I know I don’t usually make two posts in a row with video content, but I couldn’t help myself. I present some very disturbing clips I had lieing around on a DVD; from a collection of commercials to motorshow footage and rare footage of the Torana GTR-X Concept car in testing and development. First up is the hilarious commercials compilation, with more on ‘continue reading’.

It was about time I uploaded something to youtube. I present a video I was given on DVD a long time ago, which was originally given out to the press and embargo’d until the proper release. It’s a rare video of the development of the 2001+ Holden Monaro (aka GTO and VXR depending on where you live), as well as featuring footage of the development of the Holden Adventra

Look out for the Adventra with a VX front end, which I’ve never seen or heard of anywhere in my life except this video!

I bet we all know about some of these accidents (they’re all well publicised and known), but have you ever wondered how much money these accidents cost? Funnily enough wrecked exotics (A website that’s specialty is wrecked exotic sports cars) has put together an interesting list of the top ten most costly accidents in history. Here’s an interesting one I didn’t know about (and it’s only number 7 in terms of cost).

Here we have our first billion dollar accident (and we’re only #7 on the list). This B-2 stealth bomber crashed shortly after taking off from an air base in Guam on February 23, 2008. Investigators blamed distorted data in the flight control computers caused by moisture in the system. This resulted in the aircraft making a sudden nose-up move which made the B-2 stall and crash. This was 1 of only 21 ever built and was the most expensive aviation accident in history. Both pilots were able to eject to safety.

You can read the full list here, though number two and one are pretty easy to guess.

No, it’s not the lolcat Bible; this one is probably better! It’s called “The Brick Testament”, created by Rev. Brendan Powell Smith. Not that I believe in organized religion or the bible, but this entire project is highly entertaining. Just check out this picture:

Click here to visit The Brick Testament.

Have you recently had the urge to play the original DooM on Windows Vista? I bet you have, and if you’ve tried I bet you got a plethora of incompatability messages. The reason is the original DooM executables were coded for MS-DOS and as such simply won’t run. The solution is to use a port. I hadn’t used a port in a few years (Legacy was my preference back then) so had to do a bit of research to see which one was still being actively updated. ZDoom it is then.

I like ZDoom because it has a lot of advanced features like a crosshair, mouselook and wheel support, 16:9 resolutions and heaps more. Too many to list, in fact. Check out their website here to learn more and download it. Note you need the original or shareware WAD files.

I thought this screenshot was interesting, showing a different side of EA before they started using evil hostile technologies such as those featured in their latest games (like Spore).

Although it could be argued if they the technology back then, they would probably use it.