Hipster version of Lord of the Rings

Some of the illustrations from Noelle Stevenson's hipster Lord of the Rings series. Via.

*Previously: Hipster bigfoot paper toy.

This roller coaster sounds pretty incredible

Rollercoaster Safety with Patrick Warburton - watch more funny videos

Lengthy safety video starring Patrick Warburton for a roller coaster. Via these sites.

*Previously: Gallery of cabin safety cards.

Strong female characters

New borderline NSFW strips by Kate Beaton.

*Hark! A Vagrant is 40 percent off at Amazon.

MST3K bedframe (and more)

MST3K bedframe.

And exploring the site led me to this gem showing how smooth Green Lantern is:



Which in turn led me to the Goonies:



Via.

*Previously: MST3K glass frames.

Link roundup

1. Jewish Giant at Home with His Parents in the Bronx, NY, 1970, Diane Arbus.

2. Penelope Trunk:

You are probably wondering if I think about Melissa having an affair with the Farmer.

I do. I think about it all the time.

As a preventive measure I tell the farmer that if he cheats on me, I’ll stay with him. Forever. I’ll never leave him. He’ll be stuck on the farm with me, in misery.

3. Neatorama, where I used to blog once upon a time, has a new line of zombie goods to help around the house (magnets, doorstops).

Image roundup

Bruins conquer Vancouver.



This should cost extra, right?



Tesla.

Bonus: These two were too disturbing to post.

Bonus #2: And to make up for those, here's a cat animated gif.

Link roundup

1. Jimmy Kimmel has a great article at Grantland about his dad. Here's a taste:

Sun Devil Stadium was about half full. My Dad and I were in Dave's seats. Between the first and second quarters, the PA announcer called out a section, a row number, and a seat. Whoever was in the seat they picked would get a chance to kick a field goal for a sum of money I can't recall. We were nowhere near the winning section, so we paid little attention to the contest. The game resumed. At halftime, we were not among those in line for overpriced beer or a five-dollar hot dog. "That's what they want you to eat!" We remained in our seats. The announcer said something to the effect of "Hey, Cardinals fans — it's time for the Fan Field Goal challenge. Today's fan is from Section 43, Row H, Seat 5 — and let's welcome her now!"

There was some cheering, not much — mostly, I'd guess, from Section 43. The first thing that caught my eye was the dog walking across the field. A German shepherd. The next thing I noticed was a man who looked like a Cardinals team representative slowly leading an older woman by the hand. And then I knew the woman was blind. And the stadium fell silent.

My father looked at me with the same threatening eyes I'd later turn on my 5-year-old son when he spotted a very fat man in the supermarket and started to point. "Don't say a word," they told me. I didn't. Back to the action. At about the 15-yard line, a boy placed a football on a tee. Slowly, very slowly, the team representative led the woman to the ball, allowing her to "feel" it with her foot. I couldn't even begin to process what was happening. A BLIND WOMAN was going to try to KICK A FIELD GOAL in an NFL STADIUM! "Good for her!" you might be thinking, "Now, there's a woman who refuses to let her disability get the best of her!" And, in retrospect, I agree, but at the time my brain felt like it was loaded with Pop Rocks.

The crowd remained frozen. Still holding her hand, the team rep cautiously backed the sightless woman five steps away from the ball. It was happening. No one made a sound. The only relaxed person in the stadium was a dog, which was now lounging on the turf. "And here we go!" the PA announcer boomed.

2. Pretty cute - - when you transfer DSiWare games to the 3DS, Pikmin do the heavy lifting.

3. "A Chinese firm has been 'secretly' copying an entire UNESCO-listed village in Austria, called Hallstatt."

*Buy Pikmin toys at eBay.

Dog going up stairs while wearing the cone of shame

"Lucy had surgery on her head and had to wear the cone of shame. This was the first time she went up the steps unassisted." Via.

If Ron Artest took over Jack Hanna's Animal Planet

Ron Artest agreed to participate in what he thought was a commercial for an animal charity. Little did he know that the video was actually arranged by the Jimmy Kimmel show, and that after starting out with a cute puppy, he would face an increasingly intimidating menagerie of creatures.

Games With Honest Names

From the Games With Honest Names edition of Photoshop Phriday.

A Pagan Book of ABCs

A Pagan Book of ABCs is a free Kindle download, or $5 for the hard copy. Only two reviews at Amazon so far.

The Predator (not the Gladys II)

Clumsily renaming a ship with an embarrassing name.

Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph of Austria (as interpreted by Kate Beaton)

Kate Beaton's latest strips feature Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph of Austria and Benito Juárez.

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Link roundup

1. Penny Arcade created three new X-Men: Hindsight, The Salmon, and Salivo.

2. The Los Angeles Police Commission voted unanimously to eliminate red light cameras.

3. Twitter's going to automatically shorten links now.

Grabbing ice cream cones by the ice cream

Obviously I strongly discourage this sort of behavior ("cone-ing"). And I don't find it funny at all watching the looks on the workers' faces. Via.

A use for DVD cases

Putting DVD cases to good use.

Spider-Man rebooted by Kate Beaton

One of five new strips by Kate Beaton in which she asks, What if...Spider-Man had been bitten by a brown recluse spider?

*Hark! A Vagrant is 37 percent off at Amazon.

Illustration roundup

Batman wallpaper available in high-res here.




Oh, Betty!




Seriously, if this was just fan art by some random artist, would anyone have reposted it today? I mean, it's almost as ridiculous as getting excited over the news that George Lucas has written 50 hours of scripts of a Star Wars series.





Kate Beaton mocks a mermaid cover. (Speaking of, Hark! A Vagrant! can now be preordered for 37% off Amazon.)

Hark! A Vagrant! cover

The upcoming book cover for Kate Beaton's Hark! A Vagrant!. She also recently posted several strips about what she said to cartoonists this weekend:

Image roundup

Fun with shopping carts.




Hipster Ariel.




Mandarin duck.




Bereaved wolf being comforted via.




Fearsome toddler via. See also.