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How did Bruce Lee play ping-pong? With nunchuks, of course

Introducing the "Strapony".

Source: Eat Liver.

Mirror's Edge is a new Parkour-based first person game starring a wiry Asian woman. DICE, the studio responsible for the game, went out of their way to design a realistic female lead. A fan took the design and gave her ridiculous tits and the face of a child.

The developer was sad:

We wanted her to be attractive, but we didn’t want her to be a supermodel. We wanted her to be approachable and far more real. It was just kind of depressing that someone thinks it would be better if Faith was a 12-year-old with a boob job. That was kind of what that image looked to me.

The announcer from Mortal Kombat (think, "Finish Him!" or "Flawless Victory") is made to say silly things by the people at Maxim.

My favourites: "Flawless Ensemble!" and "Are you going to... FINISH THAT?"

The glee with which this guy talks about chicken head tracking really helps the video.

Missionary turned Atheist thanks to an Amazonian tribe.

According to Wikipedia, Everett “was having serious doubts by 1982, and had lost all faith by 1985 after having spent a year at MIT. He would not tell anyone about his atheism for another 19 years; when he finally did, his marriage ended in divorce and two of his three children broke off all contact.”

That's sad.

Beautiful restored earthrise picture from 1966.

The trailer for J.J. Abrams' Star Wars movie has been leaked. Looks promising.

Derp derp derp.

Living in the past, like a 1950s TV housewife.

I love how the cat just looks like he's thinking, "<sigh> Not this again..." Source.

Running game... QWOP. I am incapable of moving forward. You?

Evil people get pleasure from the pain of others. Science!

Thanks, Gregmita.

I, for one, would love a stunt goat.

Source.

Thank goodness for American voters. McCain's concession speech was good, though I was afraid it was starting out with a nasty undertone of "Well, you assholes wanted Barack, you got Barack." Later on, I felt he proved that my initial impression was wrong.

Barack's acceptance speech was good. One subtle difference between his speech and McCain's concession speech was the crowd... Note the juvenile "booing" from the McCain supporters versus the polite applause when Barack Obama mentions John McCain in his acceptance speech (which I can't find).

The acceptance speech I saw yesterday doesn't seem to be on YouTube. Here is the text of Obama's acceptance speech.

Well, this is good. The Catholics and Muslims are talking to each other.

In their manifesto, "A Common Word," the Muslims argued that both faiths shared the core principles of love of God and neighbor. The talks focus on what this means for the religions and how it can foster harmony between them.

Childrens' letters to Frankenstein. Dr. Victor Frankenstein, specifically.

Read on...

Oh, Creationism... What hast thou wrought?

Since I have never read the book, I had no idea that the original ending to "I am Legend" revealed the protagonist to be "the bad guy".

In the book (made into Omega Man starring Charlton Heston and then I am Legend starring Will Smith), the main character finds out that the zombie vampire monsters he has been slaughtering are actually intelligent, and that they've been attacking his makeshift fortification to try to rescue a young girl zombie vampire he's been keeping for study. In fact, that's where the name of the book comes from. Apparently, the new Will Smith version of the movie originally ended that way, but they played it for a bunch of mouth breathers who didn't like how it ended, then changed it so that he murders even more of them and dies.

This new-found knowledge comes from a Cracked article called "5 Awesome Movies Ruined by Last-Minute Changes":

"The original ending is available as a bonus scene on the recent DVD release, where it is advertised as the "controversial original ending." Yes, coming to a peaceful reconciliation with your enemies is now more controversial than blowing them right the fuck up."

Amphibians are bad at surviving. That's right, assholes: pick a side. You can't have it both ways.

Baconnaise!