Wikipedia's list of the classic "Hello, world" program in various experimental/joke programming languages is pretty hilarious. I recommend: Choon, HQ9+, Piet, TRANSCRIPT, and, finally, Wierd.

I've been neglecting this sidebar again, but anyway: Here's Trusty Bell, a new RPG where you play as Frederic Chopin. Yes, anime-style Frederic Chopin.

Soul Calibur IV confirmed. Can't wait. (Online plz.) p.s. Can't wait. So they may have been talking about Soul Calibur III Arcade. (Still, SC4 online plz.)

Nintendo to release Wii-compatible classic controllers? Have there been any bad developments with the Wii so far at all? I mean, besides it not being available right now?

Lyrebird's mating call mimics sounds of local wildlife, machinery

Uwe Boll is officially insane: "...Critics will be flown into Vancouver and [...] have the opportunity to put on boxing gloves and enter a boxing ring to fight Uwe Boll."

City of Chicago Transparent street sign illusions by Cayetano Ferrer

8 terabytes on your desktop. I thought I was looking at something else until I saw the mouse there. (And how will you ever fit 8TB of MP3s onto an iPod??)

It was pretty much a YouTube weekend over here in linkland. Here's the roundup (listed top-to-bottom this time):

» Deeply frightening Bollywood cover of "I Want to Hold Your Hand." WHAT IS WRONG WITH THEIR FACES

» Daigo Umehara's Balrog = tyranny. (Skip to the end when he picks Balrog.) Daigo was also responsible for my favorite video of all time.

» Gnarls Barkley (and Borat) at the MTV Movie Awards. Stormtrooper + guitar = awesome.

» Dance Dance Counter Revolución. Anti-bueno!

» It's impossible to be sad while watching the dancing skeleton.

» Ouendan Live! I can almost figure out what's going on!

» Not particularly uplifting simulation of a meteorite collision with Earth. Dude, meteors suck.

» Best for last: "AH, I'LL BUY IT AT A HIGH PRICE!" Mega64 takes on one of the greatest characters in gaming.

AICN on recent revelations about the upcoming original Star Wars rereleases: "[Lucas] took something I loved and bastardised my memory of it so often and in so many ways, that I've now moved past the stage of anger; simply put, I no longer care." I was looking forward to getting those undoctored DVDs, but after reading this I think I agree. I'm really sad about that.

Battlefield 2: The P**** Life: Hysterical sendup of all those guys you run into playing BF2 online. If only everyone was more like the stalwart assault trooper. First one to a plane gets TK'd!

Cory Doctorow visits a Radio Shack. creativecommons mashup katamari anagram drm

To make the wait for Guitar Hero 2 a little easier, you can try out Shamisen Brothers (as long as you live in Japan).

I love this quote over at Kotaku in response to Jack Thompson going nuts over games again: "Nobody slaps fourteen-year-old girls in the face unless you're a Hot Dog on a Stick employee or a dating sim enthusiast." (You may need to read the rest of the post for the full effect.)

You've probably seen the standard Mentos fountain, but these guys take it to the next level.

"I told them I had one hand full of snake and the other hand full of plane." I wonder if there's still time to fit that line into the movie.

Incredible shredding scissors can destroy a stack of paper just by pointing them at it.

"It seemed to be some kind of man... Some kind of... Pac-Man."

"Hope every-ting is all right." Richard Cheese needs to get in on this.