Neatorama and reddit are how hosting an Internet talent contest. Do you have some weird, amusing, or useless ability? Then click here for a chance to win an iPad!

Pictured above is a screenshot from our first entry by YouTube user squidkidd, who can ride a unicycle while playing the opening music from Star Wars on the bagpipes!

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In this sweet video, a man tells about how he captured the heart of the woman who would become his wife. It involves touching and romantic Cthulhu references, of course. You'd have to roll save vs. insanity not to fall for such a gesture.

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Previously:
Geeky Love Songs
Cthulhu-Themed Love Song

Okay, I've got a cunning idea....

Two days ago, over at our sister blog NeatoBambino, Alex posted about three unusual sperm banks. One's called "Beautiful People", and it's for only very physically attractive people. Another has a feature called "Donor Look-A-Likes", which provides donors who resemble celebrities. And finally, there's one that accepts donations from only Nobel Prize winners. If you want your kid to be a genius, this might give him or her a leg up on the competition.

So Jill's post got me thinking about a business scheme: a geek sperm bank. You know, for women who want to be impregnated by Wil Wheaton, Jonathan Coulton, Ted Raimi, Stan Lee, etc.

I mean, there's got to be a market for this sort of thing, right? What do you think?

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Redditor TheBishopsBane has a friend who has never watched Star Trek, but is willing to try out one episode from each series in order to be persuaded of the franchise's greatness. He asks commenters to suggest the best episodes for the task:

I have a friend who is a science fiction/fantasy fan but has never seen a single Trek episode or movie. He has become quite stubborn about it, but has agreed to watch a single episode from each series to give it a chance.

I'm looking for episodes which don't involve too much of the Trek universe's politics, don't require any prior knowledge of the characters or setting, and are just good, old fashioned story telling.

Here's my list:
The Original Series: City on the Edge of Forever
The Next Generation: Darmok
Deep Space Nine: Hard Time
Voyager: Blink of an Eye

These, I think, tell a fairly complete story and don't require as much background knowledge as other top episodes. I haven't watched past the first season of Enterprise, so I'll withhold a recommendation. And I think that The Animated Series is best forgotten, even though Memory Alpha regards it as canonical.

Which episodes would you suggest?

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A sketch by the comedy troupe Big Dog Eat Child. The Ninja Turtles are growing up and starting to move on with their lives. But Michelangelo still thinks that he's a teenager.

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YouTube user Ultraboy94fsr made a WAD modification to Doom so that he could use a vuvuzela as a weapon. At the video link, he provides a link to the file so that you can download it.

I promise that this might be my last vuvuzela post.

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Here's one section of a huge Futurama diorama that Pepa Quin made out of LEGOs:

This layout is the culmination of a work in progress for over two years. I started with the Planet Express and major characters back in February 2008. In December 2009 I expanded the building to include the sub pen, and built up a portion of the surrounding area. In late April through June 2010, I worked overtime to build an 80"x60" layout, ready in time for Brickworld 2010 on June 17th.

At the link, you can view the whole Flickr set.

The revived Futurama will debut tonight on Comedy Central. Do you plan to watch it?

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io9 has footage of the recently-released pilot for a 1975 science fiction television show called Strange New World. It was based on ideas by Gene Roddenberry, and as you can see from just the first few seconds of the video, it borrowed heavily from the library of Star Trek sound effects. io9 has information about the pilot as well as additional video:

In Strange New World, three astronauts are sent up to a space station for an experiment into suspended animation. Why do they have to be in space to be put into suspended animation? It's never entirely clear. But while they're asleep, meteors threaten to make the planet all but uninabitable. So NASA decides to extend their sleep remotely, to 180 years. (There's nobody on their space station who's not in suspended animation, because why would you do that?)

So our heroes wake up 180 years later to find an Earth that's been reduced to ruins. We find all this out in a three-minute prologue that feels like an extended opening credits. And then our heroes ride their shuttlecrafts down to Earth, where they have two adventures. We'll call them "Plato's Stepchildren with Clones," and "The Omega Glory with Tigers." In the first one, our heroes are dressed up in togas for no particular reason, and trapped in a perfect society, which has one evil secret — involving clones!! In the second one, two tribes are fighting a centuries-old conflict as they descend into barbarism — and one tribe has tigers!

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deviantART user DDRzukamori photographed this cosplayer at Anime Central 2010. It's of the character Norman Jayden, a FBI profiler from the film noir video game Heavy Rain. Just click on the function that you want to activate.

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I wonder if there is some sort of LARPing equivalent for fantasy football. Like where players would go out and physically simulate the actions of football players on the field.

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This infographic, created by someone called "Pest", shows how the lightsaber changed over the years. I didn't realize that there were so many colors. I prefer the manly shade of red for my own sidearm.

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This is a commercial for, I guess, a telecommunications provider. Question: was it cheating for Vader to use the Force?

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In 1979, Marvel printed an Incredible Hulk and Spider-Man comic book on toilet paper. I'm not sure if this is disgraceful or awesome, but I'm leaning toward the latter. io9 has selected sheets from the roll at the link.

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In this College Humor original video, brave soldiers find themselves at the mercy of a teenage boy playing Starcraft online. Poor bastards.

Toru Iwatani, the creator of Pac-Man, recently revealed a notebook of his original concept art behind the game. It dates back to 1979, and includes sketches on graph paper for the mazes and characters. You can view more images at the link.

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