Behold the genius of Mike Puncekar, the mastermind behind these creeptacular reimagined Mario enemies. The gang’s (mostly) all here including Goomba, Spiny, Bob-omb, Koopa and his cousin from above, Sky Koopa. Check out Mike’s blog for some LoZ and Pirates goodness, too. [TheUniBlog via Neatorama] Images: Mike Puncekar
Sometimes auction bidders make sure to bid the absolute highest amount they are willing to pay to win. But very occasionally bidders are just there to amuse themselves. That appears to be the case with Google, which failed last week to win an auction for wireless patents belonging to liquidated company Nortel Networks. Google had […]
The Wasteland Weekend is a 3-day post-apocalyptic party that brings together hundreds of Mad Max fanatics, replica vehicles and fire fights. This year, the party will take place on September 23-25 in the Mojave desert right outside Los Angeles, California. The Judgement Day cultists may have been wrong about May 21st, but the apocalypse IS […]
Adidas’s Fall/Winter Star Wars collection’s newly-released ad campaign features Darth Vader, wampa and lightsabers — perfectly fitting for the Hoth-inspired designs of their new shoes and outerwear. And the jackets look so snug and warm you won’t have to spend the night in a Tauntaun, probably. (And anyway, they smell terrible.) For now, all we […]
I love tattoos, but don’t have one because I can’t ever think of anything I’d like to keep forever. I never considered a comics-plus-classical-art mashup though, so maybe my options have opened up a bit. Pan Rozmyty‘s ink is all the best elements of post-impressionism and pop culture in a design called “Starry Night over […]
Rajesh Rao is fascinated by “the mother of all crossword puzzles”: How to decipher the 4000 year old Indus script. At TED 2011 he tells how he is enlisting modern computational techniques to read the Indus language, the key piece to understanding this ancient civilization. [TED]
Everyone who speaks English knows it’s a jumbled mess of borrowed words, colloquialisms and exceptions to the rules. The Internet has shown us that even 13 (or more) years of English education aren’t even enough for some people to get the basics down. But also thanks to the Internet, there are ways to learn about […]
Wellesley College student designer Wendy Chen created this circuit board and lace frock for the Davis Design Contest; the first-place winner is a vintage lace dress embellished with key caps and motherboards, a combination the artist says “weaves together the old and the new, reflecting hope for a harmonious union between humanity and technology.” [source […]
It’s true, there’s a 12-inch Steve Jobs replica accessorized with miniatures of the Apple Store’s best merchandise. Whether or not the real Mr. Jobs will let the Steve Jobs Limited Edition 12-inch Collectible Figurine see its way into production is another story altogether, but for now it’s fun for an Applehead to dream that someday, for the […]
If you always wanted to be an astronaut (or cosmonaut, I guess depending on your location) but never quite made the cut for NASA, there’s still a chance you could hang out in a space suit… if you’ve got cash, and lots of it. In April NASA announced that they would be, ahem, donating four […]