Watch a Race Between Your Favorite Video Game Characters

Christopher Han · 11/28/10 07:00PM

Points for accuracy; Donkey Kong cannot hold a candle to Sonic's speed. Follow a race that spans across the backdrops of your favorite side scrollers of yesteryear! You'll never guess who wins.

Add More Time to the Mayan Calendar, Plus Hang Out With a Bear Named ‘Science’ by Playing Dikembe Mutombo’s 4½ Weeks to Save the World

Studio@Gawker · 11/28/10 05:52PM

The Mayans have us self-destructing, in, oh, about 2½ weeks. Luckily, former NBA great and current Old Spice Champion Dikembe Mutombo is here to use his powers of good — including flinging rolled-up ballots at people dancing maniacally to a certain Korean pop song and crushing evil fluffy balls (the dreaded Blurgies) with a riding cart — to add more time to the Mayan Calendar, thereby rescuing humanity as we know it.

Dikembe's call to arms is clear. Every Monday, a new level of the game will be released, with all-new challenges. All the points you rack up will power a wood carver designed to draw additional rings on the Mayan Calendar.

Be a champion. Play Dikembe Mutombo's 4½ Weeks to Save the World now — or just play below. Because he's an Old Spice Champion, and the world needs you to be one, too.

All the Hottest Diplomatic Gossip From the Latest Wikileak

Adrian Chen · 11/28/10 04:35PM

The giant diplomatic cable dump released by Wikileaks today represents the world's largest leak of geopolitical gossip: Diplomats tittering about world leaders' sexxxy affairs, their financial skeeziness and weird quirks. Let's dive into a U.S. Embassy gossip roundup!

This Will Work: Pulling a Gun on a Fellow Driver

Christopher Han · 11/28/10 03:25PM

On a highway in Europe we see a Polish driver side by side with a German truck. Are they racing? Perhaps. Will pulling a gun out give you a "competitive advantage?" In a word, yes.

Cyberbully Your Way to Fame and Fortune

Adrian Chen · 11/28/10 03:09PM

Vitaly Borker, the owner of decormyeyes.com, has hit on an ingenious method to market his Internet eyeglasses business: Bully customers into leaving negative reviews on watchdog websites, then watch your rank in Google searches rise!

When the Drug Lord's Away, the Children Will Play

Jeff Neumann · 11/28/10 02:10PM

[Children play at the home of an alleged drug trafficker in Rio's Complexo do Alemao slum today, as Brazilian security forces declare victory against the city's infamous drug gangs. Image via AP]

Justin Bieber Cut His Hair

Adrian Chen · 11/28/10 01:50PM

Justin Bieber's hair is a little different! On Friday, Bieber unveiled this new, less mop-like 'do. Reaction on Twitter was swift: "WITH HAIR CUT OR NOT THE JUSTIN BIEBER IS BEAUTIFUL IN ANY WAY." Will Bieber's strength now fade, Samson-like?

Grandfather Plays Dexter's "Blood Theme" Live

Whitney Jefferson · 11/28/10 01:30PM

What's creepier than watching Dexter? Listening to the show's soundtrack all by yourself. Check out this live rendition of Dexter's "Blood Theme" performed by Grandfather at recent show at Union Pool.

A Vintage Flintstones Cigarette Commercial from 1962

Chrystina Orlando · 11/28/10 12:00PM

Ah, good ol' days of television! Remember when cartoon characters were fine examples and wholesome do-gooders... who also loved their tobacco? Watch the clip for the legitimate Flintstones Winston cigarette ad.

How Twitter Scooped Wikileaks (Updated)

Adrian Chen · 11/28/10 11:40AM

Twitter has out-leaked the leakers. About 12 hours before Wikileaks latest enormous leak was scheduled to be released, a Twitter user bought a copy of a German news magazine outlining the leak after it was placed on newstands too early.