George Takei played Lt. Hikaru Sulu on the original Star Trek television series. He recently sat down with Neil deGrasse Tyson, a celebrity physicist and host of the Star Talk radio show. In their conversation, Takei described his audition for Star Trek and meeting Gene Roddenberry, the creator of the show, for the first time. He shares a funny story about how he responded when Roddenberry mispronounced his name.
-via Blastr
The 1997 hit song "Barbie Girl" by Aqua imagined life inside the Barbie universe, complete with plastic houses and endless parties. That's pretty much life in the Russian Army, as these troops testify. They march to the steady cadence of the old pop song, singing:
I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic.
You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere.
Imagination, life is your creation.
Come on Barbie, let's go party!
For every round of smash battling there must be a victor, but who woulda thought that little yellow furball Pikachu would be the one to come out on top?! It's impossible to tell from this pictorial portrayal of the battle's end but Mega Man actually did all the work, defeating every other opponent while completely disregarding that electric poke-rat. Unfortunately, Mega's metal armor made him an easy target for the pocket monster's Thunder Shock attack, and the whole thing ended with a flash and a cry of "Pika Pika"!
Become the champion of geeky style with this Smash Victor t-shirt by Dooomcat, and watch your fellow Smash Bros fans light up when they see you wearing this sweet shirt!
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| Sushi Fish | Through The Birches | Vision | Cuteness Overload |
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Bay was getting tired of his model 6 battle armor, and Hiro was looking for a suit with more flash and upgraded firepower, so they went to work and came up with a pair of slick suits that were more than meets the eye. Hiro called Bay's new transformer suit Optimus Max, but then he made the mistake of letting Bay choose his costume's name, leaving him stuck with the less than heroic name Bumblebee...
Bring home two times the animated fun with this Bay Former 6 t-shirt by Ninjaink, it'll totally transform you into a big hero among your fellow fans!
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| The Stay-Frost Marshmallow | Better Call Murdock! | Fazbear's Fright | The Haunted Sewer: Here Lies Shred |
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The Princess by Steven Lefcourt
The tales have Princess Peach pegged all wrong- they portray her as a helpless maiden who needs a moustachioed man to save her from Bowser and his baddies, but Peach knows how to handle herself. She grew up in the wilds, riding tamed Yoshis and spearing ShyGuys without remorse, but something about Mario's fragile ego made her want to play the damsel in distress to his powerful plumber protector. So when is she gonna get her own action platformer?
Share Peach's true story with the world by wearing this The Princess t-shirt by Steven Lefcourt, it's the perfect attire whether you're watching a Studio Ghibli movie or playing your favorite old school video game!
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| The Green Hookshot | The Fantastic Seven | Ozymandias | Final Fantasia |
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Whether it's a corporate motivation piece or an ad designed to lure all-American, choice-choosing, leather-miniskirt-clad babes and their Marlboro Men, there's no doubt that any fly on the wall of the board room that dreamed this up would be standing at attention. And likely saluting. -Via Laughing Squid
(Photo: Benny Mazur)
Jim Zub is a comic book artist and writer in Toronto. He's got a great idea for a business:
I want to start an airport D&D stand. "Flight delayed? Time for a dungeon delve, ma'am. Here's a pre-gen half-elf bard and a pint of stout."
— Jim Zub (@JimZub) April 11, 2015This is great! It's easy to get trapped in an airport for a few hours longer than you anticipated. You could read a book on your mobile device. But if you're bored of that, then you can go to a Dungeons & Dragons stand. A professional Dungeon Master (this is a career that exists) would have pre-generated characters and quick, one-shot adventures ready.
It's the perfect way to kill time. It's fun, interactive, and interpersonal. I suspect that during peak hours, a large airport would have plenty of bored gamers looking for a role-playing game and willing to pay for it.
Last July, Alex shared the gorey image of Steven Speilberg sitting beside one of his newest kills. Animal activists were rightly outraged by the killing of such a rare and beautiful creature. As if that wasn't bad enough, now one Redditor has shared these images of a poor, bound T-rex being towed down the road as though it's just a big hunk of plastic.
Will the madness ever stop?!? End dinosaur cruelty!
Via Nerd Approved
(Photo: Rutgers Equine Science Center)
The Scarlet Knight is the mascot of Rutgers University in New Jersey. The red-plated knight rides a horse at college football games. Lord Nelson, a horse that carried that knight for many years, passed away on Sunday at the age of 42.
Lord Nelson began his career as a police horse, joining the mounted unit of the university police in 1978. After many years on patrol duty there, he began to carry the Scarlet Knight at football games. At a 1994 football game against West Point, Lord Nelson broke loose and dashed across the field. A referee penalized him for unsportsmanlike conduct. This is the only time that a horse has received such a dishonor.
-via Dave Barry
In 1892, Lord Frederick Stanley, the 16th Earl of Derby, donated a great silver cup the best hockey team in Canada. It has been ever since a treasured prize in that sport. But the shortsighted Lord Stanley did not anticipate that future generations of hockey fans would look toward trophies as a food source.
That is where Bar Brutus in Montreal comes in. Its bacon engineers developed this replica of the Stanley Cup out of 20 pounds of bacon. This is an exploration of a developing theme. Go to Bar Brutus’s website and scroll down to see its food menu, which consists primarily of bacony goodness.
-via Foodiggity
Louis Wain was an artist born in 1860s Victorian England who was as intensely gifted as he was mentally disturbed. His fanciful work is examined and featured on the internet from time to time (including on Neatorama in 2006) because his pieces, particularly his cats, are popular and his name is sometimes mentioned when correlation is drawn between artistry and madness.
Wain lived a hard life fraught with extended stays in the dismal insane asylums of the time, though notable people such as H.G. Wells and Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald interceded on his behalf in order to get him placed in better facilities. Yet no one could help his desultory mental states that included periods of psychosis.
Wain once said in explanation of his process:
"I take a sketch-book to a restaurant, or other public place, and draw the people in their different positions as cats, getting as near to their human characteristics as possible. This gives me doubly nature, and these studies I think my best humorous work."
Read more about Wain and see the gamut of his artwork, from the whimsical to the bizarre, at Dangerous Minds.
Images: Louis Wain
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Margaret Seabrook is 75. Eileen Mason is 92. They live in Swindon, Wiltshire, UK. Both of them use mobility scooters. The two ladies were returning home from a lunch club meeting when a mugger tried to grab Seabrook’s possessions in the basket of her scooter.
Ms. Mason said, “Oh, no you don’t,” throttled her mobility scooter, and rammed the mugger as hard as she could. The Daily Telegraph reports what happened next:
The would-be thief was knocked to the ground before the great-grandmothers, both of Swindon, Wiltshire, sped off. […]
"Something in me just told me to turn so I squeezed the accelerator and turned and he went flying. He was so evil looking. We go to the lunch club every week on our scooters and nothing like this has ever happened before.
"We went through the war and all the bombings. We won't let a weasel like that hold us back. I would stand up for myself again if I needed to, but hopefully I won't need to. We will carry on as normal though - he hasn't put us off."
Once, dogs lived in peace. They slept at the feet of their humans, ate from the tables of humans, and enjoyed belly rubs on demand. It was a golden age for all canine kind.
But then the robots came: bizarre things that flew in the air, hovering menacingly over dogs. They were not normal featheries. No, these creatures were not alive like you and I. But still they moved as though they were.
Now dogs and drones are locked in a bitter struggle. Only one side will prevail. At Fusion, you can see 13 videos with animated .gifs of dogs interacting with drones, including this Golden Retriever taking on a quadcopter.
-via Jonah Goldberg
Erebor Mountain Gold Coffee by Warbucks Design
If you're looking for a smooth, smoky cup of caffeinated evil first thing in the morning then reach for a mug of Erebor Mountain Gold Coffee, the only coffee endorsed by a dragon. Erebor Mountain coffee is grown in the shadow of Lonely Mountain, so the beans stay nice and dark, and our patented dragon flame roasting process seals in the smokiness without sacrificing flavor. Want a taste of adventure without all the swordfights and goblin hordes? Brew up some Erebor Mountain Gold coffee and savor the smaug-y flavor!
Advertise your great taste in geeky gear with this Erebor Mountain Gold Coffee t-shirt by Warbucks Design, it's the perfect attire whether you're joining a halfling burglar on a grand adventure or simply watching your favorite movie trilogy.
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YELLOW VILLAIN by ALIENBIKER23
For every speeding wheel there's a brake, and for every flash there's a reverse flash ready to give him a run for his money. Speedsters don't always agree on the best use of their abilities, but when opposing forces clash at speeds faster than the human eye can register it's hard to tell which one is the bad guy. All the citizens of Central City can do is hold their breath and pray the fastest man alive comes out on top.
He's the star of his own supervillain show, and now he's starring on this YELLOW VILLAIN t-shirt by ALIENBIKER23, the bold way to root for the bad guy!
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| ADVENTURE HERO | The Optimistic Boy | Spock Tracy | Dark Knight Of Justice |
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