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Monday, November 19, 2012 10:44 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.
- If you have not been to the Windows 95 Tips, Tricks, and Tweaks Tumblr yet, you are missing out on something seriously disturbing and hilarious. Here is a representative sample.
- Pretty cool collection of GIFs highlighting the major characters from Return of the Jedi.
- Speaking of GIFs, I still deeply love flux machine. A couple of vaguely recent entries. That long, anxious moment as you wait for the GIF to do something creepy might be the best part.
- 72-year-old grandfather models women's clothes for his granddaughter's clothing line. Pretty bad-ass.
- Great redesign of Darth Vader.
- Here's an idea for a new James Bond film: Idris Elba as James Bond and Tom Hiddleston as the villain. All kidding aside, that would be amazing.
- Some great classic monster movies got redesigned posters on Reelizer lately. Here's The Mummy, a couple of Frankensteins, and an Invisible Man.
- You probably already saw this amazing photo floating around somewhere or other (like on any or all of my social media platforms). But have you seen the Spockified version??
- Brad Bird was forced to confirm on Twitter - numerous times! - that he is not directing Star Wars VII. Ah, well. It was a lovely dream while it lasted.
- Heh.
- Maybe people will finally wake up to the dangers of climate change when wild coffee starts going extinct? What a horrifying thought.
- Pretty amazing photo. And they went to a lot of trouble to get the shot, so worth a click.
- Fun toy roundup on Super Punch. Tis the season and so forth.
- Reimagining Snow White as an anarchist.
- A Stardust the Super Wizard action figure! There's a Kickstarter to make this a reality.
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Wednesday, March 7, 2012 04:21 PM |
Wrong, Wrong, Wrong! |
by Fëanor |
This web application I have to use at work logs me out if I don't use it for a while, but to make things more fun, it does it kind of subtly, in the background. So I'll try to go and use it thinking I'm still logged in, and it'll break. But it doesn't just break - it pops up three different error dialogs in a row, just in case I might have not understood that it's broken.
This reminds me of Office Space:
Peter Gibbons: And here's something else, Bob: I have eight different bosses right now.
Bob Slydell: I beg your pardon?
Peter Gibbons: Eight bosses.
Bob Slydell: Eight?
Peter Gibbons: Eight, Bob. So that means that when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. |
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Monday, February 27, 2012 10:34 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.
- Fun with lyrics!
- A wonderful animated gif of an amusing moment in one of Mr. Eddie Izzard's stand-up routines.
- A real, solid, scientific explanation of why cats purr.
- Mr. Hipp mashes up Star Wars and Super Mario Bros.
- Ridley Scott explains the connection between Alien and Prometheus. I'm still a little confused, but okay.
- The evolution of "Weird" Al.
- We can print robot dinosaurs now?? Awesome.
- Here's a computer case made to look like Link.
- Amazing, gigantic Lord of the Rings family tree. (Via)
- Tongue-based computer controller!
- Hey, that dude from The Killing might be Robocop.
- A couple of interesting pics of Benedict Cumberbatch on the set of Star Trek 2. Looks like he's getting the ol' neck pinch!
- When I heard they were re-releasing the universally reviled Phantom Menace in theaters in 3D, I was really curious what kind of audience it would have. I mean, everybody says they hate this movie! Why would anyone pay extra to see it again in one more dimension than before? Then again, it's Star Wars. Star Wars has a certain cache. And nerds are famous for paying for things so they can then complain about them endlessly. Plus, there's the kid factor. Kids don't know they're supposed to hate The Phantom Menace. Well, looks like the nerd and kid factors won out, because the 3D version made $73.4 million in less than two weeks and pushed the movie's overall box office total over the billion dollar mark to make it the 11th highest grossing film of all time. Wow.
- Speaking of Star Wars, here are some rejected Star Wars products. Also, in the upcoming Star Wars game for Kinect, there will be a Slave Leia dance-off.
- Cute Wizard of Oz cupcakes.
- Here's a little boy piloting a mecha suit.
- I love this stamp.
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Monday, May 2, 2011 12:17 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.
- Now here's a noble goal: teaching computers to understand "that's what she said" jokes. I feel like my friend Cyn has to be involved with this somehow...
- Apparently Oscar Wilde's original version of The Picture of Dorian Gray contained many passages that were deemed objectionable by the editor and were thus removed. The good news: the original, uncensored version will soon be published.
- The Onion A.V. Club explains various Beastie Boys references.
- Robert Zemeckis is lined up to direct an actual live-action movie! About time travel, no less! Sort of. It's more of a Groundhog's Day-type thing.
- A look at some of the amusing images/memes that have been generated by the royal wedding - in particular, that hat. You know the one.
- Thanks to Lionsgate, Joss Whedon's The Cabin in the Woods may finally get released!
- A nice piece of art involving a monster.
- Boba Fett plays "Laura Palmer's Theme" from Twin Peaks on the accordion.
- An impressively detailed cross-section of the Millenium Falcon.
- Maybe I have to start watching Batman: The Brave and the Bold. This episode, "Night of the Batmen," wherein Batman is injured and his fellow Justice Leaguers have to temporarily take his place, sounds fantastic.
- These illustrations featuring various Disney characters playing characters from Star Wars are pretty cute, although it seems backwards to me that Mickey was chosen to play Han and Donald to play Luke.
- Something called EVOL - which is either a single artist or an art collective, I'm not clear on that - transforms trash cans, electrical boxes, and other items of the urban landscape into tiny skyscrapers.
- Super Punch provides another fun art roundup, which includes a great piece of Dune art.
- Super Punch is trying to nail down the worst headline related to Osama Bin Laden's death. Here are two candidates. (If you're interested my feelings on the news, click here.)
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Friday, January 14, 2011 02:01 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.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010 11:58 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.
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Monday, March 8, 2010 09:55 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.
- I have two words to say in response to the new Iron Man 2 trailer, above: "HELL" and "YEAH" (via). So awesome. I'm so stoked for this movie. In other Iron Man 2 news, io9 is reporting a rumor that Olivia Munn's role in the movie might be larger than at first assumed - she might actually be playing the Scarlet Witch herself. She doesn't show up in the trailer at all, so who knows?
- The entries on Back and WTF are always weird, but this one is particularly odd and intriguing.
- Huzzah! There will indeed be a third season of Fringe.
- Rachel Nichols has joined the cast of Conan. She'll be playing what sounds like a Red Sonja-type character.
- A disturbing new type of M.O.D.O.K.
- Heh heh. Yeah.
- An odd, fun, exciting teaser on YouTube.
- The rundown on the winners of the Razzies and the Oscars. I didn't see even half of the Best Picture nominees this year, but I'm happy with the way things turned out in that category, as well as in the Best Director category.
- Garbage Pail Kid and Wacky Package card designs. Wow, I'd almost forgotten about Wacky Packages! (Via)
- An infographic examines the physics of the greatest movie scene ever (Mega Shark leaping up and chomping a jet liner out of the air) which I tweeted a link to the other day. (Via)
- Cute versions of Chewbacca and Captain America.
- Supposedly Campbell's "healthy" soups are exactly the same as its regular soups, except they cost more. Shouldn't this be illegal? (Via)
- Everybody knows of whom Darth Vader is the father. (Wow, it's awkward sometimes being grammatically correct.) But who is Darth Vader's father? Chuck Norris, natch. (Via)
- A recent Photoshop Phriday at Something Awful features some amusingly misplaced movie titles. (Via)
- A huggable, button-eyed Alan Moore doll.
- "A worldwide team of researchers have for the first time created a particle that is believed to have been in existence immediately after the creation of the universe." What is it? An antinucleus! An antinucleus "is a negatively charged state of antimatter containing an antiproton, an antineutron, and an anti-Lambda particle." This particular one "is also the first antinucleus containing an anti-strange quark." Well that just sounds crazy. (Via)
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Monday, February 1, 2010 11:23 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.
- I'm thinking a lot more people would use the Microsoft error-reporting dialog if it worked like it does in this video. Although seeing as how I'm a developer myself, the idea of people being punished by remote users for every bug they write into a piece of code is as terrifying as it is amusing. (Via Howard)
- Apparently Frank Miller is on Twitter and tweeted enigmatically the other day that something called "DINOSAUR" is coming this week. I've mostly lost faith in Mr. Miller, but I have to admit this has me a bit intrigued.
- Seven new clips from Wolfman. Some pretty big spoilers here - you see the creature and everything - so maybe don't watch these if you want to stay pure for the movie. For my own part, having watched these clips, I'm not as excited for the movie anymore. It doesn't really look that great. Corny dialog and not very impressive performances; apparently Anthony Hopkins just set himself to auto-creep mode.
- Let's Be Friends Again is not always funny, but this one is pretty good.
- Samuel L. Jackson is creating his own comic called Cold Space, a four-issue sci-fi/action miniseries for Boom! Studios. It's about "an opportunist who crash lands on a planet in the midst of a civil war, discovering a way to play both factions against each other for his own personal gain." Celebrity forays into comics are not often good, but this sounds like fun.
- It seems like you can never have enough USB ports! But maybe you can now with this 80-port USB panel.
- Here's a machine that turns extra office paper into toilet paper. Okay then.
- Yay, the Razzie nominees are out! I stand fully behind the nomination of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen for worst picture of 2009. (Via)
- Sci Fi Wire put together a list of 9 underrated, overlooked sci-fi and fantasy films of 2009. Some of these look pretty fascinating.
- New Diablo III screenshots!
- Some fun fake Garbage Pail Kid sketch cards. (Via)
- Fun with LEGO.
- Every time I give up on Clone Wars, I start hearing great things about it again. For instance, the show recently featured a cubist painting of the Queen of Mandalore, and the Star Wars version of Guernica, which depicts the Mandalorian War against the Old Republic Jedi.
- A site called Little White Lies is running an interesting art contest to promote the movie Kick-Ass: the entrant is asked to reduce his favorite film to six comic book panels. (Via)
- Plush Lion-O.
- Interesting new pics from Alice in Wonderland.
- Okay, the trailer for the Wall Street sequel is pretty good. (Via)
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009 01:11 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.
- A graph to help you visualize the value of the billions of dollars getting thrown around these days. (Via Tom)
- Amazing light art.
- 20 awesomely hot slave Leia costumes. As the site points out, this is perhaps slightly NSFW.
- Uh... that doesn't look like a deer.
- An A-Z guide to zombies.
- The dangers of comma misuse. (Via)
- A dragon and a skeleton made entirely out of plastic kitchen utensils.
- Three Teen Wolf Moon T-shirt. Heh. (Via)
- TV's steamiest lesbian kisses. It's a slideshow! Yay! (Via)
- Thundercats, hoe! (Via)
- This is pretty interesting: a list of the median age of viewers for various TV shows, including Dollhouse. (Via)
- This is a long but fascinating video about a new desktop user interface which makes clever use of touch-sensitive technology. It's called 10/GUI. I'd love to try it! (Via)
- A new computer algorithm seems to confirm the hypothesis that Shakespeare's play The Reign of King Edward III was actually written in collaboration with Thomas Kyd. (Via)
- A leaked memo from Adelle DeWitt to her employees at the Rossum Corporation. (Via)
- The latest news about Game of Thrones. Bran has been cast and filming begins soon. Woo hoo! (Via)
- An amusing web comic. (Via)
- A very silly cat gets a drink in an unorthodox fashion. (Via Tien)
- Paintings of insects mutated by radioactive disasters. I had to stop looking at these because they were making me a little ill.
- A look at the Vatican's secret storehouse of space knowledge.
- There could be a movie coming based on Chris Carter's lesser known series, Millenium, with Lance Henriksen returning as Frank Black! Apparently Carter himself would not be involved. I think this is actually pretty exciting news! I enjoyed that show, but I've since lost faith in Carter as a writer. I think if somebody else talented took the creative reins, we might actually get a pretty decent film out of this.
- Some physicists are wondering if perhaps the Large Hadron Collider is being sabotaged from the future, to protect us from a potential calamity caused by observing the Higgs boson. WOAH.
- Fox is going to run all 13 episodes of this season of Dollhouse, but due to the continued poor ratings, the likelihood of a third season is low. Thus Joss promises to give us some closure in that 13th episode, while still leaving some of his options open, just in case. Sigh.
- A short interview with the writer of Alex Proyas' adaptation of the sci-fi book series Tripods.
- A gallery of vintage robot toys. Included are both smoking and non-smoking robots. Awesome!
- Ian McKellan gives a brief update on The Hobbit. Not many LotR cast members are returning - for obvious reasons - besides himself and Andy Serkis. The scripts will be delivered soon, they'll be budgeted and cast, and then shooting should start next Spring.
- To ensure consumers that they are getting the real deal, Kellogg's is going to start branding its logo onto its corn flakes with a laser. Uh... overkill much?
- The last two Tatsunoko vs. Capcom characters are Zero from Mega Man X and Joe the Condor from Gatchaman.
- Another cool LEGO CubeDude. This time it's Boushh.
- A very cool concept for Super Punch's horror of Star Wars art contest: a Tusken Raider tells a ghost story about a vengeful demon with a fiery sword descending on a camp and killing everyone there, even the women and children. Of course, the demon is Anakin.
- A collection of cool, Disney-related art.
- Game|Life's analysis of Brütal Legend: great story, disappointing gameplay. D'oh. They still give it a pretty high rating, though.
- You can now report spammers on Twitter. Nice. (I know I post a lot, but please do not report me as a spammer.)
- Here's a website where you can play tons of classic '80s arcade games. (Via)
- Check out the first trailer for The Expendables. This looks utterly ridiculous. I mean, I'll still probably see it, because of the cast and the crazy action. But man. The corny dialog, the cliche plot. It looks so terrible.
- Cinematical celebrates those rare times when a great director was able to put out two great films in the same year.
- Cinematical suggests five ways Michael Bay could kill Megan Fox's character in Transformers 3. Heh.
- That "spy comedy romance thriller" previously entitled Witchita and starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz has been retitled Knight and Day. Ugh.
- Call me a nerd, but I find these ridiculously sexy. (Via)
- A brief history of space films since Star Wars, plotted out on a map of the universe. (Via)
- Dracula's greatest comic book appearances. (Via)
- iRobot made a creepy, squishy robot that can squeeze through tiny holes.
- Iron Man 2 concept art and behind-the-scenes video.
- Fun pics from the set of The Green Hornet.
- Amazing Where the Wild Things Are tattoo.
- Jedi Beatles! (Via)
- Jemocalypse! (Via)
- Jon Favreau will not be directing The Avengers. Aww. Well, hopefully they'll find somebody else equally talented.
- Bunny!
- The 14 lamest horror movie killer costumes. C'mon, that image of the pig-headed dude from Motel Hell is iconic! In fact, it's that image that made me stay up late one night to watch that movie.
- Photos from Maxim of two of the sexier stars of Battlestar Galactica wearing not very much.
- Chris "Captain Kirk" Pine will be the next Jack Ryan. I guess I can see that.
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009 11:48 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.
- I am not at all interested in seeing 2012, but I truly love the trailer for the movie embedded above, which focuses entirely on the actors and includes no effects shots. (Via)
- Check out an extract of Daft Punk's theme for Tron: Legacy. (Via)
- I don't know about you, but I'm not yet tired of Facebook status update jokes. Here's a collection of comic book characters' Facebook status updates.
- We might have to start paying to watch certain shows on Hulu. Who can we thank for this? Comcast. Bastards. (Via)
- Weird Al covers Elvis Costello. And he doesn't even change the lyrics or anything. (Via)
- France is considering warning labels for airbrushed photos. Nice one! (Via)
- The snazzy new Doctor Who logo (via), and new pics from the set of the show.
- Archaeologists have discovered another prehistoric stone circle just a mile down the road from Stonehenge. It's a miniature version of Stonehenge that they're calling Bluehenge, after the color of the stones. Uh, except that there aren't any stones anymore. They've all been removed. D'oh. (Via)
- Escapism is something I love, but feel guilty about loving. io9 makes me feel less guilty with this fascinating essay in defense of escapism.
- This article will spoil the surprise celebrity cameo in Zombieland for you (whoops), but if you've already seen the movie or don't mind being spoiled, it's quite entertaining.
- More fun reimagined movie posters.
- 10 essential Superman comics. I agree wholeheartedly with Whatever Happened To The Man Of Tomorrow, Superman And The Legion Of Super-Heroes, Red Son, The Superman Chronicles Vol. 1, and especially the excellent All-Star Superman Vols. 1 & 2. The other picks I haven't read before; maybe I should check them out!
- Some intriguing videos and pics from The Vampire's Assistant, the film adaptation of the first of the Cirque du Freak novels. I'm not familiar with the books, but the movie looks pretty interesting, if occasionally also cheesy and cliche.
- A look at an old script of Joss Whedon's that was sort of a beta version of Dollhouse.
- Looks like the latest attempt to make a Voltron movie has fallen apart, but they're going to start again from scratch.
- The Batman on an elephant thing I posted yesterday, but the Ninja Turtle pizza party was new to me. Heh.
- A couple of fun T-shirt designs, one involving dinosaurs, and one about robots and aliens. So, all the geek food groups, pretty much!
- Excellent little art piece using an old computer case.
- A clever watch that writes the time on your flesh with lasers!
- Dreamcast controller as iPhone dock.
- Batman: Arkham Asylum started out as a rhythm action game??
- Super Punch just turned me on to the amazing art of Sam Bosma. Check out especially his Shadow Over Innsmouth illustrations. For more cool art found via Super Punch, check out some monsters and a god.
- Video of a classic physics experiment conducted on the moon.
- Ooh, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Transformers TV show, they're putting out a limited number of gift packs which include a DVD, a graphic novel, and the original, generation one, die cast metal version of Optimus Prime! You can win one over at Underwire; you better believe I entered.
- The incredibly disturbing trailer for the Crazies remake. Hey, look who stole that "Mad World" cover again!
- Every day this month, Horror Squad is highlighting a different cinematic "fate worse than death."
- A photo gallery of 9 enormous gadgets.
- A video on the making of swords for the Lord of the Rings movies.
- You can stream the Mountain Goats new album, The Life of the World to Come, in its entirety over at Colbert Nation. What I've heard so far is quite good!
- Infrared video of hundreds of thousands of bats flying out of Carlsbad Caverns.
- That's some Star Wars tattoo! Nothing naughty is actually pictured, but this is possibly NSFW anyway.
- A very unlikely, and surprisingly excellent, music team-up: Chistopher Cross, Michael McDonald, and The Roots.
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