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Is Beck retro-game cool ? Hell yes ( .asx ). Update: This track is now available singly, as well as part of an EP at iTunes Music store . Update: Beck's Hell Yes EP ( iTMS ) is the #1 album at the iTunes Music Store this week. That's pretty cool.

Even though I’ve yet to play the game, several readers are enamored of Katamari Damacy . I just think it’s got a load of style, so I’m happy to forward this link to the downloads page , which has the usual wallpapers and screensavers, as well as a cut-out make-yer-own-nose to become The King of All Cosmos. Yes! (via kotaku ) Update: More papercraft !

Messing about with TouchGraph GoogleBrowser , I found Diary of a Crazed Mimbanite . This strip feels like what would happen if a bunch of your friends got together to play a Star Wars RPG, and reminds me of when the Star Wars universe was a fun place.

Fans of ICO will want to check the new footage ( .wmv ) from it’s follow-up, Wanda and the Colossus. (via tokyopia forum )

Nina Gordon covers N.W.A.’s Straight Outta Compton ( .mp3 ) with all the charm of an angel, and all the irony of a Fallen One. Check out the other songs on her site, if you’d like to hear Phil Collins’ One More Night redeemed. (via waxy )

From the Urban Dictionary: “ Owned .” (check the pictures as well. much excellent pwnage)

Very cool car advertisement ( .mov ) — no, it’s not that horrid suicide-bomber one. (via deathboy )

Here’s a mind-lazer-guided bomb for you: Justine Shaw ( Nowhere Girl ) and Patrick Farley ( Apocamon ) have started work on a joint webcomic, Mother of All Bombs . A prologue is available. I think they launched it on Inauguration Day. I’m looking forward to further entries in the series. It has a dark sensibility that makes sense in an age when even the conservatives are disassociating themselves from the neocons . (thanks to professor mass for the article)

Pork Factor 9 : Twisted Mego Theater meets the Muppets' Pigs in Space . (sorta via sinister bedfellows )

Simple yet suspenseful: De-Animator (via zombie entertainment tribe )

Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman’s Mirrormask now has a full site and trailer available. It is worth noting that Jim Henson's Creature Factory is also involved with this production. The follow up to Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride is also out. It looks very stylistically similar to Nightmare Before Christmas.

Some absolutely faboo, and non-rap/hip-hop based mashups, at Go Home Productions .

“What if we use a catapult?” (animated .gif ) “FATOOOMCH!” (animated .gif ) (thanks, slinka )

Anyone know where I can get The Ghost Ship by Robyn Hitchcock? iTMS doesn't have it...

Some great new shots of Batman Begins are up at Gotham Globe . (via Superhero Hype )

A telling statement about the man, the myth, David Hasseloff, all in an animated GIF ( .gif ) (via warrenellis )

Along the lines of Zlad! ( Elektronik, Supersonik ) comes Günther’s Ding Dong Song . Go to the Video section, but don’t forget to check out the About section, and score yerself a champagne-tastic, glamorous wallpaper while you’re there. (thanks, Hedr ) Update: Nokia owners can get it as a ringtone ( .mp3 ) [popup warning]. Actually, Günthernet has a bit on ringtones, but I can’t read the crazy moon language on that section... I think they’re charging in “kr” which is either “krona” or “Klingon Regnum.” Your pick. Update: Yeah. I bought it. I'm a nerd. So what?

Justine let me know about these killer pictures from the Huygens probe on Titan at the ESA Portal.

Sony PlayStation Portable being destroyed by Japanese hooligans. Presumably it no longer works, and for some reason the warranty was voided. (16MB .mpg ) (via kotaku )

Rockstar Classics is now offering GTA 2 as a free download . They are still offering GTA and Wild Metal , an enjoyable game which I nabbed for US$10 from the EB bargain bin back in the early days of 3D gaming, when Voodoo was still king of the heap. It is a cross between old-school Battlezone and a cute physics toy.

I’m going to lose cool points for this, but I want a Utilikilt . My friend Rick was wearing one at a party last summer, and after the initial shock wore off, it looked really practical and comfortable. You can see Rick in this mock-umercial ( .mov ).

The Council of Elrond ( animated .gif ) (thanks, kristen )

This keychain disk integrated with a Swiss Army knife is very cool, even updating the features for geeks, eschewing the toothpick in favor of an LED light, and a ballpoint pen in lieu of a corkscrew. However, in the post-9/11 world, it is harder to get one’s knife after a flight than it is to wait for check-in baggage. I note that the drive is detachable, but I'd rather keep it all in one piece, and keep it all on my person, at all times. Isn’t that the point?

Pro ( .gif ) Con ( .gif ) or is that vice-versa? (via jwz and Señor O’Shea)

“Random is the new order.” “Enjoy uncertainty.” “Life is random.” Even though I’m not feeling the love for the marketing slogans, the iPod shuffle (What’s with all the lowercase, Apple?) looks like one of the killer connectivity items I’ve wanted. The lack of a screen may be off-putting, but you can arrange your playlists flawlessly in iTunes, then synchronize, letting you use the more convenient device for such machinations. If you’re really interested in the iPod shuffle, but already have a full-featured iPod, there is an easy way to do the conversion/downgrade . (via deathboy )

Maintaining my maccentric posting binge, Bungie has allowed the Marathon trilogy and all its tools to be released to the public. Currently this is only the Mac versions, though apparently there are plans for the Windows versions as well. You can also get the more recent updates , such as OpenGL support through the same site. I remember playing the first two games on a Mac 6100/66 and getting the bejeezus scared out of me by a game for the first time ever. Well, excepting the first time I was ever eaten by a grue. (via slashdot games )

Holy crap: Apple - Mac mini . I may get two, because they're cheap.

The Sam Raimi-produced Boogeyman ( .mov ) looks scary. Lucy Lawless is all-but-unrecognizable from her Xena days; that’s scary too. I miss Xena. (via comingsoon )

Superhero Hype is reporting the Blockbuster Exclusive Aliens-vs-Predator DVD boxed set with two collectible busts . I thought the movie was supposed to be enough of a bust to avoid this kind of treatment. As one of the three people that actually liked the first Biohazard / Resident Evil movie, I hope that the director, Paul W. S. Anderson, has been able to release a non-PG-13 version of the movie, and that it will redeem the movie. Update: Apparently my hopes are unfounded. Between this comment on the US DVD release , and the co-worker who saw the Japanese theatrical version, it is simply teh suck.

Kneel before ZOD , the rightful ruler of Houston! (via takoyaki.org )

George W. Bush: Elite Force Aviator or G.I. Joke ? (via 90% crud )

MAXIM ONLINE: Pure Punishment What’s the best kind of editor to work with? ENNIS: The ones who aren’t company men. The smart ones have a sort of attitude where they say this place has its good points and bad points, and if you come with me, I’ll keep the idiots off your back. Then there are people who get idealistic and romantic about this stuff, but at the end of the day, they’re using these characters to sell donuts and coffee and burgers and other such shit. So when they’re talking about protecting modern American icons, you do have to look askance at that. I went into Dunkin Donuts to get my 710-milliliter-more-than-a-fucking-pint of coffee — whoever came up with that is a fucking genius — and I saw a life-size cutout of Hugh Jackman and Halle Berry shilling something called Wolverine’s Redberry Rampage . And I think, There’s my modern American icons being treated with the respect they deserve. [laughs]

Spanish game site gamerah.com has scans of Wired's interview with ex-Nintendo head Hiroshi Yamauchi. Update: Kotaku says it’s a fake .

Beginning this Tuesday, January 28, 2003, I will offer an “On War” commentary each week until the Iraq business is over and done. I suspect that may be awhile. Who am I? At present, I am a center director at the Free Congress Foundation. But in 1976 I began the debate over maneuver warfare that became a central part of the military reform movement of the 1970’s and 1980’s. The U.S. Marine Corps finally adopted maneuver warfare as doctrine in the late ’80’s (I wrote most of their new tactics manual). In 1989, I began the debate over Fourth Generation warfare—war waged by non-state entities—which is what paid us a visit on September 11, 2001. The article I co-authored then for the Marine Corps Gazette was formally cited last year by al Quaeda, who said, “This is our doctrine.” My Maneuver Warfare Handbook, published in 1985, is now used by military academies all over the world, and I lecture internationally on military strategy, doctri...

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Well, I've been asked about OH! Mikey by several people in mail an in communities, only to be forced to cop to my ignorance of it. I don't know a damned thing about it other than what I've read on the web . Even ballet-pr0n critics Something Awful love it, going so far as to issue a follow-up article on it.