Accord­ing to the Fox Store site; ““Futu­rama” takes its name from the Gen­eral Motor’s exhibit at the 1939 World’s Fair. The exhibit depicted a futur­is­tic land­scape. The char­ac­ter Fry’s unspo­ken first name is Philip, which is a trib­ute to the late Phil Hart­man. The late actor was orig­i­nally cast to do the voice of Zapp Bran­ni­gan. Accord­ing to cre­ator Matt Groen­ing, the hieroglyphic-like let­ters appear­ing in var­i­ous loca­tions through­out the open­ing ani­ma­tion DO mean some­thing — it is up to loyal view­ers to fig­ure it out! Some of the sound effects used in the show are taken from other sci-fi tele­vi­sion series, such as “Star Trek” (1966) and “The Jet­sons” (1962).”

Inter­est­ing, huh? Well, if you enjoy Futu­rama like I do please go buy your copy today by vis­it­ing the Fox Store or pur­chas­ing it in par­tic­i­pat­ing stores. There is noth­ing bet­ter than this show, except for the obvi­ous showrun­ner The Simp­sons. Both by the same cre­ator, Matt Groen­ing, whom I actu­ally met at the San Diego Comic Con­ven­tion in 2002.

His son, William Groen­ing, was beg­ging for some break­fast. As my mem­ory recalls, Matt replied with; “Wasn’t the beef jerky enough this morning?”

It’s these moments that fur­ther proves that life is goofy.

ZED

Guide Zed to his ulti­mate dream, to pos­sess a space­suit made entirely of gold. Okay, so the premise sounds kind of odd but rest assured this Flash game is a fun diver­sion and fea­tures col­or­ful graph­ics and a great side-scrolling engine.

URL: Zed

THE LANDER

Use your arrow keys (much like Zed above) to con­trol a tiny alien space­craft. The object of this game is to lift off from a pad and land on well, a land­ing pad. Wow. Makes sense, don’t it? The lit­tle guy reminds me of the Aliens in The Simp­sons, usu­ally mis­taken as Mormons.

URL: The Lan­der

And now …

::INTERMISSION::

CHASM

This is a cool one. Reminds me of the point-and-click Lucasarts Clas­sics from ages ago (yeah, about 5 – 6 years actu­ally). Games like Full Throt­tle, Sam and Max Hit the Road, Maniac Man­sion (and DOTT), and last but not least Grim Fan­dango with Manny Calevera. “What now?”

“My kid needs another bal­loon animal.”

Any­ways, Chasm fea­tures a duck that must make his way through a chasm. I love sim­ple games. The won­der­ful aspect of this game is the atten­tion to detail and the charm. Granted, because it’s sim­ple doesn’t mean it’s easy. It’s hard to explain how cool this game really is. You just have to point-and-click for yourself.

URL: Chasm

That’s all, folks.

That’s right, the leader of the Auto­bots. The free­dom fighter for the pop­u­lar 80s car­toon series is a mem­ber of Ohio’s 5694^th National Guard Unit. What? You think I’m crazy, don’t you? Well, read below buddy.

Accord­ing to ywkc​.com; “A mem­ber of Ohio’s 5694^th National Guard Unit in Mans­field legally changed his name to a Trans­form­ers toy.

Opti­mus Prime is head­ing out to the Mid­dle East with his guard unit on Wednes­day to pro­vide fire pro­tec­tion for air­fields under combat.

Read the full story.

We’ve all had those dreams where we’re fly­ing. Some­times in the mid­dle of the night your body either senses fly­ing or falling and twitches in reac­tion. It’s weird, isn’t it?

Kind of like this inter­est­ing Flash exper­i­ment slash game? Really, I can’t clas­sify this. It falls between those weird euro­pean com­mer­cials and trippy Flash car­toons that are scat­tered across the ‘Net. The kind with the guy who just begins his jour­ney walk­ing and runs into odd sites (or sights) along the way. The com­mer­cial usu­ally ends with an oblig­a­tory chime of the harp and it ends up being a com­mer­cial for bed pans.

The world is weird and I’m here to exploit it!

URL: Fly­Guy