Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Loads of Laughter

Hurrah For The Bull


Hurrah For The Bull - Funny video clips are a click away

YouTube Down

YouTube, the hottest property in the video-sharing space, has been down since last night. Apart from a graphic on the homepage, there’s no word on what the problem might be, but YouTube’s phenomenal growth is surely a factor - it’s amazing that they’re lasted this long without any major outages.

The Most Infamous Movie Man Scream: The Wilhelm Scream

You've heard it dozens of times over the years in movies, video games and TV shows: a guy gets shot, thrown, falls, or gets blown up, and he lets out a scream. You've probably never realized that most of the time it was all the same guy screaming. "The Wilhelm Scream" has had a cult following among Hollywood directors and sound editors since it was first used in the 1950's, becoming something of an inside joke among filmmakers, especially George Lucas and Skywalker Sound, who've used the scream in every Star Wars movie made.

Originally used in the 1951 film Distant Drums when a man crossing a stream is bitten by an alligator and dragged underwater (a perfectly good excuse for a guy to scream), the sound effect got its name from its second use two years later when Pvt. Wilhelm takes an arrow to the thigh in The Charge at Feather River [pictured]. The scream has been attributed to actor and singer Sheb Wooley, most known among people not in The Business for his 1958 song, "Purple People Eater".

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Pirate Bay captures enemy identity

Software pirates have launched an astonishing smash ‘n’ grab raid on the music biz, stealing the domain name of one of its foremost anti-piracy bodies.

The Pirate Bay has now taken up residence at IFPI.com, a domain once owned by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). The Pirate Bay now says the site will promote the International Federation of Pirates Interests.

GTA IV will have 16 multiplayer for PS3 and 360

GTA4Gaming Excellence has managed to get some very interesting information pertaining to GTA IV at the PlayStation Holiday Preview Event held in Toronto recently. While GTA IV wasn't being covered at the event, Rockstar was in attendance to show off Manhunt 2.

Now GTA IV being GTA IV, this meant that the topic eventually came up and many of the usual questions were asked, BUT Rockstar had some notable items to divulge.

Firstly, the developers have been busy testing various plots and have even considered having the entire world unlocked for the player at the start of the game. GTA veterans will know that one of the staples of previous GTA games has been locked areas that can only be accessed by progressing past certain missions or pivotal story elements.

Some fans enjoyed this system, as it gave them incentive to move through the story and continue playing the game, while other fans found the system somewhat limiting and unecessary.

Secondly, and more importantly, Rockstar is aiming for a multiplayer component to compliment the singleplayer, with up to 16 players fighting it out in various multiplayer modes.

Of course, for PC users, this won't be such a ground breaking and new experience because modifications opened the door to multiplayer Grand Theft Auto III soon after its release for PCs. For console users however, the Grand Theft Auto series has been a strictly offline affair, so the possibility of multiplayer is a huge plus and will no doubt make up for the delays in the release of GTA IV.

GTA IV is slated for release in Q1-Q2 2008 on PS3 and Xbox 360.

Saturday, October 13, 2007

Horror novelist suspected of killing, cooking girlfriend


An aspiring horror novelist was arrested after police discovered his girlfriend's torso in his closet, a leg in the refrigerator and bones in a cereal box, Mexico City prosecutor's spokesman said Thursday.

Police suspect he may have been responsible for two other mutilation murders as well.

Thee spokesman said Jose Luis Calva told police he had boiled some of his girlfriend's flesh, but that he hadn't eaten it. So that's alright then.

He said investigators were trying to determine if the chunks of fried meat found in a pan in the apartment were human.

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Thursday, October 11, 2007

Claymation



Thanks to Andras

The Manliest, Most Honest Commercial Ever Made

I don’t know what The X Show is, but I have an inexplicable need to watch it after viewing this ad, which really says what all commercials targeted at men are really saying.

Crysis system requirements

Crytek's first-person shooter Crysis. With the game set to arrive November 13, Crytek today revealed the minimum and recommended system requirements for the game.


Minimum System Requirements:
OS--Windows XP or Windows Vista
Processor--2.8GHz or faster (XP); 3.2GHz or faster* (Vista)
Memory--1GB RAM or 1.5GB RAM (Vista)
Video Card--256MB**
Hard Drive--12GB
Sound Card DirectX 9.0c compatible

Recommended System Requirements:
OS--Windows XP / Vista
Processor--Intel Core 2 DUO @ 2.2GHz
Memory--2GB RAM
GPU--NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS/640 or similar

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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Boy Vs. Girl

He weighs 168 lbs, she weighs 119.