Hear Starscream Speak (UPDATE)

Starscream, in the upcoming Transformers movie, is a Decepticon who is Megatron's second-hand man. Megatron is the leader of the Decepticons. Throughout the series, Megatron and Starscream constantly feud because Starscream wants to overthrow Megatron and become the leader of the Decepticons. The rivalry in the cartoon is awesome and the good news is that it will be preserved for the movie.

SectorSevenOrg has updated with a 20 second .mp3 file of Starscream speaking.
1.First, go to http://www.sectorseven.org/remoteclient.ac1903.html. In case you need to log in, use FWIFFO.
2. On the bottom there are 5 circles. Click the second one (e-mail).
3. Choose Informants.
4. Look for the message with the subject COD3X. Open it and click the sound file.

I think the voice is awesome. It sounds very similar to Starscream's annoying voice from the original cartoon and that's great news. Some people are upset because the voice sounds too cartoonish and they want a more realistic voice. But I think it's a smart move to stay true to the cartoon and not try to reinvent the wheel. Now if only they could get rid of Optimus Prime's lips, then Michael Bay will have a lot of happy Transformers campers.

Update: Michael Bay's blog was updated with the news that the clip in which Optimus Prime speaks was a test shot and won't be in the movie. It wasn't even Peter Cullen's voice. Great news for fans who hated the lips.

Stephen Colbert is the Greatest Living American

Go to Google. Search "greatest living american". Here, I did it for you: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=greatest+living+american.

Sweet.

3 is better than 2?

What happened to second-world countries? The second-person point of view? Second-party peripherals for video games? I guess nobody likes 2 anymore.

Transformers Updates

Holy freakin' cow!!! These pictures are so awesome!!!!!! That's Optimus Prime right there in the first one, probably kicking some Decepticon ass.

Also, IGN has two new TV spots that are 30 seconds apiece. They're worth watching too.

"Hidden" and "Destiny"

Letter to Pepperidge Farm.

I was frustrated and decided to e-mail Pepperidge Farm. They never answered. This is the letter I wrote up:

Last week I went to my local Duane Reade store and went straight for the cookie aisle with hope that the Dark Chocalate Brownie cookies with the chocolate chunks in them are somewhere on a shelf. I was very disappointed to find that the cookies weren't there. I came back a few days later and to my deep disappointment the cookies were absent from the shelf yet again. I stomped my foot in anger and disbelief and yelled out an expletive that I choose not to say here. And yet several days later I came to Duane Reade again on my way from home and felt a twinge of hope that there may be, somewhere on one of the shelves of the store, there may be a lonely box of cookies waiting for me to bring them home. To my extreme misfortune, you can guess that the cookies were once again a no-show. So I write to you now, in hopes that you will hear my cry and plea, and deliver more cookies to the Duane Reade on the corner of Kings Highway and East 14th. (Yup, the weirdest block in Brooklyn, NY). Thank you guys once again, and I will be forever grateful to you if the next time I come to the store to find a box of cookies that I can finally buy to enjoy.

Maybe they didn't reply because I misspelled 'chocolate'.

Reciting the alphabet backwards

I'm very baffled by police officers. I haven't been pulled over yet in my young driving tenure, but I've seen TV shows & movies and I heard stories that when cops pull over a driver they suspect is drunk, they will subject him to several tests, one of which is reciting the alphabet backwards.

I tried reciting the alphabet backwards once. I got up to V. I thought some more. Then I got mixed up somewhere around the R-S-T combo. I failed miserably. Maybe I was drunk.

Or maybe that test is ridiculous. A sober person would need to think hard in order to recite the alphabet backwards. The only way I could recite the alphabet backwards is if I carved it out on my forehead with a switchblade and used a reflective surface to read it back.

Cops might as well ask the suspected driver to bunny-hop across a pool filled with alligators on a unicycle while balancing a stick which has on the end of it a spinning basketball.

It's all nonsense. All they need is a breathalyzer and they could possibly ask a person to walk the length of a straight line. If they pass, they're sober. If they fail the straight line walk test, they're either drunk, or just plain stupid.

GTA IV Trailer

Grand Theft Auto IV Trailer

The site is down now. I'm very disappointed with Rockstar. They should have been prepared for this.