Duke Nukem Forever Teaser Trailer Coming Tomorrow!

Shacknews is reporting that 3D Realms has confirmed on their official forums that a trailer for Duke Nukem Forever will be coming out tomorrow some time around noon Central time!

Tomorrow, Wednesday the 19th, around noon CST, we will release the first teaser trailer from Duke Nukem Forever. To tide you over until then, here is a screen shot taken from the teaser.

Download the high-res Duke shot at Shacknews.

[via Duke Nukem Forever Teaser Releasing Tomorrow; This is Real and We Are Not Shitting You @ Shacknews]

Patrick Moberg & Camille Hayton in NYGirlofMyDreams

With the recent writer's strike and all, television schedules are being messed up and viewers are left staring at a blank screen. Ok, you can almost always catch something on TV, but it seems that unscripted live reality internet drama is where everyone's at.

How it started

While travelling on the subway, a young man named Patrick Moberg saw the girl of his dreams. Eager to stalk track her down, he created a highly viral website designed to keep us guessing at the identity and appearance of mystery girl.

Enter NYGirlofMyDreams.com, which Mr Patrick "Not insane" Moberg setup to help in his quest for the girl known to him only as Rosy Cheeks.


Rosy cheeks, not insane

A minor setback followed by the revelation

Unfortunately for Patrick, while the sketch was very detailed and informative, his doodling skills aren't quite up to standard. It turns out that mystery girl worked at BlackBook Magazine but it wasn't only until later that an intern there made the great discovery. On 11/07/07, 1:18 p.m., Blackbook reveals mystery girl to the world.


Found her!


The mystery girl, Camille "Rosy cheeks" Hayton

And the rest as they say is history, except that the drama continues as we speak. :)

Follow the NYGirlofMyDreams drama online at

• NYGirlofMyDreams
• Patrick Moberg’s Crush is BlackBook’s Camille Hayton! @ BlackBook Magazine
  
• Camille, and Her Runaway Train @ BlackBook Magazine
• Patrick Moberg's "Dream Girl" Is A Homeless Immigrant @ Gawker
• Patrick Moberg And Camille Hayton Go On 'GMA' To Viral-Market Love @ Gawker

There are probably a zillion other links if you care to look. :) For those that do stumble upon other interesting links, just jump in anytime.

Operation for the Girl Born with Eight Limbs

Wow, this story I read at the Telegraph was so amazing and fantastic that I couldn't resist sharing it with everyone. Apparently this two year old girl, Lakshmi Tatma (named after a Hindu goddess that has four arms), has four arms and four legs because her twin did not develop fully during her mother's pregnancy.



Because of this, many Indians regarded her as a reincarnation of that goddess and went to get a blessing from her. However, she will soon be undergoing an operation to remove the extra limbs in order to increase her chances of survival.



As you can see from the X-ray, this will not be a trivial operation and will take many surgeons and specialists. Hopefully, all will go well and she'll be able to lead a normal life.


[Pictures and story from Twin girl with eight limbs to have surgery @ The Telegraph]

Smile at the IgNobel Awards

October 5th is World Smile Day®, and the theme is "Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile", not that the theme has ever changed. :) The World Smile Day® Website has listed past years' events that others did to make people smile and some smiley faces, but if that doesn't work, I've got a surefire solution for you.

Presenting the winners of the 2007 Ig Nobel Awards! A parody of the Nobel prizes, the Ig Nobel prizes are given to scientific achievements that make people laugh, then think. (Thanks, Wikipedia!) Just see what's in store for you:

Best (and worst) of the rest
Other winners include:

* A Dutch researcher who conducted a census of all the creepy-crawlies that share our beds.
* Spanish scientists who found that rats sometimes could not distinguish between Japanese spoken backwards and Dutch spoken backwards.
* An Australian woman who documented the indexing problems caused by the word "the."
* A Japanese researcher who extracted vanilla flavoring from cow dung.
* A Taiwanese man who patented a Batman-like device that drops a net over bank robbers.

I hope that left a smile on your face, it sure worked for me. :) See what I mean. Visit Ig Nobels honor crazy science with a point @ MSNBC for more crazy Ig Nobel awards.

Two Headed Turtle - I've Got Your Back Buddy

Ever wished you had eyes on the back of your head? Well, this turtle has got it all and more. With 2 heads on opposite ends of the shell, this turtle could turn out to be a mean ninja turtle... If it could decide which way to go. For this turtle, two heads are definitely not better than one.

Edit: For those who can't see the BBC video above here's an alternative video I found.

Ultimate Die Hard - Kid Flies in Airplane Wing!

Descended down digg: A 15 year old boy flies in the wing of a Boeing 737 and survives the entire ordeal!

Not sure why it was so incredible? Here's what he was up against:

• 2 hour, 1,300 kilometers (808 mile) flight to Moscow
• Flying at 10,000 metres above ground
• Moving at 900 kmh (560 mph)
• Estimated ambient temperature: -50 degrees Celsius (-58 Fahrenheit) !!!

And he made it through relatively unscathed except for severe frostbite on his hands. Hopefully the doctors can save his hands as well. Then he can take over the Die Hard franchise.

[Pictures: Его судьба в руках бога @ Твой ДЕНЬ (Russian)]
[Pictures: Пролетевшему в крыле Boeing-737 подростку грозит ампутация рук @ NEWru.com (Russian)]
[Source: Teen boy flies inside Boeing-737 wing for 2 hours and loses his both hands @ Pravda]
[Source: Boy survives two-hour flight to Moscow hanging onto plane wing @ RIA Novosti]

Internet People - A Tribute to Internet Celebs!

An animated tribute to the internet people of the world, wherever you may be. Animated by Dan Meth, with music by Dan Meth and Micah Frank.

More about Meth Minute 39 >

Have fun remembering internet memes such as The Star Wars kid, Ok GO!, diet coke and mentos! For the list of memes featured in this video (to relive the good times or if you're just curious), visit Channel Federator or MetaFilter.

Afterthought: Hmm... will this video about internet memes become a meme? Just something to think about.

The Truck that Almost Fell is True!

The photos below looks too good to be true. But CNN has just confirmed its legitimacy and even has the story to back it up. Turns out that the truck hit a barrier, did a 180 degree turn and landed just inches away from the cliff's edge. And after all that, no one was hurt badly. What can I say? The driver should get an award for his amazing driving skills.





[Source: CNN]
[Pics: That's Not News]

Fancy Eating Like Hannibal?

One look at this picture and I can tell that this is even weirder than my last post about mummified Japanese girls. This Japanese (not sure of its origin) banquet is actually a body made of food and wheeled in on an operating table for diners to feast on.

Upon slicing open the body, blood (red sauce) will sputter out to mimic an actual cut in a body. To spare you from grossing out on your keyboard, I've not included the image of someone making a cut, revealing all the internal organs for the world to see. If you're interested in the gory photos, you could check out the pics at the link below.

The drinks that they're having probably help in numbing them to the gross sight before them, but I'm not sure if I'll ever be drunk enough to even contemplate going to a cannibal event. On another note, what's the hair made of? Whatever it is, it sure looks realistic. Hannibal would be proud.

[Source: InventerSpot]

Mythical Chupacabra Found?

More weird stuff is happening in Texas (what are they doing down there?). The last one was a giant 200 yard spider web made by social spiders. Now a hunter claims to have found the mythical chupacabra. If you're going, "What?", welcome to the club.

Canion and some of her neighbors discovered the 40-pound bodies of three of the animals over four days in July outside her ranch in Cuero, 80 miles southeast of San Antonio. Canion said she saved the head of the one she found so she can get to get to the bottom of its ancestry through DNA testing and then mount it for posterity.

In case you are not a walking encyclopedia, here's an explanation of Chupacabra.

Chupacabra means "goat sucker" in Spanish, and it is said to have originated in Latin America, specifically Puerto Rico and Mexico.

And no, this isn't the first finding. Many people claimed to have found it before. But none were the Chupacabra. This probably won't be the last time that the Chupacabra gets discovered.

[Source: Comcast News]

Mummified Girls is the Latest Japan Fad

Just when I thought I became numb to all the weird stuff in Japan, kegadoru, which means "injured idols" when literally translated, comes along and scores one for Japan. Yes, those maid costumes are no longer the favorites of Otaku fans in Akihabara.

Wrapping yourself in bandages and eye patches is now the latest fad to hit Japan, at least for attention-seeking girls. One girl explains why she does it.

"When you're covered in bandages, everybody pays attention to you and worries about you. They also provide a chance to start talking to guys, who'll ask you how you hurt yourself, so the bandages are really, really good," she tells Weekly Playboy.

She also explains why the guys love it.

"One guy into the injured woman look told me that the reason he likes it is because he loves the idea of seeing a thin woman's body wrapped in bandages because it looked kind of like bondage and made him want to protect her from harm. I think those wearing the bandages get on well with the guys who want to look after them because they don't want them to get hurt."

And they have more interviews in the article with a psychologist and a porn novelist, who both have intriguing and differing views on this trend. See the article for their views (linked below).

This may only be gaining momentum only in Akihabara, but I'm sure this will spread like wildfire to the rest of Japan pretty soon (since girls in bandages tend to show more skin as you can see).

[Source: Mainichi via GridSkipper]

Turn Your World Upside Down

Did that just mess your head up? Nope, you're not seeing an illusion. The upside down house is not caused by some freak of nature but a deliberate action by some really rich guy in Poland. This polish philanthropist wants to remind people of wrongdoings (note the typo by Reuters in the link below) against humanity through this house.

And apparently it works really well. Workers that built this upside down house needed to rest every few hours while visitors get sick after just a few minutes in it. Just looking at the video may make you puke! Ok, I'm exaggerating.


But seriously, now you know the secret of getting people to listen to you.

Step 1: Get an upside down house.
Step 2: Lock people in it and throw away the key.
Step 3: Loop your desired message until they puke.
Step 4: Profit!

[Source: Reuters]

Impossible Quiz 2

It's Impossible Quiz 2! The sequel to Impossible Quiz. More crazy nonsense testing your speed, skill, brains and mouse dexterity. To see what you're getting yourself into, watch someone play the Impossible Quiz in record time.

Now you got all warmed up and you're ready for anything! Time to to conquer Impossible Quiz 2! First person who completes it gets a prize from =Splapp-me-do! (Warning: Very addictive/11Mb flash file)


Oh you need help? Already? Visit =Splapp-me-do's forum for help, answers, tips, walkthroughs. Or you can try asking here.

Update: I found some video walkthroughs. FYI: There are more than 100 questions!







[Link: The Impossible Quiz 2 by =Splapp-me-do]

The Most Ambitious Spiders Ever

These are the world's most ambitious spiders. This spider web at the Texas Park Trail is so massive and widespread that its brownish tint comes from the dead mosquitoes and insects trapped in it. What were those spiders thinking? How about taking over the world one park trail at a time? Nah, I think they're just singing

"SPIDER TEAM

SPIDER TEAM

Does whatever a SPIDER TEAM does

Can we swing

from a web?

Sure we can!

We are spiders!

LOOK OOOUUUTTT!!!!

We are a SPIDER TEAM!!"
[Source: ABC News]

How Do You Go To School?

I bet it's nothing as exciting or dangerous as this. Most people walk, run or take a bus/car to school, but these kids have got balls of steel. Their mode of transport? A steel cable! And it's suspended a few hundred meters above a river gouge! Any mistake and you're dead. Just to get to school. I think I'll stay at home. Plunging to a watery death is just not my cup of tea.

By the way, while it does get a bit draggy, there's a twist at the end of the video. Be sure to watch till the end!


[Source: Noob.us via digg]

Introducing the multi-mini roundabout

Digger thommykno: That's incredible. How could that improve traffic flow?
Digger Blackmane: It doesn't, it annoys people so much that they take a different route and complete avoid the situation.

Lol, and I thought normal four lane roundabouts were bad.

Source: Digg