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It’s been a while since the latest Transformers movie hit the silver screens. Nevertheless, one thing remains regardless of whether you liked the movie or not - the Transformers just looked incredibly awesome.

Similar notions may count for Windows Vista. It’s been a while since its release and opinions, until today, are mixed. Despite the varying opinions on Bill’s last OS, the wallpapers that came with it were just breathtakingly beautiful.

This prompted a simple idea - let’s just combine the two. Using pre-production models of the Transformers I layered the models over my favorite Vista wallpaper. Voilla, enjoy. Click on any of the thumbnails to download the .zip file that contains high-resolution versions of all four wallpapers. Given that this was a simple idea, it may have been done already - actually I have done the same thing many months ago before the movie came out but the images got wiped by a new Wordpress installation on my server. Republishing them can’t hurt, though. They’re just too pretty. Just click on one of them - they all link to the same .zip file.

Frenzy - click to download the .zip package

Optimus Prime

Blackout

Ironhide

Imagine you had one free computer game to play for every day in the year.

Here you go, try this.

Out of all the games found in the link above, my absolute favorite is Torus Trooper.

Best Tempest clone I've seen so far

Remember Tempest? It was one of the most action packed, fastest and challenging arcade games of it’s time. With Missile Command you had to be fast but with Tempest, you had to be even faster. The sheer bombardment of shapes and the vertigo inducing effect of the tunnel was just mind blowing back then. No level in Tempest was really like the one before and the pressure just kept building up. People would gather around you if you reached a certain level and that’s when you had to start proving yourself. Would you make it into the highscore top 10? If you made it and you were cool enough, you’d just smash an AAA into the highscore list and walk off like John Wayne, smiling smugly and going for some more coins.

Torus Trooper takes you back to that kind of feeling. Just this time you’re alone in front of your PC and the graphics are far better. No worries, though. You can still get up, and walk over to the fridge to get some juice … like John Wayne.

Ever heard of Charlie Brooker? If you haven’t, then you’re not alone. I didn’t know the bloke before I stumbled over some videos of his on the internets. I suppose I don’t watch TV enough to know about everything the BBC presses out of their butts. But if you indeed have heard of Charlie, I hope it had the same effect on you as it did on so many others who saw his shows.

Even on YouTube, where I found this particular snippet of one of his shows, the comment section is relatively free of racial and sexual expletives and claims of “Fake”. Of course there are a few who missed the point and ended up talking about the background music and the difference between anime and video games. Afterall, the average IQ on YouTube never seems to have risen above room temperature.

For anyone who needs another dose for full conviction, just check out this one.

The creators of this clip had this to say about their project:

After much taping, editing, deleting, drinking and swearing we are proud to present… Sales Guy vs. Web Dude! A mashup of true and mostly-true stories from IT hell. If you’ve ever called tech support and wondered what the hell they are doing down there… well, this should answer some questions for you.