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If I knew you were coming I'd've baked a cake.EIGHT-BIT BIRTHDAY!19.05.10
So… there’s been not much posting lately; but what better opportunity to start putting some crap here, then Michael Michael Motorcycle’s birthday. I think he’s, like, 35 or something by now. Old, anyway.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MR. AMATOSAUCE!
Metallicapella22.04.10
What’s that? You like Metallica, but think that there’s, well…, just a little too much guitar in it for you? Well have I got news for you!
Move over, Apocalyptica, there’s a new game in town: Van Canto.
(I know it seems stupid at first, but give it a chance. It actually turns out to be pretty amazing, all things considered.) Their “Master of Puppets” might even be better than their “Battery”.
Who would have thought you could get four-part (or five?) harmony on Metallica!
P.S. Mike, this background’s all for you. But wait, THERE’S MORE! Here’s a free bonus alternative background image.
P.P.S. Don’t use the fancy new “hide everything and show background” button while the video is playing, or it’ll just go back to the beginning when you show it again. :(
Pixels13.04.10
EDIT: FUCK YOU, FUCK AMATOSAUCE, FUCK VIMEO, AND FUCK PEOPLE POSTING MY FAVOURITEST NEW THING EVER, 3 HOURS BEFORE I DO. (P.S. I STILL HAVE THE BETTER BGI!)
Okay, I’m not exaggerating when I say that I saw this video yesterday, and it’s already one of my most favourite videos on the internet, ever! (Yes, Nick & Tom, more than silly animal videos.)
It’s a little bit twee, and maybe the idea isn’t original (I don’t know).
But the idea is still genius, and the execution is exceptional.
The only downside is that I am absolutely gutted that we didn’t think of it first. (Especially since Mike would have the domain name for it already.)
It’s embedded below, but I would recommend full-screening it; it just looks nicer.
Oh, apparently, there’s a longer version at the guy’s site, but that video didn’t play for me.
(P.S. If one of you CG nerds says “Well, actually, they’re not pixels at all… they’re actually voxels!”, I’m going to break a bottle of AmatoSauce over your head.)
(P.P.S. Vimeo says it was only uploaded yesterday, so I’m safe from the “OLLLLLLLLD!” haterade.)
Big Dog12.04.10
Fuck Tim Westwood, this is the real Big Dog!
Boston Dynamics’ Big Dog Robot (for videos, description, etc.)
I honestly can’t decide which is greater: how absolutely fucking creepy this thing is, or how impressive it actually is.
*REAL* Glasgow Football11.04.10
Right, forget your fucking Glasgow Rangers and sodding Glasgow Celtic, and even your poxy Partick Thistle.
There is, and has only ever been, ONE Glaswegian football team; and they are the Glasgow Diamonds.
They are the Diamonds.
They come from Glasgow.
They’re here to play football
Football’s their game.
Fuckin’-a!
Bask in their awesomeness:
Bask in it.
Panniculus10.04.10
Not enough chlorine in the gene pool09.04.10
ONE POINT TWENTY-ONE GIGAWATTS!31.03.10
I thought I’d raise the tone here at AmatoSauce slightly, by doing some hard core science. (I know that some readers wouldn’t know a Higgs Boson from a mirror fermion.) But that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the following, a little chance to celebrate the awesomeness of the Large Hadron Collider (which has finally started smashing particles!)
So, despite all the warnings, and crazy people, saying how it would kill us all, the LHC is online and kicking some scientific ass, and I think we should all celebrate that!
For example, I would recommend checking out the live webcams, from the LHC itself, near Geneva.
(That’s just a still image, you have to click on it to view the webcams. Worth watching for a minute or two, just to marvel in the awesomeness of science.)
Fuck. This. Shit.29.03.10
Check out this interesting video where someone’s got a creepy glove, and grabs a cricket.
At least, that’s what I assume it is.
There’s no way it’s a real spider, despite what everyone else, and the Wikipedia, says.
It’s not. There’s no such thing, and there’s no fucking way this thing exists in nature.
Nope. Not true.
FALSE!
All the other countless similar videos on YouTube? Also fakes. People are determined to keep this myth alive.
Tom: I warn you, if you comment, saying “Oh strewth, we’ve got loads of them little blighters over here, you flamin’ galah!”, then well, I think it’s safe to say I’m petitioning the Home Office to prevent you (and anyone else travelling from Australia) to never be allowed back into Britain again. Just to be safe. No offense; nothing personal.
(Alternative title for this post: “Take off and nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”)
Stop hitting yourself. Stop hitting yourself.26.03.10
(From Married to the Sea.)
I dunno, it makes me laugh.
