Awww! How romantic! I think that I'll try something similar on my wife this evening. "Sweetie, you know how it feels when you get three consecutive headshots on Hitman? You make me feel like that."

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Custom toymaker MARXMITH created the above figure thanks to a new marketing scheme by Disney calls "VinylNation":

Disney has figured out how to make Mickey Mouse cool again. During the time that I designed for Disney, the idea of straying from the the core concept of Mickey Mouse was frowned upon. It was understandable. Mickey Mouse is an institution. Sure, he’s evolved over the years. But Mickey has always been a very safe character. Rarely was the design of Mickey Mouse embellished on. He had a few outfits, but he was always drawn according to a very strict set of guidelines.

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deviantART user Eat Toast made these hideous Pokémon out of sculpey polymer clay. Each is about 4-5 inches tall.

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For about $6,400, you can have your own Eva plug suit like those that appeared on Neon Genesis Evangelion. They're available in both red and white. More pictures at the link.

Link (in Japanese) via Cool-O-Rama

This is simply exquisite! Matt Marchini has four selections of concept art for a Star Wars game modeled after The Oregon Trail.

Link via Boing Boing | Previously: Oregon Trail: The Movie

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I remember this circa 2002 chart from years ago. I'd say that it's still pretty accurate, except that it's probably necessary to expand cosplay culture and add online gaming.

But yeah -- the people at the very bottom of the hierarchy need to stay down there.

Link via Great White Snark | Image: Brunching Shuttlecocks

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YouTube user Peatman played the voice of Arnold Schwarzenegger over that of James Earl Jones in scenes from Star Wars. He makes a rather menacing Vader. Except, of course, for the dialogue from Kindergarten Cop. Warning: foul language.

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Chris Sims of Comics Alliance imagined what his favorite superheroes would look like if they were put into classic Nintendo games. Pictured above is Frank Castle, the Punisher, in the 1989 game River City Ransom.

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Five years ago, Alex blogged about the trippy artwork of Eric Joyner. But it's new to me, and probably to a lot of readers, so it's worth mentioning again. Eric Joyner paints robots. And doughnuts. Together.

They make me giggle.

Artist Website and Interview via Nerdcore

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YouTube user Landstrider, in six hours of work, compiled every scene of a lightsaber being turned on or off.

The first one always bothered me a little. I mean, Luke almost bisects Obi Wan the first time that he picks up a lightsaber. The Jedi need something like Jeff Cooper's four rules of gun safety.

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This image was snapped inside a restroom at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

While we're on the subject, Captain Kirk's pre-refit chair on the old 1701 always looked like it would be uncomfortable.

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I've previously featured das chupa's mashup of Up and Star Wars. Here's one of his more recent works. I don't understand the multiple tentacles reference, but it has been a long time since I've read Peanuts. I guess that it was weirder than I remembered.

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The US and Japan are about to mark the 50th anniversary of their defense pact. In order to strengthen an endangered relationship, the US military is publishing a multi-issue manga designed to promote good relations between the two nations:

The story features an American boy called Usa-kun -- a word play on USA and "usagi", Japanese for rabbit -- who wears a hooded jacket with bunny ears and befriends a Japanese girl, Anzu Arai.

In the first issue of "Our Alliance -- A Lasting Partnership", to be published online Wednesday, the boy tells Anzu that he has come to defend her home because they are "important friends".[...]

In the four-part comic series, the two main characters "explore and learn about the US military in Japan and its role in the US-Japan alliance," according to a statement from the US forces.

The US military chose the manga format because it is "a very common way of communicating in Japan," Major Neal Fisher, deputy director of the US forces' public affairs office in Japan, told AFP by telephone.

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I like it; it's clever. Kind of classy for tramp stamp.

Don't add anything on the back -- leave it up to the viewers' imaginations which movie they're watching.

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Waterloo Labs states that different parts of the human eye have different electrical charges. Align electrodes with those movements and you can measure them with an electro-oculogram. These signals can then be translated into commands in a NES. Then it's a simple matter of inserting the Super Mario Bros. cartridge.

via Popular Science | Official Website