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| Wednesday, May 9, 2012 04:08 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.
- Hey, so this is cool. It doesn't really seem to signal any major change in policy, and it is coming a bit late, but still: the President said he thinks gay marriage should be legal. It's a step. A nice, big, symbolic step.
- That comedy special that Louis C.K. sold on the internet for five bucks, thus altering the universe, is airing this weekend on FX - in an edited form, of course.
- Kind of an unfortunate time to have a lawsuit going against the Beastie Boys. Apparently the boys will be okay if they have to settle, though, seeing as how their records are selling like hotcakes.
- Speaking of the Beastie Boys, here's a cool mashup of them and the Beatles; it's called the Beastles.
- Argo looks/sounds like a pretty amazing movie. Here's the trailer. It's based on a true story about a CIA plot to sneak some Americans out of Iran disguised as the film crew for a movie that didn't exist. They even brought in Jack Kirby to do some concept art.
- Ron Howard, at least, still thinks there's a future for his Dark Tower movie.
- That's some bad-ass stuff right there.
- Apparently a German art student has hand-illuminated and bound a copy of The Silmarillion. Looks amazing.
- Here's the cover of Warren Ellis' next book, Gun Machine. Looking forward to it.
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| Thursday, August 11, 2011 03:28 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.
- Some people are doing it right!
- A book of nursery rhymes in comic form by a bunch of famous cartoonists.
- Jaws as a Peanuts-style comic strip.
- What to expect from season 4 of Fringe. Exciting stuff!
- The Mars rover Opportunity is still running, finally arriving at its original destination, and getting ready to search for life.
- The School Board of Republic High School in Missouri banned Slaughterhouse-Five from the library, so the Vonnegut Memorial Library offered to provide a free copy to any of the 150 students who were originally supposed to read it.
- Along with the already existing nine (9!) film versions in development, there is now also a TV version of Frankenstein in the works. Naturally it is a "modern-day take" on the story. Oy.
- The Radiohead remix album is coming in September.
- Sam Bosma shows off a great commission piece featuring Lady Macbeth.
- Neat piece of Lovecraft-inspired art.
- SETI had to shut down its search for alien life back in April, but it's starting up again next month thanks to generous donations.
- It's nice to hear that J.J. Abrams would like to add a gay character to Star Trek.
- Apparently Disney announced it would be releasing two more Marvel movies in 2014 - one on May 16, 2014, and another on June 27, 2014 - but it's unclear who or what they'll be about.
- Blastr collects 24 wild and crazy newspaper headlines from sci-fi TV and films.
- 10 fictional games recreated in real life. I can't believe anybody really tried to play Kosho from The Prisoner. That crap was crazy, yo.
- T. Rex dressed as Batman.
- Scientists say spoilers don't really detract from your enjoyment of entertainment. Also, Rosebud was the name of his sled.
- The trailer for a modern-day update of Shakespeare's Coriolanus. Looks good!
- The descendants of snakes that escaped from the set of Raiders of the Lost Ark still roam Elstree Studios. That might be my favorite story of the week.
- An infographic of everyone killed by Jason in the Friday the 13th movies, including the method of their murders. Note that these are only the people killed by Jason, so the first movie is not included.
- Exhumed Films is doing their 24-hour Horror-thon at the iHouse again this year. Maybe someday when the kid is old enough I'll go to this with him. Assuming it's still happening then, and the kid likes horror movies, and doesn't mind being seen with me, and I'm still capable of sitting in a movie theater chair for that long without permanently injuring myself.
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| Thursday, October 15, 2009 05:21 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.
- You know what show was awesome? Sifl & Olly. Check out the clip above (via). And here's another, even longer clip (via).
- Neill Cameron is starting a new illustration project: he picks a Twitter trending topic and draws a comic about it. It's Hashtag Funnies! Here are the first two entries.
- Could this be the world's smallest R2-D2? (Via)
- This is great: photos of all the known Game of Thrones cast members. (Via)
- Ninja riding a turkey! It doesn't have to make sense! JUST LOVE IT! (Via)
- Um... the American military has lightsabers?? (Via)
- Plush mustaches! Awesome! (Via Sarah)
- Eric Idle performs "Always Look On the Bright Side of Life" with The Roots. The other members of Monty Python are also in attendance. Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam dance with each other! (Via Sarah)
- You can download a track here by the Klingon Eminem, Klenginem. (Via)
- Hilarious poster alteration. (Via)
- Fantastic medieval-style painting of Mario and friends. (Via)
- Another memo from Adelle DeWitt. A subtext is beginning to develop... (Via)
- Look out! Giant bunneh!
- Awesome T-shirts.
- Even Bill Murray is skeptical about Ghostbusters 3. That doesn't seem like a good sign.
- A promo video/trailer for Syfy's upcoming Alice in Wonderland reimagining. Hmm. Looks a bit cheesy, actually. :(
- Scientists figure there are at least 10^10^10^7 universes in the multiverse.
- Behind-the-scenes video on The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus.
- Anatomical cross-sections of giant Japanese monsters.
- Pretty excellent narrated slideshow of amazing photos from early Star Trek conventions. (Via)
- Pretty exciting new images from Daybreakers, which looks like it might be a very interesting vampire film.
- Video of a steampunk toilet.
- A gallery of entertainingly defaced paper money. I particularly like the Tron-ified Abe Lincoln.
- A gorilla made of coat hangers.
- A weird, disturbing stop-motion/paper-flipping animated video. NSFW due to gore and sexual references.
- 9 of the grossest, goriest X-Files creatures. Guess it's been a while since I watched that show, because I remembered almost none of these. Except Eugene Tooms, of course. He's awesome.
- Pretty cool demonstration of technology that uses a simple web cam to copy facial expressions made by a player and map them onto a game character.
- Dude jammed a 1GB flash drive into an old NES controller, and then locked the drive down so that in order to access it you have to enter the Konami Code. Brilliant!
- A metareview of Brütal Legend.
- As Warren Ellis says, this site about a mysterious man who has supposedly appeared in the dreams of many people all over the world is probably BS, but it's a fascinating and eerie concept, anyway.
- A virtual tour of what I remember being one of my favorite Disney attractions: Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. (Via)
- This auction will probably be over by the time I get a chance to post this, or you get a chance to read it, but I'm still fascinated that George Lucas' used Starbucks cup is up for sale on eBay. (Via)
- Bai Ling's seven favorite Bai Ling love scenes.
- The trailer for Mel Gibson's next movie, The Edge of Darkness. Looks like a pretty standard revenge thriller, except everybody has to talk with fake Boston accents. I think I'll skip it.
- Two Chinese scientists made an artificial, desktop-sized black hole.
- Now here's a great headline: "Scientists Scan the Brains of Mice Playing Quake."
- Well this sounds cool: Opera 10 comes with something called Opera Unite, which is basically a web server that runs inside your browser.
- A lawyer for the group that sponsored a ban on gay marriage, when asked by the judge how gay marriage threatens traditional marriage, had to admit he did not know. Heh. (Via)
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