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The Superbowl might be over, but it’s never too late to enjoy a party with some sweet Slurm and Bachelor Chow. To be fair, it’s not quite Slurm being as how it is not made from the butt of a giant slug, but it certainly looks more delicious than the original.
Via io9
You don’t speak binary? That’s okay. The bride-to-be explains what happened:
My boyfriend told me I had to close my laptop for a couple minutes, then when I logged back on this was posted to my facebook wall. He sat across the room as I transcribed and then decoded it. After about a half hour I found out it says, “Rachel, you are awesome. Will you marry me?” I said yes, of course :B
Marriages that are founded on ones and zeroes are the only ones that are stable and healthy because there’s no such thing as two.
-via Geekologie
In the bizarro version of Futurama it’s Zoidberg that does all the ass kicking. With rugged armor plates, vicious crab claws and a face scary enough to give Lanternfish nightmares, this alternate reality Doctor Zoidberg has a PhD in badassery and a Masters in post-apocalyptic fashion sense.
Link –image by Monstermash042 via Reddit
Why not Zoidberg? Zoidberg can keep your head warm. And moist, too! Just hold still for a moment.
Link | Photo: deviantART user knerdy knits
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Ashley Ringrose made this Futurama-inspired Mr. Potato Head. Surely we all have a Dr. Zoidberg in our lives. Or at least wish that we do.
Link -via Geek Crafts
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Tattoo by Jon L. of Big
Deluxe of Salt Lake City, Utah
I bet this won the Best Decapodian Icon tattoo of all time. Behold, the Virgin Zoidberg tattoo. Don't have one yourself? How toe-tappingly tragic! Link - via davelog
deviantART member Ray Lin composed stunningly realistic sculptures of four Futurama characters: Professor Farnsworth, Nibbler, Zoidberg, and Leela. It appears that he’s working on Zap Brannigan and Fry now. Which Futurama character would you like to see in clay?
Gallery Link -via Nerd Bastards
Every now and then a new app comes out that makes me wish I owned an iPhone and right now, Comedy Central’s new Head-In-A-Jar app has me really feeling that way. You can not only create a personalized head of yourself, you can make one of all of your friends and coworkers to set up your own head museum.
Link Via Laughing Squid
YouTube user GrandmaBird made this outstanding video that presents Futurama (specifically, the season 2 episode “The Lesser of Two Evils“) as an 80s-era Nintendo game. Quite properly, Bender scores points by stomping on popplers.
via Comics Alliance
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Another example of the winning combo of sci-fi geekdom and crochet in action! Behold the amigurumi Zoidberg(s) – the regular (red) one, and the Zoidberg from the parallel universe. Ohmigosh, they’re even holding the box.
New Craftster user Loefferst (I love finding new users!) came up with this design herself for an amigurumi Zoidberg from Futurama. She was also nice enough to share the pattern, so click through to see her post if you want to make your own. I’m in love with the teeny tiny felt clothes and accessories.
Link -via Mostly Nerdy Crochet
Craftster user zombiecakeses recently moved, and she made herself the coolest housewarming gift EVAR: Futurama coasters!
We just moved flats and it needs brightening up and some ‘geekery’ adding. So having found a new love of Hama beads a little while back and bf’s suggestion of Futurama based crafts, i came up with these:
Cartoonist Mark Anderson constructed the Robot Santa from the TV show Futurama out of Lego bricks! See lots more pictures at Andertoons. Link -Thanks, Mark!
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Etsy seller It’s a Stitch makes all sorts of crafts, but her embroidered items are special treats, such as the above Futurama-inspired piece. She’s also embroidered diagrams for popular chemical compounds, like caffeine.
I haven’t seen it yet, but apparently last night’s episode of Futurama required a mathematical formula to explain a plot element. Producer David X. Cohen is noted for leaving real mathematical statements on screen during the show and had a staff mathematician compose an original theorem for that episode:
In an APS News exclusive, Cohen reveals for the first time that in the 10th episode of the upcoming season, tentatively entitled “The Prisoner of Benda,” a theorem based on group theory was specifically written (and proven!) by staffer/PhD mathematician Ken Keeler to explain a plot twist. Cohen can’t help but chuckle at the irony: his television-writing rule is that entertainment trumps science, but in this special case, a mathematical theorem was penned for the sake of entertainment.
Link via Geekosystem | Image: Fox
Attention Futurama fans! How well do you really know the series? Can you name the 8 Greatest Futurama Minor Characters as listed by Geekosystem?
This one above is a gimme:
8. Hedonism Bot
This grape-loving, solid gold bon vivant (built with taxpayer money, of course) is a decadent, vomiting opera patron, and he has no regrets. Interesting tidbit from Infosphere: “In the season three commentary, Matt Groening points out the importance of the name being hedonism bot and not hedonist bot – he is not only hedonist, he is the actual personification of hedonism.”
Bouletcorp has come up with this entertaining illustration of Futurama if it was done in the style of one of acclaimed director Hayao Miyazaki’s films (Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, Ponyo).
Link (some NSFW text) via /Film
Etsy seller ScavengingWoodrats (a name I love) crochets these cute little brain slugs you’ve seen in the TV series Futurama! They are mounted on a thin headband to secure them in place. Available in two sizes. Link -via The Daily What
Comments Off On this date in 1939, the New York World’s fair opened. One of the exhibits was a ride called Futurama, sponsored by General Motors. Visitors got a glimpse of what life would be like in 1960, particularly the vision of an interstate highway system and urban planning. Separation of industrial, commercial, farmland, and residential areas were presented as an admirable goal. Curiously, new highways bypassing the slums was proposed as preferable to improving those neighborhoods. Read more about Futurama and Futurama II (at the 1964 World’s Fair) at Wired. Link -via Metafilter
If you love Futurama, then you’ll certainly appreciate these adorably gross brain slug cupcakes. Just hope they don’t take over your mind after you eat them.
Flickr Link Via Craftzine
Bea Arthur (1922-2009) - YouTube user Sassyornek created a fantastic tribute
to Bea, check it out here: Link
(Photo: Lifetime Intimate Portrait)
Tony- and Emmy-winning actress and comedian Bea Arthur has died. Though she is best known as Dorothy Zbornak on the 80's television sitcom The Golden Girls, her career actually spanned seven decades.
To celebrate the life and career of Bea Arthur, let's take a look at 5 Things About Bea Arthur You Didn't Know:
1. Bea Arthur Was a Marine
Before World War II, Bea was a medical technician. She volunteered to
join the US Marine Corps, becoming one of its first female recruits. (Source)
2. Bea Arthur Got Her Start in Comedy by Being a Lounge Singer
In an interview, Bea said that when she got up on stage to sign a torch
song, the audience laughed at her because of her deep voice and height.
The nightclub manager told her that she was in the wrong business being
a lounge singer, and that she should be doing comedy instead. (Source)
But Bea can sure can sing. Here's a clip of her singing "What'll I Do?" from The Golden Girls' episode Journey to the Center of Attention:
3. Bea Arthur Never Had a Star on the Walk of Fame
Bea was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame a few months ago, but
she never had a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. A travesty!
She may have a shot yet, you can nominate someone for a Walk of Fame Star, but you'd have to wait five years first for a posthumous nomination.
4. Bea Arthur was in The Star Wars Holiday Special
She sang as Ackmena, the nightshift bartender in Chalmun's Cantina in
Tatooine, in the much-maligned Star Wars Holiday Special of 1978.
5. Bea Arthur was the Femputer
Watch the Hulu clip at IMDb: Death
by Snu Snu
In the 2001 Futurama episode, Amazon Women in the Mood, Bea was the voice of the Femputer, the leader of the man-hatin' tribe of Amazonian women. Bea has left us, but we can still hear her sentence Fry and friends to "death by snu-snu" over and over again.
Bea Arthur, rest in peace. You shall be missed.
Update 10/19/09 – Here’s the last interview Bea Arthur did: Link [YouTube] – Thanks Stephen!
