Dance against Slave Leia in Star Wars Kinect

Dance for Jabba's amusement in Star Wars Kinect, which you can preorder for $50 at Amazon. Via.

Mexican pointy cowboy boots

Vice:

In this episode of Behind the Seams we head to the dusty city of Matehuala, Mexico in search of the pointiest long-toed cowboy boots ever made. Over the past year, the botas vaqueras exóticas phenomenon has overrun the rodeo dance floors and clubs of this area and even spreading North into Texas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and any place where big groups of immigrant Mexicans have taken root. We made our way to Desierto Light, one of the clubs in this area where party promoters host dance-offs to music known as Tribal Guarachero. For the finals competition, the 17-year-old prodigy DJ Erick Rincón of the 3ballMTY crew performed for a crowd of adoring pointy-boot wearing raver cowboys.

Just a guy thing, apparently. Via these sites.

Sword dancing

Erika Dufour and friend dance with weapons.

Link roundup

(I don't know if my starred items are going to survive the upcoming changes to Google Reader, so I'm slowly clearing them out and posting the best ones.)


The winner of Gizmodo's holiday card contest 2010.




Hamster-powered walker. Via.




Mirror monster comes to life practical joke. Via these sites.




Beyonce surprises a middle school class and dances with the kids. Via these sites.




Lioness stalks baby at zoo. Via these fine sites.

Link roundup

1. I mentioned the other day that Neal Stephenson had written an article lamenting what he saw as stagnation in scientific development. I don't believe that he mentions in the article his own association with Intellectual Ventures (which is now suing Motorola).

2. Corruption and death at a Vatican-connected hospital.

3. Video of Tom Cruise in a dance battle. It's like Zoolander in real life.