This zombie head gumball dispenser is one gnarly piece of home decor, but what kind of sicko would want to take a gumball out of this disgustingly dessicated head?!
It would look right at home in a haunted house or the Munster's living room, and may horrify kids enough to put them off the sweet stuff for a while!
There's something so warm and inviting about the maps that came with many classic fantasy themed video games.
Maybe it's the prospect of exploring all those brightly colored lands, or the whimsical little details and painterly style to be found in these incredible illustrations.
Whatever the attraction, I'm sure old school gamers will agree- these maps were so cool that they often stayed on the wall well after you beat the game!
Connecticut based artist Ted Mikulski has come up with a fun way to expose more people to art- he plans to give away over 1,000 of his own works to random people on the streets of Manhattan.
Ted feels this will be a good way to put a little color into the lives of those who aren't normally considered art lovers, but I'm sure these pieces will find their way into the hands of Ted's fans once they hear he's handing them out for free!
This sounds like a plot element from the movie Inglorious Basterds, but it's true- British Special Forces used dead rats, among other things rigged with explosives, against Nazi forces during World War II.
Here's how those rat bombs were used:
But the most exotic device was the "explosive rat". A hundred of the rodents were procured by an SOE officer posing as a student needing them for laboratory experiments. The rats were skinned, filled with plastic explosive, and sewn up. The idea was to place a rat among coal beside a boiler. When they were spotted, they would immediately be thrown on to the fire, causing a huge explosion.
That was the theory. As one of the SOE files records: "This device caused considerable trouble to the enemy, but not quite in the way that was intended." The Germans intercepted the container of dead rats before they could be used for "operational purposes". But all was not lost. According to an SOE report, their discovery had an "extraordinary moral effect": the rodents were exhibited at all German military schools, prompting a hunt for "hundreds of rats the enemy believed were distributed on the continent".
SOE concluded: "The trouble caused to them was a much greater success to us than if the rats had actually been used."
Do you have a bunch of boring photos sitting around inside your iPad or iPhone (with hopefully more platforms coming soon!), photos that lack tentacles and that ever elusive WTF factor?
Then you need Alex Pardee's Waycooler App!
It lets you stick all kinds of stuff on your pictures, making them (surprise!) waaay cooler!
It kinda makes me wish I had an iPad....aaaaand now I don't care anymore. Thanks Alex Pardee!
Bat Man of Shanghai is an upcoming DC Nation series which will feature an alternate version of old Batsy from 1930s China, and the feline temptress who's always on his tail.
DC Nation airs on Cartoon Network, and this cool, anime inspired short was created by Wolf Smoke.
This masterfully crafted colosseum sculpture was built by Ryan McNaught, a certified LEGO builder who used over 200,000 bricks to make what is arguably "the most challenging LEGO model ever created".
The piece is built with both the version from two thousand years ago and the modern version represented on either side, and it was so difficult to build that it gave Ryan a new respect for the ingenuity of Roman architecture.
I can't believe the detail and accuracy found in these pencil drawings by Paul Lung, and I imagine that a cat would choose that exact same bow tie if given a choice.
Paul Lung clearly breathes the airs of artistry quite freely, his bronchial tubes full of dander and inspiration, and hopefully he isn't allergic to his prized hairball pitching subjects.
*kitty voice* Now howsabout sketchin' me up some Meow Mix?
Everyone knows that cat videos rule teh interwebs, with their silly box jumping tactics and love of cheezburgers, so it was only a matter of time before someone gave them their own film festival.
Minneapolis' Walker Arts Center will be hosting the first ever Internet Cat Video Festival on August 30th, and it looks like a purrrrfectly fine festival to honor our feline friends.
Yes, little kittehs, you finally haz a cheezburger!
This incredibly well made fan film is based on the Vertigo comic book Y The Last Man, which centers around an apocalyptic setting where everyone on Earth with a Y chromosome is wiped out, except for a guy named Yorick and a monkey named Ampersand.
The film is entitled Y:The Last Man Rising, it was made by IGN and Drake 1129 productions, and it does a great job of adapting the comic book into film format.
I don't think Y would work very well as a feature film, but a TV series or a series of short films would be really fun to watch!
This fun little vector art montage (half of which can be seen above) was created by deviantARTist kitsovereign, paying homage to the characters and fun to be found in the classic game Super Mario 64.
As an extra organized bonus, kitsovereign has also created a chart which categorizes the images according to their in-game mission, which can be found at the Kotaku link below.
This collection of unlikely Batman quotes are brought to you by Chicago's own Octavarius, a group of folks known for bringing the funny.
You're unlikely to hear Batman say any of these lines in the new Dark Knight movie, so you'll just have to imagine how much better the film would be if he talked about Tumblr, hated on Pez dispensers and sang I Swear by All 4 One!
Forget about that boring old park bench, plant your keister on this shark bench...if you dare!
This shark attack bench is on display at a shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand, and it was clearly installed to drum up business for the local shark repellent store.
