The Museum Of Modern Thinking

Fonud earlier today:

34.5 miles per gallon

Created by The Car Connection

So, that’s what they got up to in The Phantom Zone: building a kitchen empire!

Found at The Movie Blog, well worth subscribing to.

What’s the capital of Iceland?

£2.57 !

Thank you, I’m here all week, try the veal

With the taxpayer propping up Northern Rock for £100billion, and the Labour looking like it will have to borrow £90billion (twice the projected borrowing), why is Gordon Brown spending an extra £1 billion on child care and £300 million on providing free broadband to “impoverished” families (bottom of article)? You can get online for free at your local library!

That’s mine and yours and our children’s bloody money he’s frittering away, and taxes will have to increase to pay for these schemes and the debt Labour have put us in. What’s worse is that it will probably be the Conservatives who will have to put taxes up after Labour’s “scorched earth” spending plans, and they won’t be liked for it. Labour have been an awful infliction on this country - I’m sure they mean well, but in many areas, spending has increased and services have been cut or delivery of services is piss-poor (e.g. my mum’s dislocated shoulder being missed by the NHS).

Rant over, for now. To cheer us up, here’s George Osborne and his separated-at-birth twin:

I recently bought (ok, on the first day it came out) Soul Calibur IV on my Xbox 360. I used to play a lot of Soul Calibur II at work with a good friend and colleague, and enjoying handing her arse to her on a regular basis (hi, Victoria :P). After a l-o-n-g drought of decent fighting games on the Xbox 360 (i.e. no Tekken), I was looking forward to it.

I’m pleased to say I’m not disappointed in it. Ok, so it’s missing a couple of gameplay modes, some fighters are overpowered, some are cheap, some are cheap and overpowered (I’m looking at you, Apprentice from The Force Unleashed), but it’s still a rollicking good time. I’m currently enjoying making my son cry by battering his wizened little Yoda into smush with my Kilik character - it’s fun

What I’m enjoying a lot, and what I didn’t expect to, is the character creation mode. You can create either male or female characters, based on existing fighting styles, and then go nuts accessorising them with hats, monocles(!), neck wear, underwear(!!), head gear, spiky shoulder pads, metal greaves, ninja tabi, etc. It’s a lot of fun, and practical too: some items carry points to be added to your character’s traits, e.g. Power, Impact and Gauge. Attributes include useful things like Nullify Ring Out so you can’t be ringed out (oo-er), or Soul Vamp which takes your opponent’s health and giives it to you on a successful hit. These attributes are used in the Tower Of Souls mode in which you battle up a tower to get more items to improve your character so they can battle higher up the tower, ad infinitum (or at least until floor 60). The extra attributes can also be used in two-player versus matches, which makes for a lot of fun.

Anyhoo, it was mentioned by Victoria that she and her boyfriend Daz both created likenesses of themselves in the game, so I thought I’d do the same:

It’s meant to be me:

My son’s Gandalf (in his earlier years), and his The Bad Guy:

My custom Ivy and Hellacious (hey, shut up, it’s art! :P)

Ok, ok, so the last three are a bit questionable, but there you go Here’s what someone with far more talent than me can achieve (i.e. M. freakin’ Bison!):

Another YouTube clip that made me laugh - the guy at the end with the accordion inspires me The music choice is also excellent…

Hat tip to TheFightGeek.org

I’m an occasional visitor to The Onion, and the following is absolutely hilarious:

Brief, but funny

I’m not a follower of X Factor, but after seeing Rhydian on the news previously, he reminded me of someone, but I couldn’t quite remember who…

Then it hit me: he was in that fantastic 50’s sci-fi film, This Island Earth:

(click to enlarge, natch)

Argh! He’s a Metalunan!

Now this, although contrary to Lego’s strict rules on building their models, looks like fun:

I’m not sure if the design has been taken from the new book Forbidden LEGO (written by a couple of ex-employees of Lego), but the book contains many other “projectile” firing designs (again, definitely not guns ;)). Seeing as I’m a bit of a Lego nut, and so’s my son, the book looks like a fun purchase!

Blatant ad follows :

Hat-tip to The Telegraph story