Be Happy.

Barking Mad

Brody Bunch

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh, as with life, it's not until near the end of your Brodyquest that you truly realize the beauty in its purpose and the purpose in its beauty.



Happy Monday.

There IS A Substitute!

Sure it may look like a regular Porsche  GT3 wearing  a tinfoil helmet so aliens can't read its mileage, but it's actually a pedal-powered scale mockup.

Up The Hill Backwards

Bozio? Bonham? Peart? Clowns.

Just... Dammit.

You Knew That Anyway, Didn't You?

What Took So Long?

Of course, you'll have to suffer through more non-staggered cheese triangles 'till July 1st, but you're a brave li'l toaster, aren't you? You'll be fine.

If 6 Was 9

Moon? Shot.

"As currently envisioned, the robots that will land on the lunar surface in 2015 will be 660-pound behemoths equipped with rolling tank-like treads, solar panels, seismographs, high-def cameras and a smattering of scientific instruments. They'll also have human-like arms for collecting rock samples that will be returned to Earth via rocket. The robots will be controlled from Earth, but they'll also be imbued with their own kind of machine intelligence, making decisions on their own and operating with a high degree of autonomy.


"Those initial surveyor bots will pave the way for the construction of the unmanned moon base near the lunar south pole, which the robots will construct for themselves. That base will be solar powered and provide a working/living space future robot colonizers, as well as -- presumably -- a jumping off point for future human moon dwellers."

I mean, can you imagine if the first contact we have with aliens is through Japan's robotic moon colony?

8-Bit Blotter

MY DESK IS 8-BIT from alex varanese on Vimeo.

Airplanes!

Football In Their Underpants

Robo--stop!

Okay, look:



Now, seriously, there's no way you can watch that and justify the robot's existence. It's just wrong.

Rocket Fan

Shady Lamp

What Makes The Redbirds Sing?

Jeeze. Not even a baseball-throwing T-Rex can get anyone to go to a Redbirds game.

Oh, The Majesty

"When I saw this setup, print in Esquire, I assumed they had built a physical crawl, dragged through the camera's field of view to create the effect. Looking closer, though, it's obvious that it was the camera that moved in this setup, slowly and carefully rolled back over the glossy, printed plate, which measured about six feet long."

It looks like a colored lightbox with the letters glowing through an opaque film. Awesome. You know, it's amazing what you can accomplish even without computers.

Click to see how they filmed the opening Star Wars crawls.

Pop Quiz, Hotshot!

The Pop Quiz clock costs $30 and makes the perfect Easter gift provided you don't care about Jesus... and are tired of waiting for him.

London Apalling

London just unveiled the new mascots (Wenlock and Mandeville) for the 2012 Summer Olympics and... well, let's let them try to explain:

"Two parts-Pokemon to one-part lava lamp with yellow 'Taxi' lights on their foreheads, the distinctive characters are intended to capture the imagination of children and work as well in the digital world as they will in costume form at trackside in 2012.
"They are a central part of London's £70 million merchandising budget, and organisers hope the mascots will contribute up to 20 per cent of that sum through sales of T-shirts, key-rings, tea-towels and the like.
The Cyclops design allows the mascots' eyes to work as lenses, and digital cameras in the shape of the characters will be available"

Two parts-Pokemon? I don't see a lick of Pokemon in either one of them. What I see is two grown-ass men in ridiculous costumes reconsidering the choices they've made in life.

Premake!

"Here is the recipe for the trailer: Flash Gordon (Deadline at Noon, Conquers the Universe), The Phantom Planet, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Invasion of the Animal People, Man Beast, Lunar Walker, Golden Bat (Ogon Batto), The Mysterians, Captain Midnight, First Spaceship on Venus, The Flying Saucer, The Fighting Devil Dogs, The Outer Limits (Second Chance, Soldier, I Robot, The Sixth Finger), Things to Come, Space Patrol, Atragon, Terror in the Midnight Sun, Forbidden Planet, Rocketship X-M, Latitude Zero, Space Flight, Metropolis, The Jetsons, Devil Girl From Mars, Tobor the Great, The Alligator People, The Return of the Fly, Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas, Starman (Attack from Space), Marvel Super Heroes (Iron Man), The Cyclops, The Sea Hawk, Kings Row, Mahler Symphony No. 6, Gustav Hoists The Planets (Mars), and The Empire Strikes Back Radio Drama."

 

The Car Of The Future Toda-- Is That Bacon?

Can't Hide The Fett

That Guy Who Says "Dude" Abides.

Well, now. If you're looking for proof that Lost's Hurley says "dude" a lot, here it is:

Ballpark, Frankly.

Wierd Science

"The power of the Onion Bully™ is tear science. When you put the Onion Bully™ in your mouth, it actually tells your body to turn off your tear ducts so you can't cry!"

Something In The Air's Not Right

You Rebel Scum.

I may not have had a Scout Walker Command Tower growing up, but I did have a Cabbage Patch playhouse with a hornet's nest inside.

So yeah, take that!

This Is No Cave!

This is an oven mitt made to look like a Space Slug  from the Star Wars universe. Like there's something else to know.

"The worlds of epicurean geeks and Star Wars geeks come crashing together with this Space Slug Oven Mitt. Based on the immense asteroid-dwelling slug who made a brief cameo in The Empire Strikes Back (I'm still not sure how it survived in the vacuum of space) this 12-inch version is made from a fire-retardent nomex cotton blend, which means it should survive rounds from a blaster, or a hot pair of barbecue tongs."

The $20 glove is currently available for pre-order and doubles as a "Shriveled Penis with Teeth" mitt if you're not into Star Wars.

Ooooooo! Magic Swords!

Happy Mother's Day, Motherf*ckers!

Sort Of A Zen Koan, Isn't It?

The Yoda In The Sky Just Keeps Turnin'

This is a real picture of a real cloud taken by a real guy:

It's a Yoda face-shaped cloud. Granted, you could argue it's just a cloud-shaped cloud, but you would lose.

You Damn Dirty Apes!

 "Twentieth Century Fox has set a June 24, 2011 release for RISE OF THE APES, a completely new take on one of the Studio’s most beloved and successful franchises. Oscar®-winning visual effects house WETA Digital – employing certain of the groundbreaking technologies developed for AVATAR – will render, for the first time ever in the film series, photo-realistic apes rather than costumed actors."

Aaaaaannnndddd it's finally happened. Humans have been replaced by apes.

Does Whatever A Spider Can

In a case of life imitating art (in this case, comic book art), a man dressed as Spider-Man stopped a would-be thief from stealing a $160 comic  on Free Comic Book Day this last Sunday. He was aided in his crime-fighting by two Jedi knights and The Flash.

Not even kidding.

Let Your Ebon-Cloaked Master be Your Guide

Beginning this month, GPS  giant TomTom will be releasing one Star Wars character a month whose voice will be available for $13 download to guide you to your destination. They kicked it off with Darth Vader, but next is C-3PO, followed by Yoda and Han Solo.Like you won't be buying a TomTom now.

BANG! BOFF! SWOON!

Avert Your Gaze And We May Yet Be Saved!

"The Rotterdam Zoo is giving away cardboard glasses that make it appear that you're looking off to one side; these are gorilla-viewing glasses, meant to avoid incidents in which gorillas attack visitors for making eye contact with them. The glasses' introduction follows an attack on a woman by an escaped gorilla...

"The specs are sponsored by a local health-insurance company."

Well of course the glasses are sponsored by a local health-insurance company. That's just good business. Nothing drives up your premium like getting beat to shit by a gorilla.

If Loving This Is Wrong....

I don't! I don't wanna' be right!

We Are Happy To Serve You

Thankyouvellymuch

Just Don't Hit It In The Rear

Awwwwwwwwwwwww!

Ready, Aim, Fired-Up.

Kotaku recently made a really cool informational graphic about the top 100 video games and what drives their characters  to do what they do. This is it.

"We pulled the top 100 highest rated games from review aggregation website GameRankings.com and broke them down by primary motivation - the driving force behind the heroes, anti-heroes, competitors, and god-like beings inhabiting those acclaimed titles."

Less Is... Holy Shit!

You're Doing It Wrong!

"Whenever a TV product commercial plays I bust a gut during the parts where they show us what we're doing wrong and why we need the product.

"This is my tribute to the hilarious work the actors in these infomercials do.

"Products in this video include (in alphabetical order):

"Awesome Auger, Big City Slider, Big Top Cupcake, Bottle Tops, Bumpits, Buxton Palm Wallet, Cami Secret, Covermate, Crazy Critters, CrazyBraid, DepilSilk, Doggy Step, Egg Genie, Emery Cat, EZ Cracker, Grip N Twist, Dual Pro Peeler and Adjust-A-Slice, Handy Groomer spot, ISPEX, JML Exakt Saw, JML Keep Fresh Bags, JML Paint Sprayer Pro, JML Table Mate Dub, JumpSnap the Ropeless Jump Rope, Magic Tap, mighty mend it, Naptastic, Pedi Pistol - Home Pedicure Systems by Ped Egg, PediPaws, Perfect Brownie, Perfect Button, Perfect Patty, Perfect Shelf, Pet Cozy, Robostir, Shoe Dini, Shoes Under, Smart Spin, Snuggie, Spill Daddy Paint Pro, SteamBuddy, Tushee, Tiddy Bear, Tool Band, TurboSlice, Twin Draft Guard, Twist n Style, UGLU, UGO Bags, Urine Gone, Vidalia Slice Wizard, Zipits"

And So It Goes

DJs go POP

Hey Kids!

Robots Can Bite Me. No, Really!

Spies Like Us

Don't believe it? Click!

Who Do You Think You Are?

So, here's a flowchart to determine what kind of drunk you are. Well... which one are you? Truthfully, I don't really touch the stuff myself so I guess that makes me a lying drunk.

What Hath You (Over)wrought?

Your new god.

Zero G, Gee!

So, here's a video of a couple of knotheads a nosedive so the dog  in the back experiences weightlessness.  I can't tell if he liked it or not, but my guess is no.

It Ain't Hard To Define

It All Comes Back To The Gurus

Beat Feet

Super Grrrrlz

Zip A Dee Ay!

Zippers of The City, unite!

Jollibeeeeeeeeeee!

Quicker

Best served clicked.

Yay Interwebs!

Pixels

This is an animated short by Patrick Jean appropriately titled Pixels. It's all about oldschool games invading New York, nd I highly recommend you watch it right now whether you get fired or not.

Howdya like This Bigshot?

Nothing About This Image Is Not Wrong

Make it go!

Listen To Me Very Carefully....

WWZJD?

Dunroaminduncarindunlivin.

Fantastic?

Hello, The Future!

April (Song-Singin') Fools

ClayCoCo

Clay? Ash? Cool!

Evil Dead done in 60 seconds with CLAY - 2010 from Lee Hardcastle on Vimeo.

Crushed

Want to play video games with a girl but don't know any in real life? Well you're in luck, thanks to a new online service called GameCrush. For a minimum wage-y $6.60 you can play 10 minutes of XBox Live  with a scantily clad strumpet via webcam. Fun! Pathetic. That's so shameful I don't even know what to say.

"Girls somehow interested in this should know there's money to be made, with 60% of the proceeds from a match going to the "PlayDate", who at the conclusion of a game can be rated by the user on her "hotness, gaming skill, and flirtiness".
"GameCrush is restricted to those 18 years old and over, and players can select one of two kinds of match/date. I'll let the site's FAQ explain. "We have created two broad categories, "Flirty" and "Dirty" to help the PlayDate define and match her mood of gaming interaction and experience with those of the players. You can choose either option or both depending on how you feel!"

Under "Cool" In The Dictionary

Savage!

Bacon!

Roll this around on your tongue: "bacon beer." Sounds delicious right? Well how about, oh I dunno, BACON-INFUSED BOURBON SMOKED PORTER? If you want to make your own, Grocery Eats has a recipe, which doesn't involve actually brewing your own beer.

Shaaaaaaaaaarkish!

Try It In Dobly

Part III

I'm Here

Absolut Vodka has posted Spike Jonze's "I'm Here" short on the internet, so you should watch that at some point. Just a warning: the site says you must above the legal drinking age to watch, so I'm guessing it's not safe for work, either for content or because the constant reminder of vodka will send you back into a shameful spiral of alcoholism, and that should probably be postponed until at least after 5.

Anyway, click the pic.

Best Picture... And Best Picture!

Jeepers! Until a few minutes ago, I knew nothing of Fifth Element director Luc Besson's Les Adventures Extraordinaires D'Adèle Blanc-Sec. Now that I've seen the trailer, it's my most anticipated upcoming release that involves a 1912 lady adventurer, a mummy in a bowler hat, and a pterodactyl.

Adèle Blanc-Sec - Le film-annonce. sur Yahoo! Vidéo

It Was Really Just A Matter Of Time...

until someone misspelled "Hadron."

Dark Day

So, the World Wide Fund For Nature focuses on issues regarding conservation, research and restoration of the environment. And they encourage everyone to turn off their non-essential lights for Earth Hour on March 27th from 8:30 to 9:30PM to raise awareness for climate change. Which, whether you even believe in climate change or not, you've got to admit I am gonna go to the beach tomorrow.

They're Not Magic?

Don't worry, you're not the only one who thought there was an explosive genie trapped inside. I'm right here with you.

No Words.

What Are You?

Catman, get it? It's a take on Batman but with "cat" instead of "bat" because, I don't know if you could tell or not, but that's a cat in the picture. I know, I know, the mask threw me off too.

Berserker!

So, instead of dogs it's wolverines. But it's not just wolverines... it's Wolverines!

Winslow Homer was a hack.

Piece Of The Pi

So, it turns out it's, like. mid-March. I know, I thought it was still January too. But it isn't. It's March 14th, which -- 3.14 -- is Pi Day! And in five years it'll be 3.14.15. What a special one that'll be! And for everybody out there that's all, "it's actually 14.3.10 today," you know what -- YOU CAN'T RAIN ON THIS PI PARADE! YOU HEAR ME? You couldn't even hail on a cake walk!

Freeeeeeeeeeedom!

Or so, so not.

Handling Cans? Can Handle!

The Can Grip snaps on to any standard aluminum can providing the drinker with not only a handle, but a coaster. Yay future!

Get Hitched!

A Little Dab'll Do Ya'

"Color me up!" toilet paper serves as some sort of advertisement for some sort of company. I can't really read it, but their logo looks like a meditating Rasta. But that's not what's important, what's important IS THAT YOU STAY BETWEEN THE LINES!

You Know... Why Not?

So, Yay! 3D Models!

And The Oscar Goes To....

The Sincerest Form Of Flattery?

25 Or 6 To 10:35

Fair enough, the "Mc10:35" isn't actually a secret McDonald's menu item because you have to buy two separate sandwhichs and put them together yourself. However, it is rare and dangerously delicious looking.

"I heard about this from a cashier at one of the local McDonald's. He said it's getting kind of a cult following in San Francisco.

"1. Go to McD's right when they are transitioning from breakfast to lunch.

"2. Order one of the remaining Egg McMuffins from the breakfast menu and also order a McDouble since the lunch menu is now open.

"3. Take the egg and Canadian bacon from the Egg McMuffin and put it on the McDouble.

"The guy at the register said people call it a Mc10:35 because that's pretty much the only time you can pull this off.

"They're damn good when hungover!"

You know what else is damn good when hungover? A bacon and aspirin omelet. Also, puking helps sometimes.

iPWNED

Okay, that's clever... but I would have also torn off the top half of the green sign and penciled in "For a Good Time." No iPod AND solicitations for sexual favors -- you'll think twice before losing something else, Caroline!

And Yet...

OK Go!