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From the Waxy.org: Daily Log: The Eminem Rag: Marshall’s Been Snookered . This works on many levels, particularly the ironic .

Boing Boing is covering an “ Incredible Beatles mashup (that) mixes 40 different tracks .” Vader sez, “Impressive.” (via del.icio.us’ mashup tag )

This MeFi post is itself less about the “ Best Mashups ,” and more about the recommended sites in the followup comments. Thanks, The Other Michæl !

First screenshots of Katamari Damacy 2 , for those who’re interested. (via waxy )

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For anyone interested in the plasticization of cadavers (a la the previous big ass plastic squid entry), Justin has some images up on his flickr .

A video game store shopper apparently didn't have enough Christmas spirit and ended up in jail after a road rage incident. The man, charged with aggravated menacing, is accused of waiting along Ohio 32 for a shopper coming from Eastgate Mall and trying to run her SUV off the road, the Ohio Highway Patrol said. The Cincinnati Post

If you really need to get your repurposed-nostalgia-geek on , Nullsleep ’s Depeche Mode GameBoy Megamix is without flaw.

Well, the likelihood of me ever participating in a MMORPG just dropped down to the baseline zer0 again: GURPS Online has been canceled . So much for a MUD like world with collaborative storytelling in the GURPS Transhuman Space setting.

What is it about the Japanese penchant for artifice in creating synthetic comfort items? First there was the ude-makura (boyfriend’s arm pillow), only to be followed by the hiza-makura (girlfriend’s lap pillow) (via tokyopia ) . It’s even sitting in seiza position. The smart money would go toward putting this form-factor in a casemod , and maybe figuring out how to include the boob-mousepad in there. It's hard to believe, but at least these seem innocently less creepy than some of the alternatives .

In the interest of increasing western baffled-ness over Japanese marketing and advertising, Geek on Stun offers these Japanese women in go-go boots and alligator masks , ostensibly promoting the eating of snakes . (via kotaku )

Gabe and Tycho get a write up in The New York Times: A Comic Strip Takes Video Games Seriously (Almost) ; which may explain why their site is sloggingly slow today. It is largely favorable, though in the category of “community building” the piece mentions their self-promotional PAX , but fails to mention their continuing Child’s Play Charity drive which provides toys to children’s hospitals across the USA.

It looks like Project: Snowblind is now slated to arrive February 23, 2005 . I've got a mess of friends working on this game, and wish them the best of luck in this final run-up to completion! Go, guys!

Weird. Froogle hasn’t even been on my radar, but now Blogger users can stick their Wish Lists in their Profile. Well, here’s mine , in case anyone wants to buy me a new iBook. (via shellen dot com )

Featuring the hottest ambiguous imagery to grace a Namco ad in years, I give you the homepage for Katamari Damacy 2 .

Look carefully at this category: Amazon.com: Computer & Video Games / Systems / PlayStation2 / Action / Horror Heh. (thanks, JP!)

This Something Awful theme was “ photoshop life ”

Joystiq shows screenshots of DOOM 3 running on a Voodoo 2 card. It looks a bit like the original Quake, and you can actually see what the hell you're shooting at.

How to apologize thoroughly in Japanese ( .wmv ) (via tokyopia )

Boingboing is covering Retro game store(s) in Osaka . Chuji has visited these with me, and can attest to their wallet-hostile glory.

The Gigantor movie offers up a new trailer . It is going to be cheese, but nostalgic cheese; like Velveeta™. (via anime tribe )

I’m hoping against hope that Batman Begins will be the first non-f’d up bats movie since 1992’s Batman Returns . There is a new trailer online ( various formats ) as well as the posters for the US and international releases. Bat-fingers are crossed.

Christian Right Lobbies To Overturn Second Law Of Thermodynamics TOPEKA, KS--The second law of thermodynamics, a fundamental scientific principle stating that entropy increases over time as organized forms decay into greater states of randomness, has come under fire from conservative Christian groups, who are demanding that the law be repealed. A somewhat related article , and further comments by Dr. Joshua Ellis (yeah, the same guy whose mp3ria songs I like so much). (via jwz )

Von Hagens invented plastination while at the University of Heidelberg in the 1970s . The process involves replacing water and fat in the corpse with a polymer, and it has allowed him to exhibit dissected human bodies in life-like poses. But a giant squid, with its lack of a rigid internal skeleton for support, and relatively poorly understood circulatory system, poses some novel challenges. To research the project, von Hagens visited O’Shea in October to study some much smaller species such as arrow squid. “We dissected a number of ‘sacrificial’ squid,” says O’Shea. This week, O’Shea sent a mature female giant squid, measuring about 10 metres including tentacles, and a mature male, just under 7 metres, to Heidelberg . (via boingboing )

Missouri Prisons Pull Violent Video Games Missouri's most violent criminals will no longer be permitted to play violent video games that simulate the kind of offenses that resulted in their incarceration in the first place. Prison officials pulled the games, which included such killfests as Hitman: Contracts, once they were informed of their violent content. Science fiction and sports games were not pulled as part of the sweep, so more nerdy prisoners will not be affected by the changes. WTF? Prisoners get to play videogames? Prison is probably not a fun place to be, but what the hell is it that they get to play videogames? Additionally, how can anyone have thought crime-based games can be a good idea to give to someone who has already shown a proclivity for them? I think the real question is why they had them in the first place? Yes, I understand the argument that it's easier to keep them in line if they're docile, but c'mon... I can't tell you how many times I...

Following up on my earlier post about taking the recent FPS games head-to-head, here is a guy who has really taken the task to heart in this review: Doom 3 vs. FarCry vs. Half-Life 2 vs. Halo 2 .

Watching the trailer for House of Flying Daggers has made various bits of me stand on end. Good grief, I hope it's half as good as the preview, which would make it leave it at a modest “amazing.” The Japanese release, titled Lovers -- in English -- for some reason, of the movie was a few months back, and the DVD is now available. So -- if there's any English in it, I'll pick it up; I'm still not at the point where reading kanji subtitles is a feasible way to enjoy a movie. Darkness looks legitimately scary, but then, 13 Ghosts looked pretty interesting from the trailer alone.

Based on these killer pics , I have determined that I must see GWAR before shuffling off this mortal coil. Speaking of giant penises, here's how you do it properly: photos of last night's GWAR show are up now. Those guys are just so totally awesome. It's like they get up on stage and hose you down with awesomeness. An arterial flow of sticky red awesomeness. -- DNA Sequencing

David Byrne’s blog reads like the voiceover from True Stories: November 28 The Military Industrial Complex Lockheed is the nation's largest military contractor. Lockheed writes more code than Microsoft. Their CEO says they stand ‘at the intersection of policy and technology.’ To others that means you can't tell where the government ends and Lockheed starts. One watchdog says about government checks and balances on big contractors ‘The fox isn't guarding the henhouse, he lives there.’ If Wal Mart were a nation it would be ranked 19 th biggest economically. It is the biggest company in the United States.

GameSpot is covering the release of Half-Life 2: Deathmatch via Valve’s Steam service. Many people were a bit disappointed that HL2 released with only CounterStrike: Source as a multiplayer component, complaining that they really want to use the gravity gun in a multiplayer game. Well, now they can, and it apparently allows players to throw everything, including the kitchen sink, at their opponents. Oh, I guess it's just a toilet . [Can anyone who's played the game confirm that that's an undoctored screenshot? The bounce-light halo around the leftmost character, as well as the antialiasing (which could just be re-size manipulation of the shot) make me thing this is a press-release dealy.]