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| Tuesday, September 22, 2009 11:12 AM |
| Recyclotron |
 by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
- Embedded above is a music video for a new song by Thom Yorke, featuring art by Banksy. (Via)
- Dude, tomorrow is Bruce Springsteen's 60th birthday. That blows my mind. Listen to some Bruce covers here. Or, try to. I was unable to get the player to work. (As it happens, today is my birthday - and my brother's as well, of course. We're almost the Boss!)
- The explanation for Google's recent flying saucer logos: H.G. Wells' birthday was yesterday! I'm almost a science fiction pioneer, too!
- A couple of people who I actually do share a birthday with: Bilbo and Frodo. Long live Hobbits!
- Video of an unbeatable pool-playing robot.
- A Russian billionaire had an anti-paparazzi laser shield built into his new yacht.
- The dangers of mooning the wrong person.
- A bloody preview of Warren Ellis' No Hero #7. (Via)
- The most expensive movies of the past decade. It seems really tragic to me that $221 million was wasted to create Wild Wild West.
- A trailer for a version of Clerks starring stormtroopers: Trooper Clerks.
- A fully functional cello made out of LEGO bricks.
- This might be Sci Fi Wire's most important post ever: the 29 sexiest and strangest sci-fi shower scenes, with the often NSFW videos included, where available!
- Japan already has a real working Dollhouse. Sort of.
- Video of Christopher Walken cooking a chicken.
- Dude, Dethklok and Mastodon on tour! I'll be at a wedding when they hit Philly, but that's okay; I'm not sure I would have wanted to brave the crowd anyway - or the Electric Factory's terrible sound system, for that matter. (Via)
- Yep. Yep. Yep. (Via)
- Wedding Chapel & tacos. Convenient! (Via)
- Dude, I want those. (Via)
- Video of remote-controlled walking zombie toys, with brain-shaped remote control. (Via)
- Sweet THX 1138 poster.
- An interesting interview with Dennis Quaid about Pandorum and a version of Enemy Mine that never was.
- A gallery of evil-ified Disney princesses. I particularly like the Snow White with a bunch of monster dwarfs at the end of rope leashes.
- A gallery tracing the evolution of Cylons in the 1970s series, from concept art to finished costume.
- Some sketches and a few very rough details about a possible upcoming Batman series called Odyssey by Neal Adams and Frank Miller. Looks like it's Batman with a gun, which makes me both curious and unhappy at the same time, as does the inclusion of Frank Miller on the creative team. I just don't feel like I can trust that guy anymore.
- A look at some of the celebrity cameos that were planned for Zombieland, but didn't make the cut.
- A Sherlock Holmes sequel might already be in the works with Brad Pitt as the villain.
- Michael Sheen confirms he'll be the White Rabbit in Alice and a nightclub owner in Tron.
- The 12 sexiest sci-fi stars at the Emmys.
- When Suda 51 said No More Heroes 2 would be the last No More Heroes game on the Wii, he meant that the next one would be on the next Nintendo platform, whatever that turns out to be. Huh. Thinking ahead!
- It took an enterprising developer less than a day to port one of its iPhone games to the Zune HD.
- A fun Incredibles-themed art jam. (Via)
- I've always been fascinated by stories I've heard about Alejandro Jodorowsky's planned film adaptation of Dune, so it's very cool that there's now an exhibition devoted to the project which "includes production drawings made by Moebius, H.R Giger and Chris Foss alongside commissioned work made in response by three international contemporary artists Steven Claydon, Matthew Day Jackson and Vidya Gastaldon." You can see some of the art here.
- Bullet William and Robert-omb.
- Using photos from 150,000 Flickr users, custom algorithms, 500 computers, and 13 hours of processing time, a team at a university recreated Rome automatically.
- Interesting fact: Google totally ignores keyword metatags. I guess I don't have to worry about keeping those up to date then!
- Hey, Twitpocalypse II is happening this morning, on my birthday! How nice. Luckily my favorite Twitter client (Twhirl) already released an update which will hopefully keep it from failing. Speaking of Twitter clients, MySpace is now integrating with Twitter as a last, desperate attempt to remain relevant.
- Darren Aronofsky's next project is a heist movie! He'll produce with an eye to direct.
- Inglourious Basterds has now made the most money of any of Tarantino's films. I guess I'd better see it one of these days!
- Why hadn't I already downloaded all the free Kristin Hersh tracks at CASH Music? I don't know, but I have now, and you can, too! (Via)
- Cool unused concept posters for Moon. Great movie! (Via)
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