Happy New Year!

I know I'm a bit early, I just thought I'd throw that out there while I'm still sober.

FU Cookie Monster! Me eat cookie now, Om Nom nom nom...

I don't know who this bitch is but she looks pretty pissed and I think she has permanently suppressed this Sesame Street characters voracious appetite for cookies.  Damn, I better go hide my Chips Ahoy.

Pictured below:  Too late, it looks as though he saw the Cookie Monster Slayer coming...

Super Mario's video eulogy

Someone whom I assume is a really big fan of Super Mario created an inspirational video / commercial for Super Mario Galaxy and posted it on collegehumor.com .

*Long drawn-out sigh...* Oh, the trials and tribulations that Mario must face traveling through outer space collecting power stars with nothing but his bravery and nine power-ups to guide him.  Defeating his enemies by stunning them with Star Bits, feeding the Hungry Lumas, surfing on a Manta Ray, and eventually floating away in a magical bubble... and all this effort just to save a helpless little valley girl, Princess Peach, from the evil grips of Bowser.  Bravo.  Truly commemorative. *Wipes away a single tear that dramatically roles down cheek*.

Pictured below: The vain valley girl from Beverly Hills Drive, Mushroom Kingdom CA.

Holy shit, this actually works

Marlies Romberg a recent graduate of the Utrecht School of Arts, Netherlands, established a goal to "materialize the ungraspable fast digital world and create an opportunity for nostalgia in this future world."

The end result is the development of Dear Diary 1.0 which fuses the physical world and the digital world by embedding a fully functional computer and laser keyboard  into a wooden desk and framework.  This cool little creation is also symbolic of the fact that the 'real' and the 'digital' are quickly becoming indistinguishable.

Pictured below: Another fine example of real world and digital fusion.

Not your average Star Trek convention

This photo has been surfacing all over the web for the past couple of days, so I knew I had to share it. 

To view the Freemont Trek Riders cycling in the nude for unknown reasons, click here.

Pac Man VS Mario

For a really good laugh, click here.  Hysterical!

And if you understand Russian and want to see more stick figure animation with voice-over sound effects battling it out, click here.

Magical AND Twisted, I like it!

I stumbled upon an amazing short film (5min, 30sec) entitled Alma, and if you have a few moments to spare I highly recommend you check it out.  Wonderful and captivating, the ending is not at all what I expected.  Without revealing too much, let me say just one thing: if you stumbled upon a wall that was completely covered with scribbled signatures, wouldn't you wonder what the heck had happened to all those people?!

You can view Alma at http://almashortfilm.com/ , full screen recommended.

I don't find anything funny about this at all

FACT: There are between 20,000 and 25,000 polar bears left in the world today.

FACT: Due to climate change, Canada's Arctic is melting faster than any place on Earth pushing the polar bear to the brink of survival.  "Increasing global warming pollution has caused Arctic temperatures to rise by 5°Celsius over the past 100 years, and the extent of sea ice has decreased by six percent over the past 20 years. Scientists now predict a 60 percent loss of summer sea ice by around 2050, which would more than double the summer ice-free season from 60 to 150 days. Sea ice is critical to polar bears' survival as it is the platform from which they hunt their primary prey, ringed seals and bearded seals. Longer ice-free periods limit the time the bears have on the ice to hunt, and in some areas means that they have fewer fat resources to survive on land during the longer summer season. In addition, lower body weight reduces female bears' ability to lactate, leading to greater mortality among cubs."  Visit WWF Canada for more detailed information.

The above melting polar bear ice sculpture was created by artist Mark Coreth, sponsored by WWF, and presented in Copenhagen in order to create awareness of the human impact on climate. The melting  ice sculpture is symbolic of the melting ice which the polar bear requires in order to survive, and once the ice sculpture has fully melted a metal skeleton will remain in its place as a permanent reminder. Find out how you can lessen your impact on your only plant here.

Pictured below: If you're too ignorant to wrap your head around this, think of it this way...Once the polar bears are extinct, where will the world's supply of delicious Coca-Cola come from?  

These hats are bitchin'

Hardcore Star Wars fans can now pair their Adidas Originals Star Wars Collection shoes and clothing with the latest and greatest from New Era... a collection of Star Wars baseball caps.

Pictured below: Normally this sort of apparel is only worn by total geeks, this is my visionary outlook for the new spokesperson(s)  for this brand (although in hindsight Lil Kim looks a little cold, maybe I should have given her a jacket instead).