Aliens vs. Predator trailer

The new Aliens vs. Predator (vs. Colonial Marines) game looks pretty good in this trailer. Via.

*Previously: Xenomorph dog.

*Buy Alien toys at eBay.

Video shows how Burton snowboards are made (link roundup)

Video shows how Burton snowboards are made and also gives a glimpse of the rapid prototyping machine. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Nintendo already has a new DSi with larger screen on the way. Which doesn't change the fact that despite all the DSs it's sold, interesting games come out once a year at best.

2. Nuclear reactors occur in nature. Via.

3. Many-limbed bagpipe player.

*Previously: Snowboarder paper toys.

*Buy snowboards at eBay.

Creepy robot girl

This is Miimu, a singing robot by AIST. Via.

*Previously: Robot park in Japan.

*Buy Ghost in the Shell toys at eBay.

Mythbusters flu PSA

Funny ad by the Mythbusters guys uses a memorable image to relay a simple message. There's also a Mythbusters minisite about H1N1.

*Previously: When you have unprotected sex, you're sleeping with Hitler.

*Buy surgical masks at Amazon.

Video of three cats playing tug of war with a steak (link roundup)

Or as the video is titled, "Three cats, one steak." Via.

And a few more links:

1. Here's a funny way to make peace with a string of bad luck in the lab - - it's someone from the future messing with you because your experiment, if completed, would destroy the world. (Link includes photo of the doomsday weapon at issue.)

2. I don't know what this means, but it sounds interesting: "The edge of the solar system is tied up with a ribbon, astronomers have discovered."

3. I don't know what constitutes a "memory" in a fly's brain, but apparently scientists can implant fake ones.

(Links found via various people I follow at Twitter.)

*Previously: Funny experiment testing people's memory.

*Buy time machines at eBay.

Beauty and the Beast on Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live gives an adult twist to Disney's version of Beauty and the Beast (NSFW language). Via.

*Previously: Beauty and the Beast in an ad for jeans.

*Buy Beauty and the Beast toys at eBay.

Video of an anvil being shot 200 feet in the air (link roundup)

Fast forward to 1:15 or so. The video is infinitely more fun than the unwatchably boring Mythbusters clone Man vs. Cartoon. Via.

And a few more links:

1. The Washington Redskins are selling beer in the bathrooms now? Via.

2. This warning sign makes it almost impossible to resist turning the switch.

3. Move over McDonald's, this church marquee keeps track of souls saved.

*Previously: Frozen Beer-On-A-Stick Sells Like Hotcakes.

*Buy Wile E. Coyote toys at eBay.

New trailer for The Wolfman

Victorian action plus a guitar rock soundtrack in the new The Wolfman trailer. Via.

*Previously: Phases of the mooned.

*Buy werewolf toys at eBay.

John Elway to replace Kiefer Sutherland on 24

Just kidding, but that is John Elway and his disco collar starring in "The 8 Signs of Terrorism," a video created by the Center for Empowered Living & Learning, i.e., CELL. Via.

*Previously: The CIA's "Terrorism Buster" Logo.

*Buy NFL bobbleheads at eBay.

Unsettling animation from Graham Annable

Graham Annable has a knack for creating unsettling animation. This one is called Principal Skeleton. Graham has various prints on sale here.

*Previously: The Hidden People by Annable.

*Buy Day of the Dead art at eBay.

A milky space opera

Battle for Milkquarious is a rock opera that follows White Gold on his quest to rescue Strawberry Summers, the hottest girl in the galaxy, and get his stolen milk back. Along the way, he's aided by a winged unicorn cow.

Here's one trailer:



Here's another



Here's the lovebirds singing Almost as Beautiful as Me (which so help me, I like):



And here's details on a contest, inviting people to film their own homages


You can see more at the official site.

*Previously: Empty milk jugs cut and decorated to look like Stormtrooper helmets.

*Buy Barbarella posters at eBay.

HSN host breaks TV while demonstrating Wii peripheral

To promote a $329 set of Wiimote attachments (!), an HSN host played Wii Tennis a little too vigorously and hurled the attachment he was promoting right into the TV, breaking the screen (the magic happens five minutes in). Even though they've just demonstrated what a bad idea the attachments are, the hosts don't miss a beat and continue shamelessly promoting the product. Via.

*Previously: Video of Dirty Jobs' Mike Rowe in his early days as a QVC salesman.

*Wii Fit Plus is $20 at Amazon.

The French Spider-Man scales a skyscraper

On October 8, 2009, Alain Robert, the French Spider-Man, free-climbed the Ariane skyscraper in Paris. That first photo is reporters waiting for him to arrive at the building. Via.

*Previously: Skyscraper Airport of Tomorrow.

*Buy mountain climbing equipment at Amazon.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar embarrasses himself on Jeopardy

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (who went to UCLA) got the opportunity to answer an easy question about Bill Walton (another UCLA center). Yet somehow Kareem got confused by the question and gave his own name as the answer...even though he never played for the Trailblazers.

*Previously: "The Jeopardy! Google Daily Challenge Sweepstakes."

*Buy NBA bobbleheads at eBay.

Two-lane split (link roundup)

Nice trick bowling shot.

And a few more links:

1. Darth Nihilus sketch.

2. There's now a McDonald's at the Louvre. Increasingly, there's less and less of a reason to go anywhere on vacation.

3. Sunday October 4 was Washington's annual Red Mass, "which celebrates the legal profession," is scheduled just before the start of the Supreme Court's term, and is typically attended by many justices and other VIPs. (I tellya, no one does branding better than the Catholic church. Who could not be interested in something called The Red Mass?") Via.

*Previously: Catholic Coloring Books.

*Buy Darth Nihilus toys at eBay.

The agony and the ecstasy of being a squid

Isabella Rossellini stars as a squid on one of the new episodes of Green Porno. (No, she's not having sex in that particular shot.) The series is also now available as a book. Here's one more shot of Isabella as a anglerfish:



The book and DVD are $16 at Amazon.

*Previously: Lego Anglerfish submarine.

*Buy squid toys at eBay.

Watch a feather and hammer drop on the moon (link roundup)

Watch what happened when astronaut David Scott dropped a feather and hammer on the moon. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Matrix themed outfits for bride and groom; cake toppers, also.

2. Image of Super Typhoon Melor (which was headed toward Japan at the time I wrote this).

3. CBS is apparently trying to use remove copies of Letterman's confession from Youtube. Via.

*Previously: Concept art for Matrix Revolutions.

*Buy Matrix toys at eBay.

Timberland Delirium ad

A man adrift at sea is tormented by visions of his girlfriend, a giant octopus, and his daughter in this ad by Leagas Delaney. Thank god he's wearing his Timberland Earthkeepers.



Here's an article about Timberland, circa 1997. At least at the time, Timberland employees Timberland's employees received 40 hours paid leave every year to pursue volunteer projects.

And finally, speaking of giant octopii, Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus delivered the goods, including the shark eating the Golden Gate Bridge, and the octopus knocking a fighter jet out of the sky. And Debby Gibson sleeping with a fellow scientist in a janitor's closet.

*Previously: Watching black and white television as a child causes people to dream in black and white.

*Buy giant octopus toys at Amazon.