Movie monsters are getting bigger and tougher over time, and it may take new technologies to defeat them. Danger Room takes a look at the new and improved monsters, and the weapons the military should use to defend humanity.

It's difficult to make accurate assumptions about 500 foot-tall fictional monsters whose very existence violates the laws of physics. But it's liable to have skin, scales or other outer with protective blubber or equivalent covering several feet thick. This will absorb anything except apart from an armor-piercing round. Flesh, like water, can stop virtually any projectile within a few feet – that's why you need something very exotic like a supercavitating round if you want to go through a lot of it. Those supercavitating Russian APS underwater assault rifles might be handy here... but you'd need a lot of rounds to have any effect.

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/02/monster-mash-ko.html to part one, http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/03/how-to-stop-a-5.html to part two. -via Metafilter

Wilhelm Staehle created Victorian scenes by superimposing silhouettes over paintings, and gave them somewhat subversive captions. Link -via the Presurfer

Does your computer or entertainment system look like a chaotic spaghetti factory? Then read the Top 10 Ways to Get Cables Under Control. Each tip has a link to instructions. I know from experience that “just getting them out of the way” is an open invitation to herds of dust bunnies. Link

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Remember the Dove Evolution ads? Foster Farms took the concept and modified it just a bit to advertise chicken. -via YesButNoButYes

Eve, a hen in Worcestershire, had a leg amputated 18 months ago due to cancer. Now she has undergone surgery to remove a tumor from her remaining leg, at a cost of over £1,000. Owner Elaine Denney said money is not an issue.

"I wouldn't put Eve through it if I didn't think she still would have quality of life and if I thought she would suffer too much during the treatment."

Link -via Arbroath, who has the video report.

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has a new business card. It’s a working circuit board! See how they made it, what it can do, and how you can design one yourself. Link

How much do you know about Scrabble? Take the lunchtime quiz at mental_floss and see how your game knowledge stacks up against others. I must admit, I’m better at playing the game than taking a quiz about it! http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/12902

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Who says three dimensions are better than two? This trailer for Echochrome, a yet-to-be-released game for the PlayStation Portable shows someone the things that are possible in 2D, but not 3D. -via the Presurfer

In this game, you are challenged to find ten gnomes hidden in a panoramic photograph. Click an area to zoom in, and click near the bottom of the picture to zoom out. But hurry! You’ve only got ten minutes. There are two games, one on the rooftops and one in the park. Link -via Militant Platypus

101-year-old Buster Martin is set to compete in the London Marathon on April 13th.

Working plumber Buster Martin ran Sunday's Roding Valley half marathon in Essex in five hours 13 minutes, and is now focusing on London's 26-mile event.

On finishing the run, the first words of the ex-member of rock band The Zimmers were: "Where's my beer?"

Mr Martin, who has 17 children, started work at Pimlico Plumbers in London three years ago because he was bored.

The Zimmers were featured previously on Neatorama. Mr. Martin doesn’t look 101, does he? Link -via Arbroath

DDB Colombia produced ads for the Colombian Association of Arterial Hypertension featuring the undead. This one is called “Home”. The caption reads: Without knowing you can be dying. High cholesterol injures your heart. There are two other ads in the series featuring zombies in everyday situations. Link -via the Presurfer

NASA released an image of the earth and the moon in one picture, as seen from Mars. It was taken by the HiRISE Instrument on October 3rd, 2007.

On the Earth image we can make out the west coast outline of South America at lower right, although the clouds are the dominant features. These clouds are so bright, compared with the Moon, that they are saturated in the HiRISE images. In fact, the RED-filter image was almost completely saturated, the blue-green image had significant saturation, and the brightest clouds were saturated in the IR image. This color image required a fair amount of processing to make a nice-looking release.

“Nice-looking” is an understatement. http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/earthmoon.php -via Bad Astronomy Blog

(image credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona)

Weemade is a new blog that showcases children’s artwork.

Here at weemade, we find the artwork and creativity of kids inspiring, thought provoking, entertaining, and unpretentious. We think that reminding ourselves how children see the world is a valuable and enlightening process.

Anyone can add artwork, credited or anonymously, but all submissions will be screened before posting. http://theblog.weemade.com/ -via J-Walk Blog

"Avalanche control" sounds like a contradiction in terms, but deputydog has uncovered three ways people have engineered communities to protect homes from an avalanche. Building your home somewhere besides underneath a snowy mountain is not one of the three, although it is mentioned. http://deputy-dog.com/2008/03/02/man-vs-mountain-avalanche-control-structures/

Noel Cruz (Noeling) takes celebrity collector dolls and painstakingly repaints them to more resemble the person they portray.

I used a 16-inch Mary Poppins doll here produced by Robert Tonner Doll company - a very nicely made facial sculpt but the facial paint left much to be desired. So, I completely removed factory facial painting and hand painted it to more faithfully replicate Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins. The doll's hair has been extensively restyled to more accurately represent the character's hairstyle from the movie.

His Deviant Art page has many more repainted dolls, some of which are for sale. Link -via Dump Trumpet