TSA Announces Facebook Integration For Full Body Scanners

"TSA Announces Facebook Integration For Full Body Scanners." Details here.

Link roundup

1. The Death's Head Samus print I previously mentioned is now on sale.

2. Quick Hit NFL Football is a free to play football game that allows you to call all the plays (but not actually control the players).

3. @louisvirtel: My mom joined Facebook. I sold her on this pitch: "Picture everyone you ever wanted to get ugly. It happened."

*Buy Metroid: Other M at Amazon.

Maximedia's vintage ads now available as high-res downloads

Maximedia's vintage-style ads for Youtube, Skype, Twitter, and Facebook are now available as high-res downloads. Via.

*Buy vintage televisions at eBay.

Link roundup

1. Fark:

What do the United Nations, Halliburton, Church of Scientology, Lucasfilm, and Sega all have in common? They all downloaded the infamous facebook profile torrent.

Here's more companies that downloaded it.

2. "On Wednesday, both Boston papers carried front-page stories about Sports Business Journal's report that NESN's Red Sox ratings had plummeted 36 percent. (The Boston Globe also reported that WEEI's ratings were down 16.5 percent, and that male listeners between the ages of 25 and 54 had dwindled by 28 percent.)" Via.

3. The Portland DA will not file charges against Al Gore for what sounds like very good reasons.

*Buy Al Gore toys at eBay.

Alice in Wonderland print (link roundup)

Alice in Wonderland print by Magen Mitchell on sale at Etsy. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Sign for "Unoppressive, nonimperialist bargain books."

2. Another Lifehacker post about the new Facebook privacy options.

3. Yeti paper toy.

*Previously: Alice in Bazookaland.

*Buy Alice in Wonderland toys at eBay.

Papercraft Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear

Download the Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear paper toy.

And a few more links:

1. Lifehacker's guide to Facebook's new privacy controls.

2. Reasons why Cormac McCarthy's The Road was not remotely "realistic."

3. The 8 Worst Restaurant Meals In America For 2010.

*Previously: Upbeat alternate book cover for Cormac McCarthy's "The Road."

*Buy Toy Story toys at eBay.

Robot pin-up girl (link roundup)

A robot misuses a copier in this illustration by Robin Ator for Robots and Monsters. You can order your own at the link.

And a few more links:

1. Preview information for a Lowbrow Tarot featuring a lot of great artists.

2. iTag is a free app that will locate your lost or stolen Android Phone. Via these sites.

3. Quick tips for combating the new Facebook anti-privacy moves.

*Previously: Lost-themed tarot.

*Buy the Droid for $20 at Amazon.

South Park mocks Facebook and Jim Cramer (link roundup)

Hilarious South Park episode mocking Facebook, and making great use of Tron.

And a few more links:

1. AT&T phones are only 1 cent at Amazon. (My wife set up her Droid/Verizon through Amazon without any problem at all.)

2. Google favors fast-loading pages in search results.

3. Next time someone talks about the "innocent" people wrongfully on death row, keep in mind that they might have a curious idea of what innocent means.

*Previously: Tron-esque poster by James White.

*Buy Tron toys at eBay.

Vintage Facebook advertisment (and more)

Vintage Facebook ad, poster for NASA, tentacled monster, Enterprise and Death Star - - a few samples from Moustafa Khamis' portfolio. Via these sites.

*Previously: Hamlet, written as a series of Facebook entries.

*Buy NASA collectibles at eBay.

Headless Horseman painting (link roundup)

Headless Horseman and Ichabod Crane painting by John Quidor.

And a few more links:

1. I'm amazed people wearing t-shirts advertising kgb mobile were allowed to sit behind home plate during the World Series.

2. Apparently, Facebook will ask people to be nice to you if it notices that you're a social outcast.

3. Soon all content will be crowdsourced - - the New Yorker wants you to use its cartoon kit to make comic strips. Via.

*Previously: Hamlet, written as a series of Facebook entries.

*Buy Headless Horseman toys at eBay.

Spacebook, Animals With Lightsabers, Star Tours Update

Darth Vader check up on his coworkers using "Spacebook" in today's Tee Fury t-shirt by Hogboy.






There's a site devoted to animals with lightsabers. Via.




The updated version of Star Tours will be in 3D and feature various environments, including a podrace.

*Previously: Sith Squirrel uses lightning.

*Buy Star Wars sketch cards at eBay.

Darth Vader, after a trip to the dentist (link roundup)

Video of Darth Vader, after some oral surgery (and drugs) at the dentist. Probably funny even if you haven't seen the inspiring video David after the dentist.

And a few more links:

1. Video of Gwyneth Paltrow telling Oprah she doesn't watch what she eat.

2. How to protect your privacy on Facebook. Via.

3. Disturbingly large army of tiny snowmen.

4. A judge dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by three women whose photos appeared in the book "Hot Chicks with Douchebags," concluding the images were permissibly "used for humorous social commentary." Possibly one of the best sentences in an opinion ever:

how can a person reasonably believe that in 1981 archaeologist Renee Emile Bellaqua uncovered in a cave in Gali Israel a highly controversial Third Century religious scroll suggesting that the "douchey/hotty" coupling was a troublesome facet in early social religious structures?

Link. Via.

*Previously: Snowman preservation suit.

*Buy "Hot Chicks with Douchebags" at Amazon.