It wasn’t so long ago that Christian Bale outdid Michael Keaton as my personal favorite Batman. I was rather endeared with Keaton’s version. It was dark and edgy, directed by Tim Burton, full of late-80s goodness. Then came the sequels. The endless bags of fail just kept coming, bringing with them exciting star-studded Batmans, all of which sucked. Surprisingly the only career it ended was… see, I can’t even remember now. That’s how horribly it ended that career. Then came Christian Bale, the savior of the Batman mythos. Yet, even after crowning him the best silver screen Batman ever, I was still skeptical. Could Christian pull off repeat awesomeness in a sequel of his own? Any doubts I had are now gone after seeing only the trailer for the upcoming Batman movie.

At the end of Batman Begins, a sequel featuring the Joker was eluded to. At the time, this was merely the director’s way of having a little fun with no foresight as to whether a sequel would come to fruition. It’s three years later. The sequel has arrived. Yet who would step up to bring their own interpretation of Batman’s most infamous villain to the large screen once again? Consider previous actors who have taken on this role. Actually, scratch that. Consider the one that matters: Jack Nicholson’s portrayal of the sadistic clown is the one by which all others are judged. Until now. As a matter of fact, if I were Jack, I’d be pissed. Just as Michael Keaton is now but a memory to all but hardcore fans, so too will be Jack. The image above is a great Photoshop that doesn’t accurately reflect the new Joker, but it’s still pretty cool. A little too dark and twisted for my tastes.

So who’s the new quick-witted and murderous Joker? I’m not going to tell you… yet. Watch the following trailer, then come back to find out the answer. Unless you already know (and doing a quick Google search is cheating!!!), you’ll never guess.

Check out the latest Dark Knight trailer!

So… can you guess who it is? Holy Brokeback Mountain, Batman!! It’s Heath Ledger!

Happy New Year to you all. So what’s the deal with the image above? It’s Nissan’s Corvette-munching, Porsche-stomping, Ferrari-hunting GT-R. This beast of epic automotive iconery has had one of the most hyped and, if I dare say, excessive marketing campaigns in automotive history. It is yet another chapter and generation in a long line of supercars-for-the-common-man originally designed for Japanese royalty almost forty years ago. In previous generations this car’s proper name was the Skyline, the GT-R designation going only to those cars bearing 300+ horsepowered, twin-turbocharged, all-wheel-driven perversions of a powertrain. Nothing’s changed really, with exception to the gorgeous body you see before you and the change from inline-six to the more common V6 configuration. The twin-turbos remain. The all-wheel-drive system remains. If you wanted to purchase the previous generation (GT-R34), you could expect to pay $100,000+ for an average example, as it had to be imported from the motherland of the rising sun. This beast, available to the U.S. in mid-2008, can be had for less than $60k. Yes, that’s right, less than $60k. In the mean time, here are a few interesting facts (if by interesting I mean hilarious and by facts I mean ficticious lies) about the 2009 Nissan GT-R(35)… as found on GTRFacts.Com.

• According to Japanese legend, if a GT-R does a donut on your lawn your next child will have unlimited prosperity.
• In order to get accurate power readings from the GT-R, a dynometer has to be recalibrated to Unicorn Power.
• Examination of Laguna Seca photos shows tow cable between GT-R and pursuing Porsche 997 Turbo: “My fastest lap ever,” says Porsche driver.
• The United States Census Bureau predicts 14,580 inner city kids born in 2009 to be named “Skyline,” “GT-R,” or a combination thereof; GT-R expected to be father in most cases.
• 7 minute 38 second Nurburgring lap time actually run on snow tires; included coffee break at Adenauer-Forst.
• Toyota kills LF-A supercar project: “What’s the fucking point,” asks anonymous Toyota engineer.
• Chief engineer behind GT-R revealed: it’s the ghost of Ayrton Senna.
• After being presented with GT-R, Toretto agrees Spilner has provided ten-second car.
• The GT-R doesn’t run on conventional fuel, but rather the tears of children.
• It has now been discovered that the solo from Stairway to Heaven is actually the GT-R’s exhaust note.
• It turns out Einstein was wrong: E=GT-R.
• Nissan GT-R engineer J. Christ wrote in his blog related to his work with the physics-bending car, “My dad didn’t help me. Honest.”
• An anonymous GT-R engineer has let slip that the car was originally supposed to be the second coming of Christ until the design team realized that Japanese people don’t believe in him anyway, so they did the next best thing.

Nissan GT-R Official Site
Nissan GT-R “Facts” Site