Picked up from the Youtube most viewed list for today; No Scope Was Involved is a Machinima film in the’ ‘Red versus Blue’ vein utilising Halo 3.

The premise is that you gain the right to brag if you’ve managed to shoot somebody with a telescopically sighted rifle without bringing the scopes up before you take the shot. The video implies that a musical production is mandatory in the event of a noscope kill

The Doom series of video games by id Software have always featured a superweapon known as the BFG (or one of it’s variants)

But now, a new superweapon to surpass all superweapons has been born.

That’s right, it’s a ghetto blaster playing Rick Astley tunes aka: The Rickroller!

Sniff Petrol as an abnormally factual and rather amusing article about Car magazine’s website relaunch.

Car went for a trendy new ‘Web 2.0′ look (is it Wordpress?) and had a ‘most seached’ keyword cloud box, rather like delusionofgrandeur’s tag cloud on the right.

The inevitable onslaught of ‘alternative’ searches from users ensued. You can see the screenshots over at Sniff.

Found on Youtube, the machinima crew over at theleetworld (Smooth Few Films) have come up with a mini masterpiece telling the tale of the lives of two turrets at Aperture Science Enrichment Center.

You can find high-res version (including a HD version) of the video on the theleetworld website for download.

“I am coming to you… you will explode after a few minutes.”

This quotation may well be the VHF radio equivalent of “All Your Base Are Belong To Us” according to El Reg.

Apparently, there is a phenomenon on marine monitored VHF frequencies known as the “Filipino Monkey” which quite literally refers to a ‘Troll’ who transmits on the monitored marine channel 16 in order to ‘grief’ diligent radio operators at the other end. (All ships at sea must maintain a watch on channel 16)

While this may nominally mean generic insults about the operator’s mother or other lineage, it can also be a somewhat comical response to broadcast anti-collision warnings or more formal transmissions.

So how does this relate to last weeks ‘confrontation’ between the US Navy and Iranian fast patrol boats. Well, as the register points out, the USN can’t be sure that the transmission they heard actually came from the Iranian boats.

We cannot make a direct connection to the boats… It could have come from the shore, from another ship passing by… I guess we’re not saying that it absolutely came from the boats, but we’re not saying it absolutely didn’t.

It could just as easily have been transmitted by a bored Oman ship’s radio watch operator 20 miles away who was tired of listening to USN posturing that day.

Now the US Navy are understandably twitchy about people proclaiming that they are ‘going to explode’ because the USS Cole was bomed back in 2000 by Sudanese suicide bombers. Of course, this isn’t the [demonstrated] style of the Iranian Navy who seem to do things the ‘old fashioned’ way using various projectile weapons and torpedoes.

I’d like to think that if the Iranian navy were actually intending to broadcast a declaration of war via ship-ship VHF, they’d at least prepare a slightly less comedic sounding statement beforehand.

A very short and sweet video of one Ford Mustang owner dumping some consumer electronics.

No jokes about the build quality of Ford door catches now…