You win. Perfect.

Street Fighter was one of the biggest games of the mid 90s. If you didn't play this game, you definitely missed out and if I could count the number of quarters that I spent at the arcade... Well, let's say that it would be a lot quarters. I'm sure there are dedicated blogs on what some would call the best fighting game ever made.

Street Fighter II has been re-released in full HD glory! Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix (available only on Xbox Live Arcade and Playstation Network) is a pixel-for-pixel recreation of the game. From the character select all the way through to backgrounds and endings, the entirety of the game has been redrawn!

-- from Joystiq

Are you drooling yet? Cause that wasn't even the point of this post. Or was it... To commemorate the new game, several artists have put out tracks. Here's one of them.

Redman + Oh No on the boards + Street Fighter samples = FIRE

Get it

Tomorrow is U.S. Election Day

20 and counting

The Simpsons, TV's longest-running American sitcom, is on tap for at least three more seasons, The New York Post reports.

"The cast is signed for three more years, so I would now say it's about a 90 percent chance we'll come back for at least one of those three," Al Jean, the show's executive producer, said. "I actually think it's better than a 50 percent chance we'll do three more years of this at least."

At the moment, The Simpsons is tied with 20-season-long Gunsmoke, which also ran 20 years, as the longest-running scripted series, drama or comedy, ever.

-- from enewsi.com

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Do you think that the upcoming American presidential election will be any different than the last two? These people may convince or change your mind, depending on where it was in the first place.

"A quantum leap"

7 years ago today, a device that we're all too familiar with was introduced to the world. The iPod would forever change the way that we listen to and buy music.

Some highlights:
- ultra portable (size of a deck of cards)
- 20 minute skip protection (y'all remember 3 second anti-skip on your portable cd players? that ish would skip all the time!)
- 5 GB (1000 songs)
- 10 hours of playback (read: bullshit)

I think Steve Jobs has a time machine and goes to the future to find out what Apple should bring out next. Everyone else is just playing catch up.

What's Next...

More robots. This time, "bizarre Japanese fighting robots".

I wonder how long these robots would last with the raptor? They don't stand a chance. The raptor would go to town!

What's Next...

Can anyone say "robot pizza delivery"? It would never be late!

But seriously... We keep building smarter and smarter robots. How long before the machines actually do take over?

Only You Can Silence Yourself

Declare Yourself, the national nonpartisan, nonprofit youth voter initiative is launching a powerful print and viral campaign aimed at energizing young adults to register and vote in the 2008 election. The campaign, entitled, “Only You Can Silence Yourself,” features Jessica Alba (The Fantastic Four, Sin City) in a series of images by renowned photographer Mark Liddell. The striking photographs feature Alba quite literally silenced—with gags and masks stifling her voice as a citizen. The photos are available for download at www.DeclareYourself.com, and can be circulated virally; they will also be featured in national publications this fall.

"I really don’t see the point in not registering to vote,” said Alba. “We sign up for MySpace pages and Facebook pages, and download music off the internet. The least people can do is register to vote online, actually making a difference in their world, not just making their lives a little bit cooler. It makes more sense to spend your time making a change in society—and it actually doesn’t take that much time! It takes more time to make a music playlist than it does to register to vote."

-- from enewsi.com

Ms. Alba speaks the truth. But will people actually listen? Would you listen?

Not Cool Hogan, Woooooo

Awoke early today (not by choice) = Not Cool
Awoke early today (not by choice) to learn that former boyhood hero, 18 time world champion wrestling legend Ric Flair had been assaulted by his daughter's boyfriend = Extremely Not Cool

Cops: Ric Flair roughed up by daughter's boyfriend
By MARLON A. WALKER – 18 hours ago
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Most of former professional wrestler Ric Flair's fights were scripted. But Chapel Hill, N.C., police didn't find anything fake about the blood and bruises on the Nature Boy after a fight with his daughter's 22-year-old boyfriend.

Neither man was charged, but Flair's daughter, Ashley Elizabeth Fliehr, was charged for resisting police after the 22-year-old became belligerent and kicked an officer, Chapel Hill police Lt. Kevin Gunter said Tuesday.

Neighbors called police about 2:30 a.m. Friday about a fight at an apartment in the city about 30 miles northwest of Raleigh. The fight was over, but officers followed a trail of blood to Fliehr's apartment.

She told police the men had fought but it was over and things were fine. Officers found the 59-year-old Flair, whose real name is Richard Fliehr, on a bed in the back room. The boyfriend was in another part of the apartment.

Flair admitted fighting with the boyfriend but he didn't want to press charges, Gunter said. Gunter refused to give the boyfriend's name because he was not charged.

"He was kind of elusive," Gunter said of Flair. "He said everything was fine. Officers said he had a 'no problems here' kind of attitude. He just wanted everything forgotten."

To respect the Nature Boy's legacy, the link below is required viewing. At :17 seconds is absolute classic material - Flair takes off his shoes and screams "my shoes cost more than your house!"

Styrobot

Kevin Kelly saved styrofoam packaging for 5 years and then made this robot out of it. Some call it geeky, we call it gully. Look how humble Kevin is too, standing with his hands behind his back. Click on the pic above for the full story. Recycling is cool, kids!

NASA confirms Windows virus reached outer space

Ah, Microsoft, but let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. And you can't reach a whole lot higher than the International Space Station (ISS), which NASA this week revealed had a few extra astronauts on board last month - a Windows Virus known as Gammima.AG.

This virus, which affects Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP machines, was first detected on Earth in August last year before heading off on its unexpected journey into space. Gammima AG is widely used to steal log-in data for online games in the Far East, the BBC reports. And the virus was carried to the station on laptops infected by the virus.

Gets better: "Nasa said it was not the first time computer viruses had travelled into space and it was investigating how the machines were infected."

Probably because the machines on the Space Station are running an insecure operating system, known as Windows, we reckon.

Space news website SpaceRef broke the story about the virus on the laptops that astronauts took to the ISS.

Oh - and it's possible that some of us Earth-dwellers could have been infected by a computer virus sent from space: "The laptops infected with the virus were used to run nutritional programs and let the astronauts periodically send e-mail back to Earth," says the BBC. And the laptops used by astronauts don't have anti-virus software installed.

-- from www.9to5mac.com

This will come in handy

60 million rounds per second!

Hypothetical situation: somehow, the need arises for a gun that can fire 1,000,000 (read ONE MILLION) rounds per minute.

PAUSE.

I repeat, one million rounds per minute.

I would almost rather be nuked than to be the target of that gun. You know this world has taken a turn for the worse when we have guns that can fire one million rounds per minute.

The Circle of Life

A classic Apple ad from the late '90s. That guy at the end is set to receive a cool $10 million from Microsoft in a new $300 million 'Anti-Apple' ad campaign.

Maybe they should have used that money for R&D for Vista?

To add even more insult to injury, that ad ran during the final episode of Seinfeld. Microsoft just doesn't get it, do they?

-- from www.9to5mac.com

The Classroom of the Present

Classroom at Abilene Christian University

Does anyone remember using a pen and a piece of paper? Imagine asking that to your grandkids! Imagine seeing their bewildered faces and asking, "you used to write stuff down on paper?!?"

Wait till you get to break out one of your old mixtapes that you dubbed from the radio! Ah the good ol' days... Sitting by that tape deck, waiting patiently with your fingers on 'play' & 'record'.

Emily

Emily was created by Image Metrics in California, the same company that created the graphics for the game Grand Theft Auto.

She is not real.

Emily was produced using a new modelling technology that enables the most minute details of a facial expression to be captured and recreated.

She is considered to be one of the first animations to have overleapt a long-standing barrier known as 'uncanny valley' - which refers to the perception that animation looks less realistic as it approaches human likeness.

“Ninety per cent of the work is convincing people that the eyes are real,” Mike Starkenburg, chief operating officer of Image Metrics, said.

“The subtlety of the timing of eye movements is a big one. People also have a natural asymmetry - for instance, in the muscles in the side of their face. Those types of imperfections aren’t that significant but they are what makes people look real.”

Massive fire at Toronto propane depot forces thousands to flee

Video Footage: See 1:50 for massive fireball

Comedian Bernie Mac dies aged 50

Actor and comedian Bernie Mac has died at the age of 50.

Wow.

And the Award for Lamest iPhone App Goes to...

Developer Armin Heinrich (and we hesitate to call him a “developer”) has made his mark on Apple App Store history by creating what is undoubtedly the most ridiculous application in mobile phone history.

In fact, if Heinrich makes even a single sale with the app we would say that society has collectively failed.

What does “I Am Rich” do exactly? Nothing. It’s a $1,000 app that is intended to be a status symbol; it sits on your phone and displays the odd image shown above when you open it.

-- from www.boygeniusreport.com


8 idiots bought the $1000 image

The LA Times blog is reporting that the infamous, limited edition "I am Rich" application was purchased by six Americans, one Frenchman and one German. That's right. These guys gave the developer, Armin Heinrich, a total of $5,600 dollars and Apple $2,400 for what effectively is a 320x480 pixel Photoshopped picture of a jewel.

Is it Art?...

We could bring up the discussion of whether this is a study in exclusivity in the digital world and a harbinger of things to come...however, it is just too stupid to to put it through scrutiny. It really is too bad that giving $1000 to the WWF or a charity doesn't give people that same kind of buzz and recognition.

-- from www.9to5mac.com