Daft Punk art (link roundup)

Daft Punk art by Lee Davies. Here's Daft Punk in bumper cars, plus a hippy robot.

And a few more links:

1. Face of Jesus spotted in a bathroom door at Ikea, Glasgow. Via.

2. Part of some harsh Where the Wild Things Are criticism:

a vision of childhood from someone who hates children but remembers being depressed as a child and therefore feels a vague connection to depressed children.

3. A few of the Gates to The Underdeep.

*Previously: How to throw a fancy dress dinner party at Ikea.

*Buy Daft Punk toys at eBay.

Elongated chair (link rondup)

Odd-shaped chair by Valentin Loellmann, who has more furniture on display here. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Funny/accurate observations about shopping at Ikea. Via.

2. The opposition continues to assemble for large protests in Iran. Via.

3. Sometimes a good gift isn't about spending money at all.

*Previously: Pasta chair.

*Buy The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle at Amazon.

How to throw a fancy dress dinner party at Ikea (link roundup)

Go here for a gallery of photos from an (unauthorized) fancy dress party held at Ikea. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Photo of New York Yankees dressed as Batman and classic Batman villains. Shortstop Ramiro Pena actually looks kind of...cool as Catwoman.

2. Relatedly, Johnny Depp as The Riddler. Via.

3. Current big deal in China: A video of an adorable first grade girl. When asked about her ideal life, she said she dreamed of becoming "a corrupt official, as they have lots of property." (Photo link). Via.

*Previously: Megan Fox as Catwoman desktop wallpaper.

*Buy Catwoman toys at eBay.

You've got crabs Charlie Brown (link roundup)

Charlie Brown and venereal disease - - one of several sketches recently posted by Roger Langridge. Don't miss fat Batman.

And a few more links:

1. Michael Yon recalls Robert McNamara.:Back in 1990 I had a series of strange phone conversations with McMamara while doing research for my book We Were Soldiers Once And Young. McNamara prefaced every conversation with this:

"I do not want to comment on the record for fear that I might distort history in the process." Then he would proceed to talk for an hour, doing precisely that with answers that were disingenuous in the extreme — when they were not bald-faced lies.

Upon hanging up I would call Neil Sheehan and David Halberstam and run McNamara's comments past them for deconstruction and the addition of the truth.

The only disagreement I ever had with Dave Halberstam was over the question of which of us hated him the most. In retrospect, it was Halberstam.

When McNamara published his first book — filled with those distortions of history — Halberstam, at his own expense, set out on a journey following McNamara on his book tour around America as a one-man truth squad.

Click through to read how that tour went and for a hilarious story about McNamara and a hippie.

2. Funny warning sign for deadly Swedish elevators.

3. Create-your-own-toy-movie contest. For example: He-Man and the Infinite Sadness. Via.

4. Major layoffs at Ikea. Oh man. Almost every piece of furniture in my house is from Ikea. And my kids love eating and playing there. Via.

*Previously: Charlie Brown as The Watcher.

*Buy vintage sex education books at eBay.

Giant Ikea storage boxes (link roundup)

Ogilvy turned a bunch of balconies in Frankfurt into storage boxes to promote Ikea. More photos here.

And a few more links:

1. A woman went to the police station to speak to police and while talking to them, a squirrel poked his head up from her cleavage. "The woman was not fazed and gently pushed the squirrel back inside her shirt." Photo link.

2. Apparently 100 people were fired from Fox 11 news (in Los Angeles) last week.

3. Heavy metal demon.

4. Shazam, Betty Boop, and a giant robot.

*Previously: The Today Show asks "Cleavage at the office: Inappropriate?"

*Buy Betty Boop toys at eBay.

Misinterpreting spam emails (link roundup)

Elliott Burford's interpretations of spam emails are hilarious.

And a few more links:

1. Apparently, there's a fastener you can get at Ikea that's perfect for holding nails in place.

2. Where the Wild Things Are papercraft - - Bernard.

3. There's some Aquabats desktop wallpapers here, including the Aquabats rounding up a monster.

4. Win a steampunk computer.

*Previously: Spam king escapes from prison.

*Buy Where the Wild Things Are toys at eBay.

Squids and bunnies (link roundup)

Ryen Anderson's website features a desktop wallpaper generator. I used it to create a squid and bunny pattern. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Cat with freaking laser beams for eyes animated gif.

2. Bionic police dog animated gif.

3. Really weird characters animated gif.

4. How to turn an Ikea cabinet into a classy, hidden catbox. Via.

*Previously: Murderous Bunny Robots.

*Buy plush bunnies at eBay.

Imps from Pandora's Box (link roundup)

Great cover to Strange Tales #109. Spotted amidst this Strange Tales gallery.

And a few more links:

1. An anonymous commenter pointed out that you can now input a password at the Skynet Research website. Go here, hover your mouse over the "p" in products to activate the password entry slot, and enter the code skynetresearchinitiatephasetwoprojectjudgementday. Of course, I'm not really clear on what it does next.

2. Donate money to a boy who needs an organ transplant, get to hang out with Trent Reznor. The price really doesn't seem too high if you're a NIN fan.

3. Paint job and new drawer pulls really freshened up a simple Ikea dresser.

4. At Evil Buttons, footage from the MCC Theater's Coraline musical, photo of limited edition Coraline doll.

*Previously: Warhammer 40K Chaos Terminator Cosplay.

*Buy Coraline Dunks at eBay.

Lego Felix the Cat (link roundup)

Lego Felix the Cat. Lots more photos here. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Some funny gossip about the Fast Company CEO.

2. How NFL Teams set up fake social media profiles to dig up dirt on prospects. Via.

3. Website for showing off IKEA design features a talking gramaphone and other weirdness. (But no furniture that caught my eye.)

4. John Gruber says "Digg sends a tremendous amount of traffic to sites that make it to the top of their front page, but it’s the worst kind of traffic: mindless, borderline illiterates." And he puts his money where his mouth is, showing how to block the traffic. The story was apparently buried on Digg.

*Previously: Felix the Cat vinyl toys.

*Buy Felix the Cat toys at eBay.

Edward Gorey-inspired gown/costume (link roundup)

One of many Edward Gorey-inspired costumes spotted here.

And a few more links:

1. Original cover for William Gibson's Neuromancer reminds me of Tron.

2. Tips for adding custom art to a cheap Ikea mouse pad.

3. Tenacious Toys has the first six Mechtorians available for preorder at $15 a piece.

4. Concept poster for Batman 3, featuring a logo that hints at The Riddler and Catwoman.

*Previously: Batman drawn by Edward Gorey.

*Buy Doktor A art toys at eBay.

Adorable mutant plush Panda

I love this adorable mutant plush Panda I saw at Ikea. It's called the "Barnslig Park" and is $10, but not available online.

*See previously posted plush toys here.

*Buy plush monsters at eBay.

Swedish Furniture Name Generator

Link. Via.

Manual for assembling an Ikea-branded Stargate

Link.

*Buy Stargate toys at eBay.