N64 Kid's Dad Calls Son "Liar" and "True Gamer"

Here's how it went down (we think): Hyper kid gets Nintendo 64, parents film it. Year later, the clip finds its way to the internets, makes the kid famous. Gets a nickname, "The Nintendo 64 Kid." N64 kid puts his N64 on eBay. Game site Destructoid lays down a bid for the console. Kid's aunt calls Insert ...

Metroid... METAL!

I love this little picture of Samus rocking out with her 8-bit guitar. What is she thrashing? Metroid tunes gone metal, naturally. MetroidMetal.com is a place to celebrate the mysterious and hypnotic melodies from Nintendo's classic game series, Metroid. These songs beg for more energy, so I've created ...

Pedestrian Wit Rants Against Gamer Terms He Hates. We Weigh In.

In a hysterical outpouring of unclever, pedestrian gamer rage, Dennis over at the VG Resource Center has come up with his definitive list of gamer terminology that triggers his Tourette's and causes him to pull his panties over his head. Words he doesn't like? Twink, Celda, Wii-mote, Kiddie Games, Web ...

Caterpillars go crazy

Geezus that's disgusting. It's never a good sign when you come back to your bike and it's been cacooned to a tree.

OK Go - Here It Goes Again

These guys make awesome music videos. That's a straight up fact.

Ask the Readers: How do you document your stuff in case of theft?

Reader Scott writes: My friend had his house recently robbed and about $20k worth of stuff stolen out of the place. The thieves did a damn through job leaving him with little of anything left in the house, heck they even stole some of my stuff that he was borrowing at the time. He is now in the process ...

Windows Vista demo goes awry

I can only hope the rest of Windows Vista is as awesome as their voice recognition. Because I've been waiting for an OS that will fail miserably and possibly make my computer explode.

Three new Guitar Hero II tracks announced

Filed under: Culture, Sony PlayStation 2, Simulations, Rhythm, BusinessIGN has the news and video of three new songs that will be in everyone's favorite guitar sim, Guitar Hero II. Here are the tracks we're sure you all will want to start memorizing, ASAP: Stone Temple Pilots: "Trippin' on a Hole ...

VOLKSWAGEN's NEW CAR EXPERIENCE

The 2 photos above were taken at Volkswagen's new storage facility in Wolfsburg, Germany. The actual space that the facility occupies is approximately only 20% of a comparable facility with the traditional design that is used primarily in the US. Not only is the German structure less expensive to build, ...

13 Great Firefox Extensions for Web Professionals

Short introduction to 13 Firefox extensions for web developers or SEO professionals.

Storm the House 2

The sequel to the ridiculously fun classic.

Top Gear's Limey Bastards Hack Cars for Remote Control

There are only so many stunts you can pull in a car before you worry about getting yourself killed. So UK auto show Top Gear rigged some with remote controls, and raced them past a swinging wrecking ball, through a dirt track, and over ramps.– Brian Lam Top Gear Video: Full-Sized Remote Controlled ...

The Gizmondo Did Eye Toy

Spending more time buying racehorses and model agencies than fine tuning their business strategy, Gizmondo crashed and burned like Fat Stefan in a Ferrari. But not all the ideas were terrible. In fact, this little prototype video of the unreleased Gizmondo game Catapults is pretty frickin' amazing. The ...

Slowest man on earth

I came home from work one day to find this old guy standing in place, just shuffling his feet feet a few inches at a time, I asked if he needed help and he yelled at me to leave him alone and get away, so I went into my apartment on 16th and South in Philadelphia, PA and filmed this guy try to make his ...

Prey Did Narbacular Drop in '98

Thanks to Tarik for sending in this video of proto-Prey. He seems astonished that Prey has been around for almost 10 years... the rest of us already knew it. But what's fascinating about the live demonstration of Prey by 3D Realms' Paul Schuytema is just how damn good it looks. There's no Dyson sphere, ...

Firefox Extension Backup Extension

FEBE allows you to quickly and easily backup your Firefox extensions. In fact, it goes beyond just backing up -- It will actually rebuild your extensions individually into installable .xpi files. Now you can easily synchronize your office and home browsers. Linux version available for testing, too!

YouTube wants to stay independent

"We are developing a better product and continuing to innovate because we have the best team to do so. We want to stay independent and will continue to develop the product for our users." quoting YouTube CEO Chad Hurley

Ask the Readers: Edit locations area in the open/save dialog box?

Reader Jamie asks: Is there any way to change the locations that appear in the far left hand section of the Open/Save dialog box in Windows? I tend to use locations other than just My Documents or My Network Places when opening or saving documents. Great question, Jamie, one that's got me stumped. ...

TOM SACHS AND CHANEL

New York born artist Tom Sachs is something of a troublemaker on the art scene. Focused on critiquing fashion and street cultures, he manipulates our ideas of consumption, branding, commercial imagery and objects of money and power. Tom Sachs addresses the mania around fashion, attempting to change ...

Sense of humor failure at Digg

Come on kevin.. we want the "Dark Tipper" reincarnated. Don't just go out there cancelling people's account for this count of simple nerdish humour