The Periodic Table of Muppets was designed by artist Mike Boon to include not just the Muppets, but all of the people who are Muppet-adjacent. This means you’ll have every Muppet, even the forgotten ones, as well as the Muppeteers who brought them to life. All the colors and eyes even match their people and Muppets! You can pick this up as a t-shirt or even a print to hang on your wall.
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A word isn’t really a word until it appears in the dictionary, and thanks to the Oxford English Dictionary, “geekery” is now official. They recently decided to add “geekery”, “tweet”, “e-reader” and “dad dancing”. Tweet actually breaks the dictionary rules since they usually require ten years of use to be considered. I guess they don’t see twitter disappearing anytime soon. Still, geekery seems to be the biggest of the bunch in terms of what it means to the world of geekdom. Wait, is “geekdom” a word because when that’s in the dictionary we’ll know we have truly arrived.
(NPR via The Mary Sue)
This fully functional Donkey Kong game table was made by Joel Griffin Dodd as an experiment of sorts. He’s built a lot of custom cabinets and people always say he should sell them, but he can’t see how he’d turn a profit. He decided to build this table to see just how much it would cost when he factored in parts and labor. As you’ll see after the break, his parts worked out to $415.
His name is Saad and he’s flying through the air in his DeLorean time machine and he has something he wants to tell you. It’s simple and straightforward and you can’t really argue with him.
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In one of the most well-known scenes from the series The IT Crowd, Roy and Moss convince their clueless boss that the entirety of the internet is in a little black box with a red light. She then takes it to a special presentation and instead of being laughed out of the room, it turns out her co-workers are just as clueless.
Now you too can have the internet in a box. It’s got the little red light and an on/off switch, but turn it off at your own peril. You won’t like what happens when you turn off the internet.
See video of the scene from The IT Crowd after the break…
I don’t care how they smell on the outside, they look fantastic as rugs. This tauntaun skin rug was designed by Malaki Keller as a 1:1 scale version of a taun taun for Autumn Massey who came up with the whole idea. It looks incredibly soft and the details on the head, right down to the horns and eyes, are gorgeous.
(via Star Wars Blog)
Benedict Cumberbatch has never looked so stinking cute. He’s in his Sherlock outfit, but he’s been turned into a Cabbage Patch doll. It’s everything I can do not to squeeze those adorable little cheeks.
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There’s little to no chance that most of us will build something as complex as the Mars Curiosity Rover, but we will all soon be able to build a Lego version. It was designed by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory mechanical engineer Stephen Pakbaz who submitted it as a Lego Cuusoo project last Fall. His project was selected for production from among only three projects that received the necessary 10,000 votes needed in order to be considered.
The product is still in development so no pricing or availability have been announced, but as long as it’s less than the real thing, I’m in!
See video of the announcement after the break…
Remember when you were a kid and you could sit around and play games all day without worrying about adult responsibilities? When there was nothing more important than getting to the next level before Mom called you for dinner? When a juice box and a bowl of cereal could tide you over for hours? Yeah, me too. Let’s go back there.
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These are what you wanting sitting on the table when Lord Vader comes to visit, just to make your sympathies perfectly clear. It’s a pair of limited edition, hand-painted Imperial Seal Bookends that have been digitally sculpted by the artisans at Gentle Giant Ltd. They’re also numbered and come with a certificate of authenticity. Preorder now for delivery in the first quarter of 2014.
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