Papercraft whale (link roundup)

Download the whale paper toy here (bottom left under Free Papertoy Downloads). Via.

And a few more links:

1. Simple, yet effective Jamie Hyneman (Mythbusters) costume.

2. Particularly depressing examples of Google's suggestions for completing search queries. Via.

3. 73-year-old man arrested in Los Angeles for tagging.

*Previously: Mythbusters flu psa.

*Buy Mythbusters toys and DVDs at Amazon.

Mythbusters flu PSA

Funny ad by the Mythbusters guys uses a memorable image to relay a simple message. There's also a Mythbusters minisite about H1N1.

*Previously: When you have unprotected sex, you're sleeping with Hitler.

*Buy surgical masks at Amazon.

Michael Jackson Fail Whale (link roundup)

Michael Jackson/Fail Whale mashup by Raul Orozco. Found via someone I follow on Twitter (I recommend you follow everyone I follow, they do more than just retweet and post to say they've updated their blogs.)

And a few more links:

1. Batman and Robin desktop wallpaper by Dean Trippe.

2. Donkey plus zebra equals zonkey.

3. Adam "Mythbusters" Savage used his Twitter followers to pressure AT&T into forgiving a massive bill he ran up. It's easy to see why celebrities like Twitter so much. They can post absolutely inane things, and get their ego vigorously stroked by several thousand sycophants. Reminds me of Sally Field's character in Soapdish going to the mall.

4. Last week I mentioned a reporter who wrote a magazine article about a police chief and then had an affair with him. Her editor wrote a long, largely defensive article about the scandal. My favorite sentence buried about 12 paragraphs into the article: "Some have also suggested McBride should never have been used as a reporter by the magazine because she was dating Paul Bucher in the 1990s, close to the time she wrote about him." Via.

*Previously: Adam Savage withdraws his claim that evil credit card companies killed an episode of Mythbusters.

*Buy Batman posters at eBay.

The Mythbusters fire 1100 paintguns simultaneously to instantly paint the Mona Lisa

Wow. The Mythbusters were hired by Nvidia to demonstrate how its new processor was superior to other processors.



Now that's how you advertise a product in the internet age. Relatedly, here's Adam Savage explaining that Mythbusters wanted to do a show exposing how hackable rfid tags were, but Texas Instruments, Visa, and the other credit card companies pressured the Discovery Channel into killing the show:



Via.

*Update: Or maybe Adam Savage is a blowhard who should be viewed with a heavy dose of skepticism in the future.

*Previously: Grid Monitor screensaver monitors the health of the power grid.

*Mythbusters dvds are 33% off at Amazon.