Triumph, The Insult Comic Dog, at Comic-Con 2008

I'm a geek through and through. I'm all about nerd stuff and if I had the money I too would be there at Comic Con amongst Triumph's victims. But for some reason I still love listening to him make fun of my people. Perhaps it's a form of masicism or I'm amongst the few people who have the ability to laugh at themselves. I'll let you decide which... or add a new more interesting option. I like surprises!!

Anyways, here's the video footage of Triumph at Comic Con 2008 making fun of geeks and freaks. Enjoy

Video Games and Sex

Stumbled across this brilliant video over at Kotaku.com. It's a animated lecture addressing video games and sex. It does a great job of really pointing out the issues behind both subjects and how it is so difficult to find a balance for the two together.

Trust me, it's a little long (8 minutes) but it's still shorter then an actual lecture and this one is far more entertaining.

The New Orgen Trail

Remember the best part of the week in Elementary School? Computer Day!!! We would all rush in and run for the 5 or 6 Oregon Trail floppy disks well everyone else was forced to play Math Munchers instead. Awww, the lost joys of youth.

Well, Thule has decided to bring back the same fun of Oregon Trail but with a modern twist. How about a road trip? All you have to do is go to this link and enjoy a browser-based game. I was only able to survive 2 days the first time... can you complete the trip?

Via [Kotaku]

90s Cartoon Openings

Someone made a great collection of the opening sequences for 90s cartoons. Brohans was nice enough to provide a list of the shows and the times of the intros (so you can skip the annoying ones).

1. Tiny Toons - 0:00
2. Animaniacs - 1:00
3. Pinky And The Brain - 2:14
4. Freakazoid - 3:16
5. The Pirates Of Dark Water - 4:17
6. Tailspin - 5:17
7. Darkwing Duck - 6:17
8. Goof Troop - 7:17
9. Bonkers - 8:18
10. Aladdin - 9:18
11. The Critic - 10:19
12. Sam And Max - 11:36
13. The Maxx - 12:07
14. Mighty Max - 13:07
15. Pokemon - 14:06
16. Batman: The Animated Series - 15:07
17. Superman: The Animated Series - 16:08
18. Batman Beyond - 17:13
19. Samurai Pizza Cats - 18:11
20. Sherlock Holmes In The 22nd Century - 19:41
21. Futurama - 20:42
22. Gargoyles - 21:10
23. The Adventures Of Super Mario Bros. 3 - 22:11
24. Captain N And The New Super Mario World - 22:41
25. Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog - 23:19
26. Sonic The Hedgehog (Yup. A different one.) - 24:18
27. Sonic Underground (And another one.) - 25:22
28. The Tick - 26:30
29. Back To The Future - 27:23
30. Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventures - 28:20
31. Dragon Warrior - 29:22



This is a pretty good collection.... but not a complete one. So I decided to provide intros to some other 90s cartoon shows that I liked.

Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers


Captain Planet


Spider-Man


Dexter's Laboratory


Doug

12 Hottest Nerd Crushes

Maxim Online has a list of the 12 hottest nerd crushes and since I've been gone for awhile... I decided to go ahead and bring you the entire article. So if Maxim finds out and gets angry... it's your fault.

Enjoy.


12. Liv Tyler (Arwen Undómiel), The Lord of the Rings
Granted, she wasn't the purtiest gal in the LOTR trilogy—that would be Orlando Bloom—but her pert-lipped princess upped a whole new generation of fantasy fetishists' expectations for elvish tail.


11. Milla Jovovich (Leeloo Minai Lekarariba-Laminai-Tchai Ekbat De Sebat—seriously, that's her full name), The Fifth Element
The primordial shrieks, the speaking in tongues, the acrobatic dives from tall building and speeding car alike… In short, nerds dig Leeloo because she reminds them of their moms.


10. Natasha Henstridge (the naked, occasionally very angry alien chick), Species
Of course, when she impaled some random dude with her tongue during a make-out session, she added a layer of dread to an exercise that already set hearts a-palpitatin' among the nerdlinger set.


9. Jennifer Garner (Sydney Bristow), Alias
The show's mythology lost us after a few seasons—wasn't it eventually revealed that Sydney was her own mother or something?—but the costumes never did. Note to future starlets: Well-tailored schoolgirl and dominatrix getups can do an awful lot to conceal your profound inability to emote.


8. Æon Flux, Æon Flux
She kills. She does somersaults. She catches flies with her eyelashes (just like Phyllis Diller!). The animé-ted Ms. Flux doesn't communicate all that well, preferring a series of grunts, sighs and giggles (again, Phyllis Diller). That said, as far as mute, assassinatin', backflippin' cartoon characters go, Æon totally kicks Smurfette to the curb.


7. Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine), Star Trek: Voyager
The Trek has come a long way from Scottie's paunch and brogue, hasn't it? If Mr. Blackwell were commenting on Seven's nothing-to-the-imagination jumpsuits, he'd say something like, "Set your phasers to STUNNING!" Then he'd inch closer to death's sweet embrace, hating himself just a little bit more.


6. Famke Janssen (Dr. Jean Grey/Phoenix), X-Men
There's something about a smart-gal-gone-bad (more like telepathically superbad, actually) that never fails to whirr a fan boy's propeller. Separately, how come X-Men Nation never entirely warmed to Halle Berry's Storm? She's got glowing eyes and she can make it hail. Like a man needs anything more in a mate?


5. Lara Croft, Tomb Raider
Not that any of these gals are remotely attainable, but this impossibly dimensioned tart gets bonus points for literally being the figment of some video-game designer's imagination. That most people prefer the pixelated Lara to the one embodied by Angelina Jolie in the two Croft movies says an awful lot, none of it good, about us as a society.


4. Grace Park (Lt. Sharon "Athena" Agathon/Lt. Sharon "Boomer" Valerii), Battlestar Galactica
She gets the nod over cast mate Tricia Helfer's Number 6 for a single reason: Helfer, who plays a cylon frostier than a mug o' root beer on the show, recently dropped her space drawers for Playboy (photos available at alt.battlestar.nerdbooty). Park, on the other hand, remains as mysterious to this audience as the outdoors.


3. Carrie-Anne Moss (Trinity), The Matrix
Whether her form-fitting suit was leather, pleather, or vinyl, she cut quite the figure in it, especially when bounding off walls and displaying the best high kick this side of Radio City Music Hall (hoy-o!). Too bad the producers saddled her with actual human emotions in the two sequels.


2. Gillian Anderson (Dana Scully), The X Files
Remember the episode, set in Las Vegas, when Scully, like, totally transformed into the anti-Scully and started hitting on the Lone Nerdm…er, Gunmen? That was cray-zee! Scully would no sooner swim in that pool than wear a miniskirt.


1. Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia), Star Wars: Episode VI—Return of the Jedi
The nerd-universe equivalent of Phoebe Cates doffing her top in Fast Times at Ridgemont High.







NOTE:The opinions stated in this article are not my own... because I would have put Seven of Nine higher up on my list, removed Aeon Flux, and added Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troi).

The Simpsons....ANIME STYLE!! - UPDATE

In a previous post I introduced you to a creative artist that redrew the Simpsons in a unique anime style. Well, good news has just gone her way.

20th Century Fox and Bongo Comics saw her artwork and asked her to do a Simpsons comics. She gives more details on her Live Journal:

-The Bongo comics thing is happening for sure. This is not a "manga series," but a short one-shot story done in manga style.
-I might do art for Futurama. Might. Nothing's been decided yet. Still in talks about that.
-I wasn't "hired by Matt Groening." The guys who noticed my pictures were employees of companies that work with Groening. Groening himself didn't see my picture until much after this whole overnight recognition thing happened.
-I'm not an employee of Bongo or Fox. I still need to do commissions to pay for my bills, but with any hope, I can finally get a professional art job. Speaking of which, commissions will reopen in February.

Glad to see a talented artist get credit for her skills. And people think the only thing you can find on the internet is porn and itunes. IN YOUR FACE PEOPLE WHO SUCK!!! (I know.. very mature, but I'm allowed to be childish sometimes :-P )
Via [TV Squad]

37 Fads That Swept The Nation

Mental Floss Magazine made a list of 37 fads that swept the nation at one point or another. I have to say it's a pretty funny list and it does a great job of reminding me of some of the stupid things we as a people have fallen in love with and dumped a short time later.

Highlights from the list:

Ant Farms
Who knew infestation could be this much fun? Inspired by the events at an outdoor barbecue, "Uncle Milton" Levine modified a clear plastic tissue box into a prototype for the ant farm. And what a prototype it was! Between 1956 and 1966, he sold some 12 million of them (ants originally not included), thanks in part to creative product placement. Levine gave away fancy, mahogany ant farms to Dick Clark and other TV personalities who kept the trinkets on their on-screen desks and, thus, in the public eye.

Fallout Shelters
The Bad News: It’s 1962. Your country is locked in a nuclear stalemate with the forces of communism, the CIA is recovering from a botched Cuban invasion, and President Kennedy is urging you to prepare for a possible nuclear attack.

The Good News: For as little as $100, you can buy your family a fallout shelter [wiki] stocked with enough food and supplies for two weeks of glorious, radiation-free living. Or you can keep up (and alive) with the Joneses and splurge on a $5,000 model complete with stylish interior design and claustrophobia-relieving faux windows. And don’t worry; if the Cold War ever starts to thaw, you can always convert that backyard eyesore into a playroom the kids will love!

The Even Better News (If You’re Swiss): In the 1960s, the ever-prepared Swiss government built an extensive network of fallout shelters with enough space and supplies to protect the nation’s entire population for two years. But, really, would you expect anything less from the makers of the world’s coolest Army knives?

Ouija Boards
Believe it or not, when Parker Brothers acquired the rights to the Ouija board [wiki] and released its first version back in 1967, the games’ early sales trounced the company’s traditional bestseller, Monopoly®. The moral of the story? When given a choice, people will choose the undead over capitalism.

Rubik’s Cube
Average Cost of a Rubik’s Cube Circa 1980: $6 to $10

Number of Cubes Sold in 1980: approximately 4.5 million

Number of Possible Color Combinations: 43.2 quintillion

Possibility That the Rubik’s Cube Could Actually Drive a Person Crazy: pretty darn. good. (Oh, and priceless.) When Hungarian architecture professor Ernö Rubik [wiki] introduced his "magic cube" to America in 1980, some people feared the popular puzzler would seriously drive fans mad. And legitimately so. Way back in 1874, a game called the "Fifteens Puzzle" was blamed for inducing insanity in roughly 1,500 people. And while Rubik’s Cube [wiki] addiction was apparently responsible for the break-up of at least one marriage, Man triumphed over Toy in this particular case. In fact, by 1983, the puzzler was considered so harmless, it got its own Sunday-morning cartoon, "Rubik, the Amazing Cube."

Troll Dolls
Proving that everybody’s a sucker for good double entendre, Danish woodcutter Thomas Dam made a mint off his so-ugly-they’re-cute troll dolls [wiki] by marketing them as "Dam Things." In fact, the creatures were the second-most popular doll of the 1960s, right behind Barbie.

You can read the whole list at Neatorama.

The Simpson... ANIME STYLE!!!

A person calling herself "Spacecoyote" over at Deviant Art has made an amazing drawing. She took a photo of The Simpsons characters and turned into an anime style drawing. Brilliant.

Here is the orginal picture:


And her drawing here:


She did an amazing job and I hope she get recognized for her skills. Wow. Oh, and as an added bonus. She also created an anime style Futurama drawing that you can enjoy here.

Newsie News 11/9

Bob Barker is Leaving the Price is Right
If you don't know who Bob Barker is, if you aren't sad to see him go, if you don't even know what Price is Right is...then your either someone who lives under a rock or a terrorist. Actually, those are the same thing. So then you're a terrorist...place call the police and report yourself.

Three Girls Get in Trouble at School For Dressing up as "Captain Underpants"
Three highshool girls dressed up in just boys underwear and that is wrong how? I know a lot of teen boys that would love to see that... okay, I know EVERY TEEN boy would love to see that and most old men pay to see that.

Judge lets Asian man go because "All Chinese can look the same"
Yup. Some Scottish judge let a guy off because he was Asian and could have been mistaken for any asian person. I wonder if that goes for for black people. After all, at night they all look the same to me.

Sexsomniacs-People Who Have Sex well They Sleep
Once frat boys learn of this, they will have a new excuse for rape. "No officer, it was consensual. She is a sexomniac... she loves to have sex well passed out."