This detailed, full-color tattoo by British artist Ian Hopkins shows panels from classic Batman comic books. If you're into pre-Dark Knight Returns Batman, then this is the sleeve for you. It won him a prize at the Titanic Ink Tattoo Convention in Southampton, UK. The tattoo took him 40 hours of work.
Just one guy with an idea can burn up the internet -if it’s a clever idea. Robbie Rane made a poop joke once and now he’s an entrepreneur. He made these waterproof stickers that turn your toilet bowl into a Sarlacc!
A couple years passed and it still made me chuckle when I thought about it, so I decided I needed to make it happen
So after a push from my wife, some prototyping, learning about plumbing, and collaborating my toilet looks like The Pit of Carkoon.
A set of toilet decals will set you back $25, and installing them is a bit of a pain, but you’ll have the toilet everyone talks about! Rane doesn't have any right now, but he's getting them printed. I think he may be surprised at the demand. You can pre-order them at his website. -via Uproxx
The Instagram account mayama_ya is dedicated to one theme: a pack of Chihuahua puppies dressed in adorable costumes. Most of those costumes are of the Sailor Scouts from the anime series Sailor Moon. Watch them do battle in the video below.
-via Rocket News 24
P.S. I'm on Instagram now. Who should I follow? Please add your recommendations in the comments.
Our friends from Geeks Are Sexy are at SXSW in Austin, where George Takei spoke yesterday. The theme of the talk was diversity and civil liberties, causes close to the Star Trek veteran’s heart, from his childhood in an American internment camp to his current support of LGBTQ rights.
Diversity is a running theme in Takei’s life. His time on one of the first television shows to promote such a diverse and encompassing cast counts as no small part of Takei’s thriving popularity today. Those fans of the original Star Trek passed their love and the lessons learned from that show onto the generations that followed. “Back in 1966, that was the height of the Cold War. when you turned on the TV set and saw Star Trek, you saw a trusted member of the team sitting next to him—which was a Russian.” Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek, made sure this point was well known to audiences. Takei explained the reasoning behind it: “The point Roddenberry was trying to make was that in the middle of the Cold War, if you look to the future, we will have overcome the Cold War.”
Read about Takei and what he had to say at Geeks Are Sexy.
(Image credit: Flickr user Gage Skidmore)
Greta writes that her cat "always looks as if he wants to kill somebody (or destroy the universe)." So she prudently made him a hat that looks like the helmet of a Dalek. Now he'll exterminate more than just any mice in the house.
-via Fashionably Geek
There are many things you’d expect to find at a Magic: The Gathering tournament- powerful custom built decks, rule mongering über nerds, dice, rulebooks and the occasional playmat. But there’s one thing that’s at every Magic tournament from here to Timbuktu, yet never gets taken into account by attendees, and that one thing is the mysterious butt crack.
Every gamer has one, not all of them on display, but attendee and redditor OB1FBM decided to pose with the visible cracks for a photo series that exposes an epidemic in the Magic: The Gathering community.
He calls his photo series Grand Prix Richmond Crackstyle, and hopefully OB1FBM's bravery will send a strong message to future players of trading card games- Crack is Whack!
-Via BuzzFeed
Worried About Money? You're Likely to Get a Worse Hangover (Boing Boing)
These Accidental Heroes Show You Don't Have to Plan on Saving a Life to Do It. (Oddee)
Finally You Can Snuggle With A Giant Chicken Leg (The Consumerist)
The Amazing Story of Animal Rescuers Saving the Cracked Egg of a Rare Kakapo (Viralnova)
Image: Dark Crystal Cake By Black Cherry (Facebook)
Volunteers were busy cleaning up a pond near Beaulieu, Hants in 2009 when one of the volunteers, sales executive Marc Oakland, shifted a tree branch and saw humanity’s worst fear come to the surface.
Marc had discovered a Dalek head, which had clearly been in the pond for quite some time since it was covered in weeds and mold.
According to pond warden Tony Brown “We made a very thorough search of the rest of the bottom of the pond and there were definitely no alien remnants lurking”, but it’s possible that someone, or something, got to Tony before the interview and told him to say that so citizens of the UK wouldn't panic.
Only time will tell if the Daleks are on their way to exterminate us all, but one thing’s for certain- Marc now has a really cool Doctor Who related souvenir to hang on his wall!
-Via Telegraph UK
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It is spring yet? No. It's not even close--at least in the American northeast and Great Lakes region. That area is under the death grip of a brutal winter storm that the Weather Channel has dubbed Vulcan. Lakes Erie, Michigan, Huron and Superior are almost completely iced over.
That's just the beginning. Vulcan is rapidly spreading over the Great Plains and Rockies, like a flood of chilled plomeek soup.
Naming a snowstorm "Vulcan" is highly illogical. LLAP
— Leonard Nimoy (@TheRealNimoy) March 10, 2014
Who's your favorite Dogtor? I'd usually go with David Tennant, but the Sylvester McCoy's Bassett Hound is really charming. Christie illustrated all 13 known incarnations of the Doctor as dogs. You can view them all here. The cheery Flandoodle with the big scarf is just perfect.
-via Nerd Approved
You don't need to scroll. Just move your eyes. Twitter user Morikuma_Works, an engineer in Japan, made good use of extra monitors by showing the entire Mario world 1-1 in one easy view.
I've got 2 monitors on my workplace computer. Now I finally have the argument that I need to secure 2 more!
-via Kotaku
These 12 Pictures of Pets As Youngsters and Adults Is Simply Heart Melting (Oddee)
On the Other Hand, These Celebrity Statues Are Utterly Horrifying (Mental Floss)
Five Other Places You Can Spot Game of Thrones Actors Being Awesome (Unreality Mag)
Grumpy Cat Sat on the Game of Thrones. The Internet Has Been Won (Geekosystem)
Image: The They Live Version of Ellen's Selfie (Dangerous Minds)
DeviantART member CARDI-ology modifies Xbox controllers with pop culture themes, such as Batman and Pikachu. Naturally, these pony controllers caught my eye. I'm especially impressed with the one at the top showing Vinyl Scratch, the most famous DJ in Equestria. Blue and white LEDs in the front give the controller the appearance of nightclub lighting.
It took 6 months of work, but it was time well-spent. Robson Menezes dos Santos created a short animated feature showing his son in the Dragon Ball universe. The Portuguese-language video is embedded below. It features the same voice actors from the Portuguese-dubbed version of the show. There's a lengthy photo show in the middle. You can find the animated parts at the beginning and the 6:59 mark.
With Wes Anderson’s new film The Grand Budapest Hotel in theaters now it’s time once again to play Wes Anderson Bingo!
Throw on your favorite older Wes Anderson flick, watch for the characters and concepts on the board and mark them off, or take the bingo card with you to the theater and see how long it takes you to score a bingo!
Each bingo card can be randomized and printed out over at Slate, so you and your friends will be playing your own version of the game, striving to become the grand champion of watching awesome movies! When it’s a Wes Anderson flick, everybody wins!
