Month: June 2007

CNET News has a nice photo gallery of The greatest arcade games of the ‘80s. It’s definitely not comprehensive, but it’s still pretty fun…

How many games can you identify in this cool videogame montage (a small excerpt is shown above)? The comments in the Fazed thread have most of the answers, including a graphic with most of them overlaid. Most of these are past my (80s) gaming prime… 😉

How many games can you identify in this cool videogame montage (a small excerpt is shown above)? The comments in the Fazed thread have most of the answers, including a graphic with most of them overlaid. Most of these are past my (80s) gaming prime… 😉

Check out the YouTube video 100 Movies, 100 Quotes, 100 Numbers, a “parody of all the ‘100’ list specials that the American Film Institute keeps putting out.” How many can you name? Answers are available here…

By the way, here’s a video montage of the 100 Favorite Movie Quotes according to the AFI…

Check out the YouTube video 100 Movies, 100 Quotes, 100 Numbers, a “parody of all the ‘100’ list specials that the American Film Institute keeps putting out.” How many can you name? Answers are available here…

By the way, here’s a video montage of the 100 Favorite Movie Quotes according to the AFI…

I agree with ForeverGeek that the theme to the Transformers movie (mp3 download here) just blows. Even if the movie doesn’t suck (doubtful at best), this music will make me cringe.

Update: It turns out that the song above is not the official theme; this one is. I’m not sure that it’s any better… :-p

I agree with ForeverGeek that the theme to the Transformers movie (mp3 download here) just blows. Even if the movie doesn’t suck (doubtful at best), this music will make me cringe.

Update: It turns out that the song above is not the official theme; this one is. I’m not sure that it’s any better… :-p

Winners of Webby Awards are only allowed five-word acceptance speeches. The Times Online reports on David Bowie’s witty acceptance:

Bowie, accepting his award, said: “I only get five words?”, then continued: “Shit, that was five. Four more there. That’s three,” before finishing up with: “Two,” and then exiting.

Brilliant.

Winners of Webby Awards are only allowed five-word acceptance speeches. The Times Online reports on David Bowie’s witty acceptance:

Bowie, accepting his award, said: “I only get five words?”, then continued: “Shit, that was five. Four more there. That’s three,” before finishing up with: “Two,” and then exiting.

Brilliant.

How good are you at identifying classic album art? Find out by playing The Big Album Cover-Up. It’s not as easy as you think…