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From GameSpy:

1) Opening Licks
(Bang Your Head) Metal Health – Quiet Riot
We Got The Beat – The Go Go’s
I Ran (So Far Away) – Flock Of Seagulls (original artist)
Balls To The Wall – Accept
18 And Life – Skid Row

2) Amp Warmers
No One Like You – Scorpions
Shakin’ – Eddie Money
Heat Of The Moment – Asia
Radar Love – White Lion
Because, It’s Midnite – Limozeen (original artist)

3) String Snappers
Holy Diver – Dio
Turning Japanese – The Vapors
Hold On Loosely – .38 Special
The Warrior – Scandal (original artist)
I Wanna Rock – Twisted Sister (original artist)

4) Return Of The Shred
What I Like About You – The Romantics
Synchronicity II – The Police
Ballroom Blitz – Krokus
Only A Lad – Oingo Boingo
Round And Round – Ratt

5) Relentless Riffs
Ain’t Nothin But A Good Time – Poison
Lonely Is The Night – Billy Squier
Bathroom Wall – Faster Pussycat
Los Angeles – X
Wrathchild – Iron Maiden

6) Furious Fretwork
Electric Eye – Judas Priest (original artist)
Police Truck – Dead Kennedys
Seventeen – Winger
Caught In A Mosh – Anthrax
Play With Me – Extreme

The second trailer is out for the new Grand Theft Auto and it looks gorgeous.

Snackbar Games released a few more songs from their preview build. They are:

• We Got the Beat (as made famous by the Go Gos)
• Los Angeles (as made famous by X)
• Electric Eye (by Judas Priest)
• Police Truck (as made famous by Dead Kennedys)

So now we know 29 of the 30 songs. The only remaining song will be whatever replaces I Want Candy, which was announced earlier and then removed from the game. Here’s what the overall set looks like:

Opening Licks

1. ???
2. Holy Diver (as made famous by Dio)
3. We Got the Beat (as made famous by the Go Gos)
4. No One Like You (as made famous by The Scorpions)
5. Bang Your Head (Metal Health) (as made famous by Quiet Riot)

Amp-Warmers

1. Ain’t Nothin But A Good Time (as made famous by Poison)
2. I Wanna Rock (by Twisted Sister)
3. Turning Japanese (as made famous by The Vapors)
4. Los Angeles (as made famous by X)
5. Hold On Loosely (as made famous by .38 Special)

String Snappers

1. Lonely is the Night (as made famous by Billy Squier)
2. Synchronicity II (as made famous by The Police)
3. Heat of the Moment (as made famous by Asia)
4. Shakin’ (as made famous by Eddie Money)
5. Bathroom Wall (as made famous by Faster Pussycat)

Return of the Shred

1. Round and Round (as made famous by Ratt)
2. Electric Eye (by Judas Priest)
3. Wrathchild (as made famous by Iron Maiden)
4. I Ran (by Flock of Seagulls)
5. What I Like About You (as made famous by The Romantics)

Relentless Riffs

1. Radar Love (as made famous by White Lion)
2. Play With Me (as made famous by Extreme)
3. The Warrior (by Scandal)
4. Balls to the Wall (by Accept)
5. Caught in a Mosh (as made famous by Anthrax)

Furious Fretwork

1. Seventeen (as made famous by Winger)
2. Police Truck (as made famous by Dead Kennedys)
3. 18 and Life (as made famous by Skid Row)
4. Only a Lad (as made famous by Oingo Boingo)
5. Ballroom Blitz (as made famous by Krokus)

This is a pretty funny parody of 300.  That sharpened carrot is one deadly weapon.

This past May was the fourth warmest ever recorded (since the late 1800’s, anyway). Jeff Masters, over at Weather Underground, has details. From his article:

May 2007 was the fourth warmest May for the globe on record, and the period January – May of 2007 was tied with 1998 for the warmest such period ever, according to statistics released by the National Climatic Data Center. The global average temperature for May was +0.53°C (+0.95°F) above the 20th century mean. Over land, May global temperatures were the warmest ever measured, the second straight month that has happened. Ocean temperatures were a bit cooler (ninth warmest on record), thanks to the cooling associated with the disappearance of the winter El Niño event. The global temperature record goes back 128 years.

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The sequel to Batman Begins is filming right now and is shaping up to be a great movie. The returning cast:

• Batman: Christian Bale
• Alfred: Michael Caine
• Jim Gordon : Gary Oldman
• Lucius Fox: Morgan Freeman

The new cast:

• Rachel Dawes: Maggie Gyllenhaal (replacing Katie Holmes)
• Joker: Heath Ledger
• Harvey Dent: Aaron Eckhart

Tremendous cast, and there’s a rumor that Cillian Murphy may show up again as Scarecrow. The movie is scheduled to come out July 18, 2008. Next summer should be great for comic book movies with this in addition to Iron Man and the new Hulk movie.

Heath Ledger as the Joker

The Joker’s goons

The Batpod

I love this show…this song absolutely cracks me up.

You’re so beautiful, you could be a tree or a high class prostitute.

This article from New Scientist clarifies a lot of misconceptions about climate change.

Some of the highlights:

• We can’t trust computer models of climate.
• It’s been far warmer in the past, what’s the big deal?
• It’s too cold where I live – warming will be great.

Read them all here.

This is one of my favorite Aqua Teen episodes ever.

You would think this would eventually get old, but I’m still loving the dramatic chipmunk.