FAIL stickers (link roundup)

FAIL stickers on sale here. Via these sites.

And a few more links:

1. Mark Waid says, "I generally believe that hate and vitriol should be reserved for people who deliberately try to do you harm, not people who try and sometimes fail to entertain you." Via.

2. Speaking of, here's a fairly infallible way to respond to haters.

3. Steven Seagal vs. Disastorm (a really big storm).

4. Video of Lego Fallingwater.

*Previously: Panda on a slide FAIL.

*Buy Lego minifigs at eBay.

Love desktop wallpaper (link roundup)

Download the love desktop wallpaper here.

1. Fossil of 43-foot snake found in Colombia. It's been dubbed "Titanoboa," and "[i]t challenges everything we know about how big a snake can be." Via.

2. Class action lawyer obtained for his "clients" (the members of the class) a settlement of a $10 gift card each. Usually the lawyer would earn a hefty fee, and the lawyer, Neil B. Fineman, was "entitled" to a $125,000 fee. But Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brett Klein ruled that Fineman will be paid in gift cards, instead - - "12,500 ten-dollar Windsor Fashions gift cards." Via.

3. Stephen King says J.K. Rowling's a great writer, but Stephanie Meyer "can't write worth a damn." On that topic, Stephen King's magazine columns for Entertainment Weekly are unreadable. Via.

4. CollectionDX is giving away a cool gorilla soldier.

*Previously: Artist specializes in carving wooly mammoth ivory.

*Buy amber fossils at eBay.

Two funny Threadless submissions

I wouldn't wear them as t-shirts, but these two Threadless submissions gave me a laugh. Links are to the artists' sites. You can vote for the designs by clicking on the voting widgets.



"Thomas Edison" by Let's Make Art.







"Apology Accepted" by Thomas De Santis



*Previously: Wheelchair with a flamethrower.

*Buy children's books featuring wheelchairs at Amazon.

Trailer for Indiana Jones and The Staff of Kings (link roundup)

Clever transitions take Indy on a tour of classic environments:



Indiana Jones and The Staff of Kings, apparently coming out for the Wii later this year.

And a few more links:

1. Funny line (about Digg's money trouble): "There's No I in TEAM, But There is in FAIL."

2. Skeleton bicycle by Jud Turner. Via.

3. Man I hate how Dreamworks cartoons look.

4. Media Molecule highlights another batch of custom Little Big Planet levels.

*Previously: Indiana Jones-themed desktop icons.

*Buy Indiana Jones toys at eBay.

Tiny Lego Star Destroyer (link roundup)

Tiny Lego Star Destroyer by Matt "monsterbrick" Armstrong.

And a few more links:

1. Vintage copy of Alice in Wonderland.

2. New Transformer cassette. (The cassettes were always my favorite.)

3. You have a few hours left to try to win a kidrobot Yo Gabba Gabba Plex.

4. As I mentioned before, Chrysler was dumb enough to use stimulus money to place big "Thank You" ads in newspapers. They were also dumb enough to blog about it and allow comments. Which were hilarious.

*Previously: More Alice in Wonderland links.

*Buy Lego minifigs at eBay.

Cover to Star Wars: KOTOR #40 (link roundup)

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic #40 cover by Daryl Mandryk. Via.

And a few more links:

1. For nearly 40 years, Bill Richardson claimed to have been drafted by a professional baseball team.

2. Thorough insult to JFK Jr. and Princess Diana:

[JFK Jr.] comes off sounding like some thin-lipped, dim-witted, bad-backed polo player whose empty head can barely retain enough limited cocktail chatter to get him through a dinner with that international moron, Princess Di.

3. U.S. private-sector firms shed 693,000 jobs in December. Via.

4. The origin of the expression "there's no such thing as a free lunch."

*Previously: Roger Ebert's favorite insults.

*Buy KOTOR toys at eBay.

Fast Food mascots buried under snow (link roundup)

Fast food mascots buried under snow in Portland.

1. Best insults Roger Ebert has written about movies.

2. GM has 96,000 employees but provides health benefits to a million people. More surprising numbers.

3. Even now, every $399 PS3 sells for a $50 loss. Via.

4. Handy flowchart for deciding whether or not to visit Somalia.

*Previously: Insult of the day.

*Buy Fast Food toys at eBay.

Robot tells jokes and provides its own rim shot (link roundup)

This robot made by Christopher Palmer tells jokes and follows them up with rim shots.


Things - CTP Constructed a Rim Shot Bot from Bre Pettis on Vimeo.

Via.


Here's a few more links:

1. Japanese Coast Guard using plastic bottles as cheap life preservers. Via.

2. Heidi MacDonald takes a shot at the Blog@ writers.

3. "Duncan Donut" monster.

4. Dr James Graham was a sex therapist in the 18th century. His inventions included the Grand Celestial Bed - - a "fertility-inducing contraption . . . surrounded by magnetic fields, tubes, mirrors, perfumes and musical accompaniments." Via.

*Previously: UK facing a sperm shortage. Really.

*Buy emergency kits at Amazon.

Craig Ferguson humiliates NBC exec Ben Silverman

The politics at the networks are far more interesting than the shows they put on tv. Here, CBS' Craig Ferguson mocks NBC exec Ben Silverman's so-disturbing-it-can't-possibly-be-real laugh:



Via.

*Previously: Cobra Commander and The Baroness share a good laugh.

*Buy "The Late Shift: Letterman, Leno, and the Network Battle for the Night" at Amazon.

C-3PO with a lightsaber

Not Photoshopped - - he's a new playable character you can download for Force Unleashed.

Here's a few more random links:

1. When Roger Ebert told his mom that he'd won the Pulitzer Prize, she responded "Oh, honey, does it pay anything?"


2. Draw a comic strip depicting a medical operation, win a copy of Tezuka's Black Jack. For inspiration, here's Black Jack operating on a whale.


3. As I suspected, Michael Phelps did not eat 12,000 calories a day during the Olympics.


4. The presidential lectern is armored, weighs several hundred pounds, and covers most of the President's body.

*Previously: Gallery of people, animals giving the finger.

*Buy Vancouver Olympics merchandise at eBay.

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog harasses David Blaine

Video of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog harassing David Blaine, who is currently hanging upside down for some lame stunt. Absolutely hilarious, and don't miss Blaine and Triumph reenact the famous kiss from Spider-Man.



Via.

*Previously: How many Spider-Men can fit in a Jamba Juice?

*Buy The Best of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog DVD at Amazon.

Best magazine covers 2008, as chosen by the American Society of Magazine Editors

Head over here to see the full list of magazine covers chosen by the American Society of Magazine Editors as the best of 2008, and head over here to see the gallery. All in all the choices are pretty lackluster. But these two are great:


March 24, 2008 New York cover pointing out that Eliot Spitzer kept his brain between his legs




June 30, 2008 cover showing McCain as best pals hanging out on the beach

Via.

*Previously: April Fool's cover of The Jewish Journal.

*Buy 100 Years of Magazine Covers at Amazon.

Chris Judge shows how to make money drawing portraits

Offer to draw "non-flattering" portraits. More here.

Relatedly, "portraits of famous people tend to look like the painters because the artists were all simply depicting themselves, according to new research." Link.

*Previously: Annie Leibovitz photographs Michael Phelps and Julianne Moore as mermaids.

*Vanity Fair: The Portraits: A Century of Iconic Images is 37% off at Amazon.

Teenager sells website created with free tools for $60,000 (and other news)

1. Using free software, Hansup Yoon, age 15, created a forum called ZuneBoards, devoted to Microsoft's Zune. In two years it grew to 60,000 members and pulled in about $1,000 a month thanks to AdSense and Tribal Fusion. He just sold it for $62,000, which is presumably far more than Microsoft has made by selling the Zune. Details here.

2. Buffalo Bills rookie offensive tackle Demetrius Bell is the lowest rated player in Madden 2008. Link.

3. See the differences between an article that appeared in the New York Times, and the heavily altered version that appeared in a Beijing newspaper.

4. NASA space shuttle mission had a secret emblem which signified that the shuttle mission had the secret task of deploying a satellite inspection spacecraft.



*Previously: Awesome U.S. military patches part 6.

*Emblems from the Pentagon's Black World is 32% off at Amazon.

Poster for House, M.D.

Poster for House, M.D., by Canyon Design Group. Via.

*Find more posters here.

*House dvd collections are 45% off at Amazon.

Video of UFC fighter Jon Koppenhaver explaining why he legally changed his name to "War Machine" amd other news of the day

You can read more about "War Machine" at Wikipedia.

Other weird news of the day:

1. Video of a moth with the face of Jesus.

2. Video of driver driving wrong way on freeway. The reporter mocks the driver at length, repeatedly calling him a "rocket surgeon." First time I've heard that phrase, but it's surprisingly common.

3. Roger Ebert tells Jay Mariotti to suck it.

4. West Point instructor describes fascinating visit with Sikhs at the Golden Temple.

*Find more weird news here.

*Buy War Machine action figures at eBay.

O.J. Simpson attacked and bloodied by 39-year-old daughter and other news of the day

1. O.J. Simpson was reportedly attacked and bloodied by his 39-year-old daughter Arnelle. In a bit of delicious irony, he declined to press charges for the domestic violence.

2. LA Times editor allows article to mention that robbery suspects were "5'6" - 6'0" tall, 150 –200 pounds – in their early to late 20s" but removes fact that they were African-American. After readers pointed out the obvious missing information, the LA Times said it was just a mistake by an overeager editor. Well, that's sort of what the explanation was.

3. TMZ has video of Beyonce's sister, Solange Knowles, starting an interview by saying she is dissatisfied by the introduction the host gave.

4. Wikileaks intends to auction off limited time exclusive access to three years worth of Hugo Chavez's personal email.

5. Dave Barry reminisces about the time he and a few colleagues went to the 1988 Democratic Convention "protest zone" with boxes on their heads and managed to be covered by the national news.

*Find more news stories here.

*Find great deals on Dave Barry's books at Amazon.

A drawing of Rob Liefeld drawing Skeletor while complaining...

Wow, D.J. Coffman really will draw anything for $2, even a drawing of Rob Liefeld drawing Skeletor while complaining about not being able to draw feet.

Another recent standout: Barack Obama vs John McCain- Pokemon Battle!



*Previously: McCain 1908 T-Shirt.

*Buy D.J. Coffman's Hero By Night at Amazon.

7 Scariest Women At The 2008 Olympic Games

I try to avoid linkbait, but hey, I had to post something Olympic-related. And these women are fairly scary. Via.

Anyone want to nominate the scariest men in the Olympics?

And since I'm on the topic, here's a reader submission: 10 famous ugly people.

*There's already over 4,000 collectibles for the 2008 Olympics at eBay.

NY Times unimpressed with Ted Allen's new Food Network show

Here's the first sentence by Mike Hale:

You can call it the Ted Allen Rule, though it could also be the Carson Kressley Rule or the Thom Filicia Rule: the best qualification for being a reality host or judge is having been a reality host or judge, especially if you’re gay.

Read the whole thing. Via.

*Previously: In "Plastic Chef," competitors compete to make the most convincing fake food.