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Electric Eels, Christmas Trees and Autograph Magazine Totally Exists: The Daily Nooner (EST)!

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

Awesome Video Of The Day

Japan’s Dreaming Of A Weird Christmas

With all this talk lately about green energy, I think it’s high time we start seriously considering electric eels as viable sources of clean energy. If all it takes is one eel to power your Christmas tree this year, then all you’d need to host an awesome holiday party would be one extra eel to power the stereo, a few more for the fridge, TV, and karaoke machine, and maybe a little one for the doorbell. You know - so you’ll know when the guests show up. Tell everyone to come around 9:30. That should leave you plenty of time to drive your creepy eel-powered car down to the pet store to buy a whole shitload of eel food.

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Dancing Bears, The Future of Video Games and Time Magazine Sucks at Lists: The Daily Nooner (EST)!

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Awesome Video Of The Day

Colin’s Bear Animation

I watched this video like ten times before I realized I should turn the sound on. I have no idea how many times I watched it after that, but I know it’s still every bit as kickass as it was the first time. Hang on - I’m gonna go watch it again.

Yup - still rules.

According to the “About This Video” section:

“This video was created by a third year Game Development student at UOIT. This is the final animation for an Animation Arts class. My friend Colin used all the techniques that were taught by this professor. And as you can see, he made the best animation with what was taught.

I know this was an attempt to throw some sass at a less-than-stellar professor, but considering the current state of video games I think the industry should actually give this video some thought. If I had $50 and a choice between this and yet another boring WWII shooter, I have a pretty good idea of where my money would go:

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