Image roundup

A few gems from Reddit:


Marriage proposal taking advantage of Splash Mountain's (?) photo function.



When Rorschach is your barista.



Beware magnetic balls.



Mildly upset protester.




Tall snowman.



Llamas.



Car with Mario Kart buttons.

*Buy Mario Kart toys at eBay.

Snowman slide

Apparently it took 80 hours to build this snowman slide. Via.

Link roundup

1. Francesco Francavilla is auctioning a Robocop illustration to help feed Detroit.

2. Chris Parks has new t-shirts on sale.

3. Armada of snowmen.

Murderous snowman

A few gems from Reddit:


Snowman with a knife.



Carry this Magic card with you so you can't lose The Game. (There are several on sale at eBay.)



Ghosts.



Keyboard cat.

Army of small snowmen

Army of small snowmen, source unknown.

Impaled snowmen

Calvin and Hobbes-esque snowmen.

Link roundup

1. From a review of Brutal Legend:

Like a solitaire or Bejeweled, you have to ask, when you remove even the context of resolution from real life, what is there but burning time. Is there an achievement out there for 1 million games of Bejeweled played? No amount of lines of Tetris fulfill anything. They disappear as soon as they form (Russians have a grim sense of humor–in my private world of crazy, my assumption is that the desire to build something constantly being undermined is some sort of metaphor about a totalitarian state, or maybe anybody with an MBA).

2. Two-headed snowman.

3. Pitchfork's top 100 songs of 2010.

*Buy albums for $5 each at Amazon.

Link roundup

1. From a review of Brutal Legend:

Like a solitaire or Bejeweled, you have to ask, when you remove even the context of resolution from real life, what is there but burning time. Is there an achievement out there for 1 million games of Bejeweled played? No amount of lines of Tetris fulfill anything. They disappear as soon as they form (Russians have a grim sense of humor–in my private world of crazy, my assumption is that the desire to build something constantly being undermined is some sort of metaphor about a totalitarian state, or maybe anybody with an MBA).

2. Two-headed snowman.

3. Pitchfork's top 100 songs of 2010.

*Buy albums for $5 each at Amazon.

Treeson snow man

Bubi Au Yeung's Treeson as a snowman. Via.

*Buy Treeson toys at eBay.

Snow-covered Lamborghini, Little snowman

One of several photos of a snow-covered Lamborghini Murcielago photographed by Kenny Herman. Via.



One of several cute little snowman posted here.

*Previously: Bioshock snowman.

*Buy snowglobes at eBay.

Car desktop wallpapers (link roundup)

1998 Rinspeed E-Go Rocket and 1946 Saab 92001 Ursaab, available in various desktop wallpapers at the links.

And a few more links:

1. Lion made out of snow (bottom of the post).

2. Photo of a waterfall and rainbow.

3. Dr. No sketch card.

*Previously: Aston Martin Domino's delivery car.

*Buy concept car toys at eBay.

Big Daddy Snowman (link roundup)

Big Daddy Snowman via these sites.

And a few more links:

1. Deadspin editor talks about competing with TMZ and details the one time he paid for a photo.

2. A serious scientific discussion about space battle.

3. Han Solo and the Economics of Rebellion Against Repressive Regimes.

*Previously: Melting snowman cookies.

*Buy Star Wars sketch cards at eBay.

Melting Snowman Cookies (and more)

A small sampling of the desserts on display in Jennifer McFadden's gallery:


Melting snowman cookies.



Pirate cupcakes.



Lego Indiana Jones cookies.

See also: Adult Swim, Marios Bros., Mermaid, and Heavy Metal desserts.

*Previously: Totoro Snowman.

*Buy Indiana Jones sketch cards at eBay.

Happy television paper toy

Download Anneka Tran's happy television paper toy here. Also at Anneka's site, a giant stack of Slimes made of snow.

*Previously: Tentacled tv paper toy.

*Buy Dragon Quest toys at eBay.

Happy television paper toy

Download Anneka Tran's happy television paper toy here. Also at Anneka's site, a giant stack of Slimes made of snow.

*Previously: Tentacled tv paper toy.

*Buy Dragon Quest toys at eBay.

Shrimp vs. Octopus Japanese game show (link roundup)

It's Octopus vs. Shrimp in a Japanese game show. This was actually the boss fight for the shrimp. He'd already defeated a lobster and two crabs. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Here's a good use for a white board - - invite passerby to contribute to a snowman army.

2. List of sci-fi novels, including Kim Stanley Robinson's excellent Red Mars, available for free download as a pdf.

3. New novel puts Carl Sagan in hell (and features the type of cover I'd be embarrassed to be seen in public with).

4. Mecha-Max (The bunny half of Sam and Max).

*Previously: How to make an octopus birthday cake.

*Buy mecha at eBay.

Shrimp vs. Octopus Japanese game show (link roundup)

It's Octopus vs. Shrimp in a Japanese game show. This was actually the boss fight for the shrimp. He'd already defeated a lobster and two crabs. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Here's a good use for a white board - - invite passerby to contribute to a snowman army.

2. List of sci-fi novels, including Kim Stanley Robinson's excellent Red Mars, available for free download as a pdf.

3. New novel puts Carl Sagan in hell (and features the type of cover I'd be embarrassed to be seen in public with).

4. Mecha-Max (The bunny half of Sam and Max).

*Previously: How to make an octopus birthday cake.

*Buy mecha at eBay.

Darth Vader, after a trip to the dentist (link roundup)

Video of Darth Vader, after some oral surgery (and drugs) at the dentist. Probably funny even if you haven't seen the inspiring video David after the dentist.

And a few more links:

1. Video of Gwyneth Paltrow telling Oprah she doesn't watch what she eat.

2. How to protect your privacy on Facebook. Via.

3. Disturbingly large army of tiny snowmen.

4. A judge dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by three women whose photos appeared in the book "Hot Chicks with Douchebags," concluding the images were permissibly "used for humorous social commentary." Possibly one of the best sentences in an opinion ever:

how can a person reasonably believe that in 1981 archaeologist Renee Emile Bellaqua uncovered in a cave in Gali Israel a highly controversial Third Century religious scroll suggesting that the "douchey/hotty" coupling was a troublesome facet in early social religious structures?

Link. Via.

*Previously: Snowman preservation suit.

*Buy "Hot Chicks with Douchebags" at Amazon.

Totoro snowman

Totoro snowman via these sites.

*Previously: Totoro cupcakes.

*Buy Studio Ghibli art books at Amazon.

Snowman paper toy (link roundup)

A little more complicated than the papercraft projects I typically post, but it still looks doable. Papercraft snowman by Matt Hawkins.

And a few more links:

1. Forget the hype about Twilight (the movie). It'll sell about as many tickets as . . . "Patch Adams, the No. 10 movie of 1998. Or roughly the size of George of the Jungle, which placed No. 13 the year before." Via.

2. Owner of cadaver transportation company who mishandled corpses sentenced to pay for billboard apologizing for misdeeds (photo link). Via.

3. William Gibson posted . . . an excerpt from his new book? Featuring characters from Spook Country?

4. Some notable media moments from 2008. I'd completely forgotten Jesse Jackson saying Obama was "talking down to black people . . . telling n—--rs how to behave." Yet that story was basically the only thing on every news channel for a day or two.

*Previously: Barack Obama paper toy by Hawkins.

*Buy Barack Obama toys at Amazon.