Link roundup

1. Gawker caught Men's Health reusing articles from prior issues and just changing the byline.

2. SunChips bags apparently don't actually break down. Via.

3. Great photo of icicles in a NY City subway station.

Link roundup

1. New Trading Places t-shirt on sale at Last Exit to Nowhere.

2. A professor in New York has been quoted as an expert in 150 articles in the NY Times by 78 separate authors over the past 20 years.

3. "Postdoc Vipul Bhrigu destroyed the experiments of a colleague in order to get ahead. It took a hidden camera to expose a surreptitious and malicious side of science."

*Buy science kits at Amazon.

Batman #700 by Mike Mignola (link roundup)

Batman #700 cover by Mike Mignola:




Superman #700 cover by Eduardo Risso:



Via.

And a few more links:

1. Sunday, I posted excellent short films made to promote Alan Wake that were clearly inspired by David Lynch's Twin Peaks. Ironically, David Lynch himself was hired to direct a 16 minute short movie for Dior. It's laughably pathetic. I defy you to make it more than halfway without losing interest.

2. Prince of Persia augmented reality bus ads.

3. "10 Newsweek Staffers Who Will Help Save The Magazine...Or Be Awesome Hires For Someone Else."

4. By comparison, here's a pretty wild description of what it used to be like to work for Newsweek.

*Previously: Fin Fang Foom by Mike Mignola.

*Buy sketch cards by Mike Mignola at eBay.

Cats dancing (link roundup)

Furious dancing in this invitation to a showing of Leo Fitzpatrick's artwork at Half Gallery. Via.

And a few more links:

1. "iPhone is my new Tamagotchi."

2. Howard Saltz, vice president for content development, explaining a plan to charge for online news:

If someone robbed a bank, that's in front of the wall. The story of how bank robberies increase when the economy goes bad, behind the wall.

Who could resist paying for that?

3. Here's how it looks when only 1,000 people attend an NBA game.

*Previously: Dancing House.

*Buy NBA bobbleheads at eBay.

Classics given a Star Trek twist (link roundup)

Jesus Christ Superstar and The Shining given a Star Trek twist in this week's edition of Photoshop Phriday.

And a few more links:

1. How to take forced perspective photographs. Via.

2. A recent most emailed NY Times article claimed that there had been numerous killings in the Phillipines related to karaoke performance of "My Way." But as this analysis points out, the article cited no evidence whatsoever indicating that the story wasn't made up. Via.

3. Ron Jaworski breaks down Jay Cutler's 26 interceptions (they were Cutler's fault). Via.

*Previously: Star Trek recruitment poster.

*Buy Star Trek ornaments at eBay.

George Washington dressed as Lady Gaga (link roundup)

Defaced money featuring Lady Gaga's fashions (site, including the header, features unpleasant imagery). Via these sites.

And a few more links:

1. Pretty exciting comic strip about folding laundry.

2. Silly animated gif about a prison visit.

3. During news broadcasts, KTLA 5 in Los Angeles ran a three-part series on how great Ford is doing. At the end of the newscasts, they ran a disclaimer saying that Ford had paid a "sponsorship fee" to KTLA "in connection" with the coverage. Via.

*Previously: Lady Gaga fashion cookies.

*Buy US President bobbleheads at eBay.

Fark's rejected Christmas cards (link roundup)

From Fark's Rejected Christmas Cards theme.

And a few more links:

1. The WSJ says:

[Tiger] Woods cut an unusual deal with American Media Inc., the owner of both Men's Fitness magazine and the National Enquirer tabloid newspaper. Mr. Woods agreed to the cover shot and photo spread in Men's Fitness, whose circulation of about 700,000 per issue is less than half of Golf Digest's nearly 1.7 million, in return for the National Enquirer squelching a story and photographs purportedly showing Mr. Woods in a liaison with a woman who wasn't his wife.

2. Steps to take now to make it easier to reclaim your Google account if it ever gets hacked.

3. "The Roman Catholic Church and the police in Ireland systematically colluded in covering up decades of child sex abuse by priests in Dublin, according to a scathing report released Thursday." Via.

UPDATE: Sinhead O'Connor has strong words for the Pope. Via.

*Previously: Rejected Fallout perks.

*Buy Tiger Woods toys at eBay.

Jake Gittes Lego CubeDude (link roundup)

Jake Gittes (Chinatown) and Ghostbusters Lego CubeDudes by Angus MacLane.

And a few more links:

1. San Francisco: The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S. Via.

2. Sample question to see if law school is right for you.

3. Crunching the numbers to determine if McSweeney's San Francisco Panorama experiment indicates a way to make profitable newspapers (Nope, not remotely). Via.

*Previously: The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril.

*Buy the Panorama at Amazon.

10-dimensional paperweight (link roundup)

Calabi-Yau Manifold Crystal on sale here. Via these sites.

And a few more links:

1. A bunch of Lego cats.

2. A bank across from police headquarters in Los Angeles has been robbed twice in the last six months.

3. It used to be that the day I.D. magazine's annual design review came out was one of my favorite days of the year. But the magazine became superfluous years ago and finally announced that it's ceasing publication. Maybe they'll find the time to create a decent website now.

*Previously: Vampire Bat Acrylic Paperweight.

*Buy Lego minifigs at eBay.

Alice in Wonderland cupcakes (link roundup)

Alice in Wonderland cupcakes by Natalie Bode. See also: Baby cupcakes.

And a few more links:

1. Young Iron Man by Sean Galloway.

2. Disturbing sculpture (hanged woman, perhaps?) by Esao Andrews.

3. Sounds like the people running the newsrooms at CBS, KCAL9, and Fox in Los Angeles are running around like chickens with their heads cut off.

*Previously: Looking Glass Wars concept art.

*Buy Iron Man toys at eBay.

Millenium Falcon cake (link roundup)

Millenium Falcon cake by Elena of Charm City Cakes. See also: Typewriter cake for the Washington Post.

And a few more links:

1. Adorable excavators.

2. Horus Heresy (Warhammer 40K) art.

3. Washington Post golf reporter says he and his fellow reporters never even suspected Tiger Woods' activities. Via.

*Previously: Video of a real life Warhammer 40K Rhino rolling over cars.

*Buy Millenium Falcons at eBay.

Soon to be recalled Tiger Woods ad (link roundup)

"Have you got the balls" Tiger Woods video game ad. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Team Fortress 2 propaganda contest. Via.

2. Men's Health intentionally reuses covers as a "branding strategy."

3. Tracy McGrady (who hasn't played this year) is on pace to be voted in as an All-Star starter, possibly because he plays for the Rockets, and the Chinese vote for Yao's teammates.

*Previously: Anime-style NBA heroes.

*Buy NBA bobbleheads at eBay.

Superbot (link roundup)

Superman/robot by Giskar.

And a few more links:

1. 2009 Lucasfilm greeting card comes with gingerbread Clone Trooper, Anakin, Obi Wan and more.

2. You can now watch a demo showing off Time Inc’s new digital magazine concept. Looks pretty cool if you don't have access to the internet or a TV or a regular magazine.

3. Complicated, but realistically doable papercraft spaceships.

*Previously: Boy and his Superman balloon.

*Buy vintage Superman toys at eBay.

Vintage iPod, perhaps? (link roundup)

One of several 18th century color charts posted here. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Homemade Indiana Jones props: Amulet from The Fate of Atlantis, and wrapped Grail diary from The Last Crusade.

2. This post about Comcast's efforts to buy NBC is a good reminder that the vast majority of "news" reporters report is really whatever facts some interested party has leaked.

3. Here's a list of 22 magazines that are earning more this year than last. (I'm not sure I'd want any of them even if they were free). Via.

*Previously: Indiana Jones goes over a Lego waterfall.

*Buy Indiana Jones lunch boxes at eBay.

Pocket Firefox logo (link roundup)

Pocket Firefox logo by Yaroslaff Chekunov.

And a few more links:

1. Less you think we're even close to passed the current economic transformation, the NY Times has announced that it has to eliminate (at least) 100 newsroom jobs.

2. And Hawaiian public schools will be closed pretty much every Friday for the rest of the school year. (I guess if parents are laid off, they'll have time to watch the kids.)

3. And Pennsylvania anticipates the need to layoff more workers, also.

In other words, no matter how secure your job seems, now is the time to save money, network, and learn some new work skills.

*Previously: Reimagined Firefox logo by David Lanham.

*Buy Firefox posters at eBay.

Earth and Jupiter in one photo (link roundup)

Earth and Jupiter photographed together. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Gawker reports a claim that the Wall Street Journal is "hemorrhaging money." (Which would explain Rupert Murdoch's switch from boasting of giving content away for free, to trumpeting the need to demand payment for content.)

2. "Dick Giordano had a page of Teen Titans colored blue to help sort of 'sneak' the first interracial embrace in mainstream comics through." See the panel here.

3. Photograph of a giant octopus attack.

*Previously: Moon, Jupiter, and Venus over Los Angeles.

*Buy octopus toys at eBay.

Spaghetti cupcakes (link roundup)

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs cupcakes. See also: Fortune cookie cupcakes. Via.

And a few more links:

1. The Spanish ribbed newt thrusts its ribs out of its body to use as weapons. Like Wolverine, they can retract the claws and heal the injuries. Via.

2. And here's another weird one: six-foot long jellynose fish. Via.

3. Dan Lyons makes an excellent point about newspapers:

Ask anyone who's an expert in anything—whether it's bicycle racing or brain surgery—what they think when they read a newspaper article about their field. Chances are they cringe, because the material is so dumbed-down, and because it's so clear that whoever wrote the article has no real expertise on this topic.

Via.

*Previously: Wolverine Munny.

*Buy X-Men sketch cards at eBay.

Hollywood Drinking and Drawing (link roundup)

Hollywood Drinking and Drawing spotted here. To be a party invitation, I presume.

And a few more links:

1. Comment and win buttons.

2. Why would the government bail out newspapers when the public clearly prefers news on the web? It's so much easier to leak stories to newspapers and then tell tell them what to publish.

3. Photo of angels descending from heaven, perhaps?

*Previously: Street Angel the movie.

*Buy Design for Special Events: 500 of the Best Logos, Invitations, and Graphics at Amazon.

Captain America and Bucky vs the Nazis (link roundup)

Captain America and Bucky by Paolo Rivera - - if you buy one his black and white illustrations at Splash Page, he'll also send you a color version.

And a few more links:

1. Vivid description of working on a magazine in the 80's.

2. Want to reduce your appetite for awhile? Look at this photo of the world's biggest English breakfast. Via.

3. Tenacious Toys has the ThreeA Bramble robots available for preorder.

*Previously: Kinda stylish Captain America outfit for a girl.

*Buy ThreeA toys at eBay.

Mekanek goes clubbing (link roundup)

Mekanek and the rest of the Masters of the Universe go clubbing in these images by Adrian Riemann. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Bleeding Woman Brand Tampons logo (not a real product, as far as I can tell).

2. Southwest will no longer offer lemons on flights (you can still get limes). The switch will save $100,000 a year. Via.

3. Michael Masnick of the excellent TechDirt artfully explains why paywalls won't help newspapers: "It's putting up a tollbooth on a 50-lane highway where the other 49 lanes have no tollbooth, and there's no specific benefit for paying the toll."

*Previously: Stylish tampon cases.

*Buy Masters of the Universe Toys at eBay.