Wow, this video is sooooooo early 90s. But since it’s about the greatest SNES game of all time, it’s worth the watching. Yea I said it, Donkey Kong Country is the best SNES game, you gonna argue or go download that game and prove to yourself that I was right? {source}
And it’s supposed to be that way. Just watch that whole video, and if you aren’t laughing like crazy, you aren’t a real human.
Also, to make it even better, watch it on YooouuuTuuube.com, where I found it, it’s waaayyy better tiled across your screen forever!
Also, the song is called Elektronik Supersonik by Zlad, Santo Cilauro.
You can’t tell it from these pictures, but those are scale models. Hyper detailed scale models. Down to every last rivet. Retired dentist turned model maker Young C. Park made these.
Don’t believe he replicated everything? Here’s the ammo feeds from the wings:
Don’t believe these are actual models? Here’s him working them:
And for the other doubters out there, here are the planes on display.
These are awesome. That’s all I have to say.
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So, this morning I got an email from the Iron Sky people, (if you remember, it’s this awesome movie set in an alternate time-line where the Nazis flee to the moon to plan their 4th Reich, and in 2018, they make it happen) saying how Facebook took down their fan page. They are upset (rightly so). But they also seem misinformed.
For starters, Facebook is a private company. And they have a lengthy Terms of Service, that you read, and agree to when you sign up.
Part 5.1, and 5.2 covers what went on here:
- You will not post content or take any action on Facebook that infringes or violates someone else’s rights or otherwise violates the law.
- We can remove any content or information you post on Facebook if we believe that it violates this Statement.
Pay special attention to 5.2. Basically it’s up to them to say, “Yea I don’t like this, let’s take it down.” What I envision went down is this: the page was marked for review as a potential Hate Crime, Facebook employees being taxed for time, just skimmed it over, saw it mentioned Nazis, and a future invasion by them, and they basically though, ok, this is some strange Neo-Nazi site, let’s shut it down. And that was the end of that.
In the email, they claim that:
Facebook gave no advance warning about closing down the fan page of this movie project and neither does it offer any kind of contact information to complain about the decision.
As far as I can tell, there’s nothing in the ToS requiring Facebook to give advance warning that they’re about to remove your stuff. There is however a place to go to make an appeal, that’s part 5.4:
If we remove your content for infringing someone else’s copyright, and you believe we removed it by mistake, we will provide you with an opportunity to appeal.
So what it basically comes down to is this.
You own the content you post to your Facebook account, but Facebook owns the servers. And they have total say over what gets posted there, and what doesn’t. And they decide what to do with it. You can ask nicely to get your stuff back up, or you can kick and scream. Neither will get your stuff up though because you are free to go somewhere else.
Facebook doesn’t charge you to post things, and aside from a name, and email address, doesn’t have any other way to force you to do something. From a legal standpoint, they are just covering their asses by removing things that even hint at copyright infringement, illegal things, or hate crime, because of all the negative press that will happen if something does come out of it. It may seem unfair, but you have to remember, for companies, all they care about is the bottom line. If they think that your page may violate a law, or include something of questionable legality, they will remove it to save themselves, and that is their right.
Many people don’t seem to grasp that concept. And that seems like what happened to the Iron Sky people, but at least this woke them up to it anyway:
“There are many businesses that consider their Facebook presence to be an important part of their marketing. The fact that Facebook can just take down the page of a legitimate business without any warning or any means of contacting them is something most companies don’t realize.”
Hopefully more people will come to realize this, and stop relying on Facebook, and Twitter so heavily. If anything I would use Stumble Upon. Because unlike Facebook, and Twitter, SU drives traffic directly to your site, and on your site you can post whatever the fuck you want. I hope that bold hammered it home for you.
Anyway, I’d also like you to know that I’ll never censor your comments, or delete them because you call me an idiot, I’ll post them true. The only things that don’t get through are obvious spam, links to illegal/hate sites, and porn comments.
And, just so you can be remembered, here is the trailer for this awesome movie:
Go Daddy has taken things a step further, and started posting their commercials online NOW. They are being annoying though, you can’t embed them, but I guess that’s ok, I almost care. So here is the stock link that they give you to share with: Go see Go Daddy’s 2010 Super Bowl® Commercials. Go there, and watch it. Currently there’s only one up (and a preview, and last years), and it’s not really that good. Honestly I’ve never been a fan of Go Daddy’s commercials, but hey, its something to keep you occupied on the internet for 45 seconds.
Enjoy.
Miniature Golf is one of those fun awesome games you play on vacation. Well, you can also play it at a funeral. Well, in the basement of a funeral home anyway. The place is called Ahlgrim Acres, and it’s located in Palatine Illinois. It’s a public course open when there is no funeral in progress, and I can say, that’s comoforting, because honestly, would you want to be a kid, and your grandpa dies, and you go to the funeral home, and your parents say, “Why don’t you go play in the basement kids, it’ll be no fun up here” Hell you’re probably scared of your own basement, let alone the one at a place where they keep dead people.
How fitting.
They scythe on the wall back there, yea that’s comforting.
What mini golf course would be complete without a windmill?
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Just watch the video, and then comment on it, you will be happy you did.
I don’t know who wrote it, but it’s very good. It fits the original. Also, the editing is very well done.
Here is a tale of a boy rabbit that goes against his mother’s wishes, and goes to kill Panzer tanks. It’s a story of love, and hate, and death and destruction. Peter Rabbit Tank Killer. You should read it now. For history’s sake, I have re-posted all the panels of book below, so that in case anything happens to the original post, we can still relive the glory that is this Nazi Killing Rabbit.
The level of awesomeness of this is just unbelievable. An RC helicoptor that transmits live first person video to your iPhone or iPod touch. That’s also the way you control it? Brillant!
What’s even better, it looks like you can battle 2 of them together. That’s even more awesome!
The worst thing is it sounds like it’s super annoyingly loud. Which makes sense, cause there’s no way it could be perfect.
Anyway, there is no price on this, which pisses me off, because if there was, like the table, I would probably have pre-ordered one by now. All they say is “release: 2010″ which is pretty broad, and probably means it wont be out till next year. Oh well, I am excited, are you?
Now, I’ll be the first to tell you that I don’t like using a keyboard and mouse to play video games, I like my Xbox controller much better. But I will say that there is an advantage to using a keyboard and mouse, many times. However, I think if you have this mouse, you will most likely always win.
I think the “Time Distortion field” is the most interesting feature. I wonder if it is limited to events of the game, or does it work for real life events also, because I would commit grave crimes to acquire this mouse if it worked for real life events.
However, I must agree with cmw22, because the ability to distort time would clearly give me an advantage over everyone else. But, what intrigues me is what would happen if 2 of these mice were used by two different players. That could very well break the space time continuum. Maybe there’s only one of these mice in exsistance, making it even more likely that i would commit grave crimes to acquire it.
All I can say is, be careful who you tell about this mouse ImpactSting, because it has the power to change the universe.
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Now, go back 60 years or so and take a look at these massive wooden ski jumps constructed in arenas across the country.
This was built in Soldier Field, Chicago in 1954, I love how they built it up over the columns, and seats.
Now, look at this impressive one made of wood in Vancouver, in the end of April, in 1958:
Yea, I would not climb that. A strong wind and the whole thing topples over. At least the one in Chicago had some base to it, and some people to cushion your fall.
Man, people were crazy then. Also, these massive awesome looking structures would be much different now, with full color photography, 1000 warning signs, a few dozen cameras, and a bunch of other annoying things. I’m almost glad that things like this aren’t made too often anymore, cause it would take away some of the awesomness that is looking at old pictures of them.
There a bunch more photos of these massive things over here.
