1) The 37 Saddest Failed Kickstarters.
2) Top 10 banned or censured rpg products.
3) Six Common Movie Arguments That Are Always Wrong.
4) Greatest. Romance novel cover. Ever.
5) How much damage did the Chitauri do to NYC?
6) Where do the Avengers eat Shawarma? (Actual location for that shoot)
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This would be an opportunity to show some diversity in their characters, if that’s your thing.
1) Notch, creator of Minecraft, is planning a new “hard science fiction” space exploration game. Sadly for James Nicoll, the early promotional materials mention a cloaking device.
4) Top 10 Dying Industries in the United States.
5) If Darth Vader had been a good father.
6) Nazis hire official lobbyist to lobby Congress.
7) Murals in Minneapolis that will soon face the wrecking ball.
1) A webcomic appreciation of Doctor Who. via @sinboy
2) The invasive species diet. I don’t care how much good it does for the planet, I’m not eating nutria.
3) The Dalek Relaxation Tape. Video.
4) Worst Album Covers Ever. Some of these are NSFW.
5) It’s Official: Star Wars Kinect Is the Worst Star Wars Thing Ever. I don’t know. To me, a little silliness if just fine.
6) D&D: The Important Questions
7) Awesome animated gifs. No, seriously for real.
1) Former ‘Static Shock’ Writer John Rozum on ‘What was Really Going on Behind the Scenes’.
2) Harry Potter and the Chinese Bootleg Subtitles.
3) Classic depictions of Venus Photoshopped to make her thinner.
4) This karate rap is even worse than you expect. Video.
5) A scented candle for ebook haters.
6) How to use a women’s urinal. “I am convinced that women could pee standing up, with the same accuracy as a man (which means, what, 90% accuracy?), if they practiced as often as men do.” Via @ccfinlay
1) Rick Santorum quotes as New Yorker cartoons.
2) The 50 most brilliant, obnoxious, or delightfully sociopathic Facebook posts of 2011.
3) The TSA’s biggest success stories of 2011, and what it means.
5) War Horse: An Illustrated Review
6) Charles Stross makes some predictions for the future. This worked out so well for Heinlein…
7) 10 Stubborn Body Myths That Just Won’t Die, Debunked by Science
3) New Zealand orcas attack great white sharks in the shallows, driving one onto the beach. Video.
4) Best of Literally Unbelievable for 2011. Part 1. Part 2.
6) Need a dedicated writing space? Live in Chicago. Check it out.
1) Massive 1,100+ year old Maya site discovered in Georgia’s mountains Or maybe not?
2) Do the FAA’s assertions about ebook reading during take off and landing stand up to scrutiny?
3) Images from one of the most remote and remarkable landscapes on Earth: Dallol Volcanic Crater.
4) Area 51 Alien Travel Center: a soon-to-be-built sci-fi themed brothel in Nevada. Finally, we know what will empty the last few regulars from rec.arts.sf. Anyway, I wonder if building codes will require the vats be installed on the first floor.
5) How to deal with slow walkers. Video.
6) Instead of helping you defeat an alien brood queen, this exoskeleton simulates the effects of old age for young people.
1) How to make your own chocolate D&D dice.
2) The Invisible Mother in Victorian photographs.
3) Best Christmas Webcomic Ever: “Poop us some candy, poop man!”
4) I love light shows projected onto buildings, and this one is especially good. Video.
5) The Great Successor Is Right Over Here You Guys.
7) Scene from THERE WILL BE BLOOD with gaze locations: Video. Via Rod Ramsey.
1) Children’s drawings painted realistically.
2) Sketchy bunnies. To each and every screaming child in those pictures I say: Kid, I am on your side.
3) The Ten Most-Watched YouTube Videos Of All Time. I’ve seen exactly one of them (the one about Charlie).
4) Rules of 50 Magical Systems In Convenient Chart Form
5) Robot Monsters With Breasts! Screenwriter and low budget film aficionado Bill Martell on two of the weirdest movies he’s ever seen.
6) 13 Punctuation marks you didn’t know existed. Actually, you know some of these, but probably not all.