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Jastermereel · Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 2:46 pm Post subject:

While hardly a definitive answer, this Venn Diagram does offer an interesting perspective on the eternal question:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/scott/nerd-venn-diagram
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Jastermereel · Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 3:10 pm Post subject:

"House" of the Undead
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/9/2009/09/500x_lupus.jpg
playing off the Left 4 Dead poster style
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fate · Uber-Karma Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 1178

i do appreciate the 'lupus' in the file name there
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Katrina · Good Karma Joined: 11 Oct 2003 Posts: 215 Location: Uranus

Some pretty simple, some scary:
http://scifiwire.com/2009/10/star-wars-pumpkins.php
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Jastermereel · Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 1:50 pm Post subject:

Bad Dog Pate:
http://shelleyrickey.blogspot.com/2009/10/bad-dog-pate.html

Jastermereel · Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 1:16 pm Post subject:

Teeny Tiny Stenciled Buildings:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/evoldaily/sets/72157605620529280/

Nifty Steampunk Cakes:
http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2009/10/sunday-sweets-steampunk.html

Firefly LEDs:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/08/firefly-carcass-led.html

Fallout in Legos:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/falloutlego/pool/

How to make fake guts for halloween:
http://www.halloween-haunted-house.com/how.html#guts
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Jastermereel · Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 7:29 am Post subject:

National Geographic's 50 years of space exploration:
http://io9.com/5379374/50-years-200-missions-one-enormous-map

A wood and paperclip model from the beginning of the space program:
http://www.life.com/image/88883764/in-gallery/30242/weirdly-beautiful-spacecraft-models
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Jastermereel · Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 6:55 pm Post subject:

Felix Barber and Ralph Hyde's Map of London - two fans of Catan from 150 years before it was created.
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/417-as-it-might-have-been-hexagonal-london/
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Jastermereel · Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 10:36 am Post subject:

Van Gogh Cake:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/megpi/2717513321/
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Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

some nice pumpkin carving:
http://www.joystiq.com/photos/joystiq-pumpkin-carving-contest-2009-finalists/2408238//full
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fate · Uber-Karma Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 1178

Hairless bear:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1225042/Bald-bears-baffle-vets-mystery-condition-German-zoo.html
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fate · Uber-Karma Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 1178

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/coffee
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Jastermereel · Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 1:27 pm Post subject:

Musical Flow-Charts:
Hey Jude: http://laughingsquid.com/hey-jude-flow-chart/
Total Eclipse of the Heart: http://jeannr.tumblr.com/post/165291081/i-made-a-flow-chart-that-we-might-better
They're not perfect (Hey Jude's is actually wrong) and they miss the bridge, but so what?
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Jastermereel · Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 9:36 am Post subject:

How not to reply:
http://qcjeph.livejournal.com/110229.html
This belongs right up there with Bob the Angry Flower's pair of comics on how to use an apostrophe.
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fate · Uber-Karma Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 1178

http://www.toxel.com/inspiration/2009/11/25/bear-sleeping-bag/
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Jastermereel · Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 7:40 am Post subject:

That right there is possibly the best way to get yourself shot while camping.
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fate · Uber-Karma Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 1178

Indeed, but it makes me wish i had one and lived in a dorm.
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Jastermereel · Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 9:34 pm Post subject:

Minimalist TV show posters:
http://exergian.tumblr.com/
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Jastermereel · Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 6:04 pm Post subject:

Beards where there were no beards before!
http://io9.com/5416570/beard-gallery

Arcade game Expressionism:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=arcade+or+square&w=16998563%40N05&z=e
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Jastermereel · Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 4:20 pm Post subject:

A nice assortment of protesting zombies:
http://lolzombie.com/767/zombies/

And from the same source, 7 Ways to Kill Ideas:
http://lolzombie.com/1054/kill-ideas/
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Jastermereel · Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 3:42 pm Post subject:

The World's Smallest Snowman
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1232987/Have-microscopic-Christmas-The-worlds-smallest-snowman-just-0-01mm-wide.html
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fate · Uber-Karma Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 1178

WARNING: long, disturbing, dark humor
http://i.imgur.com/qEJe8.jpg
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Jastermereel · Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 9:15 am Post subject:

Admiral Ackbar Approved:
http://epicwinftw.com/2009/12/11/admiral-ackbar-approved/
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Jastermereel · Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 5:26 pm Post subject:

Nerdy Snowmen/Snowbots:
http://io9.com/5433866/fun-and-fantastical-snowmen-to-make-your-winter-bright/gallery/
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Jastermereel · Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 5:48 pm Post subject:

Some interesting smith work: http://acidcow.com/pics/6367-the-most-beautiful-smith-in-the-world-32-pics.html

The decade in icons: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/12/27/opinion/28opchart.html

The Mandelbulb: http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/mandelbulb.html

A true D&D room: http://www.acaeum.com/forum/about8714-0-asc-0.html
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Jastermereel · Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 8:45 pm Post subject:

Cat related comics:

A page from Nobody Scores, staring Catface, the cat with the face of a cat!
http://nobodyscores.loosenutstudio.com/index.php?id=550

The most depressing Calvin comic ever written:
http://www.joeydevilla.com/2008/01/08/calvin-and-hobbes-now-with-ritalin/
The followup (drawn, I suspect, after deaththreats were made):
http://www.joeydevilla.com/2008/01/09/calvin-and-hobbes-off-the-ritalin-and-high-on-life/

A week of Calvin and Hobbes-esque role reversal from PvP:
http://www.pvponline.com/2010/01/04/my-buddy-and-me/
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fate · Uber-Karma Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 1178

those are all disturbing except the last one. The ritalin one is even more disturbing since i just found out they're giving antipsychotics to toddlers( http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100105/hl_hsn/moretoddlersyoungchildrengivenantipsychotics )
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Jastermereel · Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:22 am Post subject:

Great Brittan is snowed in:
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2010007-0107/GreatBritain.A2010007.1150.500m.jpg
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fate · Uber-Karma Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 1178

disturbing facepaint
http://memeparty.com/i/5a46bc78cc4c02d40a4105c0424e65d9.gif
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Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

Branch in jars:

http://naoko-ito.com/website02-002.html
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