Winter Olympic Edition: SkiFree
Easily one of the greatest advances in computing achieved in the 20th Century, Ski Free (part of the totally awesome Windows Entertainment Pack that shipped with many family computers in the early 1990s) catapulted users into a pristine world of glistening snow, drunken purple ski bunnys, and ferociously hungry monsters. Probably the only Skiing game anyone has ever played, Ski Free is probably better than any of those newfangled snowboarding video games with their fancy polygons.
Missing your 16-bit skiing? Chris Pirih, the Microsoft Programmer who authored Ski Free, has recompiled the program to run under 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems. I'm running Windows 7 64-bit, and the slopes are in great shape. Get it here.
Green Police: Probably Coming For Me In My Sleep
Confession time: I did not watch the Super Bowl this last weekend. I know, I know - it was a deeply un-American thing to do. However, for a guy who wasn't born in the US-of-A, I figure I do enough 'Murican stuff (driving big cars, watching television, voting, complaining about voting, being entrepreneurial, and eating hamburgers) that I should be given a pass at least once a year.
However, just because I didn't watch the game doesn't mean that I missed out on the most American part of the spectacle: the commercials. And this year, thanks to the growing ubiquity of the internet, we were beaten to death with treated to previews of many Super Bowl ads online before they aired during the big game. Probably the most interesting of the bunch, for me, was Audi's odd "Green Police" campaign. These ads were previewed ad nauseum on the internet before the Super Bowl, causing a Jalopnik, among other blogs, to notice certain creative choices about the campaign that were totally fucking creepy a little off.
Didn't watch the game either? See the madness for yourself below.
And while the stumbling idiots who comment on YouTube videos good YouTube viewers have rated this video a miserable 3/5 stars at the time of this posting, I'm still pretty disheartened in the future of the human race to see that the Green Police channel has 417 followers.
Meanwhile, I can only hope to lure the Green Police helicopter into a high-speed pursuit.
What Do You Reckon They’d Part With One For $500?
Just Waiting To Pounce.
The gents at Speedhunters were invited into a warehouse which apparently contains heaven. More specifically, a seemingly endless line of built Evo Xs that were set aside for a spec series that never happened. Now they just sit. And wait. And look really angry. Also in the warehouse: all the kit required to run a group-N rally team. Absolutely amazing.
This Hasn’t Got A Damn Thing To Do With Us
HOWEVER, I simply couldn't let it pass. Via 11Points.
So THAT's what Ron Jeremy Looked Like in High School
Conan O’Brien From The Future: I Told You So
Also: Sent From The Future To Save Humanity From Jay Leno
Caption This!
You Know You’ve Found The Right Woman When
This is not your day job.
She gets excited when you put on the newest episode of Top Gear.
Also, when I came home with a white motorcycle helmet she looked at it and said, "Like the Stig! Awesome!"
What I Love About Cars: Cutaways
You don't see cutaways too often, but they are the true stuff of awesome. To love your creation enough to dissect it for all the world to see, oily bits and all, is the right kind of crazy. Especially since these these cutaways are usually wheeled out to show us all the big balls advanced technology on the latest and greatest cars. Unfortunately, too few automakers have the chutzpah to build a proper cutaway for the autoshow circuit, so you sometimes get stuck with a colored pencil drawing. Yawn.
Let's see some of Japan's greatest hits!
LF-A Cutaway Wireframe. Too bad they used recycled shelving to make the wireframe.
R35 GT-R lifting its skirt.
The only quick Nissan Sunny ever produced.
First Generation LS 400. We plan on doing the same thing to our car after the race.
Honda Insight, Showing off all its boring bits.
Some kind of Subaru, as is clear from the bonkers engine layout.
Last Gen RX-7. Note the absence of torque in this illustration.
Godzilla, as pictured after close inspection by the University of Toyko School of Medicine.
Gamera, similar treatment to Godzilla.
