The people behind Burnout Paradise got the nod to do the latest installment of Need For Speed Hot Pursuit, which will be released on Nov. 16th. For your crazy arcade run from the cops and bounce off of the walls needs this game looks like it will be a lot of fun. For your sim needs Gran Turismo 5 is going to be nirvana. Get a logitech G25 racing wheel/pedals/gearshift and a Playseat to attach them to for extreme extra amounts of win.

I heartily disagree, sir. I played q2 and q3 for years in competitive clans, and the ability to do an instant and precise 180 and pop a rail into someone was crucial. Also zipping around looking for targets and quickly checking your six for a microsecond and then returning to looking ahead was absolutely necessary.

I can confirm this, I named myself NightmareCast and was literally running circles around the poor Quake3 Dreamcast players. It was sort of fun for a very short while. They just could not understand how I was able to move and shoot so fast, so after a while I would tell them what was up from guilt :/

Measuring the Kessel Run in distance makes perfect sense. From wookiepedia (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kessel_Run): Han Solo claimed that his Millennium Falcon "made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs". A parsec is a unit of distance, not time. Solo was not referring directly to his ship's speed when he made this claim. Instead, he was referring to the shorter route he was able to travel by skirting the nearby Maw black hole cluster, thus making the run in under the standard distance. He may have indirectly referred to the speed of his ship in this instance because, to be able to go closer to a black hole and still be able to get out of its gravitational pull, it is necessary to go faster. However, parsec relates to time in that a shorter distance equals a shorter time at the same speed. By moving closer to the black holes, Solo managed to cut the distance down to about 11.5 parsecs.

I thought I didn't have the 900 odd dollars for the Aeron chair until I happened to try one in a store. Within 3 seconds I knew I had to buy it at any price. Sure enough within a week my chronic upper back burning pain went away forever after years of suffering.

is exactly about this, quite a well written and fascinating novel about immortal aliens who cannot experience emotions like humans, so they come here with a full movie making crew to capture humans' wackiness with special cameras that record the feelings of the scene.

That also sounds very similar to a facet of the interesting hard-core scifi novel "Revelation Space" by Alistair Reynolds.