Best Auto Tune The News Yet June 30, 2009
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I think they really hit their stride in this one. I’m looking forward to the 2012 elections simply to see what these guys come up with.
Adorable Scribblenauts-esque Video Game Characters June 29, 2009
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Yes, I know, that’s a very clunky title, but you probably got the gist of it, didn’t you? Some of those oh so creative Neogaffers Neogaffons Neogriffins have turned some recent, iconic video game characters into huggable little Scribblenauts characters. Unfortunately, these aren’t yet confirmed to be in the game since proper nouns are one of the few no-gos in the games extensive dictionary, but when words like stanchion and lutefish make it in their, I’m hopeful that this could be the only game I need this fall.
(Via Offworld)
Capybara As A Pet: I Want One June 28, 2009
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Their something about the pompous face of capybaras that is so full of human looking nobility and snobbishness. A strange look for the worlds largest rodent. I always knew they were indigenous to the Amazonian basin, but I never really thought about have them as a pet up here in the states. Reading this interview, I’m convinced it would be an awesome pet.
Intelligent and loyal, cute and unique. And the sounds they make sound very entertaining:
His voice is often mistaken for a birdsong. When he’s nervous he sounds like the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. When he’s happy he sounds like a Geiger counter.
And somehow, they still manage to look pompous sitting in a wading pool while surrounded by hola-hoops.
Cool Science, In Kansas Nonetheless! Worlds Oldest, Living, Microbe June 27, 2009
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The city of Hutchinson, KS sits sixty five stories above a massive series of salt mine tunnels that stretch as far as New Mexico. But that’s not the cool part of this story. A couple of scientists found a microbe inside a 250 million year old pocket of salt water containing some positively ancient microbes. This wouldn’t be that strange an occurrence except for one tiny detail: the microbe was still alive.
Well, sort of alive, in the sense that the microbes had regressed into a sort of perma-hibernation that bacteria use when no nutrients are available. Of course, surviving hundreds of millions of years in this state is unheard of. The scientists simply put the bacteria in a fresh nutrient solution and voila, 250 million year old bacteria that are alive and kickin’.
(Via Boing Boing)
More TF2: Engineer Sings Madworld June 26, 2009
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I guess I’m on a sort of Team Fortress 2 kick lately. Here’s an incomplete video of an engy singing the infamous song most gamers associate with a Gears of War ad, but which really came into popularity from being in Donnie Darko. The animation possible with these game characters is pretty astounding when you consider that a modder was able to do something like this.
Team Fortress 2 “Dominations” June 25, 2009
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Thanks to Scott for posting this in the comments. In the game Team Fortress 2, each character has a series of taunts made specifically for when they kill any of the other 9 characters in the game. This being a Valve game, they are all pretty much hilarious and fantastically voice acted.
