Well, some of the regular customers might have noticed the recent lack of updates, but I want to reassure all of you believers that I’ve been around lurking most of the time, and weeding out the site’s archive. Now that I’ve reached my first 1000 posts, I want to take some time to breathe and take notice of the good and bad things I’ve done in this past 18 months of operation, as well as the editorial choices for the future.

resistance is futile??

That argument shall be resumed in a further posting. Now for today’s daily reminder why we like it here. Today, I’m talking about yet another one those neighborhood friendly Internet memes, of course! Such things you might have heard of but sometimes you really can’t put your finger to it? Maybe you’ve heard about the Rickroll or the OM NOM NOM and will it blend? – tell you what, I’ll just pop an illustrative example from the awesome XKCD online cartoon:

all about memes?

Now, I don’t mean to suggest that you should waste your romantic life on the pursuit of Internet memes (much the other way around), but still I enjoy keeping up with some of the latest Internet crazes – if nothing else, just for curiosity’s sake. So today we’re discussing the “All your base are belong to us“. If you want detailed information on this meme’s background, check the Wiki article I just linked; but simply put everything started with this cinematic passage from a popular Genesis game in the 1990′s:

To cut a long story short, it was around 2002 when someone decided to bring up this picturesque typo from a video game back-in-the-day, and soon enough the whole of the Internet was singing in harmony to the prophetic engrish saying… and now “all your base are belong to us”! Just like that.

Know your memes: All your base are belong to us.

Techno Remix all your base (and pictures) are belong… to us.

US all your base news report are belong to us:

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I think it was Gandhi who said it best, when we told us that hard work is a spiritual matter, and by putting our undivided selves into everything we do, we’re granted a glimpse of spiritual enlightenment. Well, even though that’s definitely a noteworthy – and commendable – philosophy, it goes without saying that a men (or woman) has gotta be able to take a little break every now and then, to wind down the pressure.

With that in mind, I’m providing you today with not one, but actually a butt-load of fun flash games which I hereby encourage that you play off until your heart sings in leisurely contentment. I know some of you people had been moaning because It’s been a long time since I presented you with a good lead for a Flash-based coffee break type of game. Well, this time around you get more than you ask for… including all types of games you can thing of, such as Flash remakes of classic games and even some games of the … Naughty variant.

So go ahead and play hard, but make sure you don’t keep track of time… and when your batteries are replenished, may you get back to your hard work with renewed vitality. Now go, my children… and have some fun! Like this:

zoo keeper

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It’s great news for gaming fans all across the globe: Nintendo is going to be releasing the new, improved version of the DS (touted by some as “DS Advance” and “DS2″ by others), which is rumored to include more powerful graphics, bigger screens, and double tactile input similar to iPhone.

Naturally, the official specs haven’t been disclosed yet, but throughout the Internet, some creative people have been coming up with some rather inspired creative visualizations. I figured I’d round up some of my favorite for your viewing enjoyment, so here you go:

the new ds?

or like this?

...maybe like this?

Also, I’ve found this picture from an actual patent that was registered by nintendo two years ago. While it’s unknown if this was a discarded DS prototype or actually the new model, it sure looks like an intriguing concept to me.

DS Advance prototype

So, what do we make of all this? If you feel like sharing your own thoughts and opinions, feel free to use the comment box down below.

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