Mario Paaaiinnnt is Awesome

Holy Crap!!

Upon reading my RSS feeds today I came across this post from joystiq.

Basically some guy has re-created some memorable video game themes using Mario Paint on his SNES. Now, I've never played Mario Paint (mainly because it's not a game as more of a creativity application), but I always thought that you only used it to paint pictures, hence the name Mario Paint. But it seems you can actually create simple musical pieces using the SNES hardware.

You can check out his youtube profile here, and his video submissions here.

And here's an example of his work, using the Tetris theme:


Thanks to joystiq for the linkage and TomBobBlender for the awesomeness. And Russell Peters for the laughs(see below).

For the paaainnint reference, see here:

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HSBC Knows About Video Games

We've all seen those adverts fro HSBC which let us know that they know lots about different cultures (they are a global bank you know). That's why they have so many customers world wide you know.....coz they know about cultures and stuff...

Apparently they welcome different points of view.

Well, now it seems that they know a lot about video games. Check out their new commercial:


Awesome huh? I hope they show this on TV so I can watch it on a bigger screen....

Actually it kinda reminds me of this GAP Advert by Spike Jonze:


Anyways, something make me wonder whether Mr. Jack Thompson banks with HSBC....

P.S. Thanks to Joystiq for the linkage.

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Byahh!!

So the "I'm Rick James bitch" thing has gone a bit too far. Its pretty old hat right now.

But trawling through my Chappelle's Show episodes, I remembered the sketch about Howard Dean:


It's all about the BYahh!!!

Check out this mash-up of the Byahh!! and "Crazy Train" by Ozzy Osbourne and Randy Rhoads:
Howard Dean's Crazy Train

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Happy Valentine's Day

...or Happy Singles Awareness Day to those of you who hate this particular Hallmark Holiday.

To help celebrate this wondrous occasion are some great links:
Hard Facts About Valentines Day
Sex Positions You'll Never Get to Try
Valentine's Day Cards You Wish You'd Bought

Wikipedia Can Be Unusual

So I'm slightly bored at work these days. But I've found an interesting list on Wikipedia, that lists the "most unusual wikipedia articles".

I still find it funny that there are wikipedia lists that list things about or contained in wikipedia itself. Maybe that's just me.

Enjoy

Cool (but useless) Javascript

So, I'm not a big fan of javascript (mainly coz it takes me forever to do anything that isn't alert('test');).
Yeah, so what if I suck at javascript? There's probably someone out there who has written the exact function or .js file that you need. See here if you need scripts.

Anyways here's something cool to do with websites, then get bored after a couple of minutes then not do it ever again. Just follow these steps (I promise there is nothing malicious about this code):

1. Open a website that has some images.
2. Delete the address from the address bar.
3. Copy and paste this code into the address bar:

javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.images; DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position='absolute'; DIS.left=Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5; DIS.top=Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5}R++}setInterval('A()',5); void(0);

4. Press enter and enjoy.

Note: this works well on goolge image search, flickr, and amazon.

Thanks to digg for the heads up.

Also some guy on digg suggested to save the javascript as a bookmark (put the code in the address/location field). Then when you visit a webpage, load the bookmark to unleash the pain!!!!
Surely there's some security issue if you can just run js on a website from the address bar, kinda like SQL injection?

Goats + Trees = ?

Well what the f**k do you think it equals??

Maybe it equals goats in trees.

These pic are weird as I could never imagine 1 goat in a tree let alone a bunch of them. Maybe there's like an annual goat Olympics and tree climbing is the only event, so they spend all year practicing to climb trees. Now that would be awesome.

Check 'em out here

seXbox 360 Mods

Ahhh, free online picture account thingys. Flickr is one of them. And someone on Flickr posted a wealth of pictures of Xbox 360 case mods.

Sadly he's only got the good ones. Not the "Worst Xbox 360 Halo 3 Mod Ever" (its backwards and on the bottom of the case BTW).

The Anatomy of a One Night Stand

CollegeHumor is so funny.

Here's their "Anatomy of a One Night Stand".

Pretty funny no?

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii........

So I haven't posted in a week, so here's what's been goin' down.

Monday 4th December:
6PM: Email from game saying the payment for my Wii was declined!!! Panic sets in....

Tuesday 5th December:
10AM(ish): Phoned game to re-order my order. They asked if I had enough funds in my accout, but I was using a credit card so I wouldn't need to have the funds right? Gave them my debit card details (good idea seeing as I only had £80 in my account).
4PM: Confirmation email from Game saying that my order was processed!!!

Wednesday 6th December:
4PM: Purchased tickets online for +44 for 03/02/2007 at the Brixton Academy. Paid with my credit card though, might have been a bad idea.

Thursday 7th December:
7AM: Email from Game confirming my Wii order has been dispatched.
Day off Work. Was going to clean my room, but somehow didn't!!

Friday 8th December:
OMG its Wii delivery day!!!
8AM: Forced myself to be half awake in-case the delivery came.
9AM: Waiting for Parcel Force to arrive.
10AM: Waiting...
11AM: Still waiting, its almost lunch time...
11:30AM: Yee calls me, says he's just unboxing his Wii....bastard. Give me some hope that mine will arrive soon, he lives in Hammersmith so mine should be delivered soon right?.....
12?M: Thinking about lunch
1PM: Nothing yet, finger crossed....
2PM: Cleaning my room in boredom. Fuck Parcel Force.
3PM: Called Parcel Force. Apparently the delivery is guaranteed today, anytime until 6PM!!! WTF!!!!
4PM: Finished cleaning room, playing guitar.
5PM: Getting ready to go out for the Moneycorp CFX Christmas (Boat) Party. Had to help my housemate with some photography crap.
5:15PM: There's a knock on the door!!! Who could it be?....OMG ITS PARCEL FORCE!!!!
5:30PM: Ran out the house to get to the party on time.
7PM: At the boat, free drinks all night (until the tab ran out), some hot girls. What could go wrong?
12PM(ish): Stagger off the boat, waiting to people to go to Abacus bar. Too cold to wait so try to find the nearest tube, bottle of San Miguel in hand. Reach a District Line Tube (Monument I think or somewhere around there), there's a train on the platform!!! I can't run in case I fall over due to the excess drink. The doors close...OH NO its a freakin' Wimbledon train, the guard says it was the last one!!! How the fuck am I getting home now?

Saturday 9th December:
Early Hours of the Morning: Walking....Its cold....windy....no hat.....spilled beer in my sleeve (don't ask).....walked past "John Carpenter Street".....new plan: Go to Waterloo, get an awesome burger from the Igloo, get a cab.
At the Igloo getting a burger mmmmmmmmmmm.....
Walk round the corner to get a cab, shame they're all taken. Buy 5 wings from the Chicken Cottage and walk to the taxi rank at Waterloo station. There are like 40 people waiting for cab, of which there are exactly 0.
Decided to walk to Shaftbury Ave to get a bus....omg....its too long to walk in the cold.
3 or 4AM: At home, unboxed my Wii...smells good....sleep.
The rest of Saturday: Everyone in my room playing Wii all day.

Sunday 10th December:
Sore from the excess Wii playing....So went skating to make it all better.

Check later for pictures.

Monday 11th December:
Day off work to heal my wounds and play Zelda, YAY!!!

How To Do The Asian Squat

Here's an instructional video on how to do the "Asian Squat". Learn it now, before you are ridiculed by hundreds upon hundreds of people: