Randomness for 12/21

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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.

6) Worse than the bedmonster.

7) Scene from THERE WILL BE BLOOD with gaze locations: Video. Via Rod Ramsey.

Randomness for 12/13

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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.

7) One does not simply walk into Mordor.

Randomness for 12/5

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1) 5 Logical Fallacies That Make You Wrong More Than You Think

2) Awkward Christmas Photos.

3) Before and after Photoshop. (Hit the Toggle button)

4) Scholasticism of the Seventies.

5) Texts from Bennett. Hoh. Lee. Crap. via @laura_hudson

6) Skyrim reimagined as a Saturday morning cartoon in the 80’s. Video

7) Worst Nativity Sets. So many bad choices here, it’s tough to single out just one. Naked trolls? Bacon and sausage? Mexican mermaids? Damn, that doesn’t even scratch the surface.

Randomness for 11/19

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1) Ten Ridiculous Reasons To Call 911

2) Teens getting drunk on vodka-soaked tampons shoved up their nethers, aka “butt chugging”. I call bullshit on this.

3) A tasteless Christmas gift for the tasteless boozehounds in your life.

4) 16 Unsettling Photos of Twilight Fans. Number four is disturbing as hell.

5) Thirteen Images from National Geographic’s Photo Contest.

6) via Ta Nahisi Coates: Mayor Bloomberg’s long history of cracking down on the exercise of First Amendment rights.

7) The 25 Best Entries for Damn You, Autocorrect in 2011. via mizkit

Question: How are you planning to celebrate World Toilet Day today?

Randomness for 10/25

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1) A big list of fantastic stop motion movies. Whoa.

2) “FIGHT ME” Video. Pretty funny stuff.

3) Elementary school kids explain computers, from 1984. Video.

4) Halloween house lights that will amaze you. Video.

5) A vampire identification chart.

6) The site calls this list “The Ten Happiest Jobs” but it really shows ten jobs that make people happiest.

7) Rebranding Hell.

Randomness for 10/19

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1) We are the 1%, bitches.

2) The tragedy series.

3) Infographic political statements on your legal tender.

4) How taxing is it to run in heavy armor?

5) The world’s largest rooftop farm is in New York.

6) Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from a Discreet Distance.

7) The Dungeons and Dragons Coloring Book from 1979. These images are perfectly sized for printing. Just sayin’.

Randomness for 10/13

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1) What it’s like to work on a show in trouble.

2) Saveur magazine invites comix artists to write and draw their favorite recipes. Wonderful.

3) Cameos carved in Oreo cookies.

4) Cat vs. Hairdryer. Video.

5) Six big economic myths, debunked.

6) Super-rich superheroes (and villains) are the 1%!

7) TV/movie starships, to scale.

Randomness for 9/4

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1) A visual compendium of notable haircuts in popular music.

2) The origins of Superman’s villains, done in the style of Little Nemo In Slumberland>.

3) Amazing manhole covers in Japan.

4) Lord of the Rings in Lego (via Rose Fox)

5) The Silmarillion, bound and illustrated by hand.

6) The many difficult decisions around crossing a street in Los Angeles.

7) “There is widespread belief in a warm and comforting story which states the horse is a gentle herbivore.” From the description of Deadly Equines: The Shocking True Story of Meat-Eating and Murderous Horses by CuChullaine O’Reilly (seen via Ray Radlein)

Randomness for 8/20

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1) Interview of a One-Year-Old Child. Video. Way funnier than it sounds.

2) Moebius did concept art for the movie WILLOW. Check out the art design that could have been.

3) Astonishing bike stunts in abandoned industrial facility. Video. Music’s nice, too.

4) Better Book Titles.

5) Everything you need to know about the video game industry in one graphic.

6) The 10 Most Brutal Moments in ‘The Savage Sword of Conan’!

7) A steampunk apartment.

Randomness for 8/12

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1) Obscure names for 25 Everyday Things.

2) Ten things you didn’t know about the original Star Trek.

3) How Terry Gilliam did his cut out animations. Video.

4) The 16-bit Game of Thrones RPG (not really, but hilarious) Video.

5) How nightclub bouncers decide who to let in with only a glance.

6) Looking for a new status purchase to impress the gold-diggers in your life? Why not diamond-encrusted contact lenses?

7) JAWS done in the style of Peanuts.