OMG it's the Iron Patriot!

So every nerd on the net blew a gasket today when photos from the set of Iron Man 3 hit the web. It shows James Badge Dale, who is supposed to be playing the part of evil cyborg Erik Savin/Coldblood, wearing what clearly looks like Norman Osborn's Iron Patriot armor.

I guess this is sort of a big deal, although if anyone thought Marvel was going to trot out a Cable looking 2 bit bad guy like Coldblood without a complete makeover they were smoking crack. The fact that it looks like they so clearly ripped off the Iron Patriot is sort of surprising, I guess. Most net nerds have reported that Iron Man 3 was going to lean heavy on Warren Ellis's Extremis storyline, maybe this Iron Patriot wrinkle shows us otherwise. Or not, who knows. This thing isn't slated to come out for another year at least and as cool as the Avengers was I'm a little Marvel movie'd out right now. Maybe I just ate too much shawarma.

Super Shark: The Music Video

This last weekend saw the premiere of the SyFy instant classic Super Shark. If you DVR'd it (like I did) and have yet to watch it (again like myself) be warned this video contains some minor spoilers.

Am I crazy or is the CGI not that bad? It’s certainly a long way from Raptor Island. Lorenzo Lamas looked so fake in that.

Rub some Bacon on it

I've been trying this for years, all it's gotten me is high cholesterol and a pack of stray dogs that follows me around everywhere I go.

Ok, you caught me. There is no pack of stray dogs. But I do have high cholesterol!

Leeroy Jenkins: the movie

I would pay at least 2 dollars to go see Leeroy Jenkins the movie. You know how much I would pay to see Battleship? Actually, 2 dollars also sounds about right.

I guess the moral of the story is that I'll pay 2 dollars to see any old piece of crap.

Street Fighter 2, now with portal gun

It's no secret I'm pretty unbeatable at Street Fighter II with E. Honda. In fact I'm pretty sure even if you had a portal gun and a car to drop on me I could still be you. I'm looking at you Loren.

Best Worst Tetris Ever

This rigged game of tetris is a pretty good representation of how my week has gone. I feel like I've been set up to fail at work, have been dealing with some health and money problems and then on the first morning of my four day weekend I find out my son's daycare is closing. Seriously life, where did the stick go?

Greatest rap song ever? Greatest rap song ever.

Krispy Kreme – Haters Wanna Be Me

Wrestlers Vs Inanimate Objects

I could watch Ric Flair wrestle a book all day long.

The Links Returns

Oh @#$%, DC Is Animating Dark Knight Returns. How is this not a thing already? When you look at all the mediocre animated movies Warner Bros has released over the last 5 years, how is it no one thought about doing a version of The Dark Knight Returns? Everyone over there can’t be that stupid, can they?

10 uninhabited islands and why nobody lives on them. I love abandoned things and a bunch of the islands on this list have been abandoned for some reason or another. Have you seen the trailer for that movie about a bunch of kids that go to Chernobyl? Man that looks fantastic. Someday when I’m old but not quite frail I’d love to tour a bunch of abandoned cities. Hopefully without getting attacked by mutants or zombies or whatever.

The 10 most legally and illegally downloaded TV shows. Who’s pirating Dexter, or Big Bang Theory? Dexter is terrible and isn’t BBT on Hulu? Here’s the deal with pirating, put your shows on line (I’m looking at you AMC) and no one will pirate them. Which would you rather have guaranteed ad revenue through Hulu or guaranteed torrents?

Also on a related note, how long are we from internet ads costing more than traditional over the air advertising? The only thing I watch live these days is the news and sports, everything else I run through the DVR, so I don’t watch any ads. But every morning when I watch last nights Colbert Report on-line I have to watch the advertisements. Those commercials should cost bank, because they’re the only ones I feel like I’m forced to sit through these days.

Rise of the New 'The Dark Knight Rises' Character Portrait Posters. There’s nothing really special about these posters but it’s still Batman news.

Lego Batman 2 Trailer kicks bricks

So Marvel Heroes looks like a snooze, that's ok because Lego Batman 2 looks amazeballs. Ignoring the fact that I never finished Lego Harry Potter, I love the Lego video games. Word on the street is that Lego Batman 2 is going to have a more open world feel to it, which would be a nice change of pace. I think that's part of the reason I never finished Harry Potter because after a few hours it started getting awfully repetitive. An open world and a wider range of playable characters should be just what the doctor ordered.

They have little Lego doctors right?

Marvel Heroes is a thing, I guess

Here's the trailer for Marvel's new MMO Action-RPG (Marvel's words not mine) Marvel Heroes. I don't know, it doesn't really get me that excited. It pretty much looks just like Ultimate Alliance except cheaper. It's "free to play" which also doesn't get me that excited. Remember back in the shareware days when you could just get the first level of a game for free, then you could pay to unlock the rest? That's a thousand times better than these stupid free to play games, which should really be called "pay out the wazoo to play correctly".

On the other hand it's not going to cost anything to try it and I'm pretty sure I saw Deadpool in there. Ok Marvel you win this round.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Big big news hit the interwebs yesterday. DC Comics has decided that keeping up with the times means keeping up with Marvel circa 1992 and they’re going to introduce a new gay character. More specifically they’re going to take an existing “major character” and retcon them out of the closet. Ordinarily this kind of revisionist history is the sort of thing that would grind my gears, but DC just rebooted their universe so technically none of these characters has a history that would conflict with an outing like this. The two ironic exceptions being Batman, who has a son and somehow managed to keep his history where he hooked up with most of his female cast of villains and Aquaman, who is actually married in the new 52.

I’m sure this will cause much gnashing of teeth with the conservative crowd. Comics are for kids, moral corruption, gay-Obama-marriage, Spider-Man can’t be Hispanic, etc. etc. The interesting thing here to me is that by making a big deal about this it shows how little DC actually cares about its current gay characters. I’m sure somewhere Batwoman is punching through the top of Ross Perot’s hat.

Avengerous Vocabulary of Doom

Looks about right

Anchorman 2 teaser, teases

I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say I think I've listened to the Anchorman soundtrack over 20 times.

That's a lot of times to listen to a soundtrack when you think about it. How many soundtracks have you listened to today?

R2-D2 wrecks shop

Interested in a video of R2-D2 blazing a trail of destruction in Liberty City? Well you're in luck because some uber-nerd out there modded GTA IV to include everyone's favorite astromech.

btw, watching this was infinitely more fun than actually playing GTA IV.

Monday Morning Link o' rama

Dan Harmon out as Community showrunner. As a nerd I know I'm supposed to be all doom and gloom about this announcement but I'm having a hard time getting that worked up about it. I know Dan Harmon created the show, but its not like Matt Groening wrote the monorail episode or anything. Who knows, maybe Community will be just as good. It's not like they fired Joel McHale.

Did You Know Gaming is the new hotness. This new tumblr is fantastic, it's full of obscure nerdy facts about video games. There's a particular fact about the Koopas in Super Mario Bros. that I find absolutely horrifying.

The most awesome gaming setup of all time? Yeah it's a pretty cool setup (I really appreciate the custom cabinetry) but does he have a 1979 Tommytronics 2 player basketball handheld like I do? Yeah, I thought not.

Nintendo Game Characters as Japanese woodblock prints. Every once in a while I feel like I need to find something to use my "art" tag on. So I guess that's what this is.

5 things that Ruin FPS games. I've complained about this a thousand times, the biggest reason I don't play COD anymore is all the racist 12 year olds on Xbox Live. If only there was some sort of "adult" server that catered to the needs of men in their mid-thirties... ok this is sounding really weird.

Lazy Sunday part Deux

So there you are. The last SNL Digital short. What am I supposed to watch now on Saturday at midnight? Weekend Update? Yeah nice try Seth Meyers.

Catvengers Assemble!

Marvel should totally do this.. A couple years ago there was a Avengers Pets comic that was actually pretty good. Why not a Catvengers Cartoon or something? I'd pay up to 2.99 to read about the adventures of Iron Mew and Cateye.

If Diablo 3 were a girl

I'll just leave this here without comment.

Adam WarRock, When the Winter Comes

I queued up this Game of Thrones song from uber-nerd Adam WarRock a couple weeks ago and never actually posted it. Often I see something at night that I want to post the following day, so I'll put half a post together really quickly and save it for later. Every once in a while I never follow up on those and something I really should have posted will get missed.

I guess what I'm saying, is enjoy this awesome song that you probably already heard about.

The greatest fight scene or the Greatest fight scene?

Ok, so first things first, I remember the Double Dragon movie. I watched a lot of really awful movies in 1994, it seemed like every weekend was a Hell Comes to Frogtown/Cool as Ice double header. Double Dragon came out right around a time when I was begging for nerdy properties to get feature films. So I remember Double Dragon, I watched the hell out of Double Dragon.

However... How on earth did I forget Alyssa Milano's awesome mom jean daisy dukes? Or that awful Haircut? Or the girl with the whip? Oh man this movie is terrible. So awesomely terrible.

Kissable Links

New behind the scenes Star Wars pictures. Some of these aren't that new, but they're still pretty cool.  Carrie Fisher sure was pretty back then.  What happened?  She didn't let Mark Hamill drive her somewhere did she?

Everyone hates Diablo 3. Ok, not everyone but a lot of people. The Metacritic score is in the toilet. People can't play single player because you have to log onto the server and the servers are overloaded. There are a lot of complaints that the RPG mechanics have been stripped away. Some people are even comparing it to some of those free "pay to play" MMOs. Not exactly what hesitant Diablo nerds want to hear.

Bikini Hockey Leage is a real thing that exists. This is great news, with the Lingerie Football league taking the season off we really needed another scantily clad sports league. Where else are you going to pay to get an awkward boner in a stadium full of thousands, hundreds, tens of guys?

Men in Black 3 costs $375 Million. Holly ass that's a lot of money. I heard most of it is going to CGI effects designed to give Nicole Scherzinger a personality.

I mean is anyone that excited to see MIB 3? Sure the first one was really good, but the second one was kind of like "meh". This is kinda like the Mummy 3: Desperate Cash Grab all over again, isn't it?

Beastie Boys - Sabotage (little kid version)

Uber nerd and awesome parent James Winters enlists the help of his wife, his kids, and his nephew to create an awesome tribute to Adam “MCA” Yauch. It's pretty awesome.

Revolution looks good, has a silly name

This is the time of year where the major TV networks announce their schedule for next fall and start showing some previews for new shows. The one that really caught my eye last week was Revolution, a new show by JJ Abrams and John Favreau. Not because it's next in a long line of shows trying to be the next lost, but because it looks like a total rip off of Jeremiah, the Showtime series staring Luke Perry from like 10 years ago. Man I loved that show.

It’ll be interesting to see if this show even has a chance of success. NBC doesn’t have a very good track record with these kinds of serial dramas. I’m not asking for 6 seasons and a movie, just knowing that in 6 months it wont get shunted to Friday nights after Whitney would be a good start.

Transformers in a nutshell

"Help! I'm in a nutshell! How did I get into this bloody great big nutshell? What kind of shell has a nut like this?" What we're not doing Austin Powers quotes again? Damn it when will that come back around, I saw that movie like 10 times.

Everybody needs a lift

These Avengers cartoons by Ginger Haze (real name?) are awesomely cute. They're awescute. I don't know why but the one with Hawkeye sleeping in Hulks arms really speaks to me. Maybe because I could use a nap.

check out more at How are you I'm fine thanks.

Friday Linkaroo

Real life Quidditch wants to be taken seriously. And I want to be taller but I don't see that happening anytime soon. God bless these nerds for getting outside and enjoying their goofy ass sport but don't expect anyone to take you serious as long as you're ridding a broom chasing a quaffle.

A lot of People are torrenting Game of Thrones. I'll be curious if this finally changes HBO's business model. Making non subscribers wait for the DVDs used to work with the Sopranos when other options weren't as readily available. But now HBO is leaving millions on the table by not having episodes available for download before they are on DVD.

It's just so easy to torrent stuff these days, people will pay for convenience and security, iTunes is a perfect example of that, but they're not willing to wait.

Why West Virginia stuck $22,600 routers in small libraries. Just your average story about a State with federal dollars to spend. A politician decides a school with 200 students should have just as nice of equipment as a school with 2,000 students, probably cause that sounds nice in a press release. Now libraries with just a few computers are using routers designed for a small college. USA USA USA

25 things to do this summer as illustrated by dogs. I'm going to try and do at least 3 of these things this weekend.

From normal girl to Power Girl

I make no bones about it, this video is a bit pervy. Super cosplayer Ardella (real name?) shows what she goes through to transform into a convention worthy Power Girl. What really sold me on posting this were the weird oversized iris contact lenses she puts in. I've posted tons of cosplay pictures before and weird novelty contact leses are something I've never thought about. Risking your eye health for cosplay, now that's dedication.

Harley Quinn's butt stars in Harley Quinn's Revenge

Here's a trailer for Harley Quinn's Revenge, a DLC pack for Batman: Arkham City in virtual stores May 29. The trailer doesn't really show us any plot or gameplay. Still it's pretty fantastic. I mean if you're into that sort of thing... pervert.

High fiving people in Pisa

I've never really traveled ouside the country (America's pants and hat don't count) so I'm not that familiar with what goes on at mega popular tourist destinations like the leaning tower of Pisa. Is it really just a thousand people trying to get their picture taken looking like they're holding it up? I guess the answer is yes.

Thor's day Links

The 7 Greatest Spaceships in Video Game history. The only big problem I had with this list is that they didn't have the raptor from Wing Commander. Remember Wing Commander? Man those games were awesome. How come no one makes a space combat game anymore?

At&T ready to board the shared data plan train. At first glance I was thinking it's about time someone offered a shared data plan but then as I read more and thought more about it I realized this won't save me any money at all. There's talk that there will be a ten dollar fee associated with each device and I'm sure you'll have to jack up your minutes to even qualify for the shared plan. It sucks having a cell phone shouldn't be as expensive as it is. I'd gladly pay more for the phone itself if carriers wouldn't nickle and dime me to death with extra fees.

By the way, that's my new phone pictured above. It's a Nokia Lumina 900, and it's very pretty.

This Imperial At-At Case Mod will blow you away. I've been looking at putting together a new desktop PC for a couple years now. I'd love to do one of these crazy case mods but I doubt I'll have the time or the money. Oh well, first world problems and all.

The Ultimate Retro Console Collectors' Guide. This is a pretty good list of old consoles and all their pros and cons. None of these consoles feel that retro to me. I have a snes hooked up to the downstairs TV my son loves playing. Of course I knew nothing about the PC engine (pictures above), that thing sounds awesome.

the MCA Supercut

Here's a video tribute to the late MCA. It's essentially a super mix of his first line in every Beastie Boys song. It's not only a great reminder that Pauls Boutique was awesome, but that License to Ill is really just one 40 minute long song, not that there's anything wrong with that.

21 great frisbee trick shots

This video could not be more what it says it is, 21 frisbee trick shots by Brodie Smith. I don't care if it took him 1,000 times to complete each shot, these are pretty impressive. Maybe not as impressive as the time I aced the 10th hole at Woodland Park but still impressive.

All the water on planet Earth

Here's a picture of all the water on earth in comparison to all rest of the earth. It's been making the rounds today so I thought I'd share. Take it away science guy.

The picture...shows the size of a sphere that would contain all of Earth's water in comparison to the size of the Earth. You're probably thinking I missed a decimal point when running my calculator since surely all the water on, in, and above the Earth would fill a ball a lot larger than that "tiny" blue sphere sitting on the United States, reaching from about Salt Lake City, Utah to Topeka, Kansas. But, no, this diagram is indeed correct.

About 70 percent of the Earth's surface is water-covered, and the oceans hold about 96.5 percent of all Earth's water. But water also exists in the air as water vapor, in rivers and lakes, in icecaps and glaciers, in the ground as soil moisture and...even in you and your dog. Still, all that water would fit into that "tiny" ball. The ball is actually much larger than it looks like on your computer monitor or printed page because we're talking about volume, a 3-dimensional shape, but trying to show it on a flat, 2-dimensional screen or piece of paper. That tiny water bubble has a diameter of about 860 miles, meaning the height (towards your vision) would be 860 miles high, too! That is a lot of water.

Isn't that cray cray? It's definitely something to think about the next time you pee over the side of a boat.

Tips for surviving the inevitable Robot Uprising

Like many young men my age I used to believe that the zombie apocalypse was a real thing I would see in my lifetime and that I would be super prepared. Of course that was before this winter when we lost power at the house and my wife and I had to run crying to her parents house for heat and cable TV. Seriously, my fence can't even keep out the neighbors dog how is it supposed to stand up to a zombie horde?

So I have decided to ignore the upcoming zombie apocalypse and concentrate on something I can actually do something about. The robot uprising! Seriously, I can unplug a toaster, I can smash a roomba with a hammer. Bring it on robots you don't scare me!

BTW, the video above is hilarious.

Kickboxer: just the kicking

This supercut of all the kicks from the Jean Claude Van Damme classic kickboxer beat out the other three youtube clips I was thinking about posting tonight. One was a supercut of all the "three point landings" in cinema, the other was a pug in a dinosaur costume fighting a dauchshund in a bee costume and the third was a kid running away from an animatronic dinosaur. So I guess now you know what I'll be posting later this week.

The Avengers, the review

Like any good nerd, I saw The Avengers this weekend (spoiler, I didn't spring for the collectible Hulk 3d glasses). It was really really good, if you like movies you should go see it.



I never said I was good at reviewing things.

Sexy Jedi Bubblebath is a thing that exists

This "commercial" for fictional Star Wars body wash is the most blatant nerd pander since Olivia Munn. I can't believe G4 has nothing to do with it. I also can't believe that Seth Green and Zeb Wells have everything to do with it. What the hell man?

RIP MCA

Today was supposed to be Star Wars day (May the 4th be with you) but then MCA had to go and die, so now it will always be sad and stuff. BOOO cancer.

Here's the video for Hey Ladies, the Beastie Boy's best song. Seriously if you say it's Sabotage I will fight you.

.. does whatever a new Spider-Man trailer can

Just in case the Avengers premiere tonight wasn't enough comic book movie for you, here's the third trailer for the Amazing Spider-Man. I don't know, I think it looks pretty cool. Word on the street is Sony thinks it's awful, not that that means anything, studio execs are morons. They rushed the movie into production to keep the rights from reverting back to Marvel so if it sucks they have no one to blame but themselves.

It's really too bad that the bankruptcy Marvel went through in '97 forced them to play fast and loose with the movie rights to their characters. A Spider-Man cameo in Iron Man or the Avengers would be pretty sweet but I'd settle for just getting the X-men out of the evil clutches of the incompetent boobs at Fox.

The Avengers Video Game is real and it's Spectacular

It's hard to take a company to task for not putting out a movie based video game. Anyone who's ever played a video game knows that those games are always sucky cash grabs meant to trick grandparents everywhere into buying little Timmy a game he doesn't really want. Still, this clip is high-larious. I literally LOLed at the "on disc DLC" line.

The everchanging Bat Logo

Here's a nifty little video of "all" the Batman icons throughout the years (the quotes are there to let you know that this isn't really all the Batman icons). If you ignore the awful U2 song, it's pretty cool.

I never really thought about all the variations of the Bat logo before I saw this. Some of them are really ugly. In fact the current one from the Chris Nolan movies is one of my least favorite. It looks like something Korn would have used on an album cover ten years ago. If any of these logos would look right in track pants and dreadlocks that one would be it.

Blossom: The Original Opening

The original theme song for the TV show Blossom was My Prerogative by Bobby Brown. I don't know why but this blows my mind so I thought I'd share. You're welcome.

Proper Links

Microsoft to offer $99 Xbox 360 bundle with service commitment. Big big rumors this morning that Microsoft is going to offer a $99 Xbox 360/Kinect bundle so long as you sign up for a a 2 year subscription to some Xbox Live gold+ service (no idea what that plus will represent other than 15 dollars a month). In my opinion Microsoft is smart to take a flyer on this idea before they release the Xbox 1080. If they can undercut Sony and Nintendo's pricing by offering subscription discounts when the new round of consoles hit the market, watch out man. They'll be swimming in market share.

21 photos of awesome Black Widow cosplay. Just in time for The Avengers in theaters this Friday, Buzzfeed has gathered a bunch of Black Widow cosplayers. I'm not sure I'd call all of them "awesome" but hey, boobs.

The Gayness of Batman: A Brief History. Current Batman scribe and English gentleman Grant Morrison made a big whoopdy doo on the net last week when he said that "Gayness is built into Batman. ... Batman is very, very gay". Comics Alliance takes a better look at why everyone thinks the caped crusader is light in the loafers.

Kate Upton dancing in a string bikini. You might not have noticed it yesterday but the internet shut down for a few minutes when photographer Terry Richardson posted this video of Kate Upton doing something called the "cat daddy".

Seattle is your new Gotham

If you haven't heard, Seattle has it's very own real life superhero named Phoenix Jones. He doesn't really fight much crime. Mostly he just reports trouble he sees to cops but every once in a while he pepper-sprays a bunch of punks (or innocent bystanders, whatever man). He's like Batman if Batman didn't have any of those wonderful toys.

Enter Rex Velvet, our very own mustachioed super villain. He says he's taking Phoenix Jones down.. down to Chinatown. For some dim sum I guess, I don't know. This whole thing looks pretty stupid. For once I'm glad I live in Kent.

Nice bottle opener though, dude.

Who is Sarah Phillips?

Is an ESPN columnist Scamming People on the internet?

Short answer Yes. Long answer Yes, she's been fired and deadspin already posted a follow up. Plus the guy that runs Nilson Report was scammed by her too.

Normally this is the sort of story I'd just bury in one of my links posts but I thought it was so interesting I wanted it to get it's own love. Maybe it's because in a round about way it hits close to home. You spend enough time on the internet and you run into all types. I've sold stuff to people that haven't paid, I've been contacted by "NBC lawyers" and have had several people inquire about integrating my website into their network of Nigerian princes.

The deadspin story is just a great reminder why I don't really try with this website. The fact that there are people paying for twitter accounts and stealing peoples facebook accounts is as good of reason as any to stay out of the world of blogging for money.

Call of Duty to get more Black Opier (sp?)

You know the deal, another year means another Call of Duty game. This November will see the return of the Black Ops universe. A couple years ago Black Ops set itself apart from the Modern Warfare series by placing you in the 60s, but the sequel looks like it's headed back to the future.

The trailer looks pretty good, but there's a part of me that sort of wonders why call it Black Ops at all if it's barely tied to the first game? Modern Warfare already takes place in the near future, why have another series take place in a slightly different near future? I guess I'm just a fuddy duddy that way. Its a Call of Duty world, I'm just living in it.

Trailer #3 for The Dark Knight Rises

Another day another kick ass movie trailer, this time for The Dark Knight Rises. I'd say this is the best trailer yet. Miracle of all Miracles you can actually understand Bane, plus it's the first trailer that really gives you some idea of what the plot is going to be. It looks like Bane (or possibly another unseen villain) actually defeats Batman for a short period of time and maybe we're looking at a story line similar to No Man's Land. Either way looks awesome, I think I'll take the day off. Who's with me?