If you’re a fan of Super Mario, then this is the mouse for you. It’s a Koopa Shell, available in either red or blue, and it comes with a matching mouse pad. This is an actual working USB mechanical ball mouse with scroll wheel and it’s compatible with PCs or Macs. It doesn’t even require any special mouse drivers. I triple dog dare you to get one of these and use it at the office. I bet your boss will never take you seriously again.
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Now that I have your attention, check out these great new behind-the-scenes pictures of Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford on the set of Return of the Jedi and The Empire Strikes Back. These were all released by Lucasfilm in advance of the Star Wars Celebration in Florida this August. Han looks cool, Luke looks goofy and Leia not only gets up close and personal with a Gamorrean, but she gets caught smooching Chewbacca. Man, if Han finds out about this he’s going to be one ticked off smuggler.
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Save and save often. Always run your backup. Words to live by in our very computerized world, but what happens when you manage to erase what you saved and then find out your backup is no good? That was the harrowing dilemma facing Pixar’s Oren Jacob and Galyn Susman when someone accidentally typed the Linux command to erase everything. Fortunately, a baby saved the day.
See the animated reenactment of the incident after the jump…
You gotta love that moment when you kill off the enemy in the most gratuitous, unrealistic and perfectly awesome way possible in your favorite video game. This video imagines that moment, to infinity, by pitting the heroes of games like Mass Effect, Halo and Battlefield against each other in the real world. They even tweak the music to each franchise. Can you name all the games referenced?
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When most of us think of Legos, we think of happy times building castles and bridges and things straight out of our imaginations. Mihai Mihu isn’t like the rest of us. He thinks of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy and his description of the 9 Circles of Hell. And then he builds it with Legos. It’s a bit disturbing, but also fascinating to see such dark images created with things that are normally associated with childhood fun.
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Earlier this month we were treated to the international trailer for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus and it was full of scary alien goodness. Now, we get a clip of Prometheus landing on the planet and everything seems just fine. But you know it’s not. The music is too happy. The crew is too cocky. This is all going to end with aliens stuck on people’s faces and me hiding my eyes. Trust me, when the film opens on June 8th you’re all going to be sleeping with the lights on for a month.
See video of the calm, peaceful, doomed crew landing their ship after the jump…
As you know, Biff Tannen was Marty McFly’s nemesis in The Back to The Future trilogy. It didn’t matter if he was young Biff or old Biff, he was a jerk. But the guy that played him, Tom Wilson, is damn funny and he has the world’s most verbose business card as proof. Rather than answer the same questions about the movie over and over, he wrote up all the things he’s constantly asked and put them on his business card. And he even wrote up a song to go with it.
Check out the whole business card and the video after the jump…
If you’ve ever wanted to check out Batman’s Tumbler then this is your chance. Throughout the summer, the Tumbler along with the Bat-Pod will be traveling across North America to promote The Dark Knight Rises which hits theaters on July 18th. It’s time to break out that costume, perfect your superhero pose and get the most amazing cosplay photo ever!
See the full list of tour dates after the jump…
It seemed impossible that we’d get a new season of Arrested Development, but it’s happened. It has to be just as likely that we will actually be able to buy this Lego set, complete with all the characters and a stair car. Currently this is up for votes over at Lego Cuusoo and if it hits the magical 10,000 mark, then it will be seriously considered for production. If it takes every last penny from the banana stand, I am going to make this happen!
See the full cast of characters in Lego after the jump…
The Avengers saved the planet, but at what cost? In case you hadn’t noticed, they did a number on downtown Manhattan.
At the request of The Hollywood Reporter, disaster-cost prediction company Kinetic Analysis Corp. formulated an answer, but it’s a number so large that even Tony Stark might have a little trouble picking up the tab. Their estimate is a whopping $16o billion dollars when you factor in damage, the economic impact, cleanup time and loss of life. To give some perspective, the Japanese Tsunami cost $122 billion or Hurricane Katrina at only $90 billion.
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