Google will eat your soul

You all remember this funny but creepy little vid by the vacationeers, right?

Well, turns out it’s just the first in a series - The Googling.

For your viewing pleasure, I’ve collated all the videos here:

Part II - Google Moon

Part III - Google My Maps

Part IV - Google SMS

. . . all of which leave me feeling vaguely creeped out, like I’d seen a shadow move across my backyard and didn’t know what it was.

Ah, well. It’s probably nothing. Back to my web surfing . . . [cheery whistle]

Fratello Metallo

Molotov can’t be bothered to post this himself, so it falls to me to invite our readers to check out a pretty cool Capuchin monk.

Rock on, brother. Rock on.

A study in Cardboard

I suspect that we’ve all battled friends, siblings or imaginary dragons with cardboard tubes wielded as fearsome Swords of Legend. Some of us have probably built forts from discarded boxes, and I bet that one or two have purposed cardboard tubes and boxes into crude but amusing robot costumes.

This kid makes all your shit look prety weak:

The fact that many of the weapons articulate is particularly impressive, as is the young man’s faithful recreation of the various firing and reload animations.

Watch this

The world will look up and shout “save us!”  and I’ll whisper, “no.”

This Week In Miscellanea: “Thinking/Unthinking Machines”

THINKING MACHINES: Neill Blomkamp’s 2006 short film “Yellow.” All Halo aside, maybe this guy should direct the live-action version of GitS as well.

Toolbox

UNTHINKING MACHINES: George Bush wants to avoid being perceived as a “lame duck” at the end of his second term. His latest initiative is trying, only somewhat subtly, to start re-classifying birth control as abortion. Seriously. If only Yellow would go kick this guy’s ass.

 

 

THINKING HUMANS: Now that we’ve opened the eBook can of worms, check out Andrew Vachss’ unpublished first novel “A Bomb Built in Hell.” Vachss defined mid-80s “hard-boiled” detective fiction with his renegade PI hero Burke. Now we can all read his first book, whose amoral hit-man story has been considered too extreme to publish for over two decades.

Umbrella of Destruction

Here in London, there’s nothing unusual about people carrying around umbrellas, even if it’s sunny. After all, the weather can change in a second and no one wants to get their bowler hat soaked.

But who knew that all these sensible, brolly-toting bankers could actually be hefting around LETHAL WEAPONS?

Unintentionally hilarious video proof:

Yeah! Yeah, suit dude, WHACK that punching bag! Now do it with the handle! YEAH! This shit is great!

. . . Having said that, of course I want one.

Also, this is seriously nasty, as in “Duuuude! That is nasty cool!”

t-minus 15 minutes until this shows up in a video game or RPG as a bonus weapon.

Awesomesauce, still in UNSC green

 

This is a -10 repost, especially considering the quality of the last three posts by tanith, rusty and trip. Still, I hadn’t watched it in a while, and it’s totally worth it if for no reason other than to see that Brute get his face owned in the last few seconds. I promise I shall now go and properly read the real posts >_<

 

A Study in Emerald

Readers as clever and worldly as those who frequent O514 may already be familiar with Neil Gaiman’s Hugo Award-winning short story, A Study in Emerald. Those who aren’t should consider becoming so. An interesting read!

The Opposite Experience

Clicking and holding down on the left mouse button accelerates the speed of the worm. The objective of the game is to guide the worm to eat other micro-organisms and evolve. Eating cells increases length, however there are two special cells: one increases mouth size temporarily and the other evolves body segments. While many of these micro-organisms are defenceless, there are certain types of multicellular organisms that will attack the worm. To defeat these enemies, the player must guide the worm to eat the glowing cells that make up the bodies of the enemies.

Soooothing...

Now that we’re on the subject of flash games, try playing flOw - a game experience that is the polar opposite of Robokill’s frenetic deathscape. The primary creator is a genuinely interesting guy, the music is soothing, the art is euphoric, and the game itself plays like a dream. Join the (hundreds of) thousands who flOw in their browsers instead of working!

Old-School Pwnage is Back

Ladies and gentlemen of the gaming public, I give you Robokill - current king of the Flash Games.

You are a sophisticated robot killing machine, daringly inserted into the Titan Prime orbital station. Titan Prime is overrun by evil robots.

Kill the evil robots.

All evil robots must die. The screen fills with flashing blaster fire and epileptically intense storm-flashes of evil robots expoding. Best of all, evil robots drop cash when they frag - so you can buy bigger, badder gunz for your robots of destruction. My personal favourite, once I reached level 30, was the mighty heavy laser.

Yes, I paid the $10 to unlock the other two levels. This game is simple and very well designed - it’s the luxury potato chip of flash games. Once you start killing evil robots, you can’t stop. The gameplay is a pleasure - it’s retro blasting action, like 1995 all over again.

Only in 1995, it would have cost $35 and not played in browser . . .