Now you too can see The Exorcist in 30 Seconds (and re-enacted by bunnies). For additional amusement, there is also Apocalypse Now in 30 Seconds (and re-enacted by bunnies).

Oh my, and that site has all kinds of other Flash silliness too.

I just got done watching the Hikaru no Go 2004 special and dammit now I want more. When the TV show’s run finished it felt like it had run its course and it was time for it to be over. I thought the last chunk of episodes were a little bit weak. But the special has given me hope that someday we might get some more. One or two brief comments hidden in the full post so as not to spoil people.

From my friend Emily.

3-Headed Frog Found

Frog Also Has 6 Legs

Wildlife experts in Britain are stunned by the apparent discovery of a frog with three croaking heads and six legs, Local 6 News will report Friday night. [www.local6.com]

I want one of these. Can someone please please please please buy me one?

He may be a representative of the dark side, but it’s hard to resist those tiny horns and cute chubby red body. At 4 1/2 inches long, our stylish and strange Devil Duckie Drive is a High-Speed USB 2.0 (1.1 compatible) personal data storage device for people who are going places.

Isn’t this an oxymoron?

The tea bar down the street from my parent’s place has wireless. I know where I’ll be doing some work from tomorrow.

Game Girl Advance has a post up about a marketing survey that sounded pretty interesting.

The phone rang at 9am Sunday, interrupting my sleep-in. “Hello,” a low male British voice said, “I’m calling from Future Publishing in the UK – do you have time to answer a few questions?”

It was a cross-Atlantic game marketing survey. “I’m going to list a number of movies and books. Tell me if you’ve seen them, read them, heard of them.” Then he had me assign a number value – 10 would make a “brilliant game” and 1 was not worth mention.

Goodfellas? Godfather? Donnie Brasco? Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels? A Bronx Tale? Gangs of New York? The Untouchables? The Magnificent Seven? Guns of Navarone? The Great Escape? Reservoir Dogs? Pulp Fiction? Kill Bill? La Femme Nikita? The Professional? The Good the Bad and the Ugly? Apocalypse Now? The French Connection? Thunderbirds?

…

Then he asked me what books, movies or TV shows should be turned into games. What a terrific question! I hadn’t given that much thought before. I thought of a million movies and books, but it was too easy to imagine the type of game they would be. I wanted to name media that would be challenging, and perhaps beautiful, different virtual worlds for rewarding exploration. My first choice was easy:

One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. What kind of game would that make? My interviewer hadn’t heard of it – I sent him to the bookstore.

What great work would you want to see translated into a game? [gamegirladvance.com]

This makes me think of a game I had years ago called The Dark Eye, which was based on some of Edgar Allen Poe’s work. It was pretty cool, but didn’t really work that well as a game for me (though it was cool living out some of the stories).

I’m not sure what other things I’d want to try as a video game. The comments at game girl advance have some interesting ideas, like Hard Boiled Wonderland. My personal feeling is that books could make great settings for games. I’d like to see more cases of game designers starting with a universe from a book or movie and creating something interesting and original. The best recent example I can think of is KOTOR.

A bit over a month ago I posted a link to a puzzle with a bunch of old video game marquees. A friend of mine just IM’d me looking for help with a very similar puzzle, this time with movies. AIE.

At first I thought this must be a joke, but it doesn’t seem to be.

Killington residents endorse plan to join New Hampshire

KILLINGTON, Vt. — Voting with a thunderous “aye,” residents endorsed a plan Tuesday for this ski resort town to secede from Vermont.

The overwhelming voice vote inside the elementary school opened the next chapter in what could be a long and costly push to join New Hampshire, a state 25 miles to the east. Town officials estimated between 200-300 people attended the meeting, and that about two-thirds of them supported the idea in the voice vote. [theunionleader.com]

Is it possible to have part of a state inside another state?

It’s about time.

DEA Approves Trial Use Of Ecstasy in Trauma Cases

Capping a 17-year effort by a small but committed group of activists, the federal Drug Enforcement Administration has agreed to let a South Carolina physician treat 12 trauma victims with the illegal street drug ecstasy in what will be the first U.S.-approved study of the recreational drug’s therapeutic potential.

The DEA’s move marks a historic turn for a drug that has long been both venerated and vilified.

Ecstasy, also known as MDMA, is popular among casual drug users for its reputed capacity to engender feelings of love, trust and compassion. The government classifies it with LSD and heroin as a drug with no known medical use and high potential for abuse.

Although the study’s approval is by no means a federal endorsement of uncontrolled use, it will give ecstasy’s proponents their first legitimate opportunity to prove the drug can offer medical benefits.

“MDMA opens the doorway for people to feel deep feelings of love and empathy, which is the core of being human,” said Rick Doblin, president of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies in Sarasota, Fla., the nonprofit research and educational organization funding the trauma study. “We should be looking at that and learning from that.” [Washingtonpost.com]