Clever ad for a PC

Wall-E is a PC, Eve is a Mac.

*Previously: Wall-E on AMC's Hoarders.

*Buy Wall-E toys at eBay.

Link roundup

1. "Camp Century—aka 'Project Iceworm'—was a 'city under ice,' according to the U.S. Army, a 'nuclear-powered research center built by the Army Corps of Engineers under the icy surface of Greenland.'"

2. If these estimates regarding Apple employee salaries are accurate, then the employees are either totally fungible, or suckers. Via.

3. Illustrator Dan Santat talks about turning down a recent job offer from Google.

*Buy military patches at eBay.

Link roundup

1. "A Seriously Comprehensive Guide to Comedy Podcasts." Via.

2. Apparently many journalists knew that Steve Jobs flew to Switzerland in 2009 for radical cancer treatment unavailable in the USA, and kept it a secret. (I bet this was common knowledge among the well-connected and explains Apple's stock performance over the last two years.)

3. "A 1997 letter from the Vatican warned Ireland's Catholic bishops not to report all suspected child-abuse cases to police." Via.

Link roundup

1. Gizmodo's picks for the best RSS readers on iPhone and Android devices.

2. Harry Reid apparently spent dramatically more per voter than Meg Whitman.

3. Ghastly zombie Christmas ornaments on sale at Etsy.

*Buy Star Wars ornaments at eBay.

Link roundup

1. Big gallery of Tron concept art. Phil Saunders's design for The Siren changed pretty dramatically.

2. Long article at Wired about Think Geek. Via.

3. How to turn an iPod Touch into a free cellphone.

*Buy the iPod Touch at Amazon.

Link roundup

1. This graphic shows the incredible technological progress from the iMac to the iPhone. Via these sites.

2. The bat cave was first seen in the Batman tv serial - - they had a cave set available, but not a hangar. Also, the same link explains something I never understood about Cosmic Odyssey.

3. Here's what it's like to watch 30 great white sharks eating a 36-foot-long whale. Via.

*Buy Batman Happy Meal toys at eBay.

Steve Jobs bust

Steve Jobs bust by Metin Seven on sale here.

*Buy iPods at Amazon.

Link roundup

1. The Best Android Apps for Your Car.

2. And The Best iPhone Apps for Your Car.

3. Neal Stephenson's The Mongoliad is now active. Cory Doctorow gave it a positive write-up.

*The HTC Droid Incredible is $80 at Amazon.

Link roundup

1. The latest, excellent installment of Deadspin's Dead Wrestler of the Week column.

2. Gawker's working overtime humiliating the director of Apple's app store.

3. "Do you feel like your cell phone's text message bill is getting higher every month? You're not alone. By some accounts, text messages cost more per megabyte to send than do messages from outer space to Earth. But you can email and Instant Message texts to phones for free. Here's how."

The Giving Tree iPad decal

The Giving Tree iPad decal via these sites.

*Previously: The Taking Tree.

*Buy iPads at Amazon.

Finally, a use for the iPad (link roundup)

Phantom Zone by Apple via.

And a few more links:

1. Tag Team says Barack Obama was not in the video for Whoomp There It Is.

2. A married couple, who met as adults, were looking at old photos when they realized they're in the same photo from Disneyland as kids. Via these sites.

3. Dancing Alone to Pony is a blog that solely features videos of people dancing to Ginuwine's Pony. Via.

*Previously: Minimalist Superman II posters.

*Buy General Zod toys at eBay.

How to make a Tribble (link roundup)

"A guide for how to make your own non-copyright-infringing version of a tribble."

And a few more links:

1. Apparently it makes good economic sense for Foxconn employees to commit suicide - - the company pays ten years worth of salary to their families.

2. Guild Wars:

Today we terminated more than 3,700 accounts for botting and match manipulation. In cases where guilds were found to be involved in these activities, the guilds were also disbanded. More than a dozen such guilds were disbanded and many others are under continued investigation. Today’s actions are significant not simply because of their immediate impact but also because they represent a new era in enforcement for us.

Via.

3. "By some estimates, about 40 percent of the cases in the Central African court system are witchcraft prosecutions." But is our system really that much more sophisticated?

*Previously: School decides to abandon its witch logo in light of its history of hanging witches.

*Buy Tribbles at eBay.

The kid from Up (link roundup)

A dead ringer for Russell from Up. Via.

And a few more links:

1. This discussion about saving for retirement made me pretty nauseous.

2. Fake Steve Jobs:

Frankly, you sound like exactly the kind of penny-pinching fuckwit that we don’t want using our products anyway, so go buy the Toshiba and enjoy it while it lasts, because it represents the last of its kind. The times they are a changing, and very soon the all-purpose computer, where you can buy and run any software you want, will be obsolete, replaced by the iPad, which costs more and does less and only runs software made by Apple or approved by Apple and sold through Apple’s store.

3. Tentacled skull king banner.

*Previously: Russell paper toy.

*Buy Up toys at eBay.

Joker and Goth Snow White iPad decals

Joker and Goth Snow White iPad decals on sale at Etsy. Via these sites.

And a few more links:

1. Amanda Visell is giving a prize to best photo of her Tik Tok minifigures. Tenacious Toys has them in stock, by the way.

2. Vintage 3-D King Kong poster.

3. A little awkward - - the BP Sea Otter Habitat is scheduled to open this week at the (terrific) Long Beach Aquarium.

*Previously: Snow White thumbs a ride.

*Buy Disney snowglobes at eBay.

Little Red Hiding Hood (link roundup)

Little Red Riding Hood in the forest by Marceline Danousha.


Cover to Incognito: Bad Influences by Sean Phillips. Via.

And a few more links:

1. There's a certain skill to making up rumors that are so delicious they're impossible not to repeat.

2. An speaking of making up rumors, a good one was accusing Gizmodo's Jesus Diaz of fleeing to Spain. The Apple/Gizmodo battle promises to be fascinating for the foreseeable future.

3. The stars of the staging of Wagner's Ring at the LA Opera are complaining to the media about the makeup they have to wear and the design of the stage.

*Previously: A rumor going around is that a certain Yankee has a painting of himself as a centaur hanging above his bed.

*Buy On Rumors: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done at Amazon.

Science Gangster mug (link roundup)

Science Gangster mug on sale here. Via.

And a few more links:

1. And speaking of science gangsters, Bill Gates is funding research into machines that would spray sea water into the sky in order to create clouds that would help fight global warming.

2. Who should play Elena Kagan on SNL?

3. Funny comic about Steve Jobs and the iPad.

*Previously: Gangster Bert and Ernie.

*Buy heat sensitive mugs at Amazon.

Why Steve Jobs hates buttons

A panel from a comic strip explaining why Steve Jobs hates buttons.

*Previously: Collection of antique typewriters.

*Buy jars of buttons at ebay.

iPad art by Andrew Fulton

Andrew Fulton is selling (clever) drawings of the iPad to fund his intended purchase of an iPad. You can commission a drawing, or buy one of the already-completed images. Via.

*Previously: iPad paper toy.

*Buy sketch cards at eBay.

Macbook knockoff (link roundup)

Real apple laptop via.

And a few more links:

1. In retrospect it was probably a hint: Jenny Sanford says her husband, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, refused to promise to be faithful, insisting that the clause be removed from their wedding vows.

2. Cool bird's eye view of the San Fernando Valley (where I live).

3. Some interesting anecdotes about designing Disney collectible pins.

*Previously: Up knockoff.

*Buy portable lie detectors at eBay.

The presentation of the iPad (as papercraft)

Go here to download this papercraft presentation of the iPad.

*Previously: Steve Jobs shows off his Three Wolf Moon t-shirt.

*Buy vintage Macs at eBay.