Come Fly With Me

Posted by Pasta

Spreading Santorum and Other Amazing Things That Are Completely Awesome

Posted by JG


So first off, this is just to get Dan Savage's campaign to fuck with former (then present) Senator Rick Santorum back to the top of Google searches.

Spreading Santorum is a great site that redefines Santorum. The new definition is as such:

The frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex.

Amazing, no? The reason for this was because (former) Senator Rick Santorum was such a fucking asshole about gay issues and sex issues in general; he was also a total piece of shit about everything, but I don't know if Dan Savage cares about anything but butt-fucking and dildos.

Check out Dan Savage's amazing sex advice column by clicking here.

It's totally worth it.


And maybe Dan Savage will finally get some gay community love from congress because Arlen Specter has officially switched parties and is now a Democrat, which means that when Al Franken (fingers crossed) gets seated we'll finally have a 60 seat, filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. That could potentially mean that we could have free health care, better school funding, amazing environmental policy, and mandatory blowjobs from SourPix (he's down -- trust me).

Now, Arlen Specter is a known summabitch when it comes to voting party lines, but the fact that he switched parties after 25 some odd years means he'll probably be on his best behavior for the next year and a half until the 2010 elections. So yay.

Here's the story from the good folks at MSNBC:

Of course, Chris Matthews had something to say about all this. While he's kind of a sour douche about it, and you have to fast forward in the video to get to Matthews, he does spittle on himself a little bit and its awesome. Enjoy:

While I might be home with a fatal case of Swine Flu, mindlessly getting the left-wing propaganda i miss so much from campaign season, I still had the brain capacity to find this , the most amazing and religiously offensive game of the moment.



I'm not sure how long this will last, because Muslim groups are all in a tiff about the use of the "prophet" Mohammed, so get your playing in soon.

My Flow So Tight by the Smoke Jumpers.

Posted by Pasta

Cinderella, Rhythm & Blues

Posted by Pasta

I am finally waking up from my cocaine & R&B binge that I have been having for some time now. I never would have guessed that those two vices would work so beautifully together. If you feel the need to do so your self you need to check out The-Dream Love vs. Money

or for extra smoothness The point of it all Anthony Hamilton.


on another note tho, this Special Ed - The Message killing me! Its whats up





(ed Note: We can fully attest to the fact that Pasta has a terrible cocaine habit, and an even worse R&B habit, and was probably dabbling with both while writing this post.)

Best Commercial Ever for Papa John's

Posted by JG

Remember when southern gay men did a bunch of meth and got really gross? Well now they work at Domino's and they're grosser than ever! Check out these videos posted for some dumb reason by a fellow Domino's emplyoee/enabling lesbian.





Now I'm not sure why, other than the fact that these are two gay people, but these videos came out (get it?) on some random gay website that I'd never heard of because, despite the wishes of eligible gay bachelors across the globe, I don't swing that way. Check out more videos and a response from Domino's here, if you're so inclined. The rest really aren't that great though.

Peace, bitches!

(ed. Note: we here at nerdout do not condone any of this and really wish JG hadn't posted these videos. but we still love that the 2nd video is entitled "Poopie dishes")

Buby, There's a Lot You Don't Know

Posted by JG



Old Jews Telling Jokes

This is an amazing little website that does one thing and they do it well. Go there for weekly dirty jokes told by the funniest people in the world -- old Jews. My dad seriously loves this site and is the only site he's ever bothered to go to for video content. I'm pretty sure he steals the jokes to tell his gym buddies and you will too.

L'chaim

You're Not Real Unless You Know This Shit. Period.

Posted by RMM



Ok, so I went to a hippie art school for college. A large majority of my second semester in my second year was spent smoking blunts, drinking coca cola, eating snickers bars, and learning the star wars gangsta rap. Get to studying nerds. 

MJ Makes Me Weep Like A 40 Year Old European

Posted by JG



Okay, Rhymefest is probably never gonna blow up, despite winning a Grammy for co-writing (probably really writing) "Jesus Walks" for Kanye West (see below). He's not handsome, he never sold drugs, he makes good music with an interesting, sometimes positive message, and he's not really that cool... But he is a total music nerd.





Now Rhymefest has let his nerdy freak flag fly with Man in the Mirror, a great mixtape made with a whole lot of help from producer du jour Mark Ronson. Its a great tribute album that samples Michael Jackson songs and steals audio from interviews with hilarious and funky results. And its free.

Yeah, its free.

Rather than dealing with copyright laws and all that, Rhymefest has decided to do it strictly for the love of music and release it for free.


Preview the whole album and more at Rhymefest's official site.

Skip the preview and download the entire album now!


I hope you enjoy the silliness and odd genius as much as I do..





Nerd, out!

Even Keyboard Cat Can't Make THIS Funny.

Posted by Joshem

So, I dunno if you heard about the best new internet phenomenon, but if you haven't its called, "Play him off keyboard cat."
Basically people have been editing together random youtube clips of generally horrible shit, with the cutest youtube video possible of a tabby in a t-shirt playing a keyboard. Some really smart motherfucker started to post them all to the link below:

Play Him Off Keyboard Cat.

Shit makes me laugh. So much so that I decided that I had to make my own and I went out to make the most evil keyboard cat evarrr.

So far it hasn't been posted on the offical site, but here's the video on youtube.

Nuts To You

Posted By JG

I found this amazing video here at the Huffington Post.

And here's the Kanye song from South Park. Its pretty amazing.



And really, the funniest part of that episode was how they took the time to put Kanye's real crew in there! Holy shit that was funny..





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Hand Of God OR Crisis on Infinite Earths? You Be the Judge.

Posted by KRSJams

Either this is a beautiful cosmic nebula. . . or we are on the verge of Infinite Worlds Colliding!

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

This shit is seriously spooky; if you wanna get the facts straight to impress faux intellectuals like JG check out this article about the Cosmic Hand That Reaches for the Light from Space.com.

Or if you just wanna flex your DC Universe history check out the knowledge from DC COMICS.com

Evil divine intervention is sweet! Look out for New Earth, and the Anti-Monitor!

(ed. note: we really have no clue what the fuck any of this stuff means, but we just peed a little in our tracksuit. And JG is seriously a faux intellectual)

Snikt

Posted by JG

I guess you don't want to watch a DVD quality advanced copy of X:Men blah blah blah Wolverine... Oh wait! You do? Fine, here ya go.

Logan keep it crunk.

Update:

So they took it off the site due to something called "infringement." I didn't get to see the whole thing but it was pretty lame anyway. Terrible acting all around - including will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas - and an even worse plot.

Hated it!

Update 2:
It's ba-ack! Watch this shit before they take it away again!

Update 3:
Shit! They took that one down too! This is the last one I'm putting up. I have a feeling it'll be safe for a while so check it out.

design inspiration

Posted by 2scoopz

here's a list of sites I go to to be inspired for interface and digital product design:
edit* ok now its time to get serious.

http://killedideas.com/
nuff said.

http://www.123vectors.com/
free vectors, uh, zhank yu.

http://www.behance.net/
Great site, as good as thefwa.com. multi-ball nerdout bonus on all things design.

http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/
good shit, another compilation site like smashing. I'll have to bubble up their articles from time to time.

http://psd.tutsplus.com/
uh, zhank yu chouji!

http://www.cssstyle.me/
web site design, i need to learn more about css.

http://www.ito-partners.com/
28th and 12th is a hike, but they have a purist approach to design. Clean lines.

http://erickvogel.com/
A good interactive art director.

http://www.thefwa.com

www.smashingmagazine.com

www.colourlovers.com

proprietary

Posted by Tek Lord

My Kung Fu is nearly all proprietary, but I might be able to leak some mad Know(the)Ledge soon.

Peace to the Gods And The Earths.

God Bless You Tullycast, Whoever You Are

Posted by JG

Ok, I know half of you out there can't stand Bill Maher, but I grew up on George Carlin, Public Enemy, and Politically Incorrect. Love him or hate him, Maher definitely puts the work in to make his TV show as entertaining as a political commentray show could be (stop griping about the monologues, Aresnekoff!!).. He might be a misogynistic self-righteous asshole, but I gotta say, ever since he stopped pretending to be conservative and started having actual smart people on his show (instead of just whatever flavor of the moment celebrity needed a plug), I agree with him most of the time. He also likes drugs, booze, politics, rock & roll, sports, and chicks, so judge for yourself.



I thought when I got rid of cable I would have to go over to friend's houses to watch all my favorite HBO shows (at least before they end up on TVOKAY.com or Surfthechannel.com or Quicksilverscreen). But as nerdy as I get, I still like to go out on Friday nights and have a fucking ball, or at least my friends with cable do, so I turned to youtube, which is where I discovered Tullycast.

Now up to Tullycast4, I'm pretty sure this is some guy that keeps getting booted off youtube for posting Real Time with Bill Maher in nice segments on his profile. So good luck finding him, he gets thrown off a lot, but he keeps me up to date with what I consider to be the best political show on television.

Here's some help finding the latest incarnation of Tullycast.

happy st. paddy's!

Posted by RMM

Must start my entrance to nerd out with one of my most favoritest, bestest youtube videos of all time.



Please enjoy and dont forget to eat delicious Irish soda bread and drink a proper Irish car bomb (just say no to green beer!!) in my honor.
xo

ru

Street Fighter IV Is Turning Me Into An Arthritic 10 Year Old

Posted by KrsJams

Flashback:
I am 10 years old and begging my parents to give me quarters just to embarrass some teenager when I Hadoken him to death.

Present Day:
So, not only did I pre-order Street Fighter IV, I totally splurged on the cheesy Collectors Edition. I haven't watched the half-assed anime yet, but I have played this game for hours on my couch. Addicted isn't the word, it's more like nostalgic, to the point of listening to the original Street Fighter II songs while playing the new game, just to feel like a kid again (they're awesome, check them out here). Seriously, I just can't help but think about the early arcade days in my hometown of Manhattan in New York City.

It must have been the summer between 4th and 5th grade when I first played this game in the back of a lotto store around the corner from my apartment. I was kind of upset because I had been kicking ass at Bad Dudes, and they switched it before I beat the game. But this game seemed different there were two joysticks and...really? Six buttons each??!

What the shit?! Most beat 'em up games had two buttons, jump and attack (with the deadly combo of jump + attack to do a special move). Even Neo Geo arcade machines only had 5 buttons, and most of the time they didn't even use all of them. Now this six button shit comes along? I soon found out just how much I needed light, medium, and fierce (later they changed it to heavy) attacks to wreck shop on strange opponents from across the globe. I think I always played as Ryu back in the day, because I could never mess with back for two seconds. I also couldn't do the dragon punch for a long time, but that's another story, Shoryuken.

So here I am, again, 10 years old and begging my parents to give me quarters just to embarrass some teenager when I Hadoken him to death. Many quarters were lost in the Arcades of Coney Island, Penn Station (there was a massive Arcade there, now it's a fucking K-Mart), and my all time favorite: Chinatown Fair.

Hidden away on Mott Street is probably the oldest/oddest Arcade in Manhattan. Chinatown Fair, the former home of The Dancing Chicken when I was a really little kid (God bless you Mom and Dad), is now the Mecca of fighting games in NYC. Today, they still have several Street Fighter II games and lots of other Capcom fighting games. The jewels in their crown right now are the four HD screens with their individual table top controls that link up for two player games.

This shit is crazy. First of all, it costs a dollar to play some guy that's been sitting there all day in some rickety-ass chair. And then he absolutely kicks my ass and I have to go to the back of the line to wait to repeat the sad process all over again. So even though its fun to try to embarrass strangers in public I much prefer demoralizing my friends at somebody's house.

I think the first home version I played was the Super Nintendo version. I played this game for so long I think I memorized all the classic music. I was finally able to do the dragon punch after someone's older brother showed me how, and I was ready stay up all night and do hurricane kicks.

I always kept up with the latest editions they released, and it wasn't long before Sega Genesis came out with the Championship Edition. Super Nintendo had six buttons, four on the face and two shoulder buttons (L and R), but Genesis only had three. At first you had to press the start button to switch from punch to kick and that was a pain in the ass, then they released the glorious six button controller. This thing was inspired, it had the exact button setup from the arcade and it changed the game at home on the Genesis.

Now, finally, after many other versions of this fighter: Alpha, EX, III, we have the next gen Street Fighter. I've been kicking ass and taking names online, so put KRSJAMS (Playstation 3 only) on your friends list and see if you got what it takes to beat this nerd!

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NERDOUT, people.

Street Fighter website

Street Fighter flash game

Here's a clip of the trailer and then a clip that shows my favorite combo in the game:

Was Watchmen faithful enough to the comic?

Posted by JG


Okay, so I've seen Watchmen twice in the past three days, so I consider myself somewhat of an expert on the movie (compared to others). I saw it the first time with two of my NERDOUT brothers who are serious enough to read the whole graphic novel before going to see the movie, and then the second time I saw it with a guy who used to like comics (including a real love for the Watchmen graphic novel) and a girl who is cool as shit but sadly has never been into comics.

I can't begin to tell you how different the reactions were. The NERDOUT crew couldn't stop complaining about "no bird-octopus" and "why keep this line but not that line" to the point of ridiculousness. The second group took it for what it was, and loved it.

To really see the devotion the graphic novel inspired, watch this fake intro to an imaginary Watchmen cartoon:


So here's my deal with the movie--

Better ending than the original comic ending that sucked. Come on!!! Bird octopus??? Fuck that. That was dumb, and even Alan Moore should know that.

Much better after seeing it twice to really catch everything (because I DIDN'T re-read it before going - although on a nerdy tip I'm reading it now). I totally forgot most things from the comic so there was a lot to digest. I wonder what the reviews would be like if every critic had to see it twice.

There was wayyyy too much blue penis. Even though I love that semi-omnipotence has led Dr. Manhattan to stop caring about clothes, I really was happy to only see his blue wangbone a few times in the comic. Here, it could have been listed as the third lead. But really, that couldn't have been avoided in a live action setting without getting too Austin Powersy. Speaking of which, did Mike Meyers really come out of the closet?


Patrick Wilson was pitch perfect as Night Owl Malin. Akerman, the girl who plays the new Silk Spectre, is totally hot, but a terrible actress. Billy Crudup was sort of not in the movie because I think it was all CGI but he was awesome anyway. Jackie Earle Haley was sick as Rorschach (who was definitely the audience favorite opening weekend). Jeffrey Dean Morgan killed it as the comedian and somehow made me actually like the character and even want to grow a mustache, so go that guy. Carla Gugino was there for five minutes; kind of a waste because she's so awesome and deserved more screen time.


My beef was that it was too short. I know, I know - it was almost three hours long. But who cares?? There was so much source material that it was crying out for a two parter a la Kill Bill. I heard the DVD version will have a ton of shit from the graphic novel that didn't make the cut so I'm happy about that.

Other than filling it with Oscar winning actors, I'm not sure how this movie could've been much better. I liked it; and not just cuz liking it means some Alan Moore fundamentalist will hate me. I actually think it's gonna have a place in my DVD collection one day. Take that, fanboy!!!!


Later, haters.

Oh my god Civilization is an addicive game!!

I'm too tired to write, but Civilization is fucking fun...

http://www.civilization.com/

Oh Lord, Thank You For FAILBLOG

Failblog is an amazing blog of epic failures. Always worth checking out.. I'll probably do the best of failblog videos one of these days, but for now here's this awesome video:



To see more amazing videos and pics, check out FAILBLOG.

In All Honesty - The Casual Games Obsession

Just throwing this out there, I get obsessed with horrible internet games. Yes, I miss Nintendo and these silly Flash games make me feel good/bad about myself.

So here's the game I'm really nerding out on right now - Castle Clout.



Sink your teeth into it, bitches.

30 Rock links

Posted by JG



Okay I'm officially obsessed with 30 Rock right now, and instead of going out and seeing friends DJ on a Friday night like a normal person I stayed up until 8 in the morning watching Tina Fey and Tracy Morgan kill it episode by episode of 30 Rock. I slept on this show pretty hard for 2 years, and while I consider it a little too cutesy, I still fucking love it to death. So here's a link to 30 Rock on Surfthechannel.com, a great website of TV and movies. Just go to the sina.com links once you're choosing a video.

30 Rock at surfthechannel.com

By the way, I now have serious mixed feelings about Tina Fey, who I used to have a real deal crush on. She's so good at being a nerd on the show that I'm almost unattracted (which is definitely NOT a real word) to her, so kudos Tina, on your amazing acting talent. And I have to say, Alec Baldwin is so God damn good on this show its unbelievable.

Update:
I'm now in season two and my crush on Tina Fey is back and better than ever.

Jean Claude Van Damme gets a hard on and you should too

ok this is a video i found that just makes the world a better place..



nonsequitor -- what the fuck is a zorse? this is a zorse.



and another great remix of david after the dentist

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