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The National Council of Churches and the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life are teaming up to convince us that Jesus would certainly not drive an SUV, so neither should you. Well, it turns out they are right. Jesus, in fact, drives a Buick LeSabre. I know this because I stayed at the same Holiday Inn Express as Him once in Virginia, where I took a picture of His car. You might think it would be pretty cool to share a hotel with Jesus. Honestly though, the steady stream of monks singing Gregorian Chant in the hallways at all hours got to be pretty tiresome.

retroCRUSH presents the Arcade Game Challenge, in which you need to identify the 27 screenshots of classic arcade games. I’m confident that I know all but one (#2); how about you?

This page compares panoramic images of Seattle’s waterfront taken in 2002 and 1907 from the same vantage point. Some cool transitioning effects are used (only if you’re using IE, though) to highlight the differences between past and present.

Why nobody bid on this rare, exciting item offered on ebay I just don’t know. Maybe it reminds people of Butch’s watch in Pulp Fiction or something…

Actor James Coburn has died of a massive heart attack at the age of 74. 🙁

I’ve made several posts about how great MAME is. For those of you not in the know, it’s a program that emulates over 3,000 arcade games, allowing you to play them on your PC. I just found out that in the latest version (.62), there is support for the Bradley Trainer that was made for the U.S. Army from the game Battlezone. The page has a bunch of screenshots, as well as the ROM binaries that are required for MAME to run the game.

As this article at retroCRUSH points out, the arcade game is much better than the movie, although I happen to like the movie. There was so much to like about the arcade game, and as much as I miss it even my MAME emulator and X-Arcade Controller can’t do the real arcade controls justice, unfortunately.

The EP-3 surveillance aircraft that a Chinese fighter jet collided with 16 months ago made its first test flight since the incident. It will eventually return to duty, and I *so* hope it resumes flights off the coast of China.

Dalton Ghetti’s sculptures are unique, mostly because of the medium he uses. Ghetti sculpts out of the lead at the end of pencils, producing surprisingly intricate, delicate miniature works. I can’t imagine the patience (and broken lead) that it must take to do this…

Most of you have probably played the game of making porn film names from real movies. Well, this page seems to have a definitive list, if that’s possible. Oh, and I’ll go out on a limb and will classify this as NSFW.