If your gopher problem is getting out of hand, you may need to acquire one of Shawn Thorsson's decidedly robust garden gnomes. He casts his riflegnomes from scratch and offers them in standing, kneeling, and prone positions. Link -via Make

This brilliant print, inspired by a scene in The Princess Bride, was made by an artist named Rakka. He writes "like i had any choice as to what to make inigo out of." Well done, sir. Well done. Link -via reddit

Niue, an autonomous island nation and dependency of New Zealand, will mint coins bearing the images of Star Wars characters. They will be fully legal tender there:

A set of 40 coins is being produced by the New Zealand Mint.

As legal tender, the coins will have a face value of NZ$2 (£1), but the silver content in each is worth considerably more than that.

Link -via Ace of Spades HQ | Photo: Daily Telegraph

Laika was the first living creature from Earth in space. She rode into orbit in Sputnik 2 and died there -- as the Soviets knew she would. Nick Abadzis has created a graphic novel which depicts alternate scenarios for Laika. It looks like the Soviet space program may come to an early end. Link -via Nerdcore | Graphic Novel

A Chilean company called Monarch has developed a new type of underwear that, it claims, makes you cleaner:

It's like this: copper is merged with polyamide and the result is a type of oil that's then turned into a wire. Machines take these wires and weave them inside the undie fabric so that the processed metal stays in contact with the user's skin. This, as you can imagine, provides the user with day-long germ-killing delicates.

So it will no longer be necessary to change your underpants every week. Hooray!

http://guanabee.com/2011/08/chilean-company-creates-fungi-resistant-undies-out-copper/ -via Gizmodo | Photo (unrelated) by Flickr user Michelle loves Severus used under Creative Commons license

Are your shoes plain, but comfortable? Etsy seller pcbcreations has a solution to both of those problems. These sandals, like the other inventive works in his gallery, are made from printed circuit boards. Link -via DVICE

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This German-language video shows Ronny Wechselberger breaking the world record for parallel parking -- that's sliding into position quickly with as little clearance as possible. He set a new record at 26 cm.

The notes at the video link state this record was set in April. Since that time, Zhang Hua of China broke it at 24 cm.-via Doobybrain

deviantART member Mari Rosa Archambault, inspired by ukiyo-e prints, depicted Nintendo video game stars in feudal Japan. It took me a minute out to figure out that the figure on the right is Mega Man. Link -via Uniblog

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If it's Wednesday, then it's time to drift your AC Cobra in your living room. No, sorry, your '74 Chevy Vega, though technically a classic car, will not look as cool. -via Jalopnik

Michael Grab is an artist who works in an unusual medium: balanced rocks. He stacks rocks from rivers on top of each other with no additional connections. It is a meditative act for him, as well as an exploration of "notions of impermanence and death." Check out his gallery at the link. http://www.gravityglue.com/Gallery.html -via Boing Boing (where there's a video)

A Pokéball from Pokémon appeared in the night sky over Niigata, Japan. This brawl is going to be awesome. Link -via Geekosystem

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The people of 5-Second Films try to tell fairly complete stories in only five seconds. The results are usually hilarious. Their most recent project stars none other than Patton Oswalt. Link -via reddit

Jason Voorhees was a busy boy during the Friday the 13th movies, so it can be easy to get confused about who died in which manner. Thankfully, Andrew Barr and Mike Faille of the National Post put together an infographic summarizing each murder in each movie. Pictured above is a small selection from it. Link | National Post

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Cellists Luka Šulic and Stjepan Hauser do some marvelous renditions of modern works, such as "Welcome to the Jungle" and "Smooth Criminal." Here they are performing Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit." -via Blame It on the Voices

Jeremy Mayer makes ingenious and often funny sculptures out of typewriter parts. Here's one of his recent creations: a penguin. http://jemayer.tumblr.com/post/8674700147 -via Boing Boing