US Air Force Blog Assessment Chart

While the US Air Force prepares for infrastructural cyberwarfare with their Cyber Command, they also prepare for informational cyberwarfare with their Emerging Technology Division. That division has drafted a blog assessment chart showing when and how to comment on blog entries.

Yes, you read that right: the Air Force has drawn up rules of engagement for the blogosphere. These guys know the Internet is serious business.

I recommend this handy flowchart to anyone who’s taking a blogospheric beating. The responses it prescribes are far more rational than the excuses and insults most people spout when targeted by angry bloggers.

(Via Joey deVilla.)

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li Trailer

The imposing evil overlord Bison has been reduced to a blond wheeler-dealer with a goatee. The idealistic narcissist nobleman Vega has been reduced to a goon in a ninja suit. The brutal mercenary boxer Balrog has been reduced to some dude who fires rocket launchers.

Even Bison’s threatening catchphrase, “Anyone who opposes me will be destroyed,” has been reduced to the nonthreatening statement “You will not stop me.”

As revealed in this first trailer, every character in the upcoming Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li has been thoroughly douched up and dumbed down for Hollywood audiences. Despite games rapidly outpacing movies and movies frantically taking ideas from games, Hollywood still takes a condescending attitude towards video game characters. It’s Van Damme’s Street Fighter movie all over again, minus Raul Julia’s enjoyably megalomanic Bison.