News You Can Bruise for 2008 December 24

The image is from the Myspace page of Mike Howard (left), a friend of mine from Arvin High, taken during his tour of duty in Iraq. There were other, less ridiculous photos, but why choose one of those? I'd like to get back in touch with Mike but apparently not badly enough to create a Myspace account. Mike, if you see this, send me email.

• Remember how much you liked the Iron Man trailer? If you're not me, I mean.
• The Futurist Manifesto in translation. Live the not-well-thought-out-ness! "[S]trong healthy Injustice will shine radiantly from their eyes."
• Hidden Palace is still putting out ROMs of old unreleased and prototype console games.
• Speaking of old game consoles, I still rely on racketboy.com as a guide to which old games are worth my time.
• The Video Game Name Generator. Video games made using a VGNG name as a starting point.
• A lot of datasets.
• Some Spamusement cartoons for which the captions have been lost.
• Norman Mailer's lEGO city.