Video Round-Up: Labor Day Edition

Video Round-Up is a weekly post collecting an assortment of videos from around the web. Whether they be music videos, creative viral marketing, just plain cool, or just plain ridiculous, they will all be found on Video Round-Up.

Happy Labor Day, readers! Now, I know that the US economy and the principles of capitalism detract from the purpose of Labor Day (Labour Day, as it's called in more fun countries). No, we cannot honor this holiday; we must work! The people need Long John Silver's greasy-ass fish, dammit! But for those of us who have the day off, or are getting home from work this evening and want to be happy, just click the Read More button and enjoy.

Video Round-Up: Issues and Non-Issues Edition

Video Round-Up is a weekly post collecting an assortment of videos from around the web. Whether they be music videos, creative viral marketing, just plain cool, or just plain ridiculous, they will all be found on Video Round-Up.

This week in the Round-Up: brilliant amateur rap, Boondocks, Street Fighter combos, and a tonal nuclear explosion record worth your attention.

The Portable Five: June

The Portable Five is a monthly column designed to help you pick through the glut of games out there -- especially on iPhone -- and purchase only the highest quality portable time-killers. If you do a lot of gaming on the go, you'll want to keep an eye out here the 15th of every month.

Portable gaming has been around since 1977, but it has never been as popular as it is today. One reason for this surge in popularity comes from everyone having a phone that can play games, but I think a lot of it is also due to great games being made that put console games made just 10 years ago to shame. Sure, they aren't all great, though. There is a mountain of crappy games covering the great games, and with my help you can scale that mountain and find those diamonds in the rough.

This month, I'm focusing on iPhone/iPod Touch games. There are over 100,000 apps on the iTunes store, and only about 50 of them are decent. Here are a few of the good, one of the bad, and one that is so broken, if you try it, you may contemplate suicide. So for a healthier mental state, follow this handy guide.