https://www.feanorsworkshop.com/blog/logorss.jpg An online journal... of DOOM! Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:46:00 +0000  by Fëanor

I noticed that my tweets weren't loading on the blog anymore and finally looked into it. Turns out I was using a deprecated Twitter widget! How embarrassing! I've updated the blog to use the latest version, and now my tweets are showing up here again. Please enjoy! Thank you.

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Tagged: Meta, Twitter]]> Meta Twitter Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:33:00 +0000  by Fëanor

I didn't have time to do my usual thorough examination of the entire internet for this entry, but I figure I'll post what I have now and maybe add more later, we'll see.

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Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.

• Artist Noelle Stevenson loves Tom Hiddleston as Loki and does lots of great drawings of him. Somebody gave him one or two of her drawings. He liked them.


• Some other great posts from Noelle: dancing, and the Avengers (the latter is Scott Campbell's work, not hers, but still).


• Cute animals via Blue and Bluer.


• Also, great Colbert reaction shot.


• Dude, the entire movie Commando can be watched for free on YouTube. The greatest cinematic feat of any generation!


• Great illustration of the new Captain Marvel by Evan "Doc" Shaner.


• A couple of fun recent pieces by Dan Hipp.


• The guy who did that Blair Witch-style super powers movie, Chronicle, is going to be in charge of a Fantastic Four reboot. Interesting!


• Some snazzy concept art for a 1950s greaser Batman.


• These are great: 10 really neat words that have no English equivalent.


• Fringe will have a fifth and final season that will wrap up the story. I haven't had a chance to watch this show at all for a while, but I'm glad it's going to get to have an ending. I'll definitely have to catch up one of these days.


• I've only had a chance to glance at it so far, but io9's multi-part list of the 100 albums every sci-fi and fantasy fan should listen to is looking very intriguing. I'm afraid it will make me want to buy tons more music!


• An ode to video games present and past: Go right.

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Tagged: Animals, Animated GIFs, Art, Avengers, Batman, Celebrities, Comedy, Comic books, Fantastic Four, Fringe, Hayao Miyazaki, Language, Links, Movies, Music, News, Photography, Recyclotron, Sesame Street, TV, Twitter, Video, Video games]]> Animals Animated GIFs Art Avengers Batman Celebrities Comedy Comic books Fantastic Four Fringe Hayao Miyazaki Language Links Movies Music News Photography Recyclotron Sesame Street TV Twitter Video Video games Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:17:00 +0000  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 think I might have to take part in #ThePact. So if you see a picture of me eating a donut in my Twitter stream tomorrow, that's what that's about. (UPDATE: Here you go.)


• This unlimited movie pass, which allows you to see as many movies in the theater as you like for $50 a month, is a great concept, and I think I probably would have been all over it in my free-wheeling, movie-obsessed, bachelor days.


• Jesus Christ. There are actually six (6!) different versions of Frankenstein in development in Hollywood right now. Thanks a lot, Twilight.


• Also, they are still trying to get that He-Man movie made, apparently. I love He-Man and all, but I just don't see that turning out well.


• A collection of negative and positive quotes from critics about Transformers 3. You would have to pay me a very large sum of money to see this movie.


• I do enjoy a good Super Punch image roundup.


• A trailer and a gameplay video for a new Phineas and Ferb video game, subtitled Across the Second Dimension. There's a movie of the same title that'll be airing on the Disney channel soon. Exciting!


• If you hadn't heard yet, World of Warcraft is now free to play until level 20. Tempting! But even when I do get the time these days, I tend to avoid playing video games and work on making one, instead. So I think I'll still be staying away from WoW for the foreseeable future.


• I am intrigued by Google+! I'll just wait here for my invite. Doo dee doo dee doo... Anybody? (UPDATE: I'm on! Thanks, Amy!)


• I've always been a big fan of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, as well as Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam War film adaptation, Apocalypse Now, so I'm kind of excited that there's going to be a sci-fi film adaptation called Into Darkness, even if the people involved aren't exactly top notch talent.

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Tagged: Art, Books, Captain America, Cartoons, Comedy, Comic books, Food, Google, Internet, Links, Masters of the Universe, Monsters, Movies, News, Phineas and Ferb, Recyclotron, Transformers, TV, Twitter, Video games, Web comics, World of Warcraft]]> Art Books Captain America Cartoons Comedy Comic books Food Google Internet Links Masters of the Universe Monsters Movies News Phineas and Ferb Recyclotron Transformers TV Twitter Video games Web comics World of Warcraft Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:10:00 +0000  by Fëanor

Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.

• Empire Online lists the 22 most bad-ass beards in cinema. Nice picks!


• That is one fine teacup. Ia! Ia!


• Know those decals some people have in their car windows, featuring a cartoon depiction of each member of the family? Kinda cheesy, right? Here's a funnier, less cheesy spin on it.


• Mr. Dan Hipp celebrates the Green Lantern, and other green heroes and villains from throughout pop culture history. Speaking of Green Lantern, here's the Onion A.V. Club review of the new animated movie, and Ebert's review of the new live-action movie. Sounds like neither movie is all that great, but I still might have to watch them eventually, just because.


• Loving this Godzilla animated gif. (Via)


• Quentin Tarantino's western, Django Unchained, has a release date! It's December 25, 2012. Merry Christmas!


• The Academy is changing the Best Picture nomination process yet again so that there can now be anywhere from 5 to 10 nominees each year, depending on how many movies receive first place votes on 5 percent of total ballots cast. Wha? Why don't we just go back to 5, guys? That was working fine for a long time.


• Check out Sam Bosma's site - he's been doing sketches of characters from the Song of Ice and Fire books lately.


• This ad for the new Legend of Zelda game featuring Robin Williams and his daughter Zelda (who apparently was actually named after the princess) is pretty darn cute.


• A Pontiac built with an entirely transparent, Plexiglass exterior for the 1939 New York World's Fair is going up for auction and has been appraised at a price between $275,000 and $475,000. Click through for some awesome pictures.


• I'm mostly over impressive replicas of things in cake form, but this Millennium Falcon cake has working lights!!


• The Wolverine has a new director and it is James "Not Darren Aronofsky" Mangold. Hmm. I've seen a handful of Mangold's films. Of those, Cop Land was the only really good one. Identity and 3:10 to Yuma were both well done but had disappointing endings. So I guess we'll see!


• Watch the red band trailer for Attack the Block, which is a sci-fi/action/comedy featuring Nick Frost and South London hoodlums versus aliens. Fun! (Via Blastr, a site that cleverly got the movie's title wrong in its headline. Sigh.)


• The most bad-ass way to chop lettuce ever.


• The rotary mechanical smartphone.


• Another fun Super Punch image roundup. My favorite is the hipster Jesus sign. The whale shark thing is just horrifying.


• Amazing photograph of an Irish castle.


• In case you missed it when I posted it to Twitter, a gallery of amazing illustrations by Blade Runner concept artist Syd Mead. (Via)


• So what's all this Pottermore stuff about? It appears to be official, from J.K. Rowling herself, and the obvious implication is that we can expect more Harry Potter. Possibly it's just referring to an encyclopedia, which isn't all that exciting. But still... squee? Anyway, while we're talking Harry Potter, check out the latest trailer for the last movie. It is mighty exciting, and the emotional opening nearly made me break down at my desk here.


• I enjoyed this latest post from the mostly-quiet-lately defective yeti.


• Hee hee. More amusing (and not-so-safe-for-work) sketches from the mighty Kate Beaton.


• Did you see that Comic Twart is doing Princess Bride? Anybody want a peanut?


• Ooh, they've cast Bard and Smaug in The Hobbit! Benedict Cumberbatch, who made a very fine Sherlock Holmes in the recent BBC TV series, will play the part of the dragon. I'm not familiar with the dude playing Bard (Luke Evans), but he certainly looks the part.

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Tagged: Advertising, Animals, Art, Automobiles, Awards, Books, Celebrities, Comedy, Comic books, Commercials, Craft, Food, Gadgets, Godzilla, Green Lantern, Harry Potter, Kaiju, Links, Lists, Monsters, Movies, News, Oscars, Phones, Photography, Products, Recyclotron, Song of Ice and Fire, Star Wars, Technology, The Hobbit, Tolkien, Twitter, Video, Video games, Web comics, Wolverine, Zelda]]> Advertising Animals Art Automobiles Awards Books Celebrities Comedy Comic books Commercials Craft Food Gadgets Godzilla Green Lantern Harry Potter Kaiju Links Lists Monsters Movies News Oscars Phones Photography Products Recyclotron Song of Ice and Fire Star Wars Technology The Hobbit Tolkien Twitter Video Video games Web comics Wolverine Zelda Wed, 04 May 2011 12:44:00 +0000  by Fëanor

Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.

• LOLDinosaur!


• I'm kind of in love with Dan Hipp, you guys.


• In a recent comic book, Superman renounced his American citizenship, declaring himself a citizen of the world. Which makes sense to me, given how he's always facing off against potentially world-shattering threats and doesn't limit his patrols to one country. It didn't seem like that big a deal to me, actually - it's really more of a stunt that probably won't change much - but for whatever reason, the news blew up into the mainstream media and upset a lot of people (most of them conservative idiots, apparently). More importantly, it led to the creation of an inspired hashtag on Twitter.


• This has to be one of the best YouTube videos ever: every one of Hudson's lines from Aliens. (You should already know this, but the audio is NSFW.)


• I'm pretty sure I linked to this site before, ages ago, but it's worth another link: Hobbitish, featuring Hobbit-related art from around the world. (Via)


• The next James Bond film is getting about one-third of its funding from product placement: a whopping, record-breaking $45 million. I'm looking forward to the scene where Bond has a refreshing Mountain Dew instead of his signature martini.


• Check out the Geek Zodiac. I'm a Daikaiju. Godzilla FTW! (Via)


• Here is a website devoted to Fox Mulder's wristwatch. Yes, all it is is pictures and video of the character wherein his watch is visible. Somehow, even after all these years on the internet, things like this can still blow my mind. The rabbit hole is deep, my friends. (Via)


• Heh. Apparently a new Green Lantern display made to draw people into comic shops can occasionally catch fire. Definitely eye-catching!


• Details on Shatner's deleted scene in the 2009 Star Trek film.


• On May 15th, the Wii is dropping to $150, and will come bundled with Mario Kart and the Wii Wheel. Guess it's time to dump all those extra consoles now that Wii 2 is on the way!


• I enjoy Portal Tetris.


• Somebody's going for The Most Bad-Ass Tattoo Ever Award: a T-Rex with chainsaw arms!!

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Tagged: Aliens, Art, Books, Business, Comedy, Comic books, Dinosaurs, Green Lantern, James Bond, Kaiju, Links, Mashups, Movies, News, Nintendo, Photography, Recyclotron, Star Trek, Star Wars, Superman, Tattoos, The Hobbit, Tolkien, TV, Twitter, Video, Video games, Wii, X-Files]]> Aliens Art Books Business Comedy Comic books Dinosaurs Green Lantern James Bond Kaiju Links Mashups Movies News Nintendo Photography Recyclotron Star Trek Star Wars Superman Tattoos The Hobbit Tolkien TV Twitter Video Video games Wii X-Files Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:50:00 +0000  by Fëanor

Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.

• Daphne from Scooby-Doo. Helloooo nurse!


• Annie Wu draws Dr. Mrs. The Monarch.


• A typically wonderful rendition of Emma Frost by Dan Hipp.


• Chris Samnee slaps down an amazing sketch of Captain America on Comic Twart. You know what that means: Cap is this week's selection! Awesome. (Also check out Samnee's wonderful, old school-style sketch of Dr. Doom and Mr. Fantastic fighting.)


• Arnold's returning to the Terminator franchise. On the one hand, I wouldn't mind having him back for old time's sake. But on the other hand, how do you explain a robot aging? And what else are you going to bring to the table besides Arnold? If there's not a good screenplay and a good director, it doesn't matter much who's in it. I mean, just look at the last Terminator movie. Or, on second thought, don't look at it. It's terrible!


• io9 takes a look at "The unlikely graffiti of Chernobyl."


• A dude who writes Syfy original movies developed a new way to make ice cream.


• The first official, HD trailer for Tarsem Singh's Greek mythology epic, Immortals. Oh my God, it looks so good. I love Singh's other films, and was really looking forward to seeing what he could do with this material and a big budget. Looks like he knocked it out of the park. These are the thrilling, wildly imaginative visuals I've come to expect from this filmmaker. I can't wait to see the complete, final product.


• This io9 article led me to these two interesting pieces: Michael Chabon's appreciation of a wonderful little book I haven't read in ages, The Phantom Toolbooth; and an analysis of why Julie Taymor's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark failed.


• A couple of dudes were watching Game of Thrones, got into an argument over which of the characters was going to "win" (by which I guess they meant, take the throne and defeat all other challengers?), and it turned into a physical fight that ended with the police arresting one of them. Heh. That's silly, because clearly Jon and Dany are going to win, and I'll throw you through a window if you say anything different.


• The Beastie Boys are streaming their new album right here. You have to go and listen to it right now because it is fantastic.


• Hey, The Autumn Society is teaming up with Dreamworks Animation! Cool!


• I really enjoy the work of artist Katie Shanahan. Here's her version of Frank Miller's Robin.


• Fed up with toasters that don't give you even heating? Check out this round model!


• Water-ski alone with this skier-controlled tow boat. You know, if you're insane.


• A remote-controlled superhero.


• Oh, lord. A post-apocalyptic Zorro movie is on the way.


• Warner Bros. just added $9 million to the effects budget of Green Lantern, apparently as a last minute attempt to make sure the movie lives up to everyone's constantly rising expectations. I can't say this makes me feel particularly optimistic about this movie. You're trying to fix it by piling more effects on top? Yeah, that always works.


• In case you haven't seen it yet, here's the first official picture from the set of The Avengers, which started production the other day. Woo!


• Replacing the dialog in various scenes from Star Wars with depressing, existential French philosophy is surprisingly hilarious.


• Super Punch presents an illustration roundup and an image roundup.


• I posted these to Twitter the other day, but here they are again because they're awesome: cover art for a new limited series from Marvel called Red Skull.


• I love that we're bringing back the old William Castle theatrics and actually installing movie theater seats that shake you around for Super 8. Of course, they're probably doing this because they're desperate and feel they have to pull out all the stops anymore to get you away from your TV, your computer, and your smart phone and into the movie theater. But still.


• "Bacon-Fat Keyboard Lets Real Birds Tweet." It's about time!


• The art of Dushan Milic.

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Tagged: Animals, Art, Avengers, Books, Captain America, Cartoons, Celebrities, Comedy, Comic books, Crime, Food, Gadgets, Game of Thrones, Green Lantern, Links, Michael Chabon, Monsters, Movies, Mythology, News, Philosophy, Products, Recyclotron, Science, Scooby-Doo, Spider-Man, Star Wars, Technology, Terminator, TV, Twitter, Video, X-Men]]> Animals Art Avengers Books Captain America Cartoons Celebrities Comedy Comic books Crime Food Gadgets Game of Thrones Green Lantern Links Michael Chabon Monsters Movies Mythology News Philosophy Products Recyclotron Science Scooby-Doo Spider-Man Star Wars Technology Terminator TV Twitter Video X-Men Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:15:00 +0000  by Fëanor

Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.

• Farel Dalrymple draws Magik from the New Mutants and Black Bolt of the Inhumans.


• I'm loving this T-shirt which features Statler and Waldorf as Adama and Tigh. (Via)


• HBO has picked up a pitch for a new TV show by Michael Chabon called Hobgoblin, which is about "a motley group of conmen and magicians who use their skills at deception to battle Hitler and his forces during WWII." That sounds incredibly awesome. Here's hoping it actually ends up on TV some day.


• Blastr dug up some old stories that reveal how pivotal George Lucas' ex-wife was in shaping the plot of Star Wars and even of Raiders of the Lost Ark. This doesn't totally explain why his more recent stuff has sucked so much... but it kind of does.


• Custom action figure of Kane getting his face hugged.


• Truth.


• Link visits his mother. (Via)


• Super Punch highlights some great pieces from a recent art show.


• I was sad I didn't win this new Blade Runner T-shirt from Last Exit to Nowhere.


• I'm pretty depressed at the recent news that Guillermo Del Toro will probably not be making a film adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness after all. This may go down in history as one of the greatest films never made.


• This summer Philly is supposedly getting a restaurant that will serve coffee, donuts, and fried chicken. I WANT TO GO TO THERE. (Via)


• I don't know what this is, but I like it.


• Here's a great mashup.

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Tagged: Aliens, Art, Battlestar Galactica, Blade Runner, Celebrities, Clothing, Comedy, Comic books, Craft, Food, History, Indiana Jones, Links, Lovecraft, Mashups, Michael Chabon, Movies, Muppets, News, Photography, Products, Recyclotron, Shirts, Star Wars, Toys, TV, Twitter, Video games, Zelda]]> Aliens Art Battlestar Galactica Blade Runner Celebrities Clothing Comedy Comic books Craft Food History Indiana Jones Links Lovecraft Mashups Michael Chabon Movies Muppets News Photography Products Recyclotron Shirts Star Wars Toys TV Twitter Video games Zelda Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:37:00 +0000  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 enjoy that in this update about issues on its site, Twitter referred to itself as "the twitter.com." What are you, 80?


• I posted one of these 8-bit terrariums the other day, but here are a few more.


• The stuffed hamburger press! I don't want this so much as I want someone to use it for me.


• We use pretty much everything else to control video games these days - why not tongue kissing?


• Comics Alliance put together an impressive gallery of Legend of Zelda-related art for the game's 25th anniversary.


• A Pretty amazing photo of a murder of crows. (Via)


• An interesting interview with a guy in the video arcade industry who attributes the death of arcades in the US and their continuation in Japan to coinage. (Via)


• I enjoy Scott Adams' post about the Better Husband App.


• Movies really are getting worse! This confusing chart says so!

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Tagged: Animals, Art, Comedy, Food, Gadgets, Links, Movies, Photography, Products, Recyclotron, Technology, Twitter, Video games, Zelda]]> Animals Art Comedy Food Gadgets Links Movies Photography Products Recyclotron Technology Twitter Video games Zelda Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:42:00 +0000  by Fëanor

Since I've got Twitter buttons all over, I thought it only fair I stick Facebook buttons all over, too. So I've added the Facebook "Like" button to all individual blog entries, as well as to They're Cops. I've also updated the blog's main page so you can Like or Tweet individual entries directly from there, or Like or Tweet the main page itself. And besides all that, I also made a handful of other little tweaks and improvements I won't bother describing in detail. Huzzah!

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Tagged: Facebook, Internet, Meta, Twitter]]> Facebook Internet Meta Twitter Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:41:00 +0000  by Fëanor

Mike V. was good enough to do extensive testing of the Twitter feature I added to my random cop movie premise generator, and pointed out some flaws. Well, I've finally gotten around to addressing them! All tweets generated by the app will now be automatically cut down to 140 characters or fewer (which only makes sense), and, even better, the link provided in the tweet will now take you to a version of the "They're Cops" page with the field at the bottom pre-populated with the particular "They're Cops" phrase that you found so amusing. So no one will have to guess at what it was that you found so funny. Yay!

Interestingly enough (well, interesting if you are technically inclined at all - non-developer nerds may want to step away now), in order to make this work I actually had to change the URLs on my website. I'd been using a vertical pipe in various URLs as a divider, but it turns out the Twitter API really hates vertical pipes. It was accepting the encoded version of the character the first time through, but then for some reason it was double-encoding it the next time through and posting an unusable URL. I probably could have kept banging my head against it until I got it to work, but instead I decided to take the easier way out and just replaced vertical pipes with commas in my URLs. The old vertical pipe-using URLs will redirect to the new comma-using URLs, in what I hope is a seamless change.

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