The Imperial March, played on disk drives

Here's a couple of old 3.5" floppy drives getting their grove on with the Imperial March from Star Wars. It's very nerdy and very impressive.

Anyone remember external floppy drives? My beloved Apple IIgs had two external 5.25" floppy drives. I could copy disks without having to switch them around constantly. Seriously, 1989 me was a techno boss.


Big ups to Katie for sending me this. I swear on my own grave if any of you e-mail me something I will find a way to work it into a post somehow. Seriously, just try me.

TGILinks

The FTC is calling Kelly Brook a liar. Turns out those goofy looking shoes that are supposed to help you loose weight and give you a smokin hot ass don't actually do anything. Well they did do one thing, they cost Rebook 25 million dollars in a lawsuit.

Best of the Friend-Zone Phil meme. If you can't relate to these then congratulations, you and I had a very different High School experience.

What the heck is Rosh Hashanah? Yeah that's two straight articles by pleated jeans. I don't care that dude is funny... But he's probably not Jewish, I'm no rabbi or anything but I think he got a few of his facts wrong.

The X-Men Guide to Puberty. It's funny and it makes you think. Puberty is hard enough, imagine having to go through it with a metal arm growing out of your crotch.


Grown man attacks boy over Call of Duty match. I don't think this guy should go to jail, he should be given a key to the city. Playing COD would be a much better experience if teens thought they could actually get beaten for their racist bs.

Andy Rooney. out of context

Andy Rooney has been doing the grumpy old man bit on 60 minutes since the 1920s. In fact he's been doing it so long he's sort of become a tv institution unto himself, like Pat Sajak or those Discount Tire Company commericals. That is until last weekend he finally hung up the old grey blazer and announced his retirement.

If you've never seen Andy Rooney do his thing before, congratulations on being under 20. Pretty much all you need to know about him is that he's cranky and he thinks the staple remover is a better invention than staples. Enjoy this supercut of him being super cray cray.

New Walking Dead season 2 trailer

Here's another Walking Dead Season 2 promo. It's a little more artsy than the last one, what with Zombie church and all.

You suppose after zombie church there's a little meet and greet with coffee and cider? Growing up that was my favorite part of church, 20 minutes of standing around the general purpose room sipping away at some boiling hot instant cider trying to think of things to talk about with kids you only see once a week. I bet zombie church has the equivalent.

They probably don't have cider though.

BooHooTube

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Welcome to the world baby Ganondorf

The letter of all letters appeared in Game Informer this month. Hats off to Mike Ortiz, this is a great start to some awesome nerd parenting.

If I had thought of it my son would be named Lord Vader instead of Logan.

Ban these links

Everything you need to know about the new Kindles. Alternate title: Everything my wife needs to know about Christmas shopping for me this year. Seriously, the new Kindle looks to be the bomb-diggity.

Newscorp contemplating an All Simpsons channel. In 20 years we're all going to be complaining about how the Simpsons channel doesn't even play the Simpsons anymore. Book it.

17 Banned books you read as a child. I can't believe some of the reasons school boards have banned books. "the main character has no moral story arc", WTF does that even mean?

The Browncoats Mix tape by Adam WarRock. It's Adam WarRock, it's free and it's all about Firefly. What are you still doing here?

Daffy Duck is a metal Wizard

I have no idea what this is from but it has Daffy Duck (my favorite loony toon) playing the part of a kick ass wizard with his own heavy metal sound track. It's like someone at the WB is trying to make up for Loonatics Unleashed.