1) The best of the worst of online fashion.
2) Horrible things donated to Goodwill. Absolutely NSFW.
3) Exposed to D&D Early in Life? A flowchart
4) Fan-made “Bella’s womb” made of felt. Of course it has a mutant fetus inside. Of course it does.
5) Japanese skater does parkour with his board. Video. Pretty amazing.
6) Camping tents that look like food. Call me when they make a tent that looks like something a bear wouldn’t want to bite.
1) Deleted for potential malware. Try this instead: Westeros in Minecraft: Video.
2) Motherfucking Bike: Music video for the lol. My wife and I are/have been bike commuters, but we have never done anything like these guys, I swear.
3) My Little Golden Book About ZOGG
4) LED light gives off more energy in photons than it takes in as electrons. I don’t *really* understand this, but I’m pretty sure it means I’ll be getting a lightsaber soon.
5) Toy Shining “Heeeeerrre’s Woody!” via Keith Brunkard
6) 19 Really Bad Family Feud Answers.
7) Hunger Names.
1) United Artists’ Rejection Letter for STAR WARS. via @rodramsey
2) The Internet Justice League
4) Finally, a lit contest I can care about: 2011’s Oddest Book Titles of the Year. I’m rooting for the chicken sexer.
5) Why do innocent people confess to crimes they haven’t committed?
6) Against Big Bird, The Gods Themselves Contend in Vain. Big Bird wrests celestial justice from an Egyptian god in a Sesame Street special. For real.
7) A prosecutor and cartoonist creates A Criminal Lawyer’s Illustrated Guide to Crime.
1) Author Jim Hines matches the poses of women on urban fantasy covers.
2) Read this fantastic metafilter comment about libraries.
3) Twelve Creative Business Cards
4) The setting of Word of Warcraft recreated in Minecraft.
5) Comics need fewer creators and more owners.
6) How Pilot Season ensures that the right actors aren’t cast in the right TV show. Via
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
I don’t even.
1) 20 Amazingly Weird Pieces of Classic Video Game Box Art.
2) AZ school officials ban “ethnic studies.” No racism here, folks, just move along.
3) What a comic script is for, by Warren Ellis
4) Cop or Soldier? I could only get 12 out of 21. Can you do better?
5) Meljean Brooks’s Diary of an Author Reader, I LOLed.
6) A comic script, from conception to finished product.
7) A funny video about breast cancer self examinations. No, really. Also features hot dudes with their shirts off. Video. Via +Kat Richardson
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.