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A good thing the linesmen broke this up when they did, because I think that that goon Alexander Semin was planning a devastating "pinkbelly" attack that could have effectively ended both players' careers.

Despite the name, there's little "defence" to be had in this game/propaganda piece. Go ahead, set up your little men like you were playing some variant of Tower Defence. It doesn't matter how or where; they're doomed beneath relentless waves of Israeli air and armor attacks. You'd think someone would have warned Hamas about that.

Play. Warning: Music and SFX.

son-of-a-goat who doesn't get the memo.

Cracked:

In Real Life

The hackers would first go right for her MySpace, filling it with tons of gay porn. Then, upon figuring out that her online banking password was "PASSWORD" they would "steal her identity" in the sense that they would use her credit card to buy tons of anime porn DVDs. The final act of this drama would be Bullock cancelling the card by filling out several forms while sighing in annoyance. Also, we notice that Sandra Bullock's character is portrayed as a hopeless loner. In the real world, a computer geek who was female and looked like Bullock would have approximately 375 male "friends" orbiting around her on a daily basis, staring hungrily each time she turned her back and always trying to surreptitiously smell her hair.

Given that this is a commercial for Durex condoms, be advised that it may be NSFW. You might want to turn down the sound, too.

Be further warned that it's as funny as hell.

Short "outtakes" here.

The latest craze is using Microsoft's Songsmith (download a trial version here) to remix famous songs. Basically you sing into it and the software builds the chord progressions to match the melody and the rhythm to fit the style (rock, blues, jazz, etc.)

In the example below, someone isolated Sting's vocal track from the song "Roxanne" and set it to what sounds like . . . cruise ship calypso? That's not as much of a musical stretch as it initially might seem. Most people would describe the original as "reggae," and it does have some similarities to that style, notably Andy Summers' choppy guitar chords. But Sting originally wrote the song to a bossa nova beat and changed it to a tango at drummer Stewart Copeland's suggestion. Wikipedia.

It just fits with my theory that, given sufficient amplification, all musical genres approach cosmic oneness and/or cause the (real) police to be summoned.

Pitchfork has some other examples from the likes of Radiohead, Van Halen and The Doobie Brothers. Or if you have the time (and stomach) for it, here are numerous other examples on YouTube.

I think I'll pick up a copy of the software -- it's only 30 bucks and I've spent a lot more for things that aren't half the fun.

Via Neatorama