I love the idea of corrupting the vanilla Danish world of Lego. DYZPlastic offers a stellar line of Lego zombies.

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It’s the end of September and stores are already flooded with Halloween candy. Of course.

I bought the “Gummy Body Parts” assortment.

The pressing question is: What gummy body part is this?

It looks naughty. Let’s pretend it’s an ear.

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According to PCworld.com, Arm Spirit, a Japanese arm-wrestling game, was recalled from more than 150 arcades across the country after 3 people independently broke their arms while battling the machine.  Apparently, the game has 10 levels of difficulty, including a French maid, drunken martial arts master, and a Chihuahua before reaching the final showdown with a professional wrestler.   In response to the broken arms, Arm Spirit’s spokeswoman said, “The machine isn’t that strong, much less so than a muscular man.  Even women should be able to beat it.“

Broken arms from an arcade game are pretty serious, but injuries in videogaming aren’t new,  including a recent phenomenon: “Wii Elbow.”  And something else just dawned on me: there would have been more of these Arm Spirit injuries, but honestly, who goes to arcades anymore, and furthermore, who plays the arm wrestling video game?  Definitely tagging this one as ‘geekery.’

(via Arian; story via PCworld; image via MSNBC)

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I was reformatting my Windows XP computer and got this message as I was installing drivers.  Hmm…something seem wrong here?

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The magical “Beauty Kit” - for young girls who can’t wait to explore the glamorous world of plastic surgery.

[MBSFW - Might Be Safe For Work?]

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Great site with lots of free content from old radio shows, some of the best parts are the commercials before the show starts!

Where else can you start a story about discovering something horrible about some old ladies cat, with a commercial about yeast!

This site rocks!

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Last Wednesday, two American tourists were mugged in the tropical city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The muggers made-away with an MP3 player and the equivalent of $2,200.

•The victims were two San Francisco Police Officers.
•The muggers were two Rio de Janeiro Police Officers.

Reuters link

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The sign says “SMALL CAR”
An SUV is neither
I keyed your paintjob

[Feel free to submit your own parking/SUV haiku. I will post any good ones with a link to your site].

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[For those of you who are not knee-deep in geekery]: Cthulhu (usually pronounced KThoo-Loo) is a sinister ancient deity from the works of early 20th century science fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft. Cthulhu is described as being gigantic and green, with rubbery skin, having an ‘octopus head’, a large belly, claws on its hands and feet, and thin wings emerging from its back. In Lovecraft’s universe, Cthulhu came to Earth (from somewhere in the distant cosmos) hundreds of millions of years ago and currently rests undead and “dreaming” among the remains of the buried alien city of R’lyeh, which lies beneath the most desolate area of the South Pacific (47° 9′ S, 126° 43′ W). In Lovecraft’s story “The Call of Cthulhu,” Cthulhu is described as contacting people in their dreams (usually in mid-March), and by these means Cthulhu generates cults of human worshippers around the world who await his eventual awakening; according to Lovecraft, the powerful leaders of the Cthulhu cult live “in the mountains of China.”

Needless to say, Cthulhu has serious geek appeal. There are Cthulhu role-playing games, Cthulhu is a figure in the Dungeons & Dragons universe, there are numerous Campus Crusade for Cthulhu movements, and the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society has created an awesome 1920’s black-and-white ’silent movie’ of “The Call of Cthulhu.” They do a good job of following the original story and their visuals and musical score are stellar (watch the trailer). The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society also offers a number of cool Cthulhu downloads, including the kick-ass cellphone wallpaper above.

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I’m not sure why whoever made this video compilation was so obsessed with people getting hit in the face, but a lot of these slow-mo clips are quite cool.

It may be obvious to some, but the explanation as to how people can get such good shots is that the cameras used record these videos capture many more frames per second than ‘normal’ video cameras, and thus can be slowed down tremendously.

Czech it out:

(The water balloon video I initially posted is included in this compilation, but it’s cool enough that it can be seen twice)

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Blood Puddle Pillows from Keetra Dean Dixon (xoXOxo).

(via Who Killed Bambi?)

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Three of the more recent (among several) concerns about products imported from China:

•Over 8,500 cats and dogs have died from pet foods containing melamine-laced grain that came from China.

•365 reported deaths (100+ confirmed) in Panama from Chinese cough syrup that contained diethylene glycol (a sweet-tasting ingredient in antifreeze).

•Chinese toothpastes containing diethylene glycol have been found on the shelves of import stores in the United States and Canada.

Due to growing concerns about Chinese products, the Chinese government followed through with an obvious and logical response: yesterday they executed Zheng Xiaoyu, the chief of China’s State Food and Drug Administration. Everything is better now, Chinese products are once again safe.

Secret Blogadilla insider sources have revealed the real reason Zheng Xiaoyu was executed:

The bones of the Chief of the State Food and Drug Administration are a powerful traditional remedy for melamine and diethylene glycol poisoning; they will be ground-up and sold in herbal markets and on eBay for $50/g.

(image from Wikimedia)

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C’mon . . . you know you wanna push it!
By designers Taro Mukasa and Yoshitane Sakamoto, the “Suicide Bomb Button” is available through Amazon.co.jp.

(via Giant Robot)

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The Capla Kesting Fine Art (CKFA) exhibit of the “Paris Hilton Autopsy”, by Daniel Edwards.

“With Paris’s legs splayed in stirrups for postmortem pelvic examination, the ‘Hilton Autopsy’ tragically reveals drunk driving’s heartbreaking collateral damage . . . fetal twins discovered in her uterus.”

more photos

(via Notcot)

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“We should probably feel guilty, but she broke the Cardinal Rule: Don’t f**k with people who handle your food.”

- Monty (Ryan Reynolds) on the subject of violating a customer’s meal in “Waiting“

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Okay . . . because “Transformers: The Movie” is coming out in less than a week and geeks everywhere are getting worked-up about it (myself included), I thought I’d post something of a confession: here are some sketches from my (delinquent + geek) graffiti/spraypainting days in the late 80’s. I did a Tranformers “Unicron” piece beneath a bridge, and here’s a sketch I did of the Transformers logo in Japanese. Remember: it was the late 80’s and I was young and both graffiti and geekdom were still oldskool.

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“I feel a great disturbance . . . as if a million geeks cried out in ecstasy and then were suddenly silenced.”

Location: the Apple Store, Downtown Palo Alto (University Ave.), CA. (”The Heart Wallet of Silicon Valley”)
Time: 6hrs 11 mins to iPhrenzy.
Local Mood: Perhaps the largest collection of geeks without Star Wars or Renaissance Faire costumes on (and Shatner isn’t at a table signing stuff).
Am I Buying An iPhone?: Hell no. I prefer $600 in groceries. I just duct-taped my iPod to my cellphone and it’s pretty much the same thing.

Footage as of 11:35AM, Pacific Time.

Footage as of 12:30PM - The News Media ClusterF**k Has Begun (if you enlarge the photos, you’ll see how incredibly short some reporters are).

Report by: Blogadilla NewsTeam Field Reporter, Tim.
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A Purdue University research team (the Rosen Center of Advanced Computing) released a video of their computer simulation of the 9-11 aircraft collision into the World Trade North Tower. This reconstruction is the product of two and half years of research to help understand this tragedy from an engineering standpoint.

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Over six months ago, Blogadilla’s very own Chris and I decided to send each other “Munnys” - they are vinyl “paint it yourself” figures that hipsters casually display around their stylish apartments (available through KidRobot). Chris (being a professional graphic artist) and I (having experience drawing on my binder in school) decided we’d each design and paint one and send it to the other - as an “art exchange project.” As most projects go, it took me six months to get around to doing something. I just finished it and it’s in the mail en route to Chris right now. I decided to go with a “Cursed Golden Idol” design - an evil golden monkey demon with an extra eye for peering in to the darkest reaches of one’s soul. When Chris sends me the one he’s working on, he’ll post it on Blogadilla also.

(The coolest Munny/Dunny ever made has to be the one by Venture Bros co-creator Jackson Publick)

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The newest form of terrorism comes to us from the farmlands of America. Forget bridges and planes… I think we need to redirect all anti-terrorism funding to protect our nation’s cows.

Check out the site yourself.

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