Sadly, this is a photoshop. Which is a shame, because Patrick Stewart's recently knighting by Queen Elizabeth would have been all the more awesome.

At least, I assume that it's a photoshop. Maybe it's real. If so, she should have cleaned the right-most tine a little more.

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Jim of Jim's Pancakes makes elaborate and fanciful pancakes for his young daughter. Recently, he depicted Tetris in this medium:

This is a pretty accurate depiction of how I play Tetris on my computer too. I’m usually okay until about level 3, then my brain starts to overheat. Luckily when you make tetris pancakes, if you get frustrated you can just eat up the block and make new ones

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Being able to outrun and kill zombies in a video game has nothing to do with surviving a real-life zombie attack. That's why the people behind ZombieFit have developed a parkour-based physical fitness program that they claim will prepare users to stay mobile and safe during an actual zombie attack:

The keys to surviving Z-day are simple: Be able to lift and throw heavy things, run fast and for long distances, and be able to navigate obstacles and urban environments in an efficient manner. By following the ZombieFit WODs (workout of the day) and practicing parkour, you will achieve increased fitness through the performance of functional movements at high intensity and find within yourself the internal discipline and mental fortitude necessary to become a traceur.

One drill that I've been doing lately is to wear my bug-out pack and carry a 25 pound bag of dog food in my arms on a 2 mile off-trail run though a local state park. The dog food represents the weight of my toddler, whom I would have to carry during an evacuation. Running on a treadmill isn't bad, but there are better, more realistic ways of exercising.

What do you do to prepare your body to survive a zombie attack?

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I don't know who the artist is, but he doesn't have a lot of confidence in Imperial military recruiting efforts.

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deviantART user Wolf-Shadow77 takes audio clips from the Half-Life video game series and places them in different contexts in her cartoons. A combine zombie is, you know, a zombine. Right?

YouTube Channel and deviantART Profile via Kotaku

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Also Franz Beckenbauer, Noel Gallagher, Ian Brown, Ciara, Jay Baruchel, DJ Neil Armstrong. But the best part is Snoop Dogg getting into a barfight.

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This 2002 performance by a defunct band that I think is called Ulu presents a jazzed-up version of the Super Mario Bros. theme music. via reddit

The Kor Memorial Scholarship is offered by the Klingon Language Institute in honor of the great Klingon warrior Kor (left). Although one isn't required to be fluent in Klingon to apply, it certainly wouldn't hurt. The award of $500 is offered to full-time students pursuing language studies.

http://www.kli.org/scholarship/ via Digg | Image: Paramount

Previously:
Klingon Language Rapper
Klingon Night School
Hamlet's Soliloquy Sounds Better in Klingon

In an upcoming issue of the journal Psychiatry Research, French psychiatrist Eric Bui will explain how Darth Vader exhibits the typical symptoms of someone with borderline personality disorder:

Skywalker hit six out of the nine borderline personality disorder criteria as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (DSM-IV). He only needed to meet five criteria to qualify as suffering from the disorder.[...]

For instance, the future Darth Vader showed both impulsivity and anger management issues as an overexcited, lovelorn Jedi. He went back and forth between idealizing and devaluing Jedi mentors, such as a humorless young Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Abandonment issues also surfaced. Skywalker had a permanent fear of losing his wife, Padme Amidala, and he went so far as to betray his Jedi mentors and companions to try to prevent her death.

Two displays of dissociative episodes took place when Skywalker tried to distance himself from stressful events. The first episode took place after he slaughtered a local tribe of Tuskens responsible for his mother's death. A second episode occurred following his murderous rampage among young Jedi trainees, as he voiced paranoid thoughts about Obi-Wan Kenobi and his wife.

Lastly, any "Star Wars" fan would recognize Skywalker's identity issues and uncertainty about who he was. His fateful turn to the dark side and change of name to Darth Vader could represent the ultimate sign of such identity disturbance, the researchers said.

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D is for Dual Shock, L is for laptop, and S is for...does anyone know? I have no clue.

Graphic designer Varun Vachhar made this typeface out of video game consoles and peripherals. Which can you identify without consulting outside sources?

http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Console-Font/530650 via Kotaku

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This beautifully illustrated animated short by Corey Godbey is a surreal trip through Mario's mind when he discovers a hidden truth about the world in which he lives. It's worth it for nothing other than the lovely piano arrangement by Henry Benjamin Kammer that plays as background music.

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Michael Drucker of UGO compiled a list of fifty video game tropes that he thinks are vastly overused. He makes some good critical and funny points about absurd traditions in game composition.

http://www.ugo.com/games/top-50-worst-video-game-cliches?cmpid=0101 via Digg

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This movie has been previously mentioned in a post at Neatorama, but I've just now seen the actual clip, it and is fascinating. Badi is the 1983 Turkish version of E.T. It appears to be something of a horror film, and made with a budget not in excess of five dollars. Enjoy the weirdness.

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In this video, the Panatics, a Canadian steel drum band, performs the Imperial March from Star Wars. The music was arranged by Monsieur DU.

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Unknown students at Minnesota's Carleton College draped the Goodsell Observatory in a R2D2 costume.

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