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| Thursday, September 24, 2009 12:00 PM |
| 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.
- Above please find embedded a jaw-droppingly imaginative and beautiful stop-motion animation/painting project called COMBO. In case you're put off by the length, don't worry; it starts repeating itself part way through. (Via)
- Kitty, put that down this instant! (Via)
- FREAKOUT! (Via)
- Disturbing video of those crazy dust storms in Australia. (Via)
- Map of the US visualized by distance to the nearest McDonalds. Some might find this horrifying, but it's vaguely comforting to me to know there'll always be one close by. (Via)
- Entertainment Tonight is airing a report from the set of Iron Man 2 tonight; you can check out a teaser video here.
- Huh. AT&T actually made some pretty good guesses about the future back in 1993.
- The latest in the ISS' series saluting great moments in villainy honors a scene from a movie that's near and dear to my heart: Angel Eyes gleefully killing the guys who hired him to kill each other in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. There's a lot of intense soup-eating in that movie. And some great music cues.
- Joystiq spots a giant FAIL in a Wall Street Journal article.
- There could be more Metroid Prime games in our future.
- A couple of great Where the Wild Things Are mashup images.
- A gallery of old-fashioned sex toys. Most are unrecognizable as such, but still probably NSFW.
- Apparently the only way to get to Ocean City anymore is via Bat-Missile. I'll have to remember that.
- The main players have now been cast in David Fincher's Facebook flick The Social Network, and they are Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, and Andrew Garfield. TIMBERLAKE! I kind of love that guy.
- A life-size model of R2-D2 remodeled to contain eight different gaming consoles.
- This appears to be an old post, but it was new to me: The A.V. Club describes in sickening detail what it was like to cook and eat cheeseburger-in-a-can. (Via)
- A video describing an interesting new bit of online software: Google Sidewicki. (Via)
- Consumerist puts my feelings about those ridiculous HD sunglasses into words. Hilarious words!
- Coyote/wolf hybrids!
- New Scientist is holding a short short story contest: 350 words about life 100 years in the future. I entered yesterday! I don't think my entry has any chance of winning, but it was an interesting project to undertake, and the first straight-up fiction writing I've done in a long time. Good practice for that Great American Novel I plan to produce one of these days... (Via)
- The top 20 mispronounced words. I think I've only ever heard one or two of these mispronounced, but then again, this list seems to have been put together after a survey of Britons, and I don't talk to many of those.
- When I first heard that SEPTA passes were divided into male and female versions, I thought it was a joke. Not only is it a pointless and stupid policy, it's also discriminatory. I don't know how much difference a petition will make, but it's certainly worth the couple of seconds it takes to sign it.
- I am extremely excited about the news that Cinematic Titanic is having a 3-movie marathon at the Keswick on New Year's Eve. Poppy and I are going! Who's with us??
- I already thought the very idea of Microsoft's Windows 7 launch parties was cheesy and lame. I mean, a Microsoft OS launch party?? C'mon! But Microsoft has taken things to a new level of lame with this painfully awful infomercial for the launch parties (via). It's like watching your grandma try to rap for six minutes straight. It's stupefying. It may be the most pathetically lame thing ever put on film. As this fellow points out (via), there is no living person to whom this video would actually appeal. It is made of fake, and also of FAIL. Thankfully, a parody has already been created (via).
- The first 25 pages of Neil Gaiman's Odd and the Frost Giants, free to read online. So far a very fun fairy tale/fantasy adventure story. (Via)
- Hmm. Iain M. Bank's Transition sounds like an interesting book. Dimension-hopping assassins!
- io9 talks to director Jonathan Mostow about Surrogates (he answers my first question about the surrogate process: how do the real humans not get bed sores or other worse physical problems from lying around in bed all day? The beds constantly stimulate their muscles), and then lists the 10 best robot bodies to load your brain into. Love the reference to a particularly weird episode of the original The Outer Limits, "The Brain Of Colonel Barham."
- There's water on the moon!!
- The trailer for the Where the Wild Things Are video game. It doesn't look that bad! It doesn't look that good, either, but it could be worse.
- Keanu Reeves says the current draft of the script for Cowboy Bebop would cost too much to film. Which, let's be honest, is probably good news.
- A unique game of Tetris (or Fivetris?) featuring skateboarders wearing neon hats.
- A video compilation that reveals the essential plot device in any modern horror movie: no cell phone signal!
- David Cronenberg is remaking his own reimagining of the original The Fly. Okay then.
- Pretty exciting news: David Goyer, writer of The Dark Knight, is in early talks to write the next Ghost Rider movie. Unfortunately it sounds like it will still star Nicolas Cage, but hey, you can't have everything.
- Apparently this motion-controller thing is a hit: the PlayStation motion-coller is on track for a Spring 2010 release, and anybody who's anybody is already actively working on games for Project Natal.
- New Super Mario Bros. Wii is coming November 15th, the Wii is officially dropping in price to $200, and a new Wii bundle may be available soon with both Wii Sports games and Wii MotionPlus.
- Heh.
- Bryan Singer's next project: Jack the Giant Killer. The story sounds a bit different from the old fairy tale: "a princess is kidnapped, threatening a long-standing peace between men and giants. A young farmer is given an opportunity to lead a dangerous expedition to the giants' kingdom in hopes of rescuing her." (Via)
- A video of Thom Yorke's contribution to a Mark Mulcahy tribute album. I have to admit I don't know who Mark Mulcahy is, but I always like new Thom Yorke music. And the video is incredibly powerful.
- Sony picked up the rights to make a Masters of the Universe movie. So that could still happen. Yay?
- Yet more startling technology for making the blind see: how about a microchip in your eye?
- A truly brilliant and hilarious image. Infinite riffs!! (Via)
- A trailer for Law Abiding Citizen, the film that will open the 18 1/2 Philadelphia Film Festival, coming October 15th-19th. I'm monumentally confused and frustrated by the various competing film societies and festivals that exist in Philadelphia since the festocalypse earlier this year, but this movie looks like it might be fun, and it's set in Philly, so depending on what else is playing at the fest, I might go check it out. (Via)
- More Game of Thrones casting news! Rory McCann will play Sandor Clegane. I don't think I've see Mr. McCann in anything, but he's quite tall and slightly dumb-looking (no offense, Mr. McCann), so he seems like a good choice.
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