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Perhaps not the most light-hearted of posts today, but definitely very intriguing!

In light of the recent increase in knife crime in London, the Metropolitan Police has started using the Internets to help bring it down again (the main website being www.droptheweapons.org). One of the measures is creating an interactive Youtube video story, which starts with this one:

At the end of it, you’re presented with two choices, and clicking on one of them takes you to the next video, where you again have choices, etc. Think of those books where you can choose your own story, except in video form and slightly more grim (if you make the wrong choices, that is…)

It is pretty transparent and hardly a challenge to choose the “right” ending (Not wanting to ruin it for anyone, but it’s usually best not to take a knife in a video created by the Police…), but I still like it because it’s definitely a novel way of fighting crime, has surprisingly good acting and does hit home hard.

Try out the path that you’d choose, then play around with some alternatives to see what would happen if you’d gone the other way…

We think this is pretty cool and we thought you might too…

It’s not all work and no play for G.I. JOE operatives. Check out the Delta 6 Accelerator suit in action on a half-pipe earlier this summer.

The Accelerator suit has been specially designed to enhance an individual’s natural speed and power while also offering them maximum protection. That said, even with the full body armour, that fall has got to hurt!

Okay, you’re getting a two-for today!

Excited about the new G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra film? Well, we are! And we have something to tantalise your gaming tastebuds until the launch of the film on Thursday 6th August (in the UK).

Think you can make the grade?

(Click the pic to make the jump)

Thought I’d bring your attention to an artist and animator who definately deserves to be noticed. His name is Graham Annable, creator of Grickle. His work is somewhat reminiscent of broadsheet cartoon strips, but they all have a message or point to make, even if it’s just something really silly.

They WILL make you laugh! These two are my favourites:

First, “We Sing the Forest Electric” (wish real forests were like this…)

And secondly, “Botched” (you’ll see why it’s ‘botched’ when you watch :p)

His artwork, animations and book can all be found here: http://www.grickle.com/ This guy is incredibly talented and also has a pretty dry wit. There’s something for everyone to appreciate in his animations.

Oh go on, have another

For a few minutes yesterday, we all got a little bit excited (or rather, got moderately distracted) for a few minutes by Spezify. It’s a brand-new visual search engine which goes through lots of different search engine results, picks out a few articles, pictures, videos, Facebook accounts, Twitter updates, etc., and then scrambles it up on the screen. The result is then surprisingly appealing. Take a look at this particularly topical search for Michael Jackson:

Try it out and play around with the settings. Apparently you can turn off the ’safe search’ too. Errr…

You know the first thing you’ll really be doing is searching your own name. Maybe that’s just us though.