I know, I know - I’ve already posted about 1up’s list of things we can all learn from gaming - but now gamesradar has got in on the action with 96 more facts to entertain (because they have to be true). Some examples:

4. Medicine became obsolete in the year 2004, when doctors noticed that hiding behind a wall caused human health to regenerate to 100%.

27. When you look down, you can’t see your feet.

51. Modern tank warfare will be replaced in the future by building a very large number of tanks on the battlefield itself, then attacking the enemy’s strongest point head-on with hundreds of them at once.

Give the list a read by clicking here.

It’s impossible to ignore the Apple iPhone (or iPod Touch), try as I might it keeps coming up. So I caved in and am posting about this list put together by Cracked (the list kings, no doubt). It’s true there’s a lot of applications for the Apple portables, some more useless than others - this list covers the more useless. A taste:

Imagine you’re walking down a dark alley, when you are approached by a hulking mass of criminality. You only have your iPhone to defend you. Fortunately, all you have to do is unlock the screen, launch this app and a faint beeping sound will usher forth to notify all SWAT teams in earshot to swoop down to your rescue.

Or, more likely, the guy who was just going to steal your watch and jewelry is probably going to opt for your iPhone as well.

Clicky to read the whole list via Cracked, definately good for a laugh at the absurdness even if you don’t care for the Apple pair.

Cracked certainly does go straight to the point - take the title of this article for example - “7 Retarded Food Myths the Internet Thinks Are True”. It’s an interesting read though gladly I’ve never been forwarded any of them via email,  I’d heard of some though, like the soft drink one:

You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of Coke and it will be gone in two days. The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. Its pH is 2.8. It will dissolve a nail in about 4 days. Phosphoric acid also leaches calcium from bones and is a major contributor to the rising increase in osteoporosis. To carry Coca-Cola syrup (the concentrate) the commercial truck must use the Hazardous material place cards reserved for Highly corrosive materials.

Obviously a lie, though who would believe anything they receive in email? Read the list here.

Video Gaming - it’s for entertainment, for a job (in some countries), for when there’s nothing better to do (and often times when there’s a lot of better things to do). But can they teach us a lesson? That’s a question 1up answers quite well. So what exactly can you learn from video games?

2: Aging

Are you between the ages of 12 and 20? Congratulations, you’re a prime candidate for saving the world from some stupid white haired nihilist and whatever sealed-away ultimate evil he decided to unleash for giggles. However, if you’re old enough to drink, you’re sh!t out of luck when it comes to the whole hero gig. You’ll just have to wait another ten or twenty years, when your career options will be expanded to include employment in such fields as “cranky-old-bastard who joins the party and is ignored for the rest of the game,” “cranky old bastard who is maybe the villain until he’s killed by the real villain so you know what a badass the guy is,” and “cranky old bastard mentor who dies tragically when the hero’s village burns down five minutes before the game starts.” If you’ve played pretty much any videogame ever and persist in aging you’re an idiot who deserves whatever happens.

Glad I’m safe ^_^… for now! Give the list a read over at 1up. It’s funny.

I just had to laugh at this list put together by Zeromage at Old Wizard, it’s entirely true. Check out number 2:

2. Food that completely fills your energyPicture this; you’re about to die and are gasping for your final breath. You’re rushed to the emergency room, and what does the doctor give you? A roasted chicken. You eat the chicken and walk out as if nothing happened. Could you imagine what would happen in the real world if all your physical and mental ailments could be solved by a piece of chicken? What would happen to modern medicine? All modern doctors would have to become nutritionists, or at least know how to use an oven. From Gauntlet to Castlevania, the most inane pieces of food are able to make you feel better. There’s gushing blood coming out of your arm from being attacked by a warrior or a skeleton, and somehow a piece of chicken heals it. Are we just supposed to assume they used the roasted chicken as a bandage?

Give the full list a read via Old Wizard.

Village of Joy has put together a great list feauturing fifty strange building from across the planet. The one below (Nakagin Capsule Tower) reminds me of some of the buildings that appeared later in the awesome classic game “Transport Tycoon”:

D’oh the website broke. You can try the link here, but it says their bandwidth quota has been exceeded. Might possibly work next month?