Karate School

A few gems from Reddit:


Ad for a Karate school.



The Firefox.



Big slide.



Collar tag for cats.

Pikachu cat

Pikachu cat. (How long until someone pulls this off for real? 15 years?) Via.

*Buy Pikachus at eBay.

Link roundup

1. The more Star Wars: The Old Republic gameplay videos I see, the less excited I get.

2. Natasha Allegri trash talks her cat.

3. A couple frozen in carbonite by Paul Pape.

*Buy carbonite toys at eBay.

This dog is comfortable where he is

Man sweeping snow around a dog. Via.

Parrot singing Let the Body Hit the Floor

Video of a parrot singing Drowning Pool's Let the Body Hit the floor. (Not just the chorus, the verses, too.)

Watchmen poster (link roundup)

Watchmen poster from a truth in advertising contest at Worth 1000.

And a few more links:

1. Wonder Woman body paint (NSFW, but pretty tame).

2. Meet Giant George, the world's tallest dog. Via.

3. Dan Hipp is giving away signed comics.

*Previously: Tiny plush Watchmen.

*Buy Watchmen posters at eBay.

Videos of dogs welcoming home soldiers

Thanks to all the soldiers out there. Go here for several more videos of dogs welcoming their masters. Via.

Sith Lord Cat (link roundup)

Sith Lord Cat spotted at the regularly updated Animals With Lightsabers.

And a few more links:

1. New Bioshock 2 concept art featuring Jacob Norris.

2. Always funny when the father of cyberspace has websurfing issues.

3. Keeping the meme alive (with a twist), Devil Dinosaur riding Superman.

*Previously: Pee Wee Herman as a Splicer.

*Buy Bioshock toys at eBay.

Bumbledog

Bumbledog by Anthony Pafford - - the winning entry in Amanda Visell's Twitter Dunny giveaway.

*Previously: Bumblecat.

*Buy Amanda Visell toys at eBay.

Cat dressed as a bee

Photos of a cat dressed as a bumblebee. Available, along with many more photos, in desktop wallpaper sized images here. Found when I was looking for an image to help me win this contest.

*Previously: Felix the Cat dressed as Mickey Mouse.

*Buy costumes for pets at Amazon.

T-shirt for a trap, neuter, and return charity (link roundup)

T-shirt Ray Frenden made for his wife’s trap, neuter, return charity for stray cats.

And a few more links:

1. Funny effort by a boy to convince his mom to buy a stuffed animal.

2. Pretty mailbox.

3. Photo of the colorful storefront for George's Wonderful World of Cakes.

*Previously: Guitar store facade looks like giant amp.

*Buy plush monsters at eBay.

The Dead Weather concert poster (link roundup)

The Dead Weather concert poster on sale for $40 here.

And a few more links:

1. A dog owner couldn't stop her dog from biting, and even Cesar Milan's help proved ephemeral, so she turned to a veterinary dentist who specializes in canine disarming:

Instead of extracting the four canines, Nielsen cuts away 4 millimeters of tooth using a CO2 laser. He acid-etches the live pulp within, fashions a bell-shaped cavity that he packs with two kinds of human-grade composite, and light-cures the top for a smooth, flat finish. He also blunts the extra set of pointy incisors.

Want to know how much it costs?

2. Doctor questions "Why bogus treatments and crackpot medical theories dominate" the Huffington Post.

3. Sad: Erin Andrew was hiding out at her mom's place and had to call 911 because paparazzi had managed to get into the gated community. Meanwhile, ESPN nobly banned all NY Post writers from appearing on ESPN tv and radio due to anger over the Post running naked photos of Andrews. Well, nobly banned them for nine days before rescinding the ban.

*Previously: "Child Molester" pops onto screen during weather forecast.

*Buy concert posters at eBay.

Elephant bottle opener (link roundup)

Elephant bottle opener on sale for $20 here. Cricket Cola is excellent, by the way. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Paul Pope has posted the first two of twelve weekly episodes of his Adam Strange story for Wednesday Comics.

2. Former South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun, suspected of corruption, jumped to his death.

3. Iams dog food is giving away frisbees that look like weights (because Iams is for strong dogs). Via.

4. Chibi Alice in Wonderland, Cheshire Cat, and Pinnochio.

*Previously: Lightning bolt letter opener.

*Buy Alice in Wonderland 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.

Dragon and wolf (link roundup)

A girl, a dragon, and a wolf (or is it a dragon wolf?) by Chelsea Greene Lewyta. Lots of great, but disturbing and NSFW, art at her site.

And a few more links:

1. Israelis don't want to call the disease "Swine Flu," so instead they're going to call it "Mexican Flu." Via.

2. No photo or video, but use your imagination - - Chihuahua yanked out of owner's sight by 70-mph gust of wind. Via.

3. You absolutely want to see what the Libyan National Security Adviser looks (and dresses) like. (And don't miss the last sentence of Hillary Clinton's opening statement.) Via.

4. That LA judge who kept the lawsuit against Sharon Stone a secret says it was just an innocent mistake. Via.

*Previously: What if the Big Bad Wolf had gone to law school?

*Buy plush dragons at eBay.

Plush cat with her pet fish

Plush cat with goldfish victim by Hasenpfeffer Incorporated. Here's the HI Etsy shop.

*Previously: Clever goldfish bowl.

*Buy exotic fish at eBay.

Logo for Boxee (link roundup)

Boxee's goofy logo.

And a few more links:

1. I loved the dog I had as a boy, but if I lost my dog at sea, found it four months later, and learned it had swum to an island and survived by eating feral goats, I probably would have been a little hesitant to welcome it back into my life.

2. Help Rosemary Travale win an Etsy contest by voting for her "Stop Being Sad, Start Being Rad" print I posted previously (towards the bottom right).

3. "Orchid King" Yang Bin really, really liked Holland, so he built a massive Holland-themed park called "Holland Village" in China. It featured "canals, windmills, and full size replicas of famous Dutch buildings such as the Amsterdam train station and the International Court of Justice at the Hague." However, he was convicted of fraud and other crimes and the park has since been demolished.

4. Will Leitch has a very long profile of the New York Yankees in New York Magazine. Here's a taste of his writing - - a vivid portrait of Nick Swisher:

A lower-profile addition this year, but one who seems determined to make himself into a fan favorite if it kills him, is first-baseman–outfielder–utility man Nick Swisher, a former hot prospect in the A’s system who hit 35 homers three years ago but stumbled to a .219 average with the White Sox last year. Swisher, unlike the other additions, didn’t choose to come here: The Yankees got him on the cheap in November, giving up one Wilson Betemit. Swisher is, to put it mildly, a dervish of noise and look-at-me-I’m-wacky energy. (Sample quote: “As soon as you wake up, it’s a great day, because, hey, I woke up!”) He has a Twitter page, which he uses to tell the world things like “Went out to dinner with some of the guys. We’re doing lots of running ... more than I ever have done before. So great!” and is doing what he can to become Sabathia’s little buddy Gilligan. (He says he signed up to Twitter “because CC did” and used one of his first few tweets to say how much he was looking forward to Sabathia’s arrival in Tampa.) Swisher, suffice it to say, is a ham (and, as the glass of water I was drinking in the Yankees locker room while talking to him can attest, careless with his freshly clipped toenails). Most of the time, reporters follow players around to try to get them to talk to them. With Swisher, the opposite is happening: He’s chasing reporters. He clearly hasn’t been here very long.

Read the whole thing.

*Previously: Natalie Jeremijenko turns Sony Aibos into toxic waste sniffing Feral Robot Dogs.

*Buy minor league bobbleheads at eBay.

Pet AT-AT (link roundup)

Flickr gallery of images of a pet AT-AT. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Uata likes to watch.

2. Free iPhone wallpapers at Glennz (I've mentioned many of these t-shirt designs in the past).

3. I don't get the new Quaker Oats billboard - - is Quaker Oats run by robots mocking us?

4. What it looks like when you get an Amish computer virus.

*Previously: AT-AT paper toy.

*Buy Star Wars sketch cards at eBay.

Monstrous toothy fish; Seriously spiked collar

"Mechatuna" by Chris Hausbeck. Here's video of it in action:



And also by Hausbeck, here's a seriously spiky dog collar:



*Previously: Introspection automata.

*Buy wind-up toys at eBay.

Gloomy Bear on the attack (link roundup)

Gloomy Bear illustrations by Mori Chack.

1. Warning Sign: Path of the Dead ahead.

2. Cake-vomiting dog and present-vomiting cat.

3. Two very high-res images of Ginormica/Susan from Monsters vs. Aliens. Via.

4. Obese cat.

*Previously: Video of a fat girl being photoshopped to thin.

*Buy plush Gloomy Bears at eBay.