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I don’t think there is a doubt in anybody’s mind that this is going to be a gigantic hit. Harmonix has announced their brand new take on the music-themed video game genre, now with a Confederate twist. Washboard Hero will feature such bluegrass classics as “Home, Home on the Homestead”, “O Me O My O Me”, and the irresistible “Possum ...

I was going to rewrite the lyrics to “The Star Spangled Banner” but decided against it. It’s better that way. For the both of us. But yeah! Wow! What a bookshelf, right? Staying true to the lower 48, this United States of Readmerica bookshelf is awesome. It was made by Ron Arad and is titled “Oh, the farmer and the ...

A lot of you have heard of parkour, understandably, but what about Mirror’s Edge? It’s a video game for the PS3 and Xbox 360 that lets you jump through a virtual world using parkour skills. In fact, you are called a “tracer” in the game, similar to that of a traceur who runs up buildings. Like this guy. If you ...

We support the DIY community to the fullest here at Gearfuse. However, we absolutely do not condone drinking and driving, no matter the vehicle. Apparently, one Kile Wygle (what a name!) of Ohio was arrested for charges of DUI on a motorized bar stool. As you can see, Mr. Wygle built himself a damn machine from an old Briggs and ...

Gearfuse.com, one of the finest websites on the Internet, will now become a parkour-focused website. The move will enable Gearfuse to post more YouTube clips of Frenchmen jumping across buildings than ever before. Publisher Steve Rufer said that he is “grateful we could make this kind of switch. I recently moved to Paris and can’t stop jumping over women and ...

Can you say Y2K? Good, ’cause a lot of people must be thinking about that right now. That stupid virus you’ve been reading about, Conficker, was supposed to activate itself today and cause half the Internet to go down. Hell would enter Earth, our first born would die and blogging would become a well-respected profession. Yeah, nothing happened. It’s a ...

This is no April Fool’s prank, my friends. In the wee hours of this morning, RIM switched on its competitor to Apple’s App Store, the Blackberry App World (how creative). You’ll be able to browse top apps, find new ones and hope someone was able to make a half-decent program in such little time. RIM is saying that by the ...

It would have looked something like Kevin Tong’s depiction here. Available in t-shirt form! DaVinci, a man of many talents. Link

If Chrysler goes bankrupt in the middle of the woods, does anybody care? Pretty sweet deal on Woot! today The rebirth of the Dreamcast Funny exam papers Try not to drool over this custom Ducati that’s up for auction For the ultimate in light drawing capabilities… Google would prefer if you didn’t have Internet access Turn your Blackberry into a ...

Why is it that women just can’t resist tainted fruit? First, Eve came along and fucked up immortality for the whole human race (thanks a lot, Satan), and then Snow White, for some reason, thought some random apple from a poorly disguised farmer would be totally wholesome and delicious. I think the lesson we’ve learned here is never to accept ...