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1. Kristin Tercek is auctioning off a painting at eBay.

2. Today's Penny Arcade is another funny Dead Space 2 comic.

3. How to make octopus cookies.

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Dead Space in Minecraft

Visceral employee Michael Noonan made Dead Space in Minecraft. Via.

Speaking of, here's a particularly good and almost gore-free segment that shows off how cool Dead Space 2 is:



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Dead Space 2 hand cannon

Apparently when you beat Dead Space 2 on hardcore mode, you unlock the hand cannon. "Bang, bang, pew, pew, pew." (I sure hope this isn't a hoax.) Via.

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Dead Space 2 playthrough

Today continues to be all Dead Space 2 all the time. Here's the fabulous, tremendous, and outstanding part one of a walkthrough of Dead Space 2. (SciFi horror and adult language.)

Also, today's Penny Arcade is a funny Dead Space strip.

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Link roundup

1. Robin trying extra hard to impress the ladies.

2. Glowing review for Dead Space for the iPad.

3. "Dubai's artificial islands are sinking into the sea."

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1. Cute Adventure Time fan art by San Smith.

2. Platypus, llama, koala and more - - with unicorn horns. And this is a pretty charming comic about love.

3. Kotaku and Destructoid gave Dead Space 2 glowing reviews.

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More from the Dead Space ad campaign

Unlike these moms, this mom thinks Dead Space 2 is hilarious.

Relatedly, here's solid looking gameplay footage from the upcoming iPhone version:



Via these sites.

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Dead Space 2 - - Your Mom Hates This

Fun ad campaign for Dead Space 2, a series of videos of "moms" being horrified by the game. Because "a mom's disapproval has always been an accurate baromoter of what is cool." Here's a making of video:



And here's one the videos just focusing on a particular mom:



Via.

*Previously: Dead Space 2 demo playthough.

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Dead Space 2 demo walkthrough

Full playthrough of the scary and gory Dead Space 2 demo. It's starts off with a summary of the events of Dead Space 1. (I definitely prefer the suit from the first game to the new version.)

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Six minutes of Dead Space 2

Six minutes of scifi horror in Dead Space 2. Via.

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Link roundup

1. Dead Space-inspired backpacks available for preorder. Via.

2. "Capable of reaching speeds exceeding 70 kilometers per hour, the pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) is one of the fastest mammals on earth. No large North American carnivore can match it for speed – some conservationists have go so far as to suggest importing cheetahs to special parks to reinstate the evolutionary race between pronghorn and extinct big cats." So, which animal kills pronghorn?

3. Gallery of photos showing off 826LA's Time Travel Mart.

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Dead Space the Gameboy game (and other video game demakes)

Primitive versions of Bioshock, Dead Space, and Brutal Legends. You can see more video game demakes by Junkboy here. Via.

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Dead Space 2 cover art

Dead Space 2 cover art revealed.

*At Toycutter: Custom Dead Space toys.

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Dead Space 2 concept art/desktop wallpapers

You can find more Dead Space 2 concept art and desktop wallpaper at the official site and wiki.

*At Toycutter: Dead Space custom toys.

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Fence-A-Thon 10 poster (link roundup)

Poster for Fence-A-Thon 10 in Baltimore by John "Jay" Glenn.

And a few more links:

1. Great example of less can be more - - Fake Steve Jobs is a lot less fun to read now that there's a second blogger and lots more content. In fact, I find myself skimming right past posts now because I simply assume they will be lame.

2. Dead Space fan art.

3. Caught the first half of Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian on the flight home and thought it was pretty darn good, especially every scene with Amy Adams. (Missed the second half when my youngest got a little restless.)

*Previously: Deer devastates itself jumping over a fence.

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Redesigned Swiss Army Knives by Thilo Fuente (link roundup)

Redesigned Swiss Army Knives by Thilo Fuente. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Death confronts an old man, perhaps?

2. A female jedi fights a giant monster.

3. Watch the first 15 minutes of Dead Space Extraction. Looks terrific.

*Previously: Swiss Army greeting card.

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Zombie-Killing Lego Vehicles, Vampire Babes, Frightening T-Shirts (and more)

First, here are two of the entries in the "Zombie Apocalypse Killfest '09" Lego challenge:



Box truck with pop-out weapons by Jonathan Derksen. He also created an apocalypse van.




Zombie-slaughtering trash truck by q_159.




Second, the October issue of Playboy is vampire-themed:


Via.




Third, there's an unlockable Isaac Clark from dead Space costume in the new game My Sims Agents:


Via.



And fourth, Threadless is hosting a horror-themed contest. Here are a few of my favorite entries so far. You can vote by clicking on the voting widgets:

A man undergoes various transformations by Steven Lefcourt:





Classic monsters as sorority and fraternity members by Ian Burns:






Exposed intestines by justshutup:





But the best entry of all is not yet finished - - the Misery Machine by Travis Pitts:



He says:

misery-machine by Dr. Monster.
redesigning the mystery machine for a 'what if' scenerio where the monsters/zombies were real and the scooby gang were monster slayers. (for the threadless loves horror contest)
i may not use this in the picture though because it's so unrecognizable as the mystery machine by this point. but maybe once (a rough and tumble shotgun toting realistic horror movie survivor female) Velma and feral scooby are in front of it, it will make more sense.

*Previously: Post-apocalyptic Lego vehicles.

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Suicidal Humpty Dumpty (link roundup)

The most depressing work of art I've seen since Gavin Turk's $30,000 "cardboard" box, suicidal Humpty Dumpty by Matt Dangler, who has art on sale at his site.

And a few more links:

1. Dead Space illustration by Tim Kelly.

2. Turn of the Century Occult Hero Punisher.

3. Photo of a storm approaching picturesque homes.

*Previously: Plush Humpty Dumpty.

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Gallery Homeland logo (link roundup)

I like the logo for gallery HOMELAND in Portland, which features "cutting edge art." Via.

And a few more links:

1. The winners of the annual Bulwer-Lytton contest have been posted. My favorite won the Detective category:

She walked into my office on legs as long as one of those long-legged birds that you see in Florida - the pink ones, not the white ones - except that she was standing on both of them, not just one of them, like those birds, the pink ones, and she wasn't wearing pink, but I knew right away that she was trouble, which those birds usually aren't.

Via these sites.

2. Pangolins are so cool.

3. Gameplay footage from Dead Space Extraction for the Wii looks great.

4. "Oscar winners Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker will star in a new film about two old lesbians who break out of a nursing home and go on a road trip."

*Previously: Homeland Security threat level bedding.

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Dead Space costume in Tiger Woods PGA Tour

The latest version of Tiger Woods PGA Tour apparently includes a Dead Space costume. Video of the suit in action here. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Barack Obama is lying about his puppy.

2. Interesting discussion of the ways in which people in Western countries are helping the Iranian protesters: "Twitter has become not only a tool for channeling population centric political power against a government, but perhaps even a tool for leveraging population centric military power." (The article focuses on orchestrating denial of service attacks, not making green Twitter profiles.)

3. Gold bar vending machine. Via.

4. Bruce Schneier is having trouble selling his laptop on eBay because scammers keep trying to buy it.

*Previously: How Kendra from Dead Space was designed.

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