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Airplane emergencies can be awesome (link roundup)

One of three awesome airplane emergencies. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Read an interview with Jacen Burrows, artist on Alan Moore’s upcoming Neonomicon. Via.

2. Hula Squidgirl postcards.

3. Semi-personalized letter Steve Martin used to send out to fans. Via.

*Previously: Mega Shark vs. Airplane infographic.

*Buy dashboard hula girls at eBay.

Haunted House (link roundup)

Haunted House by Jason Limon, who has art on sale here.

And a few more links:

1. "Our main leisure activity is, by a long shot, participating in experiences that we know are not real. When we are free to do whatever we want, we retreat to the imagination—to worlds created by others, as with books, movies, video games, and television." Via.

2. Michael Chabon writes about the Israeli attack on the aid flotilla.

3. If Marmaduke was a horror movie.

*Previously: Horror movies recast with people as the villains.

*Buy haunted house props at Amazon.

Taco Bell's Super Delicious Ingredient Force

DraftFCB Chicago teamed up with Neal Adams to create the Super Delicious Ingredient Force to promote Taco Bell's $2 meals. Via.

UPDATE: Blayne Scott was commissioned to make a Captain Enchilada Sauce custom action figure:

*Previously: Dirty trick by Taco Bell to prevent people from getting water.

*Buy Super Friends at eBay.

BP skull logo (link roundup)

BP Skull logo t-shirt by Ross Robinson on sale here. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Maybe we want photoshop retouching if the alternative is gazing at a model's prominent sternum.

2. Four types of fear:

When the danger is far away, or at least not immediately imminent, the instinct is to freeze. When danger is approaching, the impulse is to run away. When escape is impossible, the response is to fight back. And when struggling is futile, the animal will become immobilized in the grip of fright.

Via.

3. China Mieville talks about his aborted run on Swamp Thing. Via.

*Previously: What if the model for Michelangelo's "David" had a higher BMI?

*Buy The Pop-Up Book of Phobias at Amazon.

BP parodies

Apparently, a real BP advertisement circa 1999.

UPDATE: Actually, Rene points out in the comments that it's a parody t-shirt, and in fact, I posted it a few weeks ago!

Three BP logo parodies from the Greenpeace gallery.

Spongebob Oilypants by Mike Mitchell.

Super Marios Bros. by Shane Parker.

World aflame by Patrick Stephenson.

And meanwhile, the Russians are encouraging us to nuke the leak.

*Buy Greenpeace goods at Amazon.

Grand Theft Election

Grand Theft Election, Dance Dance Constitution, and Super Paranoid Bros. - - the least offensive entries in this Video games for Conservative players theme at Fark.

*Previously: Grand Theft Auto: Emerald City.

*Buy medals at eBay.

Concept art from the new Smurf movie

A few new Threadless submissions. Click on the voting widgets if you'd like the chance to buy them:

Smurf/Avatar mashup by Louise Ingrid Mundo (which I turned into a desktop wallpaper):

Little Warrior - Threadless T-shirts, Nude No More

Wilma Flintstone pin-up by Vincent Lopez:

Prehistoric Pin-up - Threadless T-shirts, Nude No More

Sonic plays some video games by Tom Bryce:

This is a great game! - Threadless T-shirts, Nude No More

*Previously: Logo for James Cameron's new NFL team.

*Buy Avatar toys at eBay.

Lost explained by a very enthusiastic puppet (spoilers)

Puppet Pierre Chang explains last night's episode of Lost (which wasn't filled with clever twists, rather, the writers were simply lying to us all season (effLocke is not a good guy, and Widmore is not a master planner)). Via.

(That's my favorite building in LA behind him, by the way. Like a modern wizard's tower.)

*Previously: Lost by Daniel Danger.

*Buy puppets at eBay.