Literal Barrage

A couple of brief visual divertimentos to lighten your day:

Ryan vs Dorkman - an amateur Lightsaber battle so good, it ought to make George Lucas blush.
Oklahoma Full Auto Shoot and trade show - Oklahomans using the Second Ammendment to its fullest extent. Includes tracer fire and an 8 year old girl manning an M-60.

Yowsers - Quake 3 on 24[!] monitors. It takes 12 Linux servers running parallel processing to power that badboy, but whoooo dang, that's a sweet rig!

I initially reacted with some disappointment that Season 3 of Battlestar Galactica is due to be delayed until October, that is, until reading the following tidbit:

There are mutterings that one reason could be that parent network NBC is considering lifting the critically acclaimed show from the smaller niche channel to NBC proper, as there's a [...]

For a small investment - PCB, microcontroller kit, LEDs, batteries and some solder - all you EE/CREG geeks out there can deck out your bike with SpokePOV and have PacMan chasing ghosts in the spokes of your conveyance in mere hours. Now that's some clever real life geekery.

If you're not immediately familiar with the name Will Wright, you've probably never played Sim City, The Sims, etc. If you do know his name, you're probably cursing it at this very moment for the countless hours you lost to his addicting creations. Well, prepare yourself for even further profanity-laden tirades, as he's [...]

Finally, a mainstream artist or two seems to be truly realizing what is at stake in the Global War on Terror. Frank Miller, of Sin City and The Dark Knight Returns fame has revealed his plans for his next work, Holy Terror, Batman!:

Miller proudly announced the title of his next Batman book, which he [...]

During the 2004 election cycle, Lefty bloggers of varying stripes took to labeling Rightwing pundits (such as myself) "chickenhawks" and, less-commonly, the "101st Fightin' Keyboardists". Their claim was that, if we supporters of the WoT were to be non-hypocritical, we should head immediately for the nearest recruiting station and request to be shipped off [...]