A what grenade? Are you serious?? WoW, what has science doooooooone?

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NASA is giving everyone a chance right now to see what goes on before and during a shuttle liftoff with the Atlantis crew. God speed to those crew members.

After watching the above video of these people showing off his skills on the New Super Mario Bros Wii, make sure to pick up your jaw as you might drag it on the floor.

We have just heard from a reliable source that some of the unrevealed characters that will be in Super Street Fighter 4 are actually characters from Street Fighter 3. Even though Capcom has been very tight lipped about the other 8 new characters in the game, we will try and find out which ones as soon as we can. Anyone care to take any guesses? There was this one photo of Dudley VS Balrog from Justin Wong’s blog. Could this match up really be true? Or is it just a really good photoshop job of a wishful fan?

We’ll just have to wait and see.

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So, I got the chance to hang out with Joe Peacock this past Thursday after a book signing he did at a Borders at the Stonestown Galleria in San Francisco. For those of you who where unable to make it but were curious to see what Joe had to say. Unfortunately, due to poor planning, my battery died about five minutes before Joe finished, so it cuts out at the end. Also, Joe is a really funny guy, so laughing at everything he said caused the camera to shake a lot and unfortunately I had no tripod. Also, you may want to turn up the volume on this if you want to hear him clearly.

If you who don’t know who Joe Peacock is, that tells me two things: 1) You don’t listen to our podcast and 2) You’re missing out. Why? Let’s just say Joe’s lived a pretty interesting life and the stories he tells are almost unbelievable and widely entertaining to read. So much so that he got a publishing deal with Penguin Books. His book, the first to be published by a major publisher, entitled Mentally Incontinent: That Time I Burned Down a Hooters, That Time My Stalker Crashed on My Couch, and Nine Other Stories from My Weird Life was recently released and he was nice enough to invite me out to the Stonestown Galleria in San Francisco for a book-signing event he was having. I had never met Joe in person up until that point, my interactions with him based solely around our the times he guest starred on our podcast, so I was excited to actually meet him in person. What can I say, I love meeting people and Joe seemed like a cool enough guy.
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This kid filmed a stop motion LEGO presentations about cloud formations, lighting and thunderstorms. This kid is way better than you. Rethink your life now.

Andrew, James, and I have been through a couple of Web Design/Development jobs in our careers. Here is some hilarious and sometimes irritating phrases or requests from clients that we have personally heard. If you’re a web designer or developer, you’ll immediately connect with this list because we’ve all been through it. The list is formatted with phrases one of us heard, then our comments on it. If you have any more to add to the list below, post it in the comments.

From James:

- That should only take you ## time right?
Yes. Because you know exactly how much time it takes to develop or design something because you have done it yourself. Don’t tell the designer/developer how long it’ll take. We’ll tell you.

- That should be easy to do/add.
Have you ever heard that saying “easier said than done?” Well this applies here. Let the designer/developer to you if it’s easy or hard and trust us on our word.  Because designing isn’t as easy as WordArt and developing isn’t as easy as drag-and-drop.

- It needs to be fully animated but under 25kb.
If you don’t understand the concept of filesize, don’t expect a designer/developer to stuff a bunch of animations and videos into your flash intro.

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Welcome to Pixelated Geek’s Weekly Tech Wrap-up, a quick and humorous run through of some smaller stories from the world of consumer electronics and technology.

First batter up is the hideous looking OpenOffice Mouse. This beast features a full 18 buttons, 63 programmable profiles and even an analogue joystick! What more could you want from an instant carpel tunnel surgery inducing monstrosity? How about a soon to hit street price of $75 (£45)? Obviously not a fan of the Magic Mouse, a World of Warcraft-loving gamer decided his mouse didn’t have enough buttons and went ahead and set up a company to do it better. WarMouse is aiming this at the OpenOffice, MMO playing crowd and they might go potty over it, but I think I’ll stick to my trusty Logitech thanks. (more…)