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Following on my two posts on Engrish and Batman I have to share these. This is the best summary of Batman Begins ever.

THIS IS BATMAN HE WILL CATCH ALL BADDY!!

Engrish Funny is an awesome website, as is its whole family of blogs my favorites being Lolcats and Fail blog.

I’ve run across some funny internets lately, too funny to not share.

Those of you who know me will appreciate this more.

Batman! Best movie summary ever.

For some reason I find this shirt hilarious. Long cat is a well known LOLcat, he is not photoshopped, that’s just how cats look when they stand up.

The following two videos are NSFW but even more hilarious than Non-NSFW material (NNSFW?). Follow the link to continue.
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I just saw this dude on the highway. That guy must be so cool.

So I guess Google gets their ideas from Batman now.  It makes sense Batman has a lot of good ideas, like dressing like a bat and wearing a nomex survival suit that can stop a bullet as long as it’s not a straight shot.

Batman had the idea first, in The Dark Knight he used everyone’s cell phones to assemble real time data on the Joker’s location in Gotham City.  Yay crowdsourcing.  Now Google is doing something similar, using people’s mobile phones to track their speed and aggregate the data to provide traffic data for city streets, in addition to the traffic data they purchase from INRIX.  The amount of traffic data in major cities is impressive, it’s nice to see street level traffic data instead of just the highways.

From The Google Blog:

If you use Google Maps for mobile with GPS enabled on your phone, that’s exactly what you can do. When you choose to enable Google Maps with My Location, your phone sends anonymous bits of data back to Google describing how fast you’re moving. When we combine your speed with the speed of other phones on the road, across thousands of phones moving around a city at any given time, we can get a pretty good picture of live traffic conditions. We continuously combine this data and send it back to you for free in the Google Maps traffic layers. It takes almost zero effort on your part — just turn on Google Maps for mobile before starting your car — and the more people that participate, the better the resulting traffic reports get for everybody.

Worried about privacy?  Read this article. Many iPhone apps report your location and demographics back to the developer.  The Palm Pre’s Web OS reports users’ locations back to Palm daily.  Scary huh?

I use Google Maps on my iPhone frequently when I drive, so your welcome Google, and everyone who uses the traffic layer, I’m helping you out big time.

This is a new Batman game could be cool. PC, 360, PS3.

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/01/30/joker-brings-the-funnies-in-latest-arkham-asylum-trailer/

Check out this Batman art project I did. I used a bunch of pieces of text from magazines to make it.


It’s supposed to look like this frame from the opening of the Batman: The Animated Series cartoon.

So there is a town in Turkey, called Batman. Really! Actually it’s short for Batı Raman Mountains, but still that’s pretty cool. What’s not cool is the mayor of Batman is suing the director of the recent Batman movies, Christopher Nolan, for using the name Batman without his permission. He also blames the city’s increase in unsolved murders and female suicides on this identity infringement.

“There is only one Batman in the world,” Kalkan said. “The American producers used the name of our city without informing us.”

Hey shut up Mayor Kalkan, you make no sense. Batman has been serving Gotham city for 70 YEARS, why not take it up with DC Comics or creator Bob Kane. Oh that’s right, Batman is an abbreviation, not your city’s real name, your stupid, go home.

[Via MSNBC]

This dude is awesome. He just changed his name to Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined.

Now he has the worlds longest and most awesome name.

Check out Mitsy’s halloween costume.

Ajax is the joker but his costume is too big.

Now all I need is some cat crime to fight and cat criminal underworld to dominate. You know what would be cool is if the cats actually liked to wear costumes, that way when they wrestled it would be classic Batman vs. Joker action.