R.I.P. Carroll Shelby, one of the greatest automotive minds in history, and a true American icon.

Legendary racer, car designer Shelby dies at 89

Carroll Shelby, the legendary car designer and champion auto racer who built the fabled Shelby Cobra sports car and injected testosterone into Ford's Mustang and Chrysler's Viper, has died. He was 89….

What must this kid have thought when he saw his stuffed animal get torn open, and guns fall out?

Gun parts found in boy’s stuffed animals at Rhode Island airport – CNN.com

TSA agents say a man denies knowing about the gun parts found in his son’s stuffed animals during screening in a Rhode Island airport.

But I wonder how much this new look will endear itself to fans of the old, dark, crowded hallway the old CF was known as? Either way, I have a feeling that if they bring the 2D fighters, the games will come back.

A Gaming Landmark, Transformed [Video]Kotaku

  

This morning, Kotaku video editor Chris Person and I took a trip to New York’s Chinatown Fair, which reopened last Friday following a sudden closure last December. It doesn’t look very much like the old Chinatown Fair. More »

I’m not a big fan of G4. I appreciate the effort they put into the programming, but in all honesty I’ve never been able to overlook the brazen pandering the network makes to the stereotypes of its audience. It bugs the hell out of me that G4 feels that in order to maintain its audience it needs to lower the bar, not raise it. What if ESPN had taken that approach to legitimizing sports broadcast journalism? Conversely, what if instead of putting so much emphasis on objectifying women and emulating l33t-speak on-air, G4 focused its creative efforts on real investigative journalism, and on lifting the veil off the secretive and enigmatic industry they’re supposedly covering?

Don’t get me wrong- I understand the need for ratings, and the need to fill programming slots with more than just Cops reruns and hard news segments. But there aren’t ANY real news segments on G4. At all. That’s a world of difference from a network like ESPN, which has struck a fine balance between news programming like SportsCenter and less serious content like SportsNation and Pardon the Interruption. That’s why ESPN isn’t just watched by sports fans- it’s respected by sports fans.

Maybe if G4 respected its audience more, it would stop trying to grab the low-hanging fruit and put more of its energy into actually winning the respect of the 18-34 year-old gamer audience it tries so hard to capture.

Kevin Pereira Also Out At G4 [Blip]Kotaku

Two weeks ago, we reported that Adam Sessler had parted ways with television network G4TV. Today, popular Attack of the Show host Kevin Pereira said he is also leaving the network. [G4TV] More »

Especially considering the ugly summer we had up here in Rochester last year, when several people were arrested for capturing alleged racial profiling by city police on camera.

Racial profiling law passes in Connecticut – CNN.com

After East Haven police were arrested for targeting Latinos, Connecticut’s state legislature passed an anti-racial profiling bill Monday.