Linkage for April 14th

Videos
Crazy Aussie Commercial
Cool Guitar Hero Split Screen Video
Guy Tries To Eat A Cactus
Official Clerks II Trailer
The Emperor Gets a Job (Star Wars Spoof)

News
Hangover-free Buzz: Star Trek’s Synthehol Now Possible
AOL Censors Email Tax Opponents
Jack Thompson sues Florida Bar
Videogames Help Burn Calories

Articles/Features
Get rid of the Windows Update reboot nag
The Top 25 web sites of 1994

Random
Tokyo Looks Like Gotham City?
How to use your ink cartridges until they’re (really) empty

Today’s Featured Comic
Paris Gets What’s Coming to Her

Today’s Useless Fact
Zachary Taylor, formerly a professional soldier, never voted. He didn’t even vote in the election that elected him U.S. president.

Linkage for April 13th

Videos
David Bowie and Trent Reznor sing “Hurt”
Spiderman DDR Routine
C is for Cookie! (V for Vendetta Spoof)
Japanese Tomato Adventure Commercial
WoW – Health is for the Weak
GBA “Rectal Exam” Ad

News
Ubisoft Dropping Starforce
Afghans selling US army secrets on USB Drives
Blizzard Bans 5,400 WoW Users and Suspends Over 10,000 More
Lucent Technologies Sues Microsoft Over Xbox 360
Battlestar Galactica game under consideration
Spy Hunter movie script leaked?
1930’s Noir Title announced for Revolution – Entirely in Black and White
Vista Aero Unavailable for Pirates
Girl’s heart restarted after ten years
Coca-Cola with Real Coca Leaves Bottled by Indigenous Tribe
200 GB Blu-Ray Drive?
Sega Handheld is April Fools Joke
‘South Park’ Creators Skewer Own Network

Articles/Features
Retronauts – Earthbound
PS2 Due for a Price Drop?
Simon Pegg Talks to CVG
Game Shops Might Screw you out of a PS3
Game Ads A-Go-Go: The Dirty Mind of a Gamer
Nickel and Dime Your Way to Financial Security
Best Light Gun Games for a Re-Revolution
How YouTube became hot property in online video
Would You Like A Franchise With That? (Games, Comics, and Movies From A Hollywood Perspective)
Playstation 3 To Be Fat And Retarded

Random
Game of The Week – Somari the Mario/Sonic Hybrid
Google Calendar is Live
PS3 currently too big and too clever?

Today’s Featured Comic
A little under-dressed?

Today’s Useless Fact
Gold was first known to be used as jewelry in parts of Central and Eastern Europe in 4000BC.

Linkage for April 12th

Videos
Halo 2 “Resident Evil” Machinima
I Feel Great!
Juggling Magician
Queen – “Bohemian Rhapsody” Video
Sweet Hellboy Animation

News
Paramount Pictures Teams up with XBox Live
Sega’s New Handheld?

Articles
Sad Story of ‘Boy in the Bubble’
Games that were Too Wild for the West
Top 10 Tuesday: Modern Vaporware
Silent Hill Movie Interview
How I Got My First Computer, and How I Got My First Computer Back
Would You Like A Franchise With That? (Games, Comics, and Movies From A Hollywood Perspective)

Random
Pop culture references in Warcraft
Sexual Moments in Video Game History

Today’s Featured Comic
Vegeterian = Culinary Masturbation

Today’s Useless Fact
During the Renaissance when Charles VIII’s armies entered France, he also brought with him his passion for perfume. Charles even had his own personal perfumer. Rose, orange blossom, and rosemary oil were favorite scents in his court.

Today’s Linkage

Videos
GBA “Bathroom” Ad
Not Exactly the Miracle of Conception (What the fuck??)
Flying Cat
Japanese Shining Force III Commercial
Top Ten Accident Prone Foods

News
Virginia Seeks New “M” Label
Jail employee fired for allegedly striking his wife over Dungeons and Dragons toys
The truth about the Light at end of the tunnel over near death experiences

Articles
The Most Controversial Video Game Ads of All Time
Games That Defined The Dreamcast
Only from Japan – Games of the Far East
I don’t want Windows on a Mac. I want OS X on a PC.
A Multiplayer Melee on Female Gamers
How Wal-Mart Controls Your Games
Getting things deleted from Google’s cache
The Making of 3D Monster Maze

Random
Macintosh Ads Circa 1984
Interesting XBox Live Project
Your favorite NES games, voxalized
Ending to NES Life Force
Awesome Graphics Card Comparisons
Copy and paste between computers
Play Quake III in Your Browser

Today’s Useless Fact
There is evidence to suggest that ginger root is effective against motion sickness and nausea when taken in powdered form

Today’s Comic Goodness
Commissioned Comic

Today’s Linkage

Videos
Japanese Game Gear Ad
Donky Kong “Police Station” Ad
Watch a G4 Get Blown Up
Manmana Remix
XBox “Funpack” Commercial

News
Burger King To Sell Xbox 360 Games?
Uwe Boll Bites Back
There IS a problem with global warming… it stopped in 1998

Articles
Apple vs. Me
Only ‘freaks’ waste their time with Linux in Oklahoma
The Glory of the Shooter
Ten Castlevania sequels you haven’t played

Random
Unintentionally Freaky Mario Lego Creation
Zelda Soundboard
The Xbox 360 And PS3 Controllers In LEGOs
Lara Croft XBox 360 Case

Today’s Useless Fact
The declawing of a pet cat involves surgery called an onychectomy, in which the entire claw and end bone of each toe of the animal are amputated. Cat owners considering it should know that it’s a controversial operation, with potential adverse physical and psychological effects on the cat.

Weekend Linkage

Videos
Japanese Rube Goldberg Machines Part 1 (9 minutes long but worth it)
Japanese Rube Goldberg Machines Part 2
SNL – Star Wars Screen Test
Fearless Music Video
Curt Schilling’s Everquest Addiction
On the set if Silent Hill
My Buddy The Crystal Lich’s Second Video
Zlad – Elektronik Supersonik

News
Star Wars Kid Gets Paid
Next Oblivion Add-on Priced
British FBI-style Logo Compares to Thundercats

Articles
Running Oblivion/Half-Life 2/F.E.A.R On a Machintosh
Tetris from the Top: An Interview with Henk Rogers
Nerds Make Better Lovers

Random
Star Wars Origami
The Top 10 weirdest keyboards ever
Jack Thompson Toilet Paper
Mega Man on Something Awful
11 Craziest Mental disorders

Today’s Useless Fact
Heinrich W. Brandes made the first weather map in 1815, based on data gathered in 1783. Brandes waited so long because it was the only way he could be certain the information was correct.

Today’s Linkage

Videos
Insane 100 Yard Football Throw
Lego Counter-Strike
Night Trap Controversy Feature
Chuck Norris – Oblivion Style
Topless Car Wash

News
Bethesda Comments on Oblivion Gender Bias Concerns
Square Enix commits to exclusive Xbox 360 game
Lara Croft Earns Guinness World Record
Debate rages on use of cervical cancer vaccine
Mario Question Block Girls Will Not Be Prosecuted
Bethesda patching Oblivion, lowers cost of future content download
Red Steel: first Revolution screens revealed
Free Oblivion horse armor coupon with PC version

Articles
The Trouble with Scotland (Video Game Related)
Dark Miracle – A Trip to the Trinity Test Site
You’ve Come A Long Way Game Boy
Famous Final Fantasy Moments

Random
Overload’s Oblivion ModPack-v2.0
Test Your Atari Knowledge
Are You a Console Fanboy?
Google Toolbar v2 for Firefox
Calculate Your Sleep Debt
Total Solar Eclipse as Seen from Space

Today’s Useless Fact
Five baseball gloves can be made from one cow.

Today’s Linkage

Wow! A lot of stuff today. I figure I will make this post every day around 8p-9p EST as that seems to be when the news dies down.

Anyway, enjoy today’s linkage!

Videos
Teachers on Crack
Dog Judo (Get the rest of them here)
The Art of Motion
P.A.N.I.C.S Outtakes
Oblivion Topless Mod in Action
Kokomo Spoof by U.S Soldiers
Japanese Dr. Mario Commercial

Articles
Dvorak Isn’t Crazy
As Seen on TV: Sweet Scent of 80’s Nostalgia
The Lost CD-i Mario Game
There’s ONE page AOL.com hopes you’ll never find
E3 Through the Eyes of a Booth Babe
Game Developers Unleash A Storm On ‘World Of Warcraft’ Players

News
Mac Boot Camp (Dual booting with Windows)
Microsoft Buys Lionhead Studios
Molyneux thinks Microsoft is ‘Perfect’ for Lionhead
Anime Now Available on XBox Live Marketplace
The most significant advance in cancer prevention in the last 50 years
Nipplegate: new Tomb Raider delayed in US
NetFlix Sues Blockbuster Online
‘Gospel of Judas’ Surfaces After 1,700 Years
Desert pinup ogled by Google Earth
Bill Nye Angers Creationists at MCC Lecture

Random
Kingdom Hearts Vibrator
Toys R US Accepting PS3 Pre-orders
Oblivion Hardware Guide
Alliance to Horde Translation Guide
“Dummies” Book Cover Generator
Japanese Walk the Dog Simulator

Today’s Useless Fact
Seven thousand years ago, the ancient Egyptians bowled on alleys not unlike our own.

Today’s Linkage

Well, I finally completed King’s Field: The Ancient City. I can understand why the series never gets good reviews critically as it is definitely a fan’s series. I fully enjoyed the game, but as usual the games are really, really hard.

Anyway, I am changing the method of doing these daily posts for two reasons. One, I am too lazy to post a synopsis for each link every day. Two, the subject of the link should give you enough information to decide if you want to click on it or not.

If you are a friend of mine or someone who has read this blog for any time, you will already pretty much know my view of a particular items.

Videos
Cop Caught Dancing to Billie Jean
Nintendo Cereal Commercial
Super Console Wars puts spin on mascot Gamepires
Fire Fart
Drunk Guy Hijacks DDR
Matrix: Path of Neo Bloopers

Articles
TwitchGuru Analyzes the 1979 film “The Warriors”
Dreamcast 2D Fighters Library

News
Capcom Under Investigation for Fraud
104 Murders An Hour Playing M-Rated Games
Health Problems Related to the Geek Lifestyle
Childhood TV and gaming is ‘major public health issue’
PS3 to be 500 euros (approx $615 US)?

Random Crap
Today’s Download – FreshDiagnose System Information Utility
The Incredible Sega Rap
Oblivion Topless Mod

Today’s Useless Fact
The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other’s shoulders.