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July 19, 2006
Stuff Etc... Now With Even More Transformers!
I hope you're all enjoying slightly less hellish weather, as we here in Practically Canada are. (The cold front moved through yesterday, brought some rain -- which actually lowered temperatures instead of just cranking up the already-high humidity -- and now we're enjoying sunny but not face-melting weather. Yay, Canadian air!)
Anyway, this seems like a good time to blog about some of the tabs I've got cluttering up my browser window. So without any further ado...
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I mentioned a while ago that Michael Bay is directing a live-action Transformers movie. This image and video clip of Autobot leader Optimus Prime got lots and lots and lots of play on the 'net, purportedly as early tech tests for the movie's special effects. As Tech Blog explains, that's not true.
However, now Ain't It Cool News has leaked a still shot of the semi truck form of Optimus from the film. (The picture has been removed from AICN, but it's all over the place now.)
Old-school fans of the animated series notice anything different? Here's the classic Optimus:
So? (The fine, fine people at Penny Arcade share their reaction.) Discuss.
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I was reading some blogs this weekend after a mini-blog-holiday, and I got the unshakeable feeling that things are bad. Very, very bad. (Strangely enough, I don't seem to be the only one with this suspicion -- Lindsay Beyerstein guest-blogged as much at The Accented One's, though for slightly different reasons.)
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If you're not feeling particularly depressed yourself yet about the way the world is heading, why not watch this amazing computer simulation of what would happen if the Earth were struck by an enormous meteor. Not "could happen." "Would happen."
(This is via Grumpy Gamer, who also points us to this handy flow chart to make the coming Armageddon easier to follow.)
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And finally, for today, if you've ever contemplated digging a hole to China, this handy web toy from the incomparable zefrank is for you. Though you should have learned long ago that you cannot dig to China from the U.S.A. (by tunneling through the center of the Earth, as, of course, you should). Go ahead and check it out. (Click and drag the map underneath either of the map panes, and the other will show the point directly opposite on the globe.) You'll see.
Posted by reparent at July 19, 2006 4:14 PM
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