Link roundup

1. 5 secret drinks at Starbucks including the Snickers Frappuccino (Java Chip Frappuccino with caramel and toffee nut).

2. Online ads:

Who’s buying the lions’ share of advertising on news websites? Nobody. For most of the 22 news organizations PEJ studied, the top category of advertising was in-house — ie. self-promotional ads for the publishers’ own products or services. Those accounted for 21% of the ads on in the sample of websites the study tracked, a group that includes newspapers like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, web-only outlets like Yahoo and the Huffington Post, magazines like Time and The Atlantic and TV networks’ web companion sites like cbsnews.com and cnn.com

3. Looks like Kickstarter will make close to $100,000 by the time Double Fine's Kickstarter ends.

4. If you don't mind spamming your friends on Twitter, MTV is giving away a big McFarlane toys prize pack.

5. Here's another art idea, create a poster for Angelina Jolie as Maleficent.

New Threadless t-shirts

Some of this week's new Threadless t-shirts:





Listening to My Song by Tobe Fonseca




Invention of Colour by Ben Hartnett




Eskimo Pop by Andy Gonsalves




EVERY TIME A CAT CLEANS ITSELF IT IS WORSHIPING THE DARK LORD by Jerrod Landon Porter

Anti-Super Mario propaganda posters from the Mushroom Kingdom

Show your support for Bowser and hate for Super Mario with these propaganda posters on sale at Fro Design.

Illustration roundup

(FYI, if you want some attention from the web, create an awesome Jeremy Lin poster/t-shirt ASAP.)


Brand New concert poster by Morning Breath on sale any minute.





Storm and Chell commissions by Jake Ekiss.




D.C. Stuelpner's submission for Project Rooftop's Invincible redesign contest.




Mr. Miracle and Big Barda by Daniel Irizarri.




Captain America poster by Donald Gibson, who is offering $10-$20 commissions.




Dustin Harbin's latest one hour drawing.

*Buy Marvel Legends figures at Amazon.

40 minutes of Mass Effect 3

40 minutes of Mass Effect 3, including (very brief) character creation and the opening cinema, and a level from later in the game. Via.

*Buy Mass Effect toys at Amazon.

One More Toy Fair 2012 photo roundup

DC Direct.




Mattel Collectors.





Lego.



Neca.

*Buy Voltron toys at eBay.

Plush octopus

Plush octopus by Kat Brunnegraff on sale at Etsy.