Star Trek porn parody

So apparently, Hustler magazine, is hoping the cash in on the upcoming Star Trek film by making a porn parody of it, and releasing it on the same day. When it was first announced, the movie hadn’t even been cast yet, but getting a cast together and assembling a few props doesn’t seem to be much of a barrier for a porn filmmaker. As Io9 reports, the casting seems complete. Read more

One cool D&D resume

Haha. I love creative resumes even though I’ve rarely seen one in my 14+ years of corporate life. This one would definitely earn an interview from me. I would have a few pointed questions for him though, like why his Artist Block Saving Throw is so low and whether or not he really has a tumbling skill of 15?

Anyway, Sean, if you’re out there, good luck on your job search!

Sheep Pong

It’s amazing what you can come up with when you combine lots of sheep, shepherds, dogs, LEDs and a lot of spare time. A group of guys calling themselves the Baaa-studs got some amazing results when combining all of the aforementioned with some rather painstaking time stop filming techniques. The video starts out a bit slow, but it’s well worth seeing all the way through.

If you bear in mind that they’re working with sheep, which have the tendency to wander off, you’re even more amazed. Baaa-studs video:

13-year-old gamer fails DNA test, not father after all

In February, we learned about the remarkable case of Alfie Patten, the young gamer, who at age 13 allegedly fathered a little girl with his 15 year-old girlfriend, Chantelle. When questions were raised about the paternity of the child, Alfie swore to take a DNA test to prove his paternity. Well, the results from the test were just announced and Alfie is not the father.

This must be a blow to Alfie who had stood up for his girlfriend in the circus like conditions that surrounded him after the birth of Maisie, Chantelle’s young daughter. Thirteen seems awfully young to learn about the hurt that can be caused by infidelity.

According to sources, Alfie’s world has fallen apart and the young man is at odds about what to do with his girlfriend of two years. There is no word as to who the real father is, but the list of Chantelle’s sexual partners, the potential fathers of her newborn daughter, is allegedly long.

Honestly speaking, as much as Alfie wanted to take responsibility as a man, the DNA results may be the best thing to ever happen to him. Perhaps this will afford him the opportunity to become a kid again and maybe offer him a return to normalcy.

Via Bild.

Xbox Soap

Over at craft shop Etsy, you can find a variety of soaps made into the game controller replicas. The Xbox controller above is made from a combination of  coconut oil, cocoa butter, palm oil, Castor oil and even topped off with Mountain Dew fragrance. The controller soap sells for $12.00.

If Xbox isn’t your thing, you’ll find replicas for Playstation controllers and old school Nintendo game systems as well. Sadly, I wasn’t able to see a Wii controller in the seller’s offerings.

Honestly, the soaps are almost too well made for me to actually think about using them, but I can definitely see the appeal for the hobbyist who wants something cool in the bathroom.

Check out Digitalsoaps @ Etsy.

Watchmen video game spoof

Words simply escape me on just how awesome this video is. Behold the mighty power of the big blue dong!

PETA blasts Call of Duty

Animal rights organization, PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) have joined a group of animal loving high school students in condemning Activision Blizzard’s Call of Duty: World at War.  According to a statement by PETA received by Game Politics:

Not since we were pitted against Nazi attack dogs when we first escaped from Castle Wolfenstein 17 years ago have we seen such barbaric treatment of dogs in gameplay as we did in Call of Duty, World of War.

To help the folks at Activision Blizzard learn about the ethical treatment of animals, we’re offering to let them take PETA’s “Developing Empathy for Animals” free of charge and are sending a package of Nintendogs games to their office.

Comments from the article at the Game Politics site have been decidedly anti-PETA, with many commentators characterizing the organization as publicity seeking and hypocritical. Some noted that PETA euthanizes 90% of the animals in its care. They also wondered about PETA’s reaction to a game like World of Warcraft, where quests routinely send a player to hunt, kill, skin and cook large numbers of animals.

Via Game Politics.

Jed I Knight

Geeky parents can do a lot of mean things to their kids. Apparently (don’t know if this is true or not, since I wasn’t able to verify it), this boy’s name is the groantastic, Jed I Knight. I’ve met some people in my time with some fairly unfortunate names: Shanda Lear, Krystal Ball, Harold “Harry” Bottoms. However, this one ranks up there naming your kid Bruce Lee or Chuck Norris. I’m sure some bullies out there will just get a kick of beating up a real life “Jedi”.

While I think the naming choice is horrible, there’s some folks who disagree. The folks at the Star Wars blog labeled the name (sarcastically I think) as a win. The folks at Failblog who broke the story obviously thinks the name is a fail.

So what do you think?

Kama Sutra for Nintendo DS?

So a French developer recently released a digital version of the Kama Sutra, the famed Indian manual of sexual positions, as a homebrew application for the Nintendo DS. The Kama Sutra isn’t pornography and you can find a copy at just about any library. I think even minors can have access to it. Copies of the book, unless they’re an updated “modern” version which substitute the original Indian art with more realistic photographs, is more graphic due to its written text on sexual advice than its imagery.

Still having a copy of the book on the Nintendo DS does give me pause. The DS is definitely targeted for a younger gaming audience (think ages 8 - 14), though older users do buy the game player too. I suppose it isn’t the worst thing to have some sort of sexual advice manual available on the DS. It may actually help some youngsters if they were curious about something. You can certainly find far worse things on the Internet if you were inclined to look for it.

Just to clarify, this is a homebrew application and not sponsored by Nintendo in anyway.

Via Kotaku.

You can download a copy of the SutraDS for yourself here.

Sci Fi becomes SyFy

Sometimes you just have to shake your head at the so-called image makers. Someone thought it was a good idea to rebrand the Sci Fi Channel as SyFy. As soon as the news was announced, a collective ‘ugh, that’s awful’ could be heard around the Internet. The renaming has good intentions. ‘Sci fi’ couldn’t be trademarked owing to the fact that it has been in collective use for decades. Further, you can’t argue with the fact that SyFy is pretty unique, distinguishing it from a host of other cable channel names. At the same time, it’s somewhat similar to the old name.

However, good intentions haven’t stopped the scorn that’s been heaped on the name change. A writer at Cnet called the change “perhaps the most ill-advised branding move since New Coke.” Gawker commented that the network’s new tagline, Imagine Greater, “means nothing and is grammatically incoherent.” Ouch.

Via New York Times.

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