Tron, the 12-Minute Rock Opera
— featuring Brendon Small of Home Movies fame on guitar via Defamer #Secret Service visits a Livejournal user
— blog rule #36: never say you’re going to kill the president via Jeremy Zawodny #Milner's Descriptive Atlas from 1850
— fascinating and pioneering information design via wherethreadscomeloose.com #GTA San Andreas to beat game sales record
— at $225m, it would be the biggest opening week across all media; Spider-Man 2 was only $192m #Wil Wheaton plays a news reporter in GTA San Andreas
— the rest of the voice talent includes George Clinton, Chuck D, Ice-T, James Woods, David Cross, Axl Rose, and Charlie Murphy! via Simon Carless #Video: Super Mario Ice Capades from 1989
— starring Jason Bateman, Alyssa Milano, and Mr. Belvedere as Koopa; more info via Boing Boing #President Bush election site blocking non-US visitors
— banning his overseas supporters seems like a bad move via Boing Boing #Howard Stern drops in on FCC head Michael Powell's radio interview
— it’s at 32:20 in the heated and excellent MP3 #Guns return to Disneyland's Jungle Cruise
— the guns even had their own urban legends via John Walkenbach #Sim Horror, a massive haunted house in Second Life
— the game world continually rewards creativity #Republican insider e-mails accidentally sent to georgewbush.org
— his real site is .com, not .org via The Morning News #MP3: Wired Magazine's Creative Commons CD
— download the free and legal torrent, here’s a track list via Simon Carless #Spinalcat, amazing DIY optical turntable made with a CueCat
— don’t miss the photos and the 83-page thesis PDF via Jason Cosper #Correlating "cool cities" with blogging culture
— he uses Meetup, Upcoming.org, and Craig’s List as sources in his study #Amazon adds uploading of user's product photos
— user generated media to complement user reviews via Jeremy Zawodny #Fun World, abandoned Disney World mod for GTA Vice City
— the Half-Life 2 engine would be perfect for a Disneyland mod #Snopes on the Beach Boys' recorded sex sounds
— including an MP3 excerpt from 1969’s “20/20” album #Something Awful's Misinterpreted Movie Posters
— if movie titles were the literal description of the poster via b3ta #Ashlee Simpson's disastrous SNL performance last night
— she walked off after the wrong lip-sync track was played, more details #XM Radio launching wearable receiver next week?
— I’m sure people would pay for an XM-aware MP3 player via Simon Carless #Afro-Ninja Found!
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been passively looking for the identity of the Afro-Ninja. I posted a $50 question on Google Answers, but it didn’t turn up anything for several weeks.
Tonight, I finally got an answer! Edward Shen informed me that it was Mark Allen Hicks, a stunt man auditioning for a Nike commercial with Allen Iverson and Jim Kelly.
Edward works with people who know Mark, and one friend saw him come out of the audition “pissed off with a bloody nose.” Looking at his IMDB photographs, it’s clear this is the same guy. Compare for yourself.
Now, can someone get me in contact with Mark? I’d love to ask him some questions about the video.