Late this Friday, Craigslist removed its Adult Services section for American Craigslist users, leaving only a CENSORED bar where the link would normally be. This comes after months of attention and pressure from news outlets and local governments to close the section, which is widely known as a haven those interested in working or hiring in the oldest profession.

It is likely that Craigslist took action this weekend due to last week’s letter from seventeen state attorney generals demanding that the section be taken down.

However, it is unclear exactly what this CENSORED bar means for the future of the section, because Craigslist has not, as yet, released a statement. But that doesn’t mean no one has speculated.

London-based Eclectic Method, self-proclaimed “remix kings” have released a music video containing a mashup of iconic 8-bit video game music tracks and sound effects, set to an upbeat, clubbin’ kind of rhythm. Check out the video below, but make sure to grab some glow sticks first.

If you have ever used popular social networking tool “The Internet,” you’ve probably come across Awesome Face before: His radiant golden hue, his two-o-clock eyes, his luscious melon-shaped smile.

He’s a popular icon on certain forums we dare not name, but do you know his origins? Thanks to the intrepid sleuthing of video game designer Chris Ainsworth, we know that Awesome Face was born not in the mangers of the usual suspects, but in the forums of a Pokémon fan site.

The dominos enthusiasts at Flippycat made a giant game of Operation out of thousands of dominos. Will this video of a board game that requires manual dexterity and not bumping into things result into a domino being bumped into, thus causing the entire setup to collapse in spectacular fashion? You will have to watch said video to definitively answer that question.

Radio broadcasters and music labels have agreed that they’d very much enjoy having Congress make it mandatory for an FM radio receiver to be included in every electronic portable device.

Read on...

Short of a flight of stairs or an escalator, the best way to walk up a hill is by zigzagging.

Unlike the debunked reptilian-based fleeing myth, traveling in a zigzagging pattern has proven useful. Marcus Llobera of the University of Washington and T.J. Sluckin of the University of Southampton have conducted a study which proves that zigzagging up or down a hill is the fastest way to traverse the topography.

What happens when you masterfully edit Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” into this 1976 video of the Chinese Red Army performing the Long March Song Cycle? This, friends; this.

If you’ve got a cell phone and at least one friend with same, chances are you’ve run into the phenomenon known as textspeak. Phrases such as “I’ll see you before tomorrow” can be shortened to “C U B4 tmw” or similar, mainly to overcome the traditional 160-character limit of SMS, or simply to speed up the otherwise arduous task of typing words into a tiny, poorly laid out phone keypad. If you were to ask the average person when this trend started, many would probably say the late ’90s or ’00s. But as Guardian.co.uk points out, those people would be wrong.

From the inimitable Jay Fife: The Dark Lord of the Sith meets the Dark Knight.

See also: Dave Dorman’s Darth Vader-Batman lightsaber duel:

It’s not everyday you see the Associated Press link to Neil Gaiman’s blog. So what’s all the fuss about? Yesterday, a federal court judge ruled that Spawn creator Todd McFarlane owed royalties to the Sandman writer, over three derivative characters—Dark Ages Spawn and shapely warrior angels Domina and Tiffany—based on Gaiman’s own “Medieval Spawn” characters, created when he guest wrote issue #9 in 1993.

We recount the case’s history, which stretches back over seven years, after the break.

When YouTuber happysmurfday was traveling in Nogales, Arizona, he spotted strange hairy clusters on the trees and in the grass. When he investigated and poked one with a stick — well, we hope you didn’t have anything too heavy for breakfast this morning.

Video below:

Yesterday, Twitter announced the advent of Suggestions for You, a new feature that helps you sift through the service’s more than 100 million accounts to find people Twitter thinks you should follow based on algorithms designed to measure relevance. If you like a given suggestion of Twitter’s, you can choose to follow them; if not, you can click hide and the list will be replenished with new recommendations.

Much like Google Reader’s similar blog recommendations, when you view a given user’s profile, the new feature will also suggest other, similar users to follow. It says that Geekosystem’s Twitter feed is similar to the NASA astronauts’ official feed and to Gizmodo top editor Brian Lam’s; we’ll take it!

Also in the works: An API so “so third parties can provide these suggestion features in your favorite desktop, mobile, and web applications, too.”

(Twitter via Huffington Post)

If you’ve been following the Comic-Con buzz, it’s no doubt ancient news to you that Street Fighter and Tekken are teaming up in not one, but two crossover games. Well, as a matter of record: Street Fighter and Tekken are teaming up in not one, but two crossover games. Capcom and Namco will be working together to bring us Street Fighter X Tekken and Tekken X Street Fighter, the former of which will be released in 2012 and the release date and other info for the latter of which still remains murky.

Why the two different games?

In the ‘why didn’t we think of that’ department: The RPC M1B is designed to stop zombies in their tracks. Flip up your sites and aim, fire off your rocket-propelled 40 horsepower chainsaw, and voila! You’re all set to make your way through your apocalyptic hellscape of choice.

Available at participating S-Mart locations.

(Unreality Mag via Technabob)

Earlier today, Microsoft held its much-anticipated gaming press conference at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles. The company titillated its audience with upcoming chapters in beloved game franchises, an all-new Xbox 360, and of course the much talked about Project Natal Kinect. So what can we expect from Microsoft in the upcoming quarter? Details below the jump.