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via geek art, Guilherme Ranoya

The Other Mike has earned a special place in our timey whimey hearts with his mashups of Back to the Future’s Marty McFly with everyone’s favorite Dr Who the 10th Doctor. This one features Lorraine fancying the British time traveler which obviously reveals the same possible end result for Marty.

via rampaged reality, the other mike

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So much love goes to @beatonna for relenting and drawing a Batman comic.

But, dear readers, a fact: Batman is fun. Batman is so much fun, and that is why everyone makes comics about him. Case closed, everyone make Batman comics and feel good about it. Plus, is this not where you go for cartoon butt drawings? A marriage of two fine things, like wine and more wine.

via the nerdy bird

via error8888

Absolutely nothing we say will prepare you for this.

Just jump right in.

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News sources:
Mapping Egypt’s ‘day of wrath’
Anger in Egypt Spotlight
Egypt cracks down on mass protests as Mubarak dissolves government

via @shawnjdouglas

ROBOT is a BKollywood creation from Tamil cinema. It is completely batshit… and we’re loving it because of that.

We’re late jumping on the blog posting bandwagon for this flick. We have no excuse for that. We’re posting it now, dammit, and you’d do well to attend.

Below is a clip show of every movie robot trope, cliche, and action sequence ever conceived by the cinema world. Below is a clip show of fantastic awesome.

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Now look what’s happening here. Brian Brushwood has created a site that, once it figures you’ve passed into the great beyond, will mine your Facebook and Twitter feeds to post your old thoughts and/or revelations.

Afterlyfe is your ghost in the machine.

From that point on, every birthday for the rest of my life, I’ll need to check in to let Afterlyfe know that I’m still alive and kicking (if I’m smart, I’ll also make sure the site hits me up with email reminders every year as well). Once I stop checking in, Afterlyfe will assume I’ve kicked the bucket, and go into action, taking control of my facebook and twitter pages.

From that point on, Afterlyfe will use all my previous tweets and facebook updates to recreate a digital simulacrum of my life. The goal is to make me the world’s first virtual ghost.

For starters, we’re going to keep it simple: the default settings will be that the moment I die, Afterlyfe will make an exact copy of my last year in tweets, and release them at the exact times they were originally posted, year after year. Every year, followers will see me complain about taxes come mid April. You’ll get my same Christmas tweets. Happy birthday wishes I made in the past will continue to arrive, year after year, right on schedule.

The idea reads like one of many morbidly curious endeavors that we’ve stumbled upon whilst traveling the Internets. But that was long ago. We’re older now. We can see how this project has a foot in the dark humor/nerd conversation circles.

According to the too-quickly-killed SyFy series Caprica this is how the Cylons first came into being. A human girl’s digital presence was scraped from every corner of their internet, combined with some sort of algorithm and formed a living AI of that person. Then, 60 years later, damn near all of human civilization in that system is destroyed. Those that survived are left to wander the coldness of space while their evolved creations hunt them down like dogs.

But that’s just silly nerd delusions.

A few weeks ago a friend committed suicide. Seeing his profile pop up in our friends profile on Facebook is unsettling enough. Having his old status messages and tweets come at us from the nethers of the noosphere would be downright disturbing.

That, is currently, a fact of our life.

Is this insane? Silly? Creepy? I’d love to get your thoughts, as I honestly don’t know myself… that’s sorta the whole point of this experiment.

Last December, Mr Brushwood, we could see this project erring on the side of morbid fascination.

Now in the dawn of 2011, and in the wake of a good friend gone, we’re pretty fucking sure you did not think this project through at all.

Official site:
http://afterlyfe.me/

via brian brushwood

Someone has decided the world needs a new dose of Transmetropolitan art and sensibility. They are not wrong.

It has been nearly ten years since the release of the final issue of TRANSMETROPOLITAN, the Eisner-nominated comics series from writer Warren Ellis and artist Darick Robertson. We have approached Mr Ellis and Mr Robertson about putting together a brand new art book of original images, and we’re happy to report both of the co-creators will be participating in this project, donating a brand new cover and a foreword for the book!

TRANSMETROPOLITAN combines black humor, political scandal, and moral ambiguity to look into the gonzo mind of an outlaw journalist and The City he inhabits. Aided by his embattled Editor and his two Assistants, the protagonist blazes a path through a futuristic world of skyscrapers and technological wonders, dark alleys and unspeakable depravity.

If you’re unsure as to what Transmet is why not read the first issue for free courtesy of DC Comics.

Why should you fund this project?

Our goal is to raise $100,000 to be donated* to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and the Hero Initiative.

The CBLDF helps creators fight against artistic censorship. The Hero Initiative “is the first federally recognized not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping comic book creators, writers and artists in need.”

As of this posting, there are 17 days left to fund this project and roughly $6000 to go before they meet their Kickstarter goal.

The tag below will keep you current on the project.

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