Come across these pics sometime ago, just stumbled on the video…
Absolutely amazing… is there anything possibly cooler then a set of Nike kicks combined with Optimus & Megatron? They’ve been produced via a collaboration of Tomy & Nike Japan.
The set comes in two options – Optimus in the classic Red/White and Megatron in a Black/Silver combo. As an added touch if you look closely you’ll see both bots are wearing the same sneakers they transformed from… nice.
Ever wanted to go on a tour of the world that the Marvel superheroes fly around in? Thanks to Flickr member ChildOfAtom, that’s easier than ever. He’s gone to four of the real world addresses of some of the most famous addresses of the Marvel Universe and taken photos of what’s actually there, and posted those photos online along with comparisons to their cartoon counterparts. Want to see what we have instead of the Baxter Building or Daily Bugle offices? Check em out…
Here’s the real life Baxter Building, next to its comic equivalent:
And what can be found at the address of the Daily Bugle?:
Instead of the Avengers Mansion, the real world has this:
And, finally and most depressingly, this is what we get instead of Doctor Strange’s Sanctorum:
And for an added bonus to all the fanboys out there here’s a copy of Wizards “A Guide To Marvels Manhattan” Direct from ‘Wizard’ #199, a handy map that shows exactly where Marvel heroes hang out regularly in the Big Apple!
1. Oral sex is illegal in 18 states, including Arizona.
2. In Virginia, it is illegal to have sex with the lights on.
3. It is illegal for husbands in Willowdale, Oregon, to talk dirty during intercourse.
4. Sexual intercourse between unmarried couples is illegal in Georgia.
5. Engaging in any sexual position other than missionary is illegal in Washington, DC.
6. In Connorsville, Wisconsin, it is illegal for a man to shoot off a gun when his female partner is having an orgasm.
7. In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, it is illegal to have sex with a truck driver inside a toll booth.
8. Having sexual relations with a porcupine is illegal in Florida.
9. It is illegal in Utah to marry your first cousin before the age of 65.
10. Sex with animals is perfectly legal for men in Washington state, as long as the animal weighs less than 40 pounds.
[VIA ECOLLEGETIMES]
OK, heres a few comparisons of how many words are on each subject over on wikipedia… unbileavable but true!
In the future, when Captain Kirk is battling tribbles and Data is learning how to love, this lopsided comparison will make complete sense. Why wouldn’t the entries for the glorious Starship Enterprise dwarf that for a dusty museum piece like the automobile? We expect the pages for hoverboards, robot maids, personal time machines and giant laser death rays to do the same.
For the present, though, why does a make-believe space ship deserve more words than the planet’s principal mode of transportation? Also, why does that make-believe space ship deserve no less than nine separate pages, including unique entries for six different models of the NCC-1701? Seriously?!
We won’t get jealous and play the competition card here. EGM is important, a veritable titan of the industry with a massive and devoted following. Many of us here at GamesRadar include ourselves in that camp.
But come on… do the latest screenshots of Chun-Li’s thighs really carry more weight than the 2008 election? Do you really need to know the review score for Turok more than you need to know the reasons for the recession? Is the dropping price of the PS3 more critical than the rising price of gasoline?
Yes, Electronic Gaming Monthly – and any videogame publication – is totally worthy of 4,429 words. We just wish that Time and other vital news sources received the same attention.
We love, love, love the soundtracks to Final Fantasy… but someone put way, way, way too much effort into this Wikipedia page. The intro alone is nearly 700 words, lengthier than the entries for many singers, bands and genres. Rock and roll, the biggest genre of them all, doesn’t stand a chance.
Of course, the vastness of the web was made to hold such exceedingly niche minutiae, but even the fan who owns all of these compilation albums probably agrees that they could have fit onto the page for general Final Fantasy music. Unless that fan is the one who wrote this obsessive love letter to begin with…
Heed our warning – Wikipedia is only the beginning. Soon, textbooks will have entire chapters devoted to fairies and fishmen. Language students will learn Goron instead of Greek. History class will forgo the Romans for the Rito, while anthropology discards the Spanish and Swedish for the Subrosians and Skull Kids.
Nonsense, you say? Tell that to the 730 million residents of Europe, whose deep and diverse ethnic backgrounds just got pwned by a bunch of elves, gnomes, talking twigs, golden frogs and mutant chickens. Oh yeah, and Tingle.
[VIA GAMESRADAR]
This is an iPhone time line the folks over at iPhonegold have put together. It starts in 1999 with the first sign of Apple preparing an iPhone and ending with the release of iPhone 3G.
” Watch yourself, Frank, we’re dealing with professionals…. They’ve got a car! “
Visitors to this summer’s Olympics in Beijing may see a familiar American gadget on the go, according to a report from the Xinhua News Agency, the official press agency of China.
China’s military demonstrated on Tuesday their skills at balancing and shooting while on Segways during a series of drills of anti-terrorist units in Jinan, Shandong Province, according to Xinhua.
The Segway was demonstrated as a useful tool since it allows soldiers, once they are trained in balancing and maneuvering the machine, to keep both hands on their weapon while still accelerating and turning the device with their body movements. In skilled hands, a Segway could be kept still enough to offer a stable position from which to shoot.
While visually amusing, the use is not entirely surprising as Segway proudly touts its Robotic Mobility Platform (RMP) on its Web site and lists all four branches of the U.S. military as clients.
[VIA CNET]
