Showing posts with label pac-man. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pac-man. Show all posts

Help win the war on ghosts



Pac-Man propaganda poster - - one of two new video game-themed propaganda posters by Steve Thomas on sale at Zazzle.

*Previously: Solar system travel posters by Thomas.

*Buy propaganda posters at eBay.

Pac-Man Ghost candy tin (link roundup)




Pac-Man Ghost candy tin on sale for $6 at Amazon.

And a few more links:

1. Photos of people coping with historically-high flood waters in Venice. Via.

2. Steam Crow's Daniel Davis draws Robot 13.

3. Photos of San Francisco's Lombard Street being turned into Candyland.

*Previously: $150 edition of Clue.

*Buy board games cheap at eBay.

Pac-Man/Tron mashup desktop wallpaper



It's Pac-Man meets Tron in this image by Pixel Fantasy. You can download it as a desktop wallpaper here. And don't miss sad Mac and Blue Screen of Death iPhone wallpapers. Thanks, Gery.

*Previously: High-res stills from the Tron Legacy trailer.

*Buy Tron toys at eBay.

Papercraft Pac-Man (link roundup)



Papercraft Pac-Man by Matt Hawkins (not available for download).

And a few more links:

1. In Afghanistan, Chinese workers build new roads, and American soldiers protect them. Via.

2. Official site for James Cameron's Avatar - - only content so far is you can subscribe to various feeds.

3. Tron: Legacy poster concept.

*Previously: Fishing lure looks just like Pac-Man.

*Buy Avatar toys at Amazon.

Fishing lure looks just like Pac-Man (link roundup)



"The Stormy Petrel" fishing lure looks just like Pac-Man. Up for bid here. Via these sites.

And a few more links:

1. The Mycocepurus smithii species of ants reproduces by cloning and also maintains a garden of fungus. Via.

2. Driving instructor found guilty of DUI. Seems like it's a unique case - - he was not the driver. Via.

3. Apparently, Coca-Cola came up with the name "Tab" for its first diet drink by using a computer "programmed to disgorge every four-letter combination containing a vowel. Out came 250,000 combinations, and 600 names were examined as possibilities. But only 24, a mere four percent, had no conflict with existing trademarks. (One of them, Tabb, was shortened to Tab.)" Via.

4. There's now a Muji online store for the USA.

*Previously: Video of an anteater drinking wine.

*Buy vintage computers at eBay.

How to make a stop motion animation puppet (link roundup)



This video makes it look almost simple to create a stop motion animation puppet (well, at least the head). The puppet is of Sam Tyler from the show Life on Mars (which I never watched). If you're a fan of the show, you might enjoy reading this list of clues buried in the show. Via.

And a few more links:

1. A cunning way in which gypsies use their bad reputation to scare people out of money.

2. Creepy version of Pac-Man by TS Rogers.

3. You can download the 4-issue comic book series Some Kind of Slaughter, which has been nominated for a Harvey Award. Via these sites.

4. Baby manatee photos.

*Previously: Pac-Man as samurai.

*Buy plush manatees at eBay.

Video of a jumbo jet blowing people right off a beach (link roundup)



Video of a jumbo jet blowing people, right off a beach into the water. (Don't spoil this by telling me it's a known fake.)

And a few more links:

1. I didn't know there was a fake Canon blog mocking the company (the company gives its workers time off to have sex?). But I know about it now that it received a takedown notice from Canon's lawyers. Via.

2. If the Umbrella Academy's Spaceboy was fat.

3. I probably would have liked Pac-Man more if the fifth ghost had been "Cobra Commander."

4. Bowls of oatmeal with strawberry faces.

*Previously: Umbrella Academy paper toys.

*Preorder "The Umbrella Academy PVC Figure Set" at Amazon.

Now that's one geeky D&D character (link roundup)



Bayesian Empiramancer found here. This might help explain the reference to you (if you're smarter than me.)

And a few more links:

1. Photos from an upcoming episode of Dinner Impossible that will feature a meal at Yahoo. With Robert Irvine!

2. Rolling Stone explores the dark side of female teachers sleeping with high school guys. Here's a truly creepy line:
"Thanks," Ms. Tapp said with a slow, amused smile. She was slim, blond and sporty, in khakis and a blue-striped rugby shirt. Jason remembers thinking that it looked like the shirt Steve always wore on Blue's Clues.
Via.

3. If Pac-Man and the ghosts were hip-hop teens.

4. Alternate poster for Tom Cruise's Valkyrie.

*Previously: More weird Pac-Man links.

*Buy Pac-Man toys at eBay.