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Cartoon Hipster Meme

One of the latest memes on the internet is putting glasses on someone/something and then complaining about being mainstream. It's the hipster stereotype of knowing about something before it was cool. The meme comes to childhood cartoon icons at Hell Yes Hipster Disney.

Caption Contest Winner

This week's winner is Jeremy!

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Activity Corner

• Awesome tech company office designs.


• Cheating, Incorporated.


• Crazy stop-motion animation called Timber.


• Are you rooming with someone (or someones)? Figure out your rents using this detailed Split the Rent calculator.


• Some people apparently believe the conspiracy theory that Paul McCartney is dead and replaced by an imposter.


• If US cities had kept their original names.


• First look at Detroit's new Robocop statue.


• SFWA announces the 2010 Nebula award nominees.


• Take the current time in HH:MM:SS format, change those six numbers into the corresponding hexadecimal color code, and you have The Colour Clock.


• Playing chicken with a wind turbine.


• The 122 best PC games of the last 20 years. How many have you played?


• The entire first chapter of Harry Potter written on a bathroom stall.


• The truth about shower faucets.


• The Day Guitar Hero Died.


• Ikea stonehenge.


• Rubik's cube brain.


• Crazy human towers.


• ThinkGeek comes through again with Star Trek bathrobes.


• Or maybe you'd prefer the Darth Vader bathrobe.


• If you don't use a mouse with your laptop, you might be interested in the Swiftpoint Mouse (be sure to watch the video). I love how the scrollwheel works, and that you charge it with the USB nubbin. If only they had a left-handed version.


• The French bread machine (video at the bottom).


• Detailed cut-away view of the Imperial AT-AT.


• The personal semi-submarine/raft.


• Make your own awesome hamburgers with the stuffed hamburger press.


• The evolution of video game controllers.


• Shadow swordfighting.


• Organizing the bookcase.


• Predator: The Musical.


• You may know the red Swingline stapler from Office Space, but how does it hold up in the real world? The Swingline 747 business stapler.


• Zombie love song.


• Disappearing languages.


• Star Wars plus the wild west results in West Wars.


• Otters in the house.


• Ticklish camel.


• The creative picture-a-day growing a beard for a year video, but you only have to watch half of it, since it starts going in reverse halfway through, unless you really like the song.


• A London restaurant, The Icecreamists, is now serving breast milk ice cream.


• Awesome Asteroids wall stickers.


• BEST COMMENT THREAD EVAR.


• The lightest, thinnest waterproof iPhone 4 case there is, the LifeProof.


• 2011 Oscars highlights in advance.


• Hundreds of tourist photos weaved into one.


• It's true, the world's first plastic trombone, pBone.


• A guy's bank raises the insurance premiums on his house, so he learns his rights and forecloses on the bank.


• 83 gut-busting restaurant challenges for free food.


• Gingers!


• The saga of Biorn.

Friday Game

This game is awesome! You have two modes: look/rotate, and grab. You use the spacebar to toggle between the modes (or "tools"), and the object is to disassemble the interlocked pieces until none remain. It's called, not surprisingly, Interlocked.

Raccoon is Punny

Yes, it's stupid. And yet, I can't stop laughing. It's Lame Pun Raccoon.

Caption Contest

Crayola Boy indicates his displeasure at being voted off on Thursday's episode of the Bravo series "America's Next Super Hero."

Viewing Eruptions

There's really nothing else to say. It's all the volcano webcams of the world.

Caption Contest Winner

This week's winner is John Haydon!

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Activity Corner

• Why you should always encrypt your smartphone.


• A 1984 letter from Arthur C. Clarke containing a 31-word short story.


• Then-and-now photographs in Irina Werning's Back to the Future project.


• YES! ToastIt drink coasters.


• Digital altimeter with barometer, compass, weather, temperature, and time.


• Charging smartphones and other USB devices with electricity or solar power is SOOO last century. Recharge 'em the modern way using the PowerTrekk mini hydrogen fuel cell. All you need is water! (Although I couldn't find any information on how long their little "PowerPukk" fuel cell packs last.)


• Great interactive widget that lets you examine the NBA's greatest shots by court location and with corresponding video.


• Early test CGI footage from the Thundercats reboot movie?


• The anatomical sleeping bag.


• Wil Wheaton's Hunter is here.


• How to defeat fake anti-virus malware.


• Fireworks fail (spectacularly).


• Geek alert! Great infographic on what is IPv6, and why should we care?


• If you have an iPhone 4, Blackberry Curve 8500 or 9300, or an HTC Evo, get yourself a milspec-grade Ballistic Hard Core case.


• The Sharper Image now offices 13 classic arcade games in the stand-up Pac Man Arcade Machine and the sit-down Pac Man Arcade Machine Cocktail Table.


• Facebook versus Twitter infographic.


• It's the Mazooka marshmallow-shooting bazooka.


• If Apple sold water.


• Geek dream girl Felicia Day writes and stars in Dragon Age web series.


• Bacon toothpaste.


• It's an artistic imagining titled Batman x Star Wars.


• Android and iPhone: It's a two-horse race. While it's an interesting article, it suffers from the same "open versus closed" hippie crap that the linux-versus-Windows debate does.


• Coming soon: USB-powered femtocells.


• An open "letter" to Stephen Fry and his reply.


• The abandoned Russian particle accelerator construction.


• Current worldwide annual coffee consumption per capita.


• New Jersey police chief to parents: steal Facebook passwords from your kids. Wow.


• The SEO Rapper with the Pager Rank Rap.


• Oahu's Ha'iku stairs.


• Make your own word clock.


• Movie theater snacks from around the world.


• Sea turtle disrupts underwater wedding ceremony.


• 26 memorable sci-fi movie and TV weddings. (Although he uses "sci-fi" rather loosely.)


• High snow, low clearance.


• Did Tolkien invent the plural "dwarves"?


• How to board a moving train.


• Pictogram movie posters.


• It's time to play cheese or font?


• How many 80s movie references can you spot in this Don't You Want Me music video?


• Sexy clone dilemma.


• The (visual) anatomy of an Apple email.


• The last arcade in NYC's Chinatown.


• An 8-bit web browser, based on Safari, called Pixelfari. Unfortunately, it looks like it's Mac-only. Bummer.


• The totally awesome sandwich lunchbox.


• It's a jacket, a sleeping bag, and a tent, all rolled up into one. It's the JakPak.


• the 13 most incredible geological wonders on earth.


• Carbon dioxide makes drinks fizzy. But you can do the same thing to whole fruit with the CO2inator.


• Confessions of an Apple Store employee.


• Busting the 8-hour sleep myth.


• The map of the entire fantasy world.


• Make your own clap-off bra.


• Do guys stare at girls' butts? Surprise! Yes they do, as revealed by asscam.


• Student Rickrolls professor in computer science paper.


• From the Department of WTF comes Sexy Pigeons.


• The archetype times table of awesomeness.


• What the hell is she doing back there?

Friday Game

If you read the "About" page, the dude says he found this old Nintendo Entertainment System game at a garage sale. But if you read the Contact page, you see he actually wrote it. It's a classic Nintendo-style platformer, and yes, weird as it is, it's The Great Gatsby Game.

Fire in the Arcade

After winning Album of the Year the other night on the Grammys, people are up in arms wondering Who is Arcade Fire? (Hint.)

Happy Valentine's Day

Enjoy your VD with these Robocop Valentines.

Caption Contest

I didn't realize Twiggy was ever a bunny at the Playboy club.

Posing Book Covers

While used to help sell books visually, book covers can inadvertantly be used for other things. And that's what this web site is all about. Since so many book covers have portions of people on them, why not get someone to fill in the rest of the picture. Admire the creativity, and maybe even get in on the action, at Corpus Libris.

Caption Contest Winner

This week's winner is Amanda!

See the original image here.

Activity Corner

• Global warming? No, climate change.


• Hamster-powered kinetic walker.


• Origins of the names of every country.


• 90s Nickelodeon game show hosts: Where are they now?


• The 25 best To Catch a Predator screencaps.


• Community does Dungeons and Dragons.


• Ultimate "NOOOOOOOOOO" compilation. And it's pretty damn ultimate.


• Just-purchased dating site OKCupid weighs in again with data breaking down the best questions for a first date.


• The Google Translate app is now available for the iPhone.


• The original Star Wars (Episode IV: A New Hope) as an iconoscope. (Although I suspect he made up that word, since iconoscope is an early TV camera tube.)


• EVERYTHING you ever wanted to know about Doctor Who but were too lazy to ask.


• A progress bar for your workday: myprogressbar.com.


• Custom-painted weapons.


• The Oatmeal chimes in with the 6 crappiest interview questions.


• 22 manly ways to reuse an Altoids tin.


• A selection from over the years of (their idea of) the 10 funniest Superbowl commercials.


• Bullet pens. (Click the "Check it Out" button after the article.)


• The piano case mod.


• Have your favorite Tweet engraved on a ring.


• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan done in 60 seconds.


• Featuring state-of-the-art special effects (and sound quality like it was shot in a basement) is the incredible trailer for The Amazing Bulk. Yeah, this is on my "must see" list.


• Lessons from 40 films in 7 minutes: Reel Wisdom. (Read his description.)


• They're annoying to remember, insecure, and costly for companies to administer. They're passwords.


• As electric vehicles become more popular, more problems will come to light. A rat ate my Chevy Volt.


• Stethoscope headphones.


• Google Planet apps are allowing armchair explorers to make discoveries: hundreds of archeological sites in Saudi Arabia, and lost city of Atlantis. Update: "Atlantis" is boat mapping lines.


• The coolest locksmith shop in New York City.


• Activision has officially cancelled DJ Hero and Guitar Hero.


• 30 years of videogame hair.


• Stop believing the TV and movie trope: the real truth about enhancing images.


• Retrospective of Bruce Timm superhero drawings.


• Relive (and smell like) your childhood with Play-Doh cologne.


• Did you know there is such a thing as indoor cycling gymnastics? Neither did I.


• Awesome new take on Star Wars posters.


• Forgotten Nintendo games of the 1980s.


• Class of 2011: If social media were a high school.


• Top 10 famous people who didn't actually exist.


• Four robbers with sledgehammers versus one old woman with a purse. (Crappy cellphone video, but awesome nonetheless.)


• The 20 most popular people on the internet.


• Dazzling collection of detailed breakaway diagrams of Star Trek bridges.


• St. Matthew Island, a cautionary tale.


• Viewing iPad user interfaces by the fingerprints left behind. (And for a so-called visual designer, could he make the text any =harder= to read?)


• Craigslisp. HA HA HA HA!


• Beer and pretzel marshmallows. Ok, not really, but close enough!


• Boston examines fighting potholes with an iPhone app that uses the device's GPS and accelerometers.


• Controversial French rent-a-girlfriend website is a big hit.


• Sharks (and a heron) fishing in The Maldives.


• "Time capsule" mansion opened after 100 years. (With photos.)


• The remote Irish island of Skellig Michael.


• World's largest jigsaw puzzle. That'll keep grandma busy for a while!


• Hey consultants, here's a site for you. Should I work for free?


• Trololo is so last year, unless you're on acid. Rainbow trololo.

Friday Game

It seems simple enough: using just the arrow keys, move your little guy around the rapidly-deconstructed island and survive for the allotted time period. Do you have what it takes to stay alive in Island Survival?

Getting Civil with Soldiers

Here's another unique-subject site. Every few days, he shows you a picture of a Civil War soldier (mostly officers) and links to their wikipedia page for more information. It all begins at the lightheartedly-named Let's Get Jiggy with Civil War Dudes.

Caption Contest

Julie Andrews was horrified when they found out her true identity.

The Same Age, Mentally

This site is a test. You're presented with a quote or description, and you have to decide (and, for fun, choose) whether it describes a Drunk or a Child. (So far, I'm about 50% correct.)

Caption Contest Winner

This week's winner is DK!

See the original image here.

Activity Corner

• I have a joke line I like for vegetarians: "Bacon is the gateway meat." NPR has published "Why Bacon is a Gateway to Meat for Vegetarians". (Full disclosure: I'm 99% vegetarian myself. Hell, look at my cooksperiments.)


• If you're worried about losing your expensive smartphone or tablet, you might be interested in this Bluetooth alarm.


• Do you have lots of old film-based photos? If you have the negatives, they're easy to convert to digital files with the iConvert scanner.


• The Arrested Development "Clue" board game.


• Top 10 trule badass saints.


• Cocktail recipes as infographics.


• The greatest sports pep talk mashup.


• The 100 best first lines from novels.


• Drinking water from ice cores.


• I previously linked to Axe Cop. Now there's Axe Cop: The Movie.


• 10 creepy plants that shouldn't exist.


• The octopus and the beer bottle.


• 30 Facebook ad parodies.


• You'll just have to play with the zombie tabernacle choir.


• Japanese girl explains Titanic.


• Improv Everywhere surprises New Yorkers with the worst ice skater ever.


• What would Neptune look like if it orbited Earth? (Watch it in fullscreen for best effect.)


• The seller calls it steampunk, but it looks like a Klingon smartphone stand.


• A greener way to brush your teeth, with the THIS toothbrush. (You have to wait a while for all the pics to load.)


• Star Trek Girl music video. Minus geek points for mixing series uniforms.


• The Space Battleship Yamamoto-inspired dance video.


• The movie alphabet.


• "J" is for James.


• Jury says it's OK to record the TSA.


• Infographic history of bacon.


• Battlestar Choclactica.


• The best of sexual harrassment stock photography.


• The "Little Red Riding Hood" action movie, REDD.


• The 12 worst Valentine's Day gifts ever.


• One-man band covers the Ren and Stimpy theme song.


• The infographic infographic.


• The Nicholas Cage matrix ranks all his movies.


• The alphabet of famous hairstyles.


• Tree octopus exposes internet illiteracy. (I bought one of the posters.)


• All the Ned Ryerson scenes from Groundhog Day.


• 7 myths Mythbusters proved that we still can't believe are true.


• If websites were TV shows.


• If you know your Simpsons, then you might recognize all the McBain clips stitched together to create McBain: The Movie.


• Finally! You can opt out of the Yellow Pages.


• What would your occupation be in the Star Wars universe? Find out with this Star Wars flowchart.


• Field goal kicker versus guys with shotguns.


• Blowing bubbles at -33F.


• WARNING NSFW! (No nudity, but you don't want your boss wondering what you're watching.) The dance of seduction. Seriously, this guy thinks he can dance? And I love the tan lines.


• Startled Smart.


• Regarding Beavis and Butt-Head's return to MTV: a rough guide for today's teens.


• At the aptly-named Overthinking It, there's an in-depth statistical analysis of Law & Order seasons 1-10.


• What is it about single women with cats? Single white feline.


• The difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain, and England explained.

Friday Game

How about a nice turn-based MMO that runs in your browser? Sign up on the site, complete the tutorial game, and then run as many or as few games as you like against real live people on the intartubes. It all begins at Space Cows from Outer Space. (Note: It doesn't seem to have anything to do with cows, as far as I can tell.)

Literal Views

Pictures normally capture reality, but sometimes that reality can literally be the photograph. If that sounds confusing, you'll quickly get the idea as you view the photos at Literal.ly.