1) The Periodic Table of Super Powers.
2) It’s Downton Abbey for Super Nintendo!
3) Leeroy Jenkins: the short film. Video.
4) The best way to eat from a Chinese takeout box. Video.
5) Dorothy Parker’s telegram to her editor.
7) Yes, of course you’re sick of Gangam Style. But have you seen it done as flip-book animation? Video.
Bonus! Chicago comedian Joe Kwaczala got himself banned from OKCupid with this profile. This is funny as hell. Seriously.
1) The 50 Worst Columns of 2012. So many trainwrecks.
2) What would cities look like without light pollution? h/t Richard Kadrey
3) Outtakes for ST:TNG Season 2. Video.
4) Politics in 2012, in graphs and gifs.
5) WW2: Full of ridiculous plot holes. h/t James Nicoll
6) The lowest-grossing theatrical release of 2012 goes to Christian Slater’s latest. It was a one-week release, though, and averaged more than “The Oogieloves in the BIG Balloon Adventure.”
7) Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil. An oldie but a goodie.
1) The largest iceberg break-up ever filmed. Video. Pretty amazing.
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13 Little-Known Punctuation Marks We Should Be Using.
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10 episodes that show how Buffy The Vampire Slayer blew up genre TV.
4) The Best/Worst Media Errors and Corrections in 2012. Mostly English language, of course.
5) The Five Most Disruptive Technologies of 2012.
6) Stephen King takes writing questions from writing students. Video.
7) Winning photos from this year’s Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition
As per annual tradition, here’s the full version of Chuck Jones’s 1971 animated adaptation. It’s got more ghosts per frame than pretty much any version, and my favorite Marley ever.
Plus it’s stylish as hell.
Stupid iframe embedding had better work, but if it doesn’t you can watch it on YouTube.
1) The Avengers in 15 minutes. <-- FUNNY 2) The best Google search term ever.
3) To celebrate their 50th anniversary, Lego has created a life-size forest. via bedii
4) Superhero Economics: The Batman v Spider-man
5) Non-Euclidean Legos! Very cool.
I mean, seriously. I liked it from the first episode. So how happy was I to see the Twenty Palaces books listed on io9.com as books that could fill the void. Money quote:
Basically, if you want a series that’s entirely based on the storyline about Angel going to work at Wolfram & Hart, this might be the closest you’ll get in book form.
As you might expect, the sales rank on Amazon for Child of Fire improved by quite a bit, although they’re returned to normal now. I’m also getting brand new 2-star reviews, a 5-star review that suggests the books would be perfect for “An urban fantasy fan who loves death”, and a mini-surge in sales of the prequel (although that’s still declining).
It’s nice to know folks are still finding the books. It won’t change the status of the series by any degree, but a high profile recommendation is a high profile recommendation.
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) A history of the McFarlane/Gaiman Miracleman lawsuit.
2) Trompe l’oeil graffiti vanishes Egyptian military barrier
3) A working scientific calculator, built from Minecraft blocks.
4) Two words: Explosive. Polymerization. (Video)
5) Eight “forgotten” live-action children’s shows from the eighties. I doubt “Small Wonder” has been forgotten, but “My Secret Identity” is the only other one I remember (but I’m a bit old for this time period)
6) Heroic Goofballs: Aardman takes on DC. Video
7) An infographic showing the last words of executed inmates in Texas.
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.
