Appar­ently Code­mas­ters is work­ing on a video game based on the 1987 camp clas­sic Dirty Danc­ing. I find this incred­i­bly hard to actu­ally take seri­ously, but sure enough, it’s on the Code­mas­ters web­site and slated for a Fall 2007 release.

• Dirty Danc­ing Video Game

I’m scared. For­tu­nately, Ben Kuchera from Oppos­able Thumbs has some great sug­ges­tions about what should be in the game.

• The Dirty Danc­ing game is on the way: here’s what I want to see

On a side note, I was double check­ing the release date of Dirty Danc­ing on Wikipedia and I found myself incred­i­bly inter­ested in the entire back-​story of the movie. Jen­nifer Grey and Patrick Swayze actu­ally couldn’t stand each other. It was 40° out when they did that water scene. An oh yeah, there’s the real story of the tick­ling scene:

Another “chemistry” scene that was impro­vised was the one where Grey was to stand in front of Swayze with her back to him, and put her arm up behind his head while he trailed his fin­gers down her arm. Though it was writ­ten as a seri­ous and tender moment, Grey was exhausted, found the move tick­lish, and could not stop gig­gling each time Swayze tried it, no matter how many takes that Ardolino asked for. Swayze was impa­tient to finish the scene, and found Grey’s behav­ior annoy­ing. But as it turned out, the scene worked and was put into the film as-​is, com­plete with Grey’s gig­gling and Swayze’s annoyed expres­sion, and it became one of the most famous scenes in the film. It turned out, as chore­o­g­ra­pher Kenny Ortega put it, “as one of the most del­i­cate and honest moments in the film.”

xkcd has posted a map of on online com­mu­ni­ties, RPG style.

• Map of Online Com­mu­ni­ties

I just love this. There are so many great things tucked into little spaces on this map. I also love the title of the image:

I’m wait­ing for the day when, if you tell some­one ‘I’m from the internet’, instead of laugh­ing they just ask ‘oh, what part?’

So, prob­lems I see in this image:

1. Hope­ful is spelled wrong
2. The oppo­site of ‘death’ should be ‘life’, not live

Noob as the oppo­site of pro? I don’t see a prob­lem with that.

• Pro v.s. Noob

In his latest post on Coding Horror, Jeff Atwood talks about how code has the ten­dency to become a giant Kata­mari ball. It’s an inter­est­ing post. Also, any­thing that uses Kata­mari as a com­par­i­son wins my approval.

• Code Smaller

I just found a link to the new God of War 2 offi­cial web­site from Kotaku. Imag­ine my sur­prise when this is what the link opened up in my browser:

In case you can’t read that text, here’s a detail shot:

They want to know my birth­day before I can even look at the site! You’ve got to be kid­ding me. I guess I’ll never know what the actual site looks like.

• God of War 2 web­site

Via Kotaku.