https://www.feanorsworkshop.com/blog/logorss.jpg An online journal... of DOOM! Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:04:00 +0000  by Fëanor

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• You can stream Sinead O'Connor's new album, How About I Be Me (And You Be You)? (which is a great title, btw), in its entirety on NPR. I'm not really too familiar with her work, but I enjoyed large portions of this one. Although the last track is crazy overdone and melodramatic. (Via)


• My blue-haired pal is a trusted source for important GIFs.


• A great piece celebrating the messy end of one of the major villains in Raiders of the Lost Ark.


• There's now a book of Donn Kenn's amazing post-it note monster art.


• This news piece about Abraham Lincoln's birthday includes some footage from the upcoming film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. (UPDATE: And here's the first official trailer. Pretty silly!)


• It's almost Valentines Day! Who cares! Nobody! Except, Comics Alliance is posting a series of gender-swapped Valentines! Yay!


• Pics of new LEGO sets! Lord of the Rings! Avengers! My poor credit card!


• They're doing a new Ringu film in 3D. That's terrifying!


• Some pretty great geeky custom hockey jerseys.


• Cool Super Mario sneaks.


• Amazingly gigantic Optimus Prime snow sculpture.


• Super Punch highlights some of the more interesting toys at the 2012 Toy Fair.


• Kevin J. Anderson will novelize Rush's new album. That's actually perfect! They're perfect for each other! Not a compliment!


• I'm sure you're already aware of the Ryan Gosling "Hey Girl" Tumblr meme. Here is one that fits my interests, via Sarah.

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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.

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

• GeekDad has posted another list of amusing geeky laws.


• The Muppets as the cast of Thor. Love it!


• This is the kind of prank I can get behind.


• The screenplay for the Crow reboot is finished and an offer is out to a "major actor," according to the producer.


• I really enjoy this Buttersafe for some reason.


• The new Logan's Run is being designed from the ground up to be in 3D. Lobo has lost Guy Ritchie as director, but apparently is still moving forward, and the producer hopes it will be in 3D, as well.


• I said it was a really bad idea to dump Megan Fox from Transformers 3, but... maybe not!


• A poster and a pic from Katee Sackhoff's werewolf vs. Fight Club movie, Growl.


• A Japanese trailer for The Last Airbender. I'm not sure if this is one I've seen before or not. Regardless, it's worth another post.


• William Gibson recommends these ten science fiction books. It seems like a lot of people have been recommending Dhalgren lately. I might have to check that one out. I'm ashamed to say I've only heard of a couple of the other books on this list, and have read none of them.


• Heh. Nice fan-made recreation of the end of Enter the Dragon, which was the winning entry to a Last Exit to Nowhere video contest.


• This image nicely sums up how I feel about Twilight. poppy and I tried reading this recently and we were appalled at how awful the writing is. It's sad that something this poorly crafted is so popular. I had some serious Da Vinci Code flashbacks.


• Nice piece of art.


• Steve Zissou as a Simpsons character.


• Jon Favreau says Iron Man will not appear in Thor or Captain America. Which is slightly disappointing. But we still have The Avengers to look forward to.

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Tagged: 3D, Art, Avatar, Avengers, Books, Captain America, Celebrities, Comedy, Iron Man, Links, Lists, Monsters, Movies, News, Photography, Recyclotron, Simpsons, Star Wars, Thor, Transformers, Video, Web comics]]> 3D Art Avatar Avengers Books Captain America Celebrities Comedy Iron Man Links Lists Monsters Movies News Photography Recyclotron Simpsons Star Wars Thor Transformers Video Web comics Thu, 20 May 2010 17:57:00 +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.

• Jemaine "Flight of the Concords" Clement has been cast as a villain in the next Men in Black movie. Good choice!


• Check out the trailer for ABC's superhero family show, No Ordinary Family. As io9 says, it looks like sort of a live-action Incredibles. Could be fun!


• More info and a promo image from Spielberg's upcoming time-traveling TV show, Terra Nova.


• A cute illustration of most of the Doctor's female companions.


• Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote will start filming this September, and it looks like Ewan McGregor has taken Johnny Depp's place in the movie.


• This is pretty clever - somebody used a bunch of footage from old, black and white sci-fi serials to reimagine The Empire Strikes Back as a 3D flick from the '50s.


• A handy sci-fi TV movie title generator!


• Super Sexy CPR is exactly what it says it is. Probably NSFW.


• Excellent Mike Mignola recreation of a famous cover of Detective Comics.


• A blog of amazing Dune illustrations. (Via)


• Sounds like Drew Barrymore might direct a Wizard of Oz sequel.


• Mark Hamill is directing a film adaptation of his own comic book series, The Dark Pearl.


• An early draft of the screenplay for The Empire Strikes Back has surfaced, and Crave Online has an interesting analysis of the rather large differences between this screenplay and the one that was finally filmed. (Via)


• Harry Potter is now the most successful cinematic franchise of all time.


• Megan Fox is out of Transformers 3! Now there's even less reason to see that movie.


• It's Thor! Thor is cool.


• Paul Greengrass is not directing Fantastic Voyage after all.


• MTV is making a Teen Wolf TV show. Aren't they over 20 years late on that?


• A proof-of-concept trailer for a samurai/ninja/sci-fi movie called The Cup of Tears is getting turned into a full-length feature film.


• A clip from the upcoming reimagining of Nikita. Interestingly, it looks sort of like a sequel to the original series - Nikita had gotten out, and now she's come back. Hmm...


• Tron Mr. Toast!


• Great illustration of Luke playing Connect Four with a Wampa.


• There are some fun tracks on the latest Wired Playlist, including Flaming Lips covering Pink Floyd.


• The writer and director of Field of Dreams will write the script for J.J. Abrams' upcoming heist flick. Intriguing!

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Tagged: Art, Batman, Books, Celebrities, Comic books, Doctor Who, Harry Potter, Links, Mike Mignola, Movies, Music, News, Oz, Recyclotron, Star Wars, Thor, Transformers, Tron, TV, Video]]> Art Batman Books Celebrities Comic books Doctor Who Harry Potter Links Mike Mignola Movies Music News Oz Recyclotron Star Wars Thor Transformers Tron TV Video Mon, 17 May 2010 11:31:00 +0000  by Fëanor

Shia Labeouf trashed Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull and Transformers 2 in recent interviews. He does seem to understand what was wrong with Indy (he mentions "monkey-swinging," and yes, that was pretty much the moment when I said, "uh... what?"), but he completely misdiagnoses the problem with Transformers 2. No, the issue was not that you "lost a bit of the relationships." The issue was not that it became "just a bunch of robots fighting each other." If either of the Transformers movies had actually been "just a bunch of robots fighting each other," they would have been infinitely better, and infinitely more watchable. The problem with Transformers 2 is the relationships - namely, the horrible, horrible, two-dimensional characters and the horrible, horrible attempts at humor involving those characters.

UPDATE: Also, to claim that there is some essential difference between Transformers and Transformers 2 is ridiculous. They're the same movie.

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• David Tennant is a pretty amazing Hamlet! Check him out above, doing Act II, scene 2 in what appears to be a BBC production. Damn, I love that play. (Via)


• Cool clip from the Planet Hulk animated movie. Looking forward to this.


• Not only is Marc Webb of 500 Days of Summer officially the director of the next Spider-Man movie, apparently he'll direct the next three.


• NASA is giving away space shuttle engines for free - to anyone who can pick them up. Ha!


• Preview for a vaguely interesting supernatural thriller called Heartless.


• Now here's a cool mouse: it transforms into a dinosaur!


• LEGO flames.


• Awesome, violent Raiders of the Lost Ark illustration. (Via)

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Tagged: Art, Cartoons, Dinosaurs, Gadgets, Hulk, Indiana Jones, LEGO, Links, Movies, News, Recyclotron, Shakespeare, Spider-Man, Toys, Transformers, Video]]> Art Cartoons Dinosaurs Gadgets Hulk Indiana Jones LEGO Links Movies News Recyclotron Shakespeare Spider-Man Toys Transformers Video Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:22:00 +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.

• Above, Amanda Palmer covers Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" during her New Year's Eve show. (Via)


• Christopher Lee is awesome. He's putting out a heavy metal rock opera about Charlemagne. He's singing the role of Charlemagne. Check out some samples here. (Via)


• Nooooooooooooooo.com. Just go. You'll see. (Via)


• Just heard about this: ESPN is going to start a 3D TV network in June. By the way, you'll need a 3D-capable TV to watch it. Do they even make those yet?? If they do, I kind of want one, but poppy says no. (Via)


• It's impossible for me to know what's going on, because it's so weird and there's never any dialog in English, but man do I love this guy's work. It's mind-blowingly creative and surreal and beautiful.


• This appears to be a reimagining of Cobra Commander, and I love it.


• I've seen a couple of these before, but at least one is new to me, and they're all great, so: famous album covers in which all the people have been replaced with superheroes.


• New dates for The Hobbit: a 14-month production schedule will begin in June, and the plan is still for the first film to be released next year.


• Heh. Chewbacca Altoids T-shirt.


• More fun Masters of the Universe-inspired art. (Via this post on Super Punch, which includes an extra piece.)


• David Hockney's illustrations of Grimm's Fairy Tales. (Via)


• Optimus Prime/Darth Vader mashup. (Via)


• A rather impressive group sleeveface portrait. Also, it was via this post on Sleeveface that I learned about The Flaming Lips' Dark Side of the Moon track-for-track cover album, featuring Henry Rollins and Peaches. I'm very excited about it.


• I've often been frustrated by the limitations of Twitter's search feature, so Flocking.me sounds like a useful thing; it allows you to search only within your friends' tweets. (Via)


• Oh my God, this movie looks so ridiculous. It's called From Paris With Love, and it's about a bald John Travolta beating up terrorists. His own way. For America. (Via)


• Yesterday I posted a story about how the next James Bond movie would be delayed due to MGM's financial woes. But the word now is that not only is that not true, but that the movie will be directed by Sam Mendes. Interesting...


• Sean Penn is back on to play Larry in the Farrelly brothers' Three Stooges movie. So that's still going on. Huh.


• Nintendo's next portable gaming device will apparently have a motion sensor, and highly detailed graphics. Also, the next Wii Zelda game should be out by the end of the year.

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Tagged: 3D, Art, Clothing, Comedy, Comic books, Gadgets, Links, Mashups, Movies, Music, News, Recyclotron, Shirts, Star Wars, Technology, Tolkien, Transformers, TV, Twitter, Video, Video games, Wii, Zelda]]> 3D Art Clothing Comedy Comic books Gadgets Links Mashups Movies Music News Recyclotron Shirts Star Wars Technology Tolkien Transformers TV Twitter Video Video games Wii Zelda Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:16:00 +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.

• A glimpse of the new TARDIS interior.


• Various charts about space, spaceships, and monsters!


• Here's a fascinating study about how people with extreme opinions reinforce their opinions. Love the graphic.


• io9 picks some B-string monsters that deserve a turn in the limelight.


• Tons of pics and a new trailer for The Wolfman. WOW. This looks GREAT!


• Crazy pumpkins with steampunk and Twitter (via) themes.


• The rumor flying around the internet lately is that George Lucas is planning a brand new Star Wars trilogy that would be filmed in 3D and directed by folks like Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola. I feel like this might have come out of somebody misunderstanding Lucas' plans to re-release the original trilogy in 3D, but hey, you never know. Despite everything that happened with the prequels, I have to admit, I'd totally go see new Star Wars movies - especially if they were directed and/or written by someone other than Lucas.


• Video of a dude launching an anvil with gunpowder. Awesome.


• Here's a website all about a really big LEGO castle. (Via)


• Impressive stop-motion video of someone building a large papercraft model of Link.


• Really cool chart of every mission to Mars.


• Sci Fi Wire provides 8 reasons why Cirque du Freak isn't your usual vampire movie. But Roger Ebert is exceedingly unimpressed by the film (via).


• Pics from Trent Reznor's wedding. (Via)


• Stream entries from the European film archives for free. And legally, even. (Via)


• The worst and weirdest vampire merchandise. The baby doll is horrifying, but the glow-in-the-dark Blacula soap is kind of awesome. (Via)


• No more Dollhouse until December after tomorrow night (via). Lame! Although, it does make it easier for me to catch up... Anyway, Joss says not to worry.


• Portable ultrasound?! Wow! (Via)


• Amusing Queen album cover parody featuring monsters. (Via)


• Zombie SNES!


• The Windows 7 Whopper, with 7 beef patties (via). Yes, apparently this is a real thing. Good lord. While we're talking Windows 7, here's another amusing parody of that horrible Windows 7 party infomercial: Hosting Your Windows 7 Torrenting Party (via). I think my favorite part is the very last line of dialog. Other Windows 7 links include Wired's positive review of the OS and 7 things you should know about it from Gadget Lab. Also vaguely related: a look at those Microsoft retail stores. Turns out they're a lot like Apple's retail stores. That's just sad.


• Pretty impressive music video which autotunes quotes from various famous TV shows and movies to turn them into rhyming lyrics for a catchy techno track. (Via)


• Sounds like George R.R. Martin might get a cameo in the Game of Thrones pilot. (Via)


• A speed bump that raises or lowers depending on your speed.


• A first look at the rich kids' academy in Caprica.


• The Big Bang Theory will feature a cameo from a (possibly nude!) Katee Sackhoff! Man, I really am going to have to start watching that show at some point, aren't I?


• Looks like there might not be another Pirates movie after all. This does not upset me.


• What if there was a Twilight-ified version of The Creature from the Black Lagoon? It might look a little something like this. (Via)


• Awesome furniture!


• Another fun Where the Wild Things Are contest: customize the fur-covered edition.


• A bunch of fun downloadable masks.


• Vintage Masters of the Universe paintings.


• Weird links from Warren Ellis: humans are still evolving, scientists know how body part regeneration works now, and Balloon Boy's father wanted TV fame before the world ends in 2012. Well I'm glad staring the apocalypse in the face really put his priorities in order!


• Google is also making a search deal with Twitter.


• Flickr has Facebook-style people-tagging now.


• A new study shows that "iPhone users are three times more likely to Tweet or Facebook their sexual antics than BlackBerry users." Good to know.


• Set footage from the A-Team movie, and some small hints about the plot.


• Ralph Fiennes, William Hurt, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Chastain, and Gerard Butler will all star in a new movie version of Shakespeare's Coriolanus.


• Some intriguing bits of news from cast member Willem Dafoe about John Carter of Mars.


• Cool robot art.


• The theme to Ghostbusters recreated entirely by a dude multitracking himself doing all the singing and sounds. Brilliant and hilarious.


• A short film called The Wall based on A Song of Ice and Fire. (Via)


• A truly excellent Star Trek accessory. (Via)


• Dude, Trent Reznor did a Fringe promo (via)! It's a combo nearly as tasty as peanut butter and chocolate. Oh, and guess who else likes Fringe? Simon Pegg (via)!


• Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron (!) are both being considered for the lead role in the next Mad Max.


• Woah. LED eyelashes. (Via)


• Freaking awesome art, featuring Batman, Robin, Superman, and a Vogon. (Via)


• I love Marvel Comics! I love ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead! Here's Marvel interviewing Conrad Keely of Trail of Dead! Huzzah! (Via)


• New free Kristin Hersh track! You have no reason not to download it! (Via)


• Zombie candy corn! (Via)


• 10 shows you have to watch to understand the world. (Via)


• The 10 top pop culture vampires. (Via)


• Them Crooked Vultures are finally putting out an album! You can preorder it now! It even comes with a T-shirt! (Via)


• Whoops: Google book scans with fingers in them. (Via)


• This is great: interactive map of The Village. (Via)


• The best and weirdest costumes added to io9's Flickr set.


• The top ten robots for boys from sci-fi movies and TV shows. I'll have to remember these.


• Blue Screen of Death belt buckle.


• Cool custom toys: A Clockwork Orange Playmobil figure, steam locomotive Optimus Prime, and Roland Deschain of The Dark Tower action figure. (Via)


• Speaking of The Dark Tower, supposedly Damon Lindelof has decided he doesn't want to be involved in making it into a movie because he loves it too much and he doesn't want to screw it up. Huh. Now I kind of want him to do it. (Via)


• Cool SEGA lighters.

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Tagged: Art, Batman, Books, Business, Celebrities, Clothing, Comic books, Costumes, Craft, Doctor Who, Dollhouse, Facebook, Food, Fringe, Gadgets, George R.R. Martin, Google, Halloween, Joss Whedon, Legend of Zelda, LEGO, Links, Lists, Microsoft, Monsters, Movies, Music, News, Photography, Products, Recyclotron, Robots, Science, Shakespeare, Song of Ice and Fire, Space, Star Trek, Star Wars, Superman, Technology, The Dark Tower, The Prisoner, Toys, Transformers, TV, Twitter, Vampires, Video, Video games, Zombies]]> Art Batman Books Business Celebrities Clothing Comic books Costumes Craft Doctor Who Dollhouse Facebook Food Fringe Gadgets George R.R. Martin Google Halloween Joss Whedon Legend of Zelda LEGO Links Lists Microsoft Monsters Movies Music News Photography Products Recyclotron Robots Science Shakespeare Song of Ice and Fire Space Star Trek Star Wars Superman Technology The Dark Tower The Prisoner Toys Transformers TV Twitter Vampires Video Video games Zombies Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:57:00 +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.

• The above video is violent and horrible and it totally cracked me up and made my day better. (Via)


• Hedgehog says, "Blaaaaah." I'm with you, hedgehog. I'm with you. (Via)


• A roundup of crazy Halloween costumes for kids and pets. (Via)


• What a rip-off! You can only buy 200 sandwiches with this coupon! (Via)


• Pretty cool Wolverine painting. (Via)


• Video of an amazing pop-up LEGO Zen temple. (Via)


• Woah! One of my favorite comic book artists, John Cassaday, is directing an episode of Dollhouse! Very cool. (Via)


• A big set of photos from the Alternative Press Expo. (Via)


• There's a bit of a buzz surrounding Barnes & Noble's new e-reader, Nook. Here's a chart comparing it with the Amazon Kindle 2 (which should be taken with a grain of salt, as the chart was put together by B&N). (Via)


• Pretty good zombie George Lucas costume. (Via)


• A poster for what could be the next children's book to get a perhaps-too-adult big screen adaptation. Don't worry, it's a joke. I think. (Via Duane)


• R2-D2's cameo in Transformers 2 (via). Speaking of everybody's favorite Astromech droid, check out this very nice fan-made R2-D2 hoodie.


• Hulu is showcasing a bunch of sci-fi and horror videos for Halloween. (Via)


• You've got to love this guy Andy's Dude-a-Day project. This time he takes on the Beatles. (Via)


• Scientists have developed the first artificial hand that has feeling. It works by connecting human nerve endings with tiny electronic sensors. (Via)


• I was loath to link to this list, as it includes a mention of the hated Starship Troopers, but the rest of the selections are good enough to warrant a reference. So behold! Sci-fi's 10 best second-in-commands. (Should that be seconds-in-command? Who knows?) (Via)


• Pretty excellent poster for Terminator 2.


• Alien cow abduction lamp.


• Over 40 (!!!) crazy sci-fi dream sequences.


• Remember that 3D-animated cartoon called ReBoot? It was a pretty clever and fun show, with a plot vaguely similar to Tron. Well, it looks like they're making a movie! Check out the teaser.


• ABC's going a little overboard with their promotion of V. Starting this Friday, "skywriters will create giant letter Vs multiple times a day above 26 well-known American landmarks."


• Cool new trailer for the Prisoner remake.


• Sounds like the rumors of De Niro and Jude Law showing up in Thor are probably just rumors. Sadness.


• The top five hunk of junk spaceships. Hmm. Not sure I'd classify the Borg cube as a hunk of junk, but still love the list.


• An "affordable" 3D copier! Put an object in and it will make a copy in plastic.


• Impressive cakes: Pac-Man and Darth Vader. I don't think I'd eat the Darth Vader one, though. Not appetizing at all.


• Robotic cheetah!!!


• Nikes made of junk.


• A short and stupidly funny clip from Star Wars with some new dialog added in.


• This interesting interview with director Richard Kelly about his upcoming film The Box made me want to see the movie more - and also less. Basing the main characters on his parents seems like a weird and pointless idea. But who knows, maybe it will work.


• Gigantic info dump on Epic Mickey. I don't have time to look at this, but thought somebody else might, so there you go. (Via)


• Hey, turns out Antarctica is really damn big. (Via)


• Norman Osborn hair spotted in the wild. (Via)


• Amusing book cover parody, and a great set of photos of weird and wonderful Eastern European book covers(via).


• NASA is testing its first new rocket in 30 years.


• Posters for Legion.


• The guy who's been running FlashForward - Marc Guggenheim - has been replaced with co-creator and executive producer David Goyer. It might be a meaningless change, but then again it might be a response to a dip in the ratings.


• Google could be launching a competitor to the iTunes Music Store soon.


• Looks like the script for that Crow remake is done and they're going to move forward with casting.


• Seven great horror movie themes (as in music).


• Cinematical is going to start highlighting good, bad, and ugly flicks that you can watch for free. A recent gem: Frogs!


• 42 essential third act twists (via) and, in the same vein, the 9 stupidest surprise endings (via).


• On another day, looking at the pizza taco might have made me hungry. Today, it makes me feel slightly ill. (Via)


• Nickelodeon has just purchased intellectual ownership rights to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and is planning a new animated TV series and film.


• Hilarious image list: the world of tomorrow if the internet disappeared today. (Via)


• Ha ha ha! Burn. (Via)


• Amusing bathroom graffiti. (Via)


• Bing will supposedly start searching Twitter and Facebook status messages soon. How will it get access to Facebook status messages?? That seems like a bit of an invasion of privacy, unless it will somehow link in to your Facebook account and only search your friends' updates?


• M.C. Escher disses Mick Jagger. Pretty awesome. (Via)


• Bacon jam!!!

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Tagged: Aliens, Animals, Art, Bacon, Books, Celebrities, Clothing, Comedy, Comic books, Costumes, Craft, Disney, Dollhouse, FlashForward, Food, Gadgets, Graffiti, Halloween, LEGO, Links, Lists, Mortal Kombat, Movies, Music, News, Photography, Products, Recyclotron, Science, Space, Star Wars, Technology, Terminator, Thor, Toys, Transformers, TV, Video, Video games, Wolverine, Zombies]]> Aliens Animals Art Bacon Books Celebrities Clothing Comedy Comic books Costumes Craft Disney Dollhouse FlashForward Food Gadgets Graffiti Halloween LEGO Links Lists Mortal Kombat Movies Music News Photography Products Recyclotron Science Space Star Wars Technology Terminator Thor Toys Transformers TV Video Video games Wolverine Zombies Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:11:00 +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.

• 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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