Alan Greenspan puppet (link roundup)

Alan Greenspan puppet by Ellen Rixford for the cover of Institutional Investor. Via.

And a few more links:

1. 700 New York city public school teachers are paid to do nothing.

2. Relatedly, an audit revealed 257 "ghosts" on the Detroit Public Schools payroll.

3. In other Detroit news, this week, Monica Conyers, the chairwoman of the Detroit City Council and wife of House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.), pled guilty Friday to federal bribery charges.

4. Tree House restaurant built to advertise the Yellow Pages.

*Previously: Violent commercials starring proto-Muppets.

*Buy puppets at eBay.

Lil' Jabba the Hutt

Felt Jabba by Kit Lane (although I wish he was cuddling with a Rancor). Here's Kit's webshop.

*Previously: Sarlacc Pillow.

*Buy Jabba toys at eBay.

Billy Mays dead?

Tell me this is wrong.

No, I guess it's true.



You can download the Billy Mays mask here.

*Previously: Billy Mays magical beard t-shirt.

Ben & Jerry's prepackaged fudge sundae

Genius. Ben & Jerry's prepackaged "Flipped Out" fudge sundae - - you just flip it over, squeeze it out, and the fudge thaws swiftly. 310 calories for the entire sundae. They have a clever flipped truck driving around advertising it this summer:



Via.

*Previously: Melted ice cream truck.

*Buy ice cream makers at Amazon.

Steampunk submarine (link roundup)

Steampunk submarine by Alexander Jansson. Don't miss his "greenpunk" gallery. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Work in progress image of Molly Crabapple's heroes fighting the octopus of censorship.

2. Gallery of weapons prisoners have made. Via these sites.

3. "Three decades ago Mir-Hossein Mousavi was waging a terrorist war on the United States that included bloody attacks on the U.S. embassy and Marine Corps barracks in Beirut."

4. Rich Page got enough positive feedback on the Space Kook he drew for the Villains of Scooby Doo contest that he also drew The Creeper.

*Previously: Submarine being attacked by a tentacle monster Dunny.

*Buy submarine toys at eBay.

Tom Hanks' "Big" recut as a horror movie (link roundup)

Convincing recut of Big to make it look like a horror movie. I found Big to be extremely depressing.

And a few more links:

1. "Hurricane Chris" honored by the Louisiana State Legislature, given the opportunity to rap, raps profanely.

2. Find restaurant recipes at Top Secret Recipes and Every Last Recipe.

3. Street Fighter-esque ads for Harvey Nichols.

4. Darth Vader vs. Yuri Gagarin.

*Previously: The Lion King recut as a horror movie.

*Buy Street Fighter action figures at eBay.

Transhuman parkour

"Exploit Yourself" is directed by Carl Rinsch and produced by Big Lazy Robot Visual Effect studio as a spec commercial for Nike. You can watch the low-res version here:



And watch a very slow-loading high-res version here. Via.

*Previously: Slow motion parkour.

*Buy cyborg toys at eBay.