Monday, July 7, 2008

Super Punch

Super Punch

China issuing bank notes without Mao's image for first time in ten years

Posted: 07 Jul 2008 01:57 PM CDT

He's been replaced by an image of the Olympic stadium. Via.

Marvel Legends Target Exclusive Line

Posted: 07 Jul 2008 01:51 PM CDT




Warlock with Infinity Gauntlet, Black Suit Spider-Man, Spiral, Union Jack, Wolverine, Gladiator Silver Surfer, X-Force Wolverine, Yellow/Blue Wolverine, Build-A-Figure Red Hulk. See high-res images of the entire line here.

*Huge selection of Marvel Select action figures at eBay.

Cartoony monsters interacting with the real world

Posted: 07 Jul 2008 12:48 PM CDT

Video: How to turn a Fiat into a hot air balloon

Posted: 07 Jul 2008 08:59 AM CDT



or into a baseball launcher:



Via.

Defaced Money: Aeon Flux and George Washington as Boba Fett and Gordon Freeman

Posted: 07 Jul 2008 08:32 AM CDT

Lyle Waggoner's screen test for the Batman tv series

Posted: 07 Jul 2008 06:31 AM CDT

Lyle Waggoner and Peter Deyell as Batman and Robin. Waggoner really sleepwalks through the performance:



By comparison, here's Adam West and Burt Ward:



Via Valerie D'Orazio who also dug up this shockingly bad Wonder Woman tv pilot, which features Ellie Wood Walker as Wonder Woman living in an apartment with her nagging mom. She turns into Wonder Woman at 3:11 and admires herself in the mirror for awhile:



When you're done watching those, head over to read Valerie's portrait of herself as a young goth.

*40% off action figures and comic books at TFAW.

3 clever scales by designed by Alice Wang

Posted: 07 Jul 2008 06:20 AM CDT



White Lies: You'll weigh less the farther back you stand on the scale. Stand up front if you're ready to face reality.

Half-Truth (pictured): Someone else will have to look at the scale and decide whether to tell you the truth.

Open-Secrets: Your scale text-message your weight to a specified phone number every time you weigh yourself.

Official site. Blog. Via.

Previously:
*Scale compares your weight to an animal.

*Scale compares your weight to celebrities.

Super-Skrull desktop wallpaper by Dean Trippe

Posted: 06 Jul 2008 10:06 PM CDT

Calvin and Hobbes extreme

Posted: 06 Jul 2008 09:53 PM CDT

Drawing by Justin Copeland


My Boys a Tiger by *jusdog on deviantART

Colors by John Rauch


Calvin and Hobbes by jusdog by *EraserX on deviantART

*Previously: The Watchmen, as drawn by Jay Ward.

Famous moments from Hitchcock's movies, reenacted for Vanity Fair

Posted: 06 Jul 2008 06:25 PM CDT



Gallery of all the photos here. Above is Emile Hirsch and James McAvoy as Strangers On A Train. Via.

*Previously: Celebrities photographed as Disney characters by Annie Lebowitz.

Official Wall-E papercraft

Posted: 06 Jul 2008 04:21 PM CDT



Download it here.

And here's another version:


Paper WALL-E by ~kspudw on deviantART

Daycare at Google costs $29,000 a year

Posted: 06 Jul 2008 02:33 PM CDT

That's not a typo and that's just the cost to the parents. Google's picking up part of the tab. Link.

*Previously: Google News Pillow.

Oh, that's how the nose works

Posted: 06 Jul 2008 02:26 PM CDT



High-res image here. Via.

Lego Darth Vader

Posted: 06 Jul 2008 02:19 PM CDT

Dark Knight sketch cards by Otis Frampton

Posted: 06 Jul 2008 01:41 PM CDT



Just the other day I mentioned how much I like Otis Frampton's Dark Knight sketch cards, and now he's gone and completed a bunch more. See more here.

*40% off action figures and comic books at TFAW.