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The Kings of Geek Metal, Powerglove, are back with another Batman related redux. This time around, they’re tackling the theme song to the animated series, and rocking it harder than it’s ever been rocked before! Check out the video, complete with classic video game graphics and the guys decked out in their most metal attire. It’s hilarious, and worthy of headbanging along to, but be warned-listening to Powerglove may lead to embarrassing moments in your own rock history!

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Phil Johnson, a homeowner in New Zealand, has put a rock up for sale. The rock found its way to his home during the recent earthquake in the Christchurch area.

For sale 1 owner 25 – 30 tonne landscape feature (answers to the name Rocky) …

He is in pristine condition (just a little bit of concrete dust). Suitable for garden feature, or as in our case a magnificent addition to your living area.

Rocky will enhance your “indoor outdoor” flow considerably, especially if you load him in through the garage roof like we did.

The other pictures at the auction site are just as interesting. The Q&A section is priceless! Humor aside, the proceeds from this particular auction go to the Christchurch Earthquake Relief Fund. The current bid is $8,000. Link -Thanks, Phil Fahey!

Of course, the rock itself did not come here by itself, the legend says. Long time ago there lived a hero here called Bökebilig (“Strong and wise”). Suddenly a large snake started to come out from under the earth. Bökebilig did not like this, and he pushed back the snake from where it came, and then he closed the mouth of its cave with this rock which has been standing here ever since. Not far from the rock there is a small mountain called Altan sandali (“Golden throne”), of which tradition says that Bökebilig took a rest on it, while washing his hands in the nearby Tamir river.

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Why play boring old hand games like rock-paper-scissors, and lame derivatives, when there is another game that includes the awesomeness of pirates, ninjas and robots?  

Here is the new version of rock-paper-scissors, or rochambeau, as it is sometimes known. As you can see from the schematic below, each thing can beat two other things, and is, in turn beaten by two other things.

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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by drtundra.

Shoot Me With Some Sweet Tunes

When you think about it, it’s not all too surprising that killer rock is sometimes performed on gun-shaped guitars –after all, many guitarists love to take on a tough guy persona. This gun guitar seems a little fantastical with the crazy sight piece at the top, but it would certainly make an excellent souvenir for anyone visiting Japan with an extra 80,000 yen in their pockets.

With its shotgun design, this designer guitar by Doc George Oates is decidedly more all-American. Is it just me, or does it seem like Ted Nugent needs this thing?

When you need a gun guitar that could actually harm someone though, it’s all about the flame-thrower guitar that was used by Kane Robert while he played with Alice Cooper. This bad boy was shaped like an M-60 machine gun and at one point, it even hit Alice Cooper with a ball of flames while on stage.

Images via Gizmodo, Doc George Oats, and FoundryMusic

Let Me Ax You’re a Question About These Axes

It’s admittedly cheesy to constantly refer to your guitar as an “axe,” but what about when your guitar actually is an axe? The Gizmodo writer who discovered the Japanese gun guitar also found this glorious Gundam axe guitar.

If you prefer realism though, there’s no beating Gene Simmons’ classic axe guitar. These signed collector items fetch quite a sum these days because less than 500 are said to be in existence.

Images via Gizmodo and Ed Roman Guitars

How Many Ways Can You “Play” A Guitar?

On the complete opposite end of the cool spectrum lie these guitars that look like they would be bigger amongst the Devo crowd than the Slash fans. Whether you prefer Sega or Nintendo is a matter of personal preference, but both of these geek guitars are pretty gosh-darn great.

Images via Kotaku and Cool Buzz

More Geektastic Guitars

When it comes to geeky guitars though, videogame consoles are by no means the end-all-be-all of this specific genre. In fact, both this steampunk guitar and this Lego guitar are sure to strike a chord with any futuristic voyagers.

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The Not So Tiny Little Teenar

If those guitars aren’t outlandish enough for you, then maybe the Teenar girl guitar is enough for you. Inventor Lou Reimuller created this creepy monstrosity that can be played with only a tiny tilt.

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Beautifully Backwards Bass

This two string bass is possibly even more visually striking than the creepy girl guitar only because it’s the exact opposite of what you would expect to see in a bass. It’s played by Stig Pederson in the Danish band D-A-D.

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Dressing Up Your Inner Rocker

Sometimes though, the coolest guitars are those that aren’t technically guitars, like this amazingly rocktastic shirt actually plays cords and strums.

Image via ThinkGeek

Unusable Unusual Guitars

The guitar shape is cool enough that sometimes just the icon is enough to provide for a rocking design. Take, for example, this awesome motorized guitar boat by Australian musician Josh Pyke.

Neatorama readers though will probably appreciate this nanoguitar that’s only 10 microns long and is made with one single crystal of silicon.

For those that think bigger is better though, why not enjoy the 43 and a half feet long World’s Largest Guitar that’s still playable –if you live up a beanstalk. It was made by school students and set a Guinness Book of World Records in 2000.

Images via Daily Mail, Lutherie and Gizmodo

I was surprised to learn that John Denver’s hit “Sunshine on My Shoulders” was conceived for a made-for-TV movie.

The feature was called Sunshine, and was a character study based on a real-life journal excerpted in the Los Angeles Times. It told the story of a terminal cancer case: a nonestablishment couple and the doctor who tried to save the young woman. CBS drew high ratings when they aired the film on November 9, 1973.

The soundtrack version was re-recorded in time for Denver’s greatest hits album, and became his first number one hit.  For my money, his best song will always be “Rocky Mountain High.”

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A rock named Blue Genesis was brought back from the moon by Apollo 16, the final moon mission, in 1972. Moon rocks remain rare and precious for that a single reason – because we never went back for more.

The astronauts brought it and 200 pounds of other rocks back to Earth as the bounty from Apollo 16. At the Lunar Receiving Laboratory in Houston, scientists ascertained that Blue Genesis, as it was once called, weighed 12 pounds, and they cut it to pieces to send out for study. Geologists estimate that it could be 4.23 billion years old.

Since 1981, a sliver of that rock has resided like a wedge of old cheese — a light gray speckled filling inside a dark rind — at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan.

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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by healthylivinggal83.

How do I make a dove cry? Hmmm…thank goodness for this helpful flow chart. Of course, maybe you have other burning questions, like “what percentage of boys were brought to the yard by respective milkshakes?” Finally, your pop music questions can be answered in easy visual charts and graphs.

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