Death Race Double Dash

This either makes me want to actually see the Death Race remake or it makes me feel like I just saw the best version of it.

It does make me want to play Mario Kart.

(I am linking instead of imbedding because of bloggers silly narrow issues.)

(via Topless Robot)

Watcharama

The fact that this makes me laugh so hard is explained by (1) the amount I've watched Futurama and (2) the amount of times I've seen the Watchmen trailer.

(via Gorilla Mask via Topless Robot)

Lightsabers add 27% more awesomeness

Videogum has their top 10 lightsaber mashups up.
We live in a glorious age.


(via Boing Boing)

I wish Cronenberg was on the list

For those you don't know, Spore is the next game (or perhaps "game") by Will Wright (and team), maker of TheSims (and SimCity... and SimAnts... man, I loved SimAnts). It has gotten video game geeks and the industry at large all atwitter with anticipation.

Like TheSims in is a "sandbox" game, in that there aren't really goals. It gives you a bunch of tools and such to play with. In Spore you start with a single celled creature, swimming in the muck. Then you evolve. As you evolve, you (the player) get to craft your creature into whatever you want. Forming your creature like Playdoh, attaching parts and coloring it. You want to have a creature with three legs and claws? Fine. How about arms that come of its ass? Will do. Something with a head twice the size of the rest of its body? Yep. Nigh infinite possibilities. And all full animated. How does a seven legged, three armed, spiked butted creature walk? Fight? Love?

It doesn't stop there. From creature it evolves into a society. Tribes to civilization. Develop a society, create technologies, go to war. Eventually travel to space... and explore the universe. So everything from a single sell to the universe. Compelling, yes?

(PapaSix pointed out that for a game about evolution, it teaches a pro-intelligent design message. I'm looking forward to that debate.)

Now, a lot of folks are saying this will be bigger than TheSims. I doubt that. The people who say that are people who follow computer gaming blogs and read gaming magazines. Geeks, nerds, what have you. Me. TheSims is so successful because it basically is playing with dolls. Dress them up, give them furniture, play house. Spore, on the other hand, appeals to people who's school notebooks were filled with drawings of space creatures and space ships and the like. You know, the people who now read gaming blogs.

Both games to appeal to people who like to pull the wings off flies. Or build bathrooms with out doors. Or beings without anuses. So theres that.

Anywhozits, in a marketing genius move, EA is selling just the creature building portion part of the game, cleverly named Spore Creature Creator. Yeah, it's $10 demo. To create some buzz, they're holding a celebrity creature building contest. Celebrities will build a creature, they'll but them up on the web and the unwashed masses (people who read gaming blog) will vote. A lot of the names of on the list are gaming bloggers and the like (celebrity is a flexible concept). But some...

• Stan Lee
• Richard Branson
• David Lynch
• Ellijah Wood
• Kevin Rose
• Mark Cuban
• Curt Schilling
• Kent Nichols
• Robert Scoble
• Veronica Belmont
• Carlos Santana
• Bijou Phillips
• Brian Crecente
  
• Flight of the Conchords

I have to say, I am very curious to what Lynch does. And Flight of the Conchords.

(via Kotaku)

It's not easy being green or Trent Reznor.

NSFW if you are a Muppet.

Apoohcalypse Now

Evil Dead the Musical

I've been wanting to see this show since I first heard about it a few years ago. So I am super super little boy excited that I am going on Jan 6th. Yay! Thank you, ttractor. But she has never seen the movie so here I present some clips, so she can get a taste.

Warning! Graphic horror and gore. And a chistled chin.

Halo 3: Instant Karma

John Lennon died 26 years ago today. And while some will whince at the mash-up of one of his songs and a violent video game, it does work amazingly well. One of my interweb friends made this using the Halo 3 tv ad that was broadcast this last Monday.

Something Wicked This Way Comes...

C.O.B.R.A. presents the 2007 Idiotarod

As it is late in the evening, I won't go into this in much detail right now. Just that the Idiotarod... the greatest sporting event to grace this planet... is coming in just two months. TWO MONTHS! January 27. Mark it on your calendar. Mark it well. Start "obtaining" those carts. Start building that team. Get ready.

Go to the site. Talk on the forums. Sign my butt. Teach me to read. (A cookie to the first person you names that movie.)

Because this is the Idiotarod C.O.B.R.A. style. The world will never be the same again.

(I apologize for all of the labels... The Idiotarod crosses so many boundaries.)

The Happiest Google Maps Mash Up Ever!

Not really. Here is HEALTHmap, where you can track the latest outbreaks of about 50 diseases. Everything from E. coli (USA for the win with 57) to Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever (Angola, it's all you, baby). It draws for a few sources. Some are reports by medical experts that are more accurate and cover in more detail but take a long time to report. But it also draws from Google News which is very quick, but will have inaccurate reporting and not cover certain things (like I doubt Canada and Ethiopia are the only places that have had Diarrhea in the last 30 day... and only 6 cases between them).

But, hey, it is a handy tool to plan your nest trip. Or send the link to your hypochondriac aunt. I had to look up Chikungunya. Now I feel sick.

(via Wired)

Brokeback

Yes, I know these are getting old quick.
Pointbreak Mountain

Brokeback Redemption

Brokeback Heat

I enjoy these mashups for showing the power of editing and music. And for teaching us that context is everything.

But, also, in a larger view, I find it interesting how the Brokeback Remix Trailer trend is making us re-look at male/male relationships in films, and perhaps in a culture as a whole. On one level these trailers are "humorous," but in there own way they are also touching and sweet.