Lego Da Vinci Flyer

This Da Vinci-esque flying machine is made from Legos, just because. While it flaps in a most impressive, graceful manner, it does not actually fly... But hey, Da Vinci's flying machines never actually flew, either.

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Steampunk Lightcycle!

Doctor A's custom steampunk Tron lightcycle is two great tastes that taste great together. Click pic to em-big-ulate.

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NOTHING IS FORGOTTEN

Nothing is Forgotten, via Metafilter: "A lovely little wordless comic about loss, fear, kindness, and memory." A young boy, struggling to cope with the loss of his father, encounters a mysterious presence living in the forest near his home. It's really moving, gorgeous work, which is all the more remarkable given that I gather this is one of the first comics Ryan Andrew has even completed!

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Footage from King Kong's 2010 LA attack

Last summer, to promote their new King Kong attraction, Universal Studios devised a genius PR stunt when they set up some giant footprints and other signs of Kong-esque devastation on the Santa Monica beach. This mock-news footage shows us the results, which are impressive indeed... Although I must point out that those sure don't look like gorilla feet.

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STAR WARS anti-drunk driving PSA

The Mos Eisley cantina may be a wretched hive of scum and villainy, but at least they have designated drivers.
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Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt do SID AND NANCY, in drag

In this truly bizarre clip, 500 Days of Summer stars Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt perform a gender-swapped re-enactment of one of the most grim scenes in cinema history: the death of Nancy Spungen from the 1986 Alex Cox film Sid and Nancy.

Deschanel does a surprisingly credible Sid, with Gordon-Levitt really throwing himself into recreating Chloe Webb's quavering, clingy desperation... Although the plug for 500 Days at the end kind of seems like bad taste. I mean, this isn't just a famous movie moment... Spungen really died, and quite horribly too, and they're kind of making a punchline out of it. I'm not sure what the point of this clip is, really, but it was too weird to be left unshared.
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"I'm Dreaming of a Blue Sunset -- on Mars"

Enjoy this Doctor Manhattan-esque footage of a sunset as seen from the surface of Mars.
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A Betamax Christmas

If you need a little retro Christmas TV, right this very minute, Betamax Christmas will put the jolly back in your holly. The site recreates a full evening of Christmas TV programming circa 1986 or so, complete with rabbit ears on the TV that you have to fiddle with to get a better picture. (You change the channel by flipping the remote floating over on the right. It seems obvious once you notice it, but it took me a while to spot it.)

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CHRISTMAS IN THE STARS

If the Star Wars Holiday Special wasn't awkward and embarrassing enough for you, there's always the Star Wars holiday album, Christmas in the Stars. The track above, featuring the vocal stylings of everybody's favorite protocol droid C3-PO, is just the beginning of the squirmy, uncomfortable anti-fun. There's also What Do You Get a Wookie? (When He Already Owns a Comb) and this deathless classic featuring a young Jon Bon Jovi in his first studio recording ever. (It was all downhill from there, Jon.)

Happy Life Day, everybody!

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Christmas with the Doctors

In this quick sketch from the UK series Dead Ringers, Doctor Who's tenth Doctor suffers through a rather tense Christmas with a few of his earlier incarnations. (The Tom Baker impersonator is so spot-on it's kind of eerie.)

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