Link roundup

1. Godzilla dog.

2. Giant blueberry statue in Oxford, Nova Scotia.

3. Excellent put down of hecklers.

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Link roundup

1. Enter and win t-shirts from Last Exit to Nowhere. Via.

2. Arthur Tien posted a bunch of art for sale (I've previously posted some of it).

3. Some critic wrote a review of Justin Long's latest movie and mocked his talent and looks. Long wrote her a heartfelt response, acknowledging his shortcomings and improbable career.

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New and improved personal library kit

Personal Library Kit and Intimidations and Ultimatums for Every Occasion on sale at Knock Knock. Via these sites.

Link roundup

1. Sean Penn talking trash about Wyclef Jean's plan to run for president of Haiti.

2. Now that Civilization V is coming out, it's the perfect time to buy Civ IV, which might actually run on your computer. The complete edition is $17 at Amazon.

3. Silly monsters desktop wallpaper.

What's your favorite flavor? (link roundup)

A childish playground taunt made fresh and adorable by Paul Hornschemeier, who has various t-shirts on sale here.

And a few more links:

1. Red Hulk paper toy.

2. Another positive review of Microsoft's free security essentials.

3. New t-shirt at Last Exit to Nowhere - - Videodrome.

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Red Ring of Death/Jolly Roger (link roundup)

Red Ring of Death/Skull and Crossbones t-shirt by Jonah Block on sale today at Tee Fury.

And a few more links:

1. Now this is how you trash talk:

He is the ugliest thing I have ever seen. I have watched Lord of the Rings and films with strange looking people, but for a human being to look like he does is pretty shocking.

You got have some guts to say that about a 7'2" boxer. Via.

2. Sports Illustrated says the media protected Ben Roethlisberger (and enabled him) so as to preserve their relationship with the Steelers.

3. CBS apparently loses a whole lot of money on the NCAA tournament every year.

*Previously: Pinwheel of death.

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Minimalist start pages (link roundup)

Go here for soothingly minimalist start pages for Google, Wikipedia, Youtube, and Twitter (although the Twitter page doesn't make sense to me). Via.

And a few more links:

1. Very serious wedding in a forest.

2. The NBA tried to disappear the recently-taken photo of Gilbert Arenas making a shooting gesture at a recent game.

3. Destructoid received a huge sword from the makers of Darksiders, and is giving one away. Destructoid also posted the first ten minutes of Darksiders here.

4. And finally, Mike Krahulik defended Darksiders today:

Luke Plunkett over at Kotaku called Darksiders a "Creative Mess" In his review and laments Joe Madureira's input. This statement alone is enough to make me think that he should probably never write game reviews again. Perhaps he should be relegated to stories about cakes that look like 1up mushrooms or cufflinks shaped like the Triforce.

*Previously: Albert Einstein with Cloud's buster sword.

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Mortal Kombat: The Live Tour tv appearance (link roundup)

Circa 1996, actors from the Mortal Kombat: Live Tour show off their moves and answer questions on an Los Angeles morning news show. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Here's video footage of "Case," the live performance of Neuromancer. (Not quite as exciting as I'd hoped.) Via.

2. The Tim Burton retrospective honors his Southern California roots:

We've attempted to accomplish this by organizing material under “Surviving Burbank” covering the years of Tim's upbringing in Burbank, CA; “Beautifying Burbank” on his years as a student at CalArts and an apprentice animator and concept artist with the Walt Disney Company, including his early collaborations with sculptor and artist Rick Heinrichs, animator Joe Ranft and effects artist Stephen Chiodo; to “Beyond Burbank” for the years since his first feature, "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" (1985), to the present.

Read more about the show here.

3. Cruel nicknames for overweight vampires. For example: Taco Bela.

*Previously: Redesigned Mortal Kombat Characters.

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Dimethyl Sulfate warning sign (link roundup)

The hazmat warning sign for dimethyl sulfate makes it seem kind of awesome.

And a few more links:

1. Newsflash: Stores are set up to play on your emotions and convince you to buy. For example, Costco places high ticket items to get you in the mood to spend, and satisfy your urge to splurge with a more attainable DVD. Via.

2. Kraft wants to buy Cadbury because Cadbury has established a major presence in developing countries such as India. Via.

3. Dan Brown's 20 worst sentences. (I'll never understand his success. I hated the Da Vinci Code. Except for the concept at its core that Christianity was popular because it was an orgy religion, that was fun.)

*Previously: Warning Sign: Batman Crossing Ahead.

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Crate Men Attack Australia (link roundup)

Go to Australia and you just might see a crate man scaling a building. This site documents sightings. Via these fine sites.

And a few more links:

1. Hopefully it's just gamesmanship, but the Philadelphia Public Library system has announced that all libraries will be closed beginning October 2 due to budget problems. Via.

2. A former ESPN employee says Fred Smoot is a tremendous trash-talker who seemingly had done extensive research on opposing receivers' private lives for material, Nick Saban was stunningly vulgar, and that a former ESPN employee who killed himself was "almost universally loathed."

3. Iwo Jima Memorial, if it was sponsored by Disney. Via.

*Previously: Library's parking garage looks like giant books.

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Long overdue, the Kanye West is a fool meme

"I hated Kanye before hating Kanye was cool" - - today's Tee Fury t-shirt by Hydro 74.




"Kanye West Hates White People" t-shirts by Joe D!.




Kanye visits the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats by Adam Koford.

*Previously: Mega Man and Punch Out star in Kanye West's "Robocop."

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How to stop people from leaving dirty dishes in the sink

How to stop people from leaving dirty dishes in the sink? Post a sign that says anyone who does do opposes gay marriage and has committed other thought crimes.

*Previously: Note in stairwell congratulates people on using the stairs.

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This might have ruined James Bond for me (link roundup)

Daniel Craig with a mustache - - it's for a two-man play he's doing with Hugh Jackman, who alas apparently won't be wearing a mustache. Via.

And a few more links:

1. "Did strange people live under the site of Los Angeles 5,000 Years ago?" Here's the first part of the article. Via.

2. Max tames the Wild Things.

3. First line of Matthew Brady's review of the unaired episode of Dolhouse: "Man, Fox made a big mistake in not airing this episode, if only so that we can see Eliza Dushku get outacted even by a little girl."

*Previously: The people who live under your car seat.

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Clever Brett Favre t-shirt (link roundup)

A Brett Favre t-shirt Green Bay residents will be eager to buy if he signs with the Vikings. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Coming soon to an episode of Law & Order: Los Angeles gang members decide to kill one of their own, trick him into going to Mexico, and strangle him and leave him to die. He survives and is now a star witness for the government.

2. Earlier this month it was Newsweek, now the NY Times says excessive exercise of your abs will ruin your back.

3. "Irving Azoff has long been derided in Hollywood as the "Poison Dwarf" because of his size and demeanor."

4. Call Mike Mignola, it's raining tadpoles in Japan.

*Previously: A suggested cover for the fake gang "memoir" by Margaret Jones.

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Torch Tiger (link roundup)

I don't know what Torch Tiger is. But I like the logo.

And a few more links:

1. The winner of Bruce Schneier's movie plot threat contest.

2. "At least 84 Afghan schoolgirls were admitted to a hospital Tuesday for headaches and vomiting in the third apparent poison attack on a girls school in as many weeks."

3. Gawker nominates the world's richest a$$hole:

Germany's Prince Marcus von Anhalt . . . Born Marcus Eberhardt in 1969, he started out as a butcher, went into the brothel business, did some time for tax evasion and human trafficking, then bought himself a title (from Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband): Prinz von Anhalt, Herzog zu Sachsen und Westfalen, Graf von Askanien.

Photo evidence here and here.

4. Space shuttle suffered "minor damage" during take off. Via.

*Previously: Cartoony versions of the Chinese Zodiac star in this bizarre footrace for Onitsuka Tiger.

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At Wieden + Kennedy, even the servers are exciting (link roundup)

At W+K, even the servers are exciting and have their own Twitter feeds.

And a few more links.

1. Salmon skin dress by Isaac Mizrahi.

2. Gourmet sausage bar Wurstkuche in downtown LA has great fries and dipping sauces, but the sausages are nothing special and are insultingly small for the price.

3. One of Bill Simmons' readers, mocking lottery bust Greg Oden's propensity to foul:

As a tribute to Mr. Oden, I spent the entire next day posting Facebook status updates such as, 'Watching Pirates of the Caribbean 2. Can't wait for the part where Greg Oden fouls Orlando Bloom,' and, 'Greg Oden just fouled the word 'Rocket' in the dictionary,' and, 'If Greg Oden goes to an electronics store, and he just looks around without buying anything, could he still commit a foul? Keep in mind, he's not buying anything.' A day well spent, if you ask me."

4. Tiamat as a customer service rep desktop wallpaper.

*Previously: "Toht Day-Glo Bootleg" action figure.

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High class insult cards

Classy insult cards for when you need to tell that special someone to suck it. These and more on sale at Etsy. Here's the designer's Flickr gallery. Via these sites.

*Previously: Video of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog harassing David Blaine.

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An early favorite for best Easter link of 2009

An Easter Egg discovers that she (he?) looks like a whore. It's a t-shirt design submitted at Threadless by Ben Hodgson. You can vote for it by clicking on the voting widget:



*Previously: Egg carton turned into a tank.

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Angry farewell cakes (link roundup)

One of several angry farewell cakes on display here.

And a few more links:

1. Could there possibly have been a time when bees were mailed in tiny little cages. (Umm, is that how they're shipped now?) Via.

2. William Gibson denies being paid to write about Volkswagen in Spook Country. (I was terribly disappointed when I saw what a Buzz Rickson’s bomber jacket actually looked like.)

3. On that topic, anyone else wonder if Monday's Penny Arcade strip about Gilette was a paid ad?

4. Japanese FedEx poster makes delivering packages look awfully exciting.

*Previously: Raiders of the Lost Ark cake.

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Video of the fish with the see-through head (link roundup)

This is the Pacific barreleye fish (Macropinna microstoma), and as you can see, it has a see-through head. Read about it here.

And a few more links:

1. Recipe for Grilled Banana Fluffernutter.

2. Video of a new castle discovered in Shadows of the Colossus?

3. Dirk Nowitzki says Shawn Bradley was his worst teammate: "But, sure it’s bitter sometimes when a teammate doesn’t invest the necessary time. The best example was Shawn Bradley. He would some times come to training camp and not had a ball in his hands for four months."

4. There's a blog dedicated to "women of color, who are breastfeeding their babies." It's called "Blacktating."

*Previously: The fish known as a "Fathead."

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