Buzzfeed has a collection of 27 screengrabs of various movies, cartoons, and TV shows with English translations that will make you laugh. Some of them make it obvious which is the translator's first language.
And then there are the animals, which give a translator a little leeway because we're supposed to know what they say. Or do we?
See the rest at Buzzfeed. Link
Could The Great Gatsby be one of the year's most special effects-heavy films? This VFX sizzle reel certainly makes it look that way.
    
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It's difficult for geologists to witness the flow of lava on snow- and ice-covered volcanos, so researchers with the Syracuse University Lava Project decided to create their own simulation, melting 300 kg of lava and pouring it over ice to watch the effects.
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Located off the coast of Nagasaki, the long-abandoned Hashima Island (also known as "Gunkanjima" or "Battleship Island") was the inspiration for Raoul Silva's lair in Skyfall. Now, thanks to Google Maps, you can visit the island on Street View.
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Here's a mouth-watering set of photos from La caverne aux livres, a bookshop in Auvers-Sur-Oise, north of Paris. The store is in a converted train-car, and appears to be a magical wonderland. The pics were taken by the Gallifreyan Detective, and the whole set is wonderful.
An old train transformed into a book shop in Auvers-sur-Oise (via That Book Smell) 
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Zack sez, "Why is Jack Kirby so often called 'The King' of comics? This Flickr page, compiling dozens and dozens of his double-page splashes from the 1970s, including sequences from 2001, the New Gods books, Kamandi, the Demon and more, provide a pretty compelling argument -- pop art masterpieces, one after the other." 
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Or, at least, the internet from The IT Crowd, complete with an on and off switch. And for the love of God, no one had better touch the off switch, otherwise the world will fall into chaos!
Amazingly, the internet can be yours at the low, low cost of $28.33 plus shipping thanks to Etsy seller KineticGifts. How someone on Etsy managed to get a hold of the internet and why they decided to sell it is beyond me though...
Link Via Geekosystem
HalfFuryWhy does this remind me of Neil Stephenson??? :)
The correct answer is that Brian and Angela just need to break up, already.
From Thanks, Textbooks — a fantastic Tumblr of supremely weird and hilarious textbook examples and questions.
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Even in the best of times, amusement parks are chaotic, occasionally ugly, and full of danger. But when they are abandoned, they become tragic too. Here are some of the most incredible and sad portraits of fun zones that have gone to seed.
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After the break-up, Pong went on to become an extremely influential video game. Ping, sadly, just tests internet connections in obscurity.
— Dr. Twittenheimer (@DrTwittenheimer) April 6, 2011
~Illustrated by: Colin Graham~
Shadowrun’s been away since time immemorial. It hasn’t had a videogame in ages – well, except 2007′s bizarrely out-of-character multiplayer shooter revival, but we don’t talk about that. As a result, however, The Rules dictate that Shadowrun’s next digital dalliance constitutes a return, and so it is with Shadowrun Returns. The technomagical role-player looks positively fantastic, so we at RPS are awaiting it with baited breath. That’s right: we’re actively making our mouths smell more appealing so as to lure it into grasping/maybe-licking range. And clearly, it’s worked, because Harebrained just announced that it’ll be out next month – and fully editable on day one, to boot.
It took photographer Mike Olbinski four years to capture the formation of a colossal, spiraling supercell on video – but good grief, was it worth the wait. This footage is the very definition of spellbinding.
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Cosplay Piano is at it again, this time with a much clamored-for Game of Thrones rendition. But wait! We don’t just see Sonya Belousova dressed up like the Khaleesi, playing piano alone in the desert — there’s a whole montage of GoT set-pieces, complete with all the lascivious behavior fans of the HBO drama/softcore porn have come to expect.
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Here's some wonderful musical news: djBC has revived the Beastles, the inspired Beastie Boys/Beatles mashups that resulted in two spectacular albums, ultimately censored off the Internet thanks to legal threats from EMI.
The new double, 20-track Beastles album, "Ill Submarine," is about to drop, and djBC has a lot of teasers to get you ready for it. As this post goes us, RadioClash is running a live podcast special about it:
Sunday is Beastles Day on Radio Clash Live from 6am BST (British Summer Time). djBC has a new Beastle album about to drop - Ill Submarine and he's created an exclusive mix for RCL,This is a special 3 hour show with an exclusive mix of Beatles covers from Ian Fondue as part of a new 'Done To Death' mix series, and many more Beatles/Beastles mashups, remixes and shows throughout the day, including from 8am the 7 Radio Clash Beatles Podcasts in sequence(Above: poster by Yo Yo Yosef, click to embiggen)
There's also the video for the title track, "Ill Submarine, above, and some poster art from Yo Yo Yosef. I've had a preview of the album on heavy rotation for two days and it is spectacular. 
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What would happen if the Adventure Time gang also had superpowers and united together to protect Ooo from evil? DeviantArt user m7881 has a good idea, as illustrated in this fun piece.
HalfFuryWhen's this coming out in Aus?? And why isn't it now
Shakespeare wrote several "comedies," and some of them are still funny today. (As You Like It and Twelfth Night come to mind.) But Much Ado About Nothing is not one of the funny ones. Unless it's being filmed by Joss Whedon, in which case it's fall-out-of-your-seat, holy-shit-can't-breathe funny.
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Most Neatorama readers have probably heard the story of Atari burying a whole warehouse full of unsold ET video games at a dump in New Mexico. As it turns out, there was likely a whole lot more than just ET games burried by Atari, though no one really knows for sure what was tossed in the dump, especially since the whole thing was later burried in concrete.
But all that's about to change now that the city of Alamogordo, home of the legendary landfill, has officially voted to allow a film company, Fuel Industries, six months to dig up the landfill and report what, exactly, they end up finding in the ruble.
Link Via BoingBoing
HalfFuryOh dear...
Wanna eat your Whopper but need both of your hands to tweet about it at the same time? Burger King in Puerto Rico has finally solved this vexing problem, fifty years after the Whopper came into being. Behold, Hands Free Whopper.
Hell yeah, humanity!
