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| Wednesday, September 23, 2009 10:59 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.
- Behold the glory of the Bearsharktopus. (Via)
- Bad ratings for Leno's new show. Excellent. (Via)
- Joss talks Dollhouse; some promo pics from episode 3 of season 2 (via); all you need to know for season 2; and three clips from the season premiere, which airs this Friday night (via). The clips are seriously intense. As for the pics, looks like there's a fight with a croquet mallet in episode 3! I'm going to go ahead and assume the episode is based on "Musical Box" by Genesis.
- So the Soviets made a doomsday device called Dead Hand, and it's still active? That doesn't make me happy. (Via)
- Beatles/Star Wars mashup T-shirt. (Via)
- 11 great comic book robots. (Via)
- An important PSA. (Via)
- Olde timey Star Wars family photo. (Via)
- Cool monster. (Via)
- This video about an extremely dysfunctional Voltron-esque team of robot pilots is seriously twisted, and seriously funny. And it stars Fran Kranz of Dollhouse! Just beware the NSFW audio. (Via)
- io9's review of DC's latest animated movie, Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, is not particularly complimentary. Bummer.
- A look at Ralph Nader's crazy sci-fi novel, which hit bookshelves yesterday.
- Sounds like that X-Men First Class movie isn't as ready to go as rumor suggested, but a fourth X-Men movie could be on the way, as well as a New Mutants movie! And that's not to mention X-Men Origins: Magneto, which Wolverine director Gavin Hood is now interested in helming.
- io9 takes a look at dangerous food technology throughout pop culture.
- This pic has been floating around the internet lately, but I've been avoiding posting it because I can't shake the idea that it might be faked. And also, eww. But it's just too sickly fascinating to hold off linking to any longer.
- There will be no Johnny Depp in the next Batman, despite the rumors to the contrary. Awww.
- Cops stopped during a drug raid to play Wii. Can't blame them, really. Drug raids must get boring.
- Pretty impressive projection system which animates your billiards experience.
- I actually think remaking Highlander is a good idea, as I always loved the premise of that film, but didn't think any movie in the series did as good a job of executing it as it could have. Unfortunately, the remake will be directed by the same director-producer combo that made the fourth Fast & Furious movie. Ugh.
- Somebody built a replica of the Galileo II shuttlecraft in their backyard.
- Clever conceptual video game shirts.
- The Miracle Whip commercials aimed at hipsters fascinate and amuse me, and I'd thought about mentioning them here in the past, but the ISS has taken care of the commentary for me, so I'll just stand aside while you click through.
- More casting news for Thor. The movie has its Sif, as well as a mysterious villain.
- Some interesting new briefs about Christopher Plummer's role in Priest, a Buzz Lightyear figure that actually went to space, and a legal fight over Voltron.
- I don't have a PSP and don't plan to get one, but I had to mention the return of Thexder because it was one of the first computer games I played and I remember it very fondly, even though it was punishingly difficult and I don't think my brother and I ever beat the first level.
- Weird tidbits from what are purported to be leaked minutes from a meeting between SEGA and Sony.
- God versus Hitler, Captain America style, and flying cats versus Nazi whales.
- Beware: you may live to regret what you do for a Klondike bar.
- Cute Spider-Man sketch cards. (Via)
- LEGO CubeDudes.
- Awesome '50s-style Batmobile toy and lovely Gorey-esque Alice in Wonderland illustration. (Via)
- I think Kristen Wiig might be my new celebrity crush. (Via)
- It's a CD! It's a vinyl record! It's both!
- Beautiful (and expensive!) sci-fi replicas.
- Warren Ellis' latest link dump has some really choice craziness in it, including a story about using magnetism and nanotechnology in concert to turn drugs on and off, and a story about a newly discovered dolmen.
- I've disliked Sony's PlayStation advertising campaigns for a long time now. The ads tend to lack real information about the product, going for over-the-top style instead of substance. Plus a lot of them are just really annoying. But this unaired ad for the console is truly beyond the pale.
- Uh oh, looks like Twitter is starting to roll out their new built-in retweet system, despite complaints from users.
- Diablo Cody might be adapting the Sweet Valley High books to movies.
- Some fascinating hints about what we can expect from Joel and Ethan Coen's latest, A Serious Man, as well as a discussion of filmmakers to whom you'd give the benefit of the doubt.
- A couple of interesting discussions of L. Frank Baum and The Wizard of Oz on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the film adaptation.
- A Tim Burton-style fashion shoot.
- Dylan Walsh, John Malkovich, and Scott Glenn have joined the cast of Secretariat.
- The 50 greatest directorial debuts of all time. I take exception to the inclusion of the highly overrated Easy Rider, Breathless, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Night of the Living Dead, The 400 Blows, Shadows, and especially the number one pick, Night of the Hunter (which is occasionally impressive and inventive, but mostly cheesy and bad). A lot of the other films I've sadly never seen. But I approve very much of the inclusion of Jan Svankmajer's Alice, Sam Raimi's Evil Dead, George Miller's Mad Max, Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, Shane Carruth's Primer, Vincent Gallo's Buffalo '66, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams and David Zucker's Airplane!, John Huston's The Maltese Falcon, the Coen brothers' Blood Simple, Terrence Malick's Badlands, and of course Orson Welles' Citizen Kane (which definitely should have taken the top spot). (Via)
- Ha! Google's found a way to turn IE into Chrome.
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