… let alone a singer!  Warning, the following video contains toxic levels of awesome.  Viewer discretion is advised.

Twitter, the great micro-blogging tool of our age, is an interesting project. For all the “what I had for breakfast” tweets, and any other from the plethora of topics, it hasnt been monitised.

Monitised? What the hell is that, I hear you ask…

Making dollar-dollar bills. No ads, no subscription model, no selling-harvested-information (that we know of). But dammit, I’ve monitised Twitter.

I just walked into my local EB Games, bought a copy of Halo 3: ODST (which launched today, and expect a review shortly). As soon as the transaction was paid (which cost me $98), I left, walked around the corner, and my phone went off.

A message from Matt: “BigW have it for $68″. Why not a few minutes beforehand?! He heard this off the #ACDiplomat twitter!

Alas, I figure I’ll return it, and then get a discount.

Back in I go, only moments from being there previously.

$30 bucks in my pocket, and I declare Twitter to be a success story. Thank you, Twitter.

Scores are correct at the time of posting. Not to be taken internally.

There are some days when 4chan *cough* eBaums, dark heart of the internet, uses it’s undirected power to make you laugh.

Today is one of those days.

So in a moment of originality, GameSpot have put up a “Greatest Game Hero Of All Time” poll (you know, kind of like the one running on absolutely every major site ever).  Up until now, the results have been kind of what you’d expect: Mario, Cloud, Pikachu, Snake, all the likely suspects make it through by landslides.

Well thanks to a few beautiful trolls co-ordinating their efforts, to seems like today’s poll is heading towards an upset, with Xbox fanboy icon Master Chief being steadily out-voted by Bubble Bobble duo Bub and Bob.

This tier of the online poll still has two days to go, which may be longer than many an Anonymous’ attention span, but with any luck someone will get bored, create a script and simply let it run poor old Master Chief into the ground.  Until that time (when of course, your puny human votes will be considered pointless) maybe you’d like to lend a hand to helping Bub and Bob gain a little recognition for their work.

Marines Sold Seperately

Exciting news came my way over the weekend, when thanks to the gang at OXCGN I secured myself a ticket to the Halo 3: ODST VIP event up in Sydney this week.

So this Thursday I’ll be jetting up to Sydney for a two-and-a-half hour shindig, where not only will I get the chance to try out Halo 3: ODST (and write my impressions back here) but also check out the Warthog made by WETA Workshop for the now defunct Halo movie. That’s right, I’ll be seeing the actual Warthog that Bungie producer Curtis Creamer managed to sideswipe a building with.

Speaking of Curtis Creamer, he’ll also be there to make a presentation and talk to everyone about the game.

So check back here over the weekend, I’ll be posting up the goings on, alongside some pictures of the event.

Now for those of you Sydney-side, you can actually go and see the Warthog over the weekend on Cockatoo Island, InsiderX has all the details if you’re interested.