Don Cheadle As Captain Planet

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If you never visit FunnyOrDie.com I think it's time that you do. I recently saw a video with Don Cheadle as Captain Planet. This is too funny for words, you have to check this out and check out more stuff at FunnyOrDie.com. Also check out our interview with Don Cheadle about the movie he did "The Guard." Interview With Don Cheadle




Preview Of Marvel's Ultimate Comics: Ultimates #2

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Hey this is Sean the Comic Guy and I want to give you guys a preview of Marvels Ultimates #2. Now for all you fans that love the Ultimate Universe ( like Hollywood does *laughs*) Here is a brief description from Marvel, also click on the picture for full quality.

Marvel is pleased to present your first look at Ultimate Comics Ultimates #2 from the rockstar creative team of Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribic. Ultimate Comics Reborn continues as the entire world begins to crumble around S.H.I.E.L.D., and the Ultimates are powerless against it! With their leader nowhere to be found, can Thor, Iron Man & Nick Fury pull together and stop the Tomorrow People before it’s too late? Find out in Ultimate Comics Ultimates #2!

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Female Videogame Characters Fan Art (Anime Style)

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Hey guys and gals it's been a while since I did a Fan Art post. This time we're going to look at Anime Style Fan Art, of female videogame characters. These are some cool pictures I found on Google. If you know the artist leave a comment so we can give them credit for the great job. Kairi (Kingdom Hearts) looks amazing and very mature, I love the look. Princess Zelda (The Legend Of Zelda) looks very sensual and her eyes are wonderful. Samus (Metroid) looks beautiful and very detail, the effects of the rain only make it more neat. Peach (Super Mario) and Jill Valentine (Resident Evil) enter fan service zone. Morrigan (Dragon Age) looks so cute, if they make her a Plushie, she should be this design. Finally Aya Brea (Parasite Eve) looks straight from the pages of a dark Manga. Great job by the artist. Anime Rules!!!!






Avenger Assemble: The Series

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The Avengers one of the most iconic Superhero team ever assemble. A while ago we interview Miracole Burns, model, cosplayer and much more see the interview here Interview With Miracole Burns in the interview she talk about the Webseries she works on with her friends and husband Chris Burns. The Avenger Assemble Webseries is a parody on your favorite superheroes. Watch as The Avenger tackle issues such as the Oil Spill, Health Care and many more. Here is Season 1 of The Avenger Assemble.

For more on the Avenger Assemble and Season 2 check out these links.


Avengers Assemble Android App

Episode I: Healthcare
In this inaugural episode, Tony Stark (aka Iron Man) leads the team in a discussion of the ramifications of the new Healthcare Bill recently passed.



Episode II – Jobs
Tony has to quell fears about how the team may have to face the eventuality of layoffs.


Episode III – Oil Spill
With Tony Stark out of the office for “personal” reasons, Captain America sits in as team leader. In this episode, the oil spill in the gulf hits close to home for one of our heroes, and the Avengers have to decide whether or not to take action.


Episode IV – The Middle East
The Avengers are faced with the decision on whether or not to take action in the Middle East, where tensions are running high. Reaching that decision, as we’ve learned by now, is never straight forward with our heroes.


Episode V – Office Romance
We’re now in HD! This week, Wonder Man gets some unsolicited advice about women from none other than Hawkeye.


Episode VI – Immigration
The team is feeling the effects of some strict new immigration laws.


Episode VII – Carpool
The Avengers are on a mission, however they’ve been forced to use conventional means of transportation.



Mortal Kombat Legacy (Season 1)

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Here is the entire Webseries of Season 1 of Mortal Kombat. Here is the overall synopsis. Mortal Kombat: Legacy brings to life the complex and rich history of the gaming world of MORTAL KOMBAT. Shao Kahn and Shang Tsung are obsessed with reigning over various realms (parallel universes) and the winners of Mortal Kombat competitions are granted supreme control over these worlds. The Earthrealm (Earth) is an unconscious participant in this competition and only a few select humans understand the consequences of losing Mortal Kombat and what it will mean to Earth. In a universe with powerful evil sorcerers, cyborgs, Gods and movie stars, this Mortal Kombat digital media series drives a cohesive understanding of what this Universe is all about.

Episode 1
Jax (Michael Jai White), Striker (Tamoh Pennikett), Sonya Blade (Jeri Ryan) and Kano (Darren Shahlavi) star in episode 1 of the all-new Mortal Kombat: Legacy live action series, presented exclusively by Machinima.com and Warner Brothers. It's amazing check it out. Credit to Warner Brothers and Machinima.com



Episode 2
Jax continues to search for Sonya.


Episode 3
After unsuccessfully trying to sell his reality television pilot pitch to a studio exec, Johnny Cage, an American action-hero movie star who has fallen on hard times, is recruited by Shang Tsung, a powerful sorcerer who has the power to suck souls from people, to fight in the upcoming Mortal Kombat tournament.



Episode 4
Beautiful, athletic, and trained as highly skilled assassins, Kitana and Mileena have grown up thinking that they are sisters. Shao Kahn, Emperor of the Outworld, has tricked Shang Tsung into becoming his servant for Mortal Kombat by making him clone Mileena as a Tarkatan clone of Kitana, out of Shao Kahn's fear that Kitana wouldn't love him enough if she ever found out the truth about her Mother and Father.



Ep. 5: Kitana & Mileena (Part 2)


Ep. 6: Raiden
When Lord Raiden, God of Thunder and protector of Earth, finds himself in an earthly mental institution in the year 2011, his 'delusions' are treated with some rather primitive forms of therapy (involving an ECT machine and an ice pick). Nonetheless, Blue, his beautiful, fragile yet insane fellow inmate, is Raiden's only hope of escaping the mental hospital and making his way to the Mortal Kombat tournament to defend Earthrealm from Shao Khan.



Ep. 7: Scorpion and Sub Zero (Part 1)
Hanzo Hasashi, better known as the warrior Scorpion, is summoned to meet with the Shogun of Kumamoto Castle. While traveling, the fearless General of the Shirai Ryu clan encounters his mortal enemy, Sub-Zero. Scorpion realizes too late that this trap has led him away from his village and family, leaving them without means to defend themselves. He knows that he must defeat Sub-Zero and return to his village before it is too late.



Ep. 8: Scorpion and Sub Zero (Part 2)
With the Shirai Ryu clan murdered by the hands of Sub-Zero and the Lin Kuei, Hanzo Hasashi has failed to protect his village. With his eternal soul destined to rot in the depths of hell, he is visited by a mysterious sorcerer. Will vengeance be enough to get Scorpion to enter the Mortal Kombat Tournament?


Ep. 9: Cyrax & Sektor
Cyrax and Sektor are chosen to be the future of the Lin Kuei by the Grand Master, but Cyrax is less than enthusiastic about giving his life over to a cybernetic transformation that will erase his memories and turn him into the ultimate fighting machine. When he discovers that the cyborg he is fighting seems closely familiar, Sektor must keep Cyrax focused on destroying Hydro, and not himself or their future...



An Art Hold-UP with ASYLM

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For those of you who follow me on Twitter or FB (ArtisticSole), you'd know that I took an awesome trip to San Francisco to help promote . Within that trip was a mini-trip to LA! At some point of trying to find Sean D'anconia's art goodness in LA's Little Tokyo & a few complaints of needing to find a bathroom AND another beer, we pranced ourselves into a cool jazz club. The time spent there was great ... until we stepped back out on the streets of Little Tokyo to find these amazing pieces right under our noses!

The works are of an artist, Asylm. And similar to my findings with Silo, I can't find too much info on him. At any rate, here are some of his works in Little Tokyo with people holding it up for art ... fingers crossed & all!
Be sure to visit his site and check out his FINE ART & PUBLIC WORKS. It's simply amazing!


My gracious hostess, tour guide, & homegirl Kelly Crown throwing it up for art & for ASLYM's art!


~je t'adore!

Rainmeter: Shows You Everything You Need To Know, In Style

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This is Rainmeter

Like the title says it shows you everything you need to know. What I mean is that rainmeter shows you the inner working of your computer. Take for example you want to see how fast your Internet connection is, there are many ways to do this mainly doing a google search for something checking the Internet connection of your area.

Doing it that way is well and good but takes time, with rainmeter all you got to do is look on the desktop and look at your network widget you can call it. See rainmeter displays all the important information you would need to see or want to look up. This is a desktop using one of the 3 themes found at their main site to show you how rainmeter works.

This shows the time and date.

This is the RSS reader showing up to 4 different sites.

This shows your weather thats up to date as long as your connected to the net.

This is your Itunes/Winamp media controller(means you just start those programs and then the widget would control it allowing you to pause play and top it without having to bring up the play on top of every thing).

This shows your current CPU speed.

This shows your current Internet speed, UPLOAD, DOWNLOAD and WIFI signal strength if your using wifi.

A online image search, all you have to do is just click on it and it would open a new tab/window in your default browser.

This is the ram/memory being used and how much its being used.

The reason why I got to show it to you all like this, is because rainmeter is all about visual icons to show you everything and they are active and won't need much of your input. The only three I know that need your input are the weather, the Ifile and the RSS reader, but that one is up to you if you want to change the sites its reading and I for the life of me, cannot figure out how to get the Ifile to work right.

That is not all that is just one theme called

Speed

and thats not all, you don't need to use the while theme but you can use parts of it just one or two thing, from the whole theme but not just one but different themes, the only thing that is stopping you is, that you and the ram other then that its up to you and what you want rainmeter to show you. you can have something as simple as the time from earlier or you can have a widget to display the time in binary, which i do have myself.

I will tell you all to give it a try,its not easy when you first try it out but keep at it. I didnt not take me long to understand it and I know it will not take any of you long either. Combine rainmeter with rocketdock and you will be able to not just gave and amazing desktop but shortcuts that will be really helpful for you and can make some pretty sick looking desktops to impress people walking by.

If you want more themes for rainmeter, I would suggest hitting deviantart in these groups in it:

Just click on them to go right to their page on page on deviantart and check out all thats there, you all might find something that would make you fall in love with rainmeter.

Maximum Ride Manga Review

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Synopsis (Thanks MangaFox.com) P.S. Sorry that this post is late. My computer was "sick" and decided not to corroperate and when I mean "sick" I mean mood swings lol.

Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride, better known as Max, knows what it’s like to soar above the world. She and all the members of the “Flock”–Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel–are just like ordinary kids–only they have wings and can fly. No one knows who they are and are hidden at a house on top of a cliff. Not for long. Max and the gang now have to go on a journey of finding the truth about themselves and their encounters with old friends.

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I have never read any of James Patterson's books but I would like to now. "Maximum Ride" is a book series that James Patterson wrote and the manga series is amazing. I love each of the characters and the story is so well written. each character has their own personalities and issues teens deal with especially with the issue of identity. My favorite is Fang.

Artwork

The artwork is really amazing and it sows the characters really well. I hope they come out with more manga.

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I give this manga an A+. This is for fans of fantasy, adventure, and for a great story. Go out and get it. You won't be sorry.

Nintendo Game Lineup For PAX West 2011

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For those who are going to PAX West 2011 (lucky you). Nintendo will be there with tons of games for you try. If you want to get a glimpse at the upcoming holiday games from Nintendo, this will be the place to do it. There will also be a Star Fox 64 3D tournament being held on Aug 27th from 7pm to 10pm. Enjoy!

Nintendo 3DS
• Super Mario 3D Land
• Mario Kart 7
• Kid Icarus: Uprising
• Star Fox 64 3D
• The Legend of Zelda™: Ocarina of Time™ 3D
• Pokédex 3D
• Shinobi™ by SEGA®
• Sonic Generations by SEGA

Wii
• The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
• Kirby's Return to Dream Land
• Rhythm Heaven™ (name not final)
• Fortune Street

Nintendo DS
• Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2
• Kirby Mass Attack



Kirby's Return To Dreamland Facts & Screenshots

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Kirby is coming back to the Wii with an all new adventure. No this time he won't be a yarn. Kirby is going back to dreamland and here are the official facts about the game from Nintendo.

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Kirby Returns to Dream Land - and the Living Room
Kirby™ and his friends are back in an adventure designed to satisfy longtime Kirby fans and beginners alike. When an alien spaceship crashes in the otherwise peaceful realm of Planet Pop Star, its pieces are scattered throughout the land. Players must guide Kirby as he retrieves the ship's parts and helps an alien return to its home planet. This time, however, he's not alone. At any time, up to three more players can join in the fun and play as Meta Knight, King Dedede, Waddle Dee or a different color Kirby.

FEATURES:

Kirby's powerful Copy Ability returns, allowing him to inhale, spit and transform as he encounters enemies.

Players can deploy classic and new abilities, including:
Sword: Kirby dons a green cap and wields a sword.
Beam: Kirby wears a jester hat and can shoot energy from a magic wand.
Whip: Kirby wears a cowboy hat and can lasso enemies.
Leaf: Kirby is surrounded by a whirlwind of leaves.

The game also introduces new Super Abilities, which are activated when Kirby inhales special enemy characters. For example, the "Ultra Sword" Super Ability allows Kirby to swing a giant sword and wipe out an entire screen's worth of foes.

Up to four players can enjoy the action together. (Additional controllers required and sold separately.) While playing cooperatively to progress through the game, players can join and leave the game at any time.

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Someone At Sega Grew A Brain...

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Year after year videogame companies try to come up with the next big thing. Creating new a IP is a very high risk venture but can reap high rewards. Often times when the publisher commits to a new game that wasnt received to well, they will shove a sequel down our throat regardless. If the public likes the new product from the jump, then look out they will annualize the game, make a movie & or license the game's characters out.

For some reason Sega didn't get that memo. In a way that's a good thing, we don't want another Capcom (see my capcom article here), but original Sega fans are starving for many franchises to return. Whether that's through a remake or a re-release we will take what we can get(unless its like the new Golden Axe). I can make the case that Sega owns stronger IPs than ANY video publisher. Sega battled Nintendo & Sony with all 1st party software remember. For some reason console cycle after console cycle, Sega sits on all their great franchises. Yes we get alot of Sonic games now but there was a time when Sega even abandoned him! Sega Saturn era anyone? Yes I know the story about Sonic Xtreme but thats another article.
Good news though, Sega is starting to show signs of recovery.


Virtua Fighter 5 final showdown was announced today for XBLA & PSN. That game has been in the Japanese arcades since 2010. Why is Sega taking 2 years to port it(2012 release date) I don't know and I don't care I'm just happy its coming out! I'm a little concerned with the watered down graphics but they have a year to work on it so we will see. Remember the original Virtua Fighter 5 was only 3.3 GB.

Sonic CD has been rumored by Major Nelson to be coming out on XBLA...yes the holy Sonic CD! That game is a true hidden gem. I hope we can get a HD version oh my God I'm hyped just typing this.


Sega Rally just had a really nice arcade release a few weeks back. Im really enjoying it.


Guardian Heroes will be coming out any week now,that will be a 1st day buy!

If Sega continues this trend as well as develop/publish some more new IPs. I really feel Sega can be in better shape financially then it ever has been!
Keep up the good work Sega :)

(Havent said that in years)


The Works of Silo

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Oh Silo!

This artist's work was sent to me by a twitter buddy for my eyecandy enjoyment. However, his works were soooooo awesomely upchucked organize mess of cool anime characters & typography that I couldn't resist sharing.

The upside-even if you aren't an art geek, you'll definitely enjoy the feel of his work.

The downside-I haven't found much about him as an artist, however his work speaks for itself, so I guess enough said.

To keep in that tradition though, I shared with you the works of Silo. Be sure to scroll down after all the kawaii goodness, though, for more links where I've found Silo's art lurking.


















SILO

SILO on Looks Like Good Design

SILO on Deviant Art

SILO on Facebook


Until Next Time!
~je t'adore!

Double Review: Gmail Notifier Plus and Rocketdock

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Okay people Jeff here and today I will be giving you a double review. The reason for this is because I want to give you people, a series of programs that will make your life in-front of the computer a little better and less stressful. Here I present to you two of my favorites, Gmail Notifier Plus and Rocketdock.

F.Y.I.: they are both free, completely free no ads or anything also they are both for windows right now, not too sure if they are on linux yet but i will keep you all updated just in case

Gmail Notifier Plus to download click here

Its just an RSS feed(if you dont know what an RSS feed is click here) that is linked to your gmail account, to let you get a quick look at what you have in there that you haven't read yet. I know what you might be thinking and yes its very safe. No one is looking at the feed unless they have the passwords to you different Gmail accounts. That's right, the other thing that makes this so great is that you can have more then one account being shown with it. The notifier will only show you what's inside your inbox, so if your like me and something checks the spam to be sure nothing important is in there by mistake you will have to sign into your account, which is another thing the notifier does right. All you have to do is click on which ever email account you want to look into, then your chosen browser is your default and it will pop up telling you to sign right in.

If you have more then one Gmail account or if you just want to always be updated on what is inside there this is a simple and fast little reader for you.

RocketDock to download click here

You all know how the Mac had the dock at the bottom of the screen. Well this is the same thing but for Windows. It works with all the version of windows from XP to 7. The dock acts just like the dock on a Mac, it allows all the same features from hiding when your mouse isn't on top of it to zooming in on the icon when your roll your mouse over it.

It gives you the prefect Mac feel with out having one. Another thing that is nice about it is that on their site they support icons , that werent made by them but by other people, so going to a place like deviantart (here is an example of icons) and do a search of icons that people created and use them over the default ones its comes with. It's an amazing app that will also help you clean up the clutter that is your desktop if its very messy.

I would tell you all to try out both of these programs, they are small in size and load quickly and next time I will tell you about another great program...