPN to offer live and on demand sports through Xbox live as well. Not only will you be able to watch live sporting events and participate in community games while watching (for instance trivia and voting on certain things about the game like what team do you want to win and what not) but having on demand playoff games and other events from years past is a huge plus for any sports fan out there.
Not much was shown in forms of games, but that will all come out later this week when actual gaming companies have their press conferences, so to sum up Microsoft will have a new 360 system out next week and Kinect will launch this November (still no price point on Kinect)

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Today begins a fantastic partnership between Lucasarts and Nintendo as we are seeing the release of Super Star Wars, for the SNES, on the Virtual Console today (only 800pts). This will be the first of many Lucasarts games and related content to be released on the Wii with Super Empire Strikes back and Super Return of the Jedi to be released in upcoming weeks. Along with the game releases, …

by Mike:

Super Star Wars

Today begins a fantastic partnership between Lucasarts and Nintendo as we are seeing the release of Super Star Wars, for the SNES, on the Virtual Console today (only 800pts). This will be the first of many Lucasarts games and related content to be released on the Wii with Super Empire Strikes back and Super Return of the Jedi to be released in upcoming weeks. Along with the game releases, Nintendo and Lucasarts have teamed up for a Star Wars Mii creation contest on the “Check Mii Out” channel and there will be Star Wars themed questions on the “Everybody Votes” channel. Now Lucasarts has teased that we will see re-releases of many more classic games through the WiiWare service, they just aren’t giving us the full details yet. Here’s hope that we will get Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, X-Wing Vs Tie Fighter and many more old school games.

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Getting drunk at Mos Eisley Cantina and smoking with R2-D2, one can only dream.  Take a look at two great PSAs below and check Here to see more old commercials for toys, cereal and of course…video games.

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Getting drunk at Mos Eisley Cantina and smoking with R2-D2, one can only dream.  Take a look at two great PSAs below and check Here to see more old commercials for toys, cereal and of course…video games.


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Well at least that is what we could have gotten if Free Radical hadn’t closed up shop. Yes, on top of losing the fantastic Timesplitters series (for now) we also lost the development team working on the new Lucas Arts game, Star Wars: Battlefront III. Our good friends at Kotaku have a video that is rumored to be footage from the game. Watching the video (see below as well) I …

by Mike:

Sith Kenobi Well at least that is what we could have gotten if Free Radical hadn’t closed up shop. Yes, on top of losing the fantastic Timesplitters series (for now) we also lost the development team working on the new Lucas Arts game, Star Wars: Battlefront III. Our good friends at Kotaku have a video that is rumored to be footage from the game. Watching the video (see below as well) I didn’t really see any Sith Kenobi but based off of seeing images and characters from all six films, it wouldn’t surprise me if there was some sort of Elseworlds story/setting out there as well. Either way, this is just another fantastic game lost to closing of great studios. Hopefully this will be picked up and released by some other studio, which I’m pretty sure it will. For bigger pics and full concept art on evil Kenobi check out Kotaku


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Well this little gem comes from Gizmodo  and represents where all those cool (and not so cool) planets from the Star Wars universe actually are in their galaxy.  It’s fun to note that Tatooine is NOT the farthest from the galaxy core like one Luke Skywalker proclaimed.   Click on the above image to see a very large version of this so you can spend the rest of the day on Wikipedia …

by kris:

Star Wars Galaxy

Well this little gem comes from Gizmodo and represents where all those cool (and not so cool) planets from the Star Wars universe actually are in their galaxy.  It’s fun to note that Tatooine is NOT the farthest from the galaxy core like one Luke Skywalker proclaimed.   Click on the above image to see a very large version of this so you can spend the rest of the day on Wikipedia looking up fake planets (like Pluto!). 

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Who is ready to get hurt on your own personal Millenium Falcon? Well now we can all enjoy the fun that sledding has to offer while being as nerdy as possible. Available through Amazon you can have your own personal Millenium Falcon for the holiday season. Priced at $34, it is kinda expensive for basically a saucer sled but someone needs to put Lucas’ kids through college so it …

by Mike:

Falcon
Who is ready to get hurt on your own personal Millenium Falcon? Well now we can all enjoy the fun that sledding has to offer while being as nerdy as possible. Available through Amazon you can have your own personal Millenium Falcon for the holiday season. Priced at $34, it is kinda expensive for basically a saucer sled but someone needs to put Lucas’ kids through college so it might as well be us. If anyone actually buys this, let us know how it turns out.

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Max recently learned about BringIt . A new online community where gamers can play…and bet, on video games. Games include Call of Duty 4 , EA Sports titles, and Guitar Hero: World Tour . Guitar Hero for money? Sweet Jesus no! This is not what I need right now. According to the press release, “Players can ‘BringIt’ for as little as $1 or up to as much as …

by max:

Max recently learned about BringIt. A new online community where gamers can play…and bet, on video games. Games include Call of Duty 4, EA Sports titles, and Guitar Hero: World Tour. Guitar Hero for money? Sweet Jesus no! This is not what I need right now. According to the press release, “Players can ‘BringIt’ for as little as $1 or up to as much as $100,000.” $100,000 dollars? On a video game? Fuck yeah!

For more on Max’s nerd-dom and gambling habits fusing in to an unstoppable hurricane of unfettered addiction, please see the Star Wars Slot Machine.


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