This is awesome! A few more realistic soundbytes for Mortal Kombat and everyday life:

Exclusive: Unlocked Mortal Kombat Phrase Soundboard

So Van Halen is famous for their off-the wall concert tour riders especially the Roth-era fronted Van Halen. In case you’re not familiar, riders are basically the contracts bands setup with the venues they’re performing at, traditionally requesting specific foods, drinks, dressing room arrangements, etc.

It’s funny that with the addition of Eddie Van Halen’s son on bass, they’ve now got a room setup for little Wolfgang Van Halen’s tutoring. They’ve also set it up so that Roth is as far away from the other dressing rooms. I wonder if Hagar had the same requirement, especially on that last tour.

Van Halen 2008 Tour Rider

A few weeks ago, the Heels unveiled an alternate jersey, full of Navy blue, and only a splash of Carolina blue at a home game at Kenan Stadium.

Tarheelblue.com has a whole writeup on it, about halfway down the article linked below. Here is more on the colors tradition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:

The unveiling of the navy blue jerseys for a home game followed the introduction of navy pants for a road trip to Rutgers in September. Some have complained that navy is not a traditional Carolina color (wrong, the Heels were wearing navy more than a century ago and as recently as half a century ago) and that the shade reeks too much of Duke (wrong as well, as the Blue Devils’ hue is a lighter version of royal blue).

Read more (about halfway down the article)

I’ve been eagerly eyeing the iPhone application store, hoping and waiting for an official TiVo application. There’s still nothing on that front, but TiVo has unveiled a mobile friendly web site obviously targeted for iPhone and iPod Touch users primarily.

It’s still in a semi-beta and a little slow over the Edge network, but will get a fair amount of use in our household and hopefully it’ll get a little speedier along the way.

TiVo to Offer a Mobile Friendly Web Site

So great news today in the music world or at least in my music world. It looks like No Doubt is going out on the road, touring and getting back in the groove of playing as a band. I look forward to the tour with Gwen, Adrian, Tony and Tom. I was a huge fan of them in college and am psyched to hear an eventual new studio album.

No Doubt Official Site

So I’ve finally entered the realm of owning more than one wheelset for my road bike, meaning in theory my days of dropping out of a criterium because of a flat are over. A friend from a local bike club I ride with cleared out some old equipment from his garage, making me the proud owner of a Bontrager Select wheelset. While these aren’t the greatest set, I now have a backup set of wheels, and ultimately, these wheels will become my workhorse off-season and commuting wheels on my ol’ Specialized Allez Comp steel-framed road bike.

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While a lot of these could be a bit gimmicky, and only be a value on a rare occasion, some of these would be absolutely great knowledge to have for kicking up a given photo, wallpaper etc. It’s definitely worth a read for multiple of these lighting effects:

28 Powerful Photoshop Lighting Effects

Just after midnight today, Apple released its newest firmware for the iPhone – version 2.2. I’ve only had a little bit of time with the update, but the coolest part for me is the fact that you can download podcasts through the iTunes store app.

The other major addition this time around is Street View integration in the Google Maps application, which, like Google Earth on the iPhone is pretty smooth and works well with the multitouch interface.

Mobile Safari’s been slightly updated too, with the top chrome now having the address bar and search box both visible.

The home button now can be double clicked from any of the menu screens to take you back to the first screen. You can also now turn off the keyboard’s auto correction. Under the hood, I’m sure there have been multiple updates, bug fixes, etc. So far so good, and it’s good to see new features still being added to the iPhone and its native apps.

Apple Releases iPhone 2.2 Firmware with Street View, Emoji and More