January 11th, 2008

Game characters in real life

Well this is pretty funny. Gamerhelp as built a top-ten list of game characters and their real-life counterparts. While the picture of Blanka/Carrottop is hilarious, I think this image says it all. GamerHelp → Read More

June 20th, 2007

Gmail Needs Foreign Character Filtering

DownloadSquad brings up an excellent point regarding the filtering abilities found in Gmail. While Gmail does one of the best jobs of filtering junk and spam e-mail, a lot of the time spam littered with foreign characters gets through into our inboxes and we’re forced to sit there teaching Gmail to learn that Russian mail-order brides are indeed e-mails we don’t want to receive. The… → Read More

April 13th, 2007

Konami Characters And Their 1980s Counterparts

This is quite possibly the most awesome set of comparisons ever. For years I’ve been saying that the guy from Contra looks like Arnold and sure enough, according to this Shamoozal article, he does. A bunch of characters from Konami games have been compared to their 1980s counterparts and boy are the results right on the money. Aside from Contra, you’ll also find comparisons for games… → Read More