It's cold outside, but that won't stop us. Autobots, roll out! Etsy seller BeeBeeKins crocheted this non-transforming hat for those days when your antifreeze is low.

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In the closing days of World War II, Adolf Hitler escaped Berlin and made his way to south Asia. There he sired a son, the magical and tyrannical Hitlar. Cyriaque Lamar of io9 has selected clips from this amazingly weird film.

I cannot fathom how alternate history master Harry Turtledove let this story slip past him.

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This weave by Guido Palau is from last year, so once again I am behind the fashion curve. Hair weaving in a basket style is apparently technically simple but chemically demanding:

Palau divided models’ hair into three sections before adding extensions over and under natural strands for a woven effect, ending each panel in a skinny braid. Back panels were folded flat against the head and pinned in place before the entire head was sprayed with Redken’s Forceful 23 hair spray. Sixty bottles of hairspray were used to hold everything in place!

Link -via TYWKIWDBI | Photo: Hair on the Brain

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You will no longer have to content yourself with merely dressing as Miku on casual Fridays. Researchers at Keio University developed a system that tracks a user's facial expressions and projects them in real time onto the face of a computer-generated avatar:

To detect and track faces, this system uses time-series signal processing. It tracks characteristic points, including the eyes, nose, and mouth, at high speed with high precision. The white dots on the screen show the points used to track the face, and the red line shows the orientation of the face. So you can see that the system is detecting the face appropriately, in line with the way it's facing and the movement of the mouth.

Link -via Geekosystem

Eventually, the Alien and the Predator patched up their differences. Really, all that fighting was just awkward sexual tension. Then they met for coffee. Then they went on a date.

You can figure out the rest. Tracey of the Little Cherry and Black Cherry Cake Company made this adorable wedding cake for them.

Link | Bakery Website

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Yo mama's so fat that she's bigger than both the outside and the inside of the TARDIS. And don't get me started on yo mama's looks.

Geeks at the Alabama Phoenix Festival recited ten great and terrible yo mama jokes. They saved the best one for end.

-via The Mary Sue

Previously: Nerdy Yo Mama Jokes

Welding students at Sandpoint High School in Sandpoint, Idaho made this amazing grill that looks like a Smith & Wesson Model 500 revolver. The students built the 15-foot rig using materials donated by a local gun shop. Be sure to wear eye and ear protection before lighting it up.

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P.S. If you liked this, be sure to check out our grill megapost.

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Two would-be robbers in Gatineau, Quebec experienced a major victim selection failure last Tuesday. They walked into Zhen Yang's convenience store, pointed knives at him and demanded money.

Yang fought back. First, he sprayed them with bear repellent. One took off running while he grappled with the other. Yang spanked the intruder's bare bottom while his wife kicked the thief in the head:

Soon after his wife, Bi Liang, and a customer came in and helped him subdue the suspect until police arrived. [...]

Interrogating the first suspect led to the arrest of the second, and both men are being charged with robbery, wearing a disguise and possession of a concealed weapon.

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This unique 16-gauge shotgun deserved its name as the "Holy Grail." John Hope, the first Marquess of Linlithgow and the first Governor-General of Australia, hired Edinburgh-based gunsmiths John Dickson & Son to build it. The Holy Grail is the only one of its kind and recently sold at Holt's Auctioneers in London.

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Master ponysmith Sara Bean made these excellent Star Trek ponies. Notice her attention to detail on the Spock figure, which features the IDIC symbol, pointed ears and, of course, a horn protruding from his forehead.

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Thanks to airbrushing and light-up tentacles, Christine Prusha's felted jellyfish looks startlingly realistic. The other works in her Flickr stream are equally impressive.

Daylight Photo and Dark Photo -via Make

The Kessel Run is normally 18 parsecs. Who will finish it first in this new movie starring Dom DeLuise as as Chewbacca and Sammy Davis Jr. as Boba Fett?

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Rhinehart of Athens, Ohio sculpts and paints beautifully eccentric but fully functional guitars. Many are shaped like fish, the rear ends of horses, birds and dragons. This alligator is a lap steel guitar:

Modeled on the Fender 8-string Stringmaster and Deluxe steels featuring 2 pickups with volume, tone, and blend for dialing in the perfect tone for any mix. The pickups are handwound with reverse polarity to create a humbucking effect when both are balanced. These are very sweet sounding instruments and great looking as well. Gotoh tuners for smooth and accurate tuning.

#3 is an 8 string model with Gotoh tuners, 2 reverse-wound-reverse polarity pickups from United Luthierie. Stanless steel nut and aluminum bridge/tailpiece. Volume, tone, and blend controls. Carved from 3 pieces of Douglas fur for light weight and rich tone. Hand-painted fingerboard.

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We've posted a lot of clever egg recipes at Neatorama, including eggs cooked into onion rings, baked into avocados and fried in a waffle iron. Mark Sisson has an additional approach to suggest: cut a bell pepper in half, add an egg to each half, then place them on a grill. If you like a breakfast that fights back, add some Mexican chorizo and chili peppers. Remove them once the eggs are cooked through.

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By this point, we all know how to deal with zombies: aim for the head. Destroy the brain and you've put a zombie down for good. A hit anywhere else just wastes ammunition.

But what about reanimated skeletons? You're far more likely to encounter them than zombies, which are just imaginary. Aiming for center mass or the head will probably accomplish nothing. Brian J. Noggle argues that your best bet is to shoot the skeleton's pelvis:

Shoot a little high, you might be able to sever that spinal cord. A little to each side and low, maybe you’ll put the skeleton on the ground and incapacitated. A direct hit will probably do both, leaving the skeleton to only crawl toward you, allowing you time to escape. Or, I suppose, it could ride C3P0-on-Chewbacca style on another skeleton. Regardless, it’s one less coming after you under its own unholy power.

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P.S. Brian wrote the novel John Donnelly's Gold, an excellent heist story set in a tech company.