Toronto, Ontario boasts an extremely low crime rate, so the presence of a Neighbourhood Watch is quite effective in helping manage the slew of petty crimes that happen across the city, even more so now that heroes like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Spider-Man have joined the watch.

But have these heroes actually joined up as indicated by their presence on neighborhood watch street signs across the city, or is this the work of some nefarious jokester?

Actually, they're the appropriated works of Andrew Lamb, who felt the signs made more of an impact with some superheroic pop culture icons added to them.

Will his signs make an impact on crime? Maybe not, but you can bet vampires will think twice about touring Toronto with a stake wielding Buffy watching over the city!

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Jeremy grew up with his grandparents in a remote area without a reliable TV signal. He is 19 now, and recently watched the original Star Wars trilogy for the first time. Oh, he knew some things about it, but was too young to experience the movie hype and never saw it at his parents’ insistence like so many of his peers. He blogs about his experience at Some Wonderful Kind of Noise. For each of the movies, he makes predictions, then records notes during the viewing, then writes a recap. Reading through it is like going back to the first time you saw Star Wars.

This says Episode IV. I am confusion. And we're reading! The evil galactic empire, so I was right!

Oh cool, we have letters of transit. Or will this be more significant? Also clearly DEATH STAR is meant to be in all caps so we're doing that.

I'm missing like half of this because awesome music. Rewinding to catch it all.

Already stoked and nothing is happnSHIP LASERS

Dear god, do you have enough ship there? There's an underdog message in all this, I'm sure of it

Robots!

One talks, one doesn't Alright then

White robots! The Empire

You’ll want to read the whole thing in order (reversed in this archive). The revelation of Vader’s relationship to Luke was particularly hard on Jeremy. You’ll be glad to know that after he wrapped up the trilogy this past weekend, he did not go on to the prequels. Yesterday he watched The Princess Bride for the first time. -via Metafilter

Skaters know that breaking your deck, or dozens of decks depending on how hard you grind, is an inevitable part of the pastime.

But what do you do with all those broken wooden boards? Some keep them as a record of their skateboarding adventures, but one radical dude named Derek Keenan has come up with a totally gnarly way to recycle those busted decks- he created a large AT-AT sculpture out of the wreckage.

Derek created this incredibly cool wooden AT-AT for an art show put on by Vans shoes and Santa Cruz Skateboards to promote their new Star Wars themed lines, complete with an $1980 price tag that only a Sith lord can afford!

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RJ Mitte, who played Walt Junior in the TV series Breaking Bad, has a heartfelt Fathers Day tribute to his TV dad Walter White. This just goes to show that you can find something good to say about anyone if you dig deep enough. If you are trying to avoid spoilers for Breaking Bad after all this time, you may want to skip this video. Now if we can only get Peter Dinklage to do a tribute to his TV father! -via Uproxx

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Teen Titans Go! is a currently airing television series on Cartoon Network. It's a comedic spin-off of the DC Comics superhero series Teen Titans. In a recent episode, the characters turned into puppets. Rather than animate them as such, the directors commissioned the construction of actual puppets. You can see more pictures of them here. Embedded below is a scene from the puppet incident.

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For some reason the bootleggers who made these painfully fake DVDs, and assorted pop culture themed merchandise, didn’t bother with silly things like realism or authenticity, they didn’t even bother getting the names right on most of these “unofficial” releases.

Who wouldn’t want to watch a show called Break So Bad, featuring a shrugging Walter White that looks suspiciously like the dad Hal from Malcolm in the Middle? How about Game of Thrones featuring a guest appearance by Thor?

Explore all the bad this collection of Blatantly Bogo Bootlegs has to offer, brought to you by the comedy minded folks at The Soup.

The Star Trek universe is home to some seriously badass villains like the assimilating Borgs, the fierce warrior Klingons and the treacherous Romulans, but for every worthy adversary the Federation faces there are many far less intimidating foes facing Starship crews from the Enterprise and beyond.

In fact, the Star Trek universe is home to some of the most ridiculous villains to ever grace the small screen. Remember those fornicating fuzzballs the Tribbles? Well, they only made this list of The Top 10 Least Threatening Star Trek Villains thanks to a reader comment, but the villains who made the list are no less hoaky, and not much more intimidating, than those terrible Tribbles.

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Game of Thrones is such a totally righteous show that no soundtrack has ever been gnarly enough to properly match the show…until now.

Thanks to the musical efforts of Greig Stewart, aka Theremin Hero, and his fancy 8-bit NESKeytar everybody’s favorite show starring Hodor finally has the shredding opening credit theme it deserves, now with more lasers!

Greig’s amazing hacked instrument, made out of an NES and a Guitar Hero controller among other components, may make a sound that doesn’t appeal to those who don’t dig chiptunes, but it really is a wonder in its own right:

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When you watch a modern movie trailer, you are seeing the very best scenes in the movie. So why go watch the whole movie? The trailer producers think they are putting one over on us, and implying that the entire movie is this good. Whether you see through that or not, they tend to give away too much of the plot while they’re at it. Glove and Boots gives us an example in the movie The Empire Strikes Back, and show us what a modern-day trailer for the film would be like. A couple of minutes later, I feel like I just sat through the whole movie (again). -via Pleated-Jeans

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Being Kryptonian and having access to yellow sunlight gives Superman his super powers. But he wouldn't be as strong or as fast if he didn't stay in shape. And he certainly wouldn't look as good in that skin-light leotard. If he wants to keep Lois Lane eyeing him, that's important.

The 1984 film Ghostbusters was released nationwide 30 years ago today. We know now what a global blockbuster it became, but at the time it was far from a guaranteed hit. A big budget special effects comedy? No one in Hollywood had heard of such a thing. Sure, it had the guys from SNL, who’d already shown their talents in Animal House, Caddyshack, The Blues Brothers, and Stripes, but compared to the Ghostbusters project those movies cost next to nothing to produce.

One of the leads for whom the script was written unceremoniously died of a drug overdose. The screenplay called for scores of special effects, and the major effects operations in town were tied up with other projects. To top it off, the Ghostbusters team was given a mere year to re-write, shoot, and edit the movie—even though none of the principals had ever attempted a project of that scale before. “The wisdom in town was that I had made a terrible mistake,” says former Columbia chairman Frank Price, who greenlighted the project.

The story of how Ghostbusters ever got made is a saga in itself. Bill Murray didn’t commit until the last minute, the script was re-written over and over, John Beushi died, John Candy didn’t work out, and all the special effects studios were busy with Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies. But somehow the supernatural special effects comedy Ghostbusters got made. Dan Aykroyd and Ivan Reitman tell the story in an article at Vanity Fair. -via reddit

Here’s one of the latest scientific “discovery” stories which will make you shrug and say “okay then science”- scientists have trained microbes to act out classic 80s video games like Pac-Man and Brick Breaker, the microbes desperately seeking a high score so their scientific overlords would be pleased with their performance.

Ingmar Riedel-Kruse, a bioengineer from Stanford, uses electric fields to control the microbes and move them in various directions, adding a single cell pond-dwelling paramecia as an avatar. Here’s how it works:

Changes in an electrical field can cause some species to alter their steering (a behavior called galvanotaxis). The microbes selected for the video games swim toward electricity using cilia that cover their bodies.

Object-detecting software turns the physical setup into a game by locating paramecia as they move around the chamber. Meanwhile, a video overlay enables the organisms to interact with digital images. In the game PAC-mecium, microbes “eat” pellets as they swim past them, and in soccer they “kick” the ball when they come into contact with its cartoon image.

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You may not know the name Unarius, but most people who grew up in San Diego are familiar with our friendly neighborhood cult because of their zany UFO themed public access shows, their strange visitor’s center and the fact that they’ve been spreading their word of their "interdimensional science of life" since the 1950s.

They were founded in 1954 by Ernest and Ruth Norman, and they refer to themselves as The Unarius Academy of Science, Unarius being an acronym for Universal Articulate Interdimensional Understanding of Science, and if you think the Heaven's Gate crew were nutty wait 'til you get a load of these guys!

Thankfully theirs is a peaceful tribe, and not suicidal, but their story is rather far out, and writer Richard Metzger and Jello Biafra (of Dead Kennedys fame) traveled down to El Cajon, California to find out more about these kooky UFO lovin' folks back in 1992.

This is their story...(cue the Law & Order theme song)

Read more about The Unarius Society over at Dangerous Minds

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The fact that Godzilla has come back yet again proves that, for a giant scaly green dinosaur looking kaiju, he’s got some staying power in the world of pop culture, but with all the awesome cosplay out there where’s the costumed love for Godzilla?

Right here, thanks to this amazingly detailed costume created and worn by Sean Sumagaysay. The suit appears to be made out of hundreds of foam pieces, and it looks absolutely perfect even when he’s waving his tail and stomping around.

You can almost imagine the tiny model cities being crushed beneath his foamy feet, and it seems like the only thing the suit is missing is Godzilla's signature atomic breath, but maybe Sean is saving that for his 2.0 version of the suit!

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Here’s a fine animated short for all you salty dogs out there, a short about seafaring men and the epic yarns they spin to their fellow sailors.

It’s called The Incredible Marrec, and it was created by a team of directors/animators: Regis Aillet, Alexandre Bass, Clement Chaudat, Etienne Devillée, and Maxime Moreira.

These five fish fancyin’ folks have managed to bring an oceanic tale to life that looks good and tells a mighty fine tale to boot, and you won’t need to strap on your sea legs, or take any Dramamine, to enjoy this salt water story because you can watch it from the comfort of your own home!

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