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Just What We Need: A Zombie Themed Childrens’ Bedtime Story

If children didn’t have enough trouble sleeping now they have to contend with zombie-obsessed parents. This is a problem because now, finally, there are zombie themed bedtime stories appearing in book...

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The Evil-Zombie Side of Dr. Seuss

I never knew there were people out there who could so accurately recreate Dr. Seuss type art. Of course, I never thought into it at all either. Now that I do it makes perfect sense. We’ve covered...

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Dwarf Arobics: Middle Earth’s Favorite Training Program

Peter Jackson disappointed some fans by stating that he will not be attending the San Diego Comic-Con this year to show off more of The Desolation of Smaug. Too bad right? Instead he released an 11...

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Diagon Alley, Now Google Street-Viewable

Remember back in 2001 when you waited in line, in the sleet, at the movie theater for hours and hours so you could get tickets go go and see Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone? And that all happened...

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Should Be Kept Secret: Heroes Secret Lives

Artist Greg Guillemin just released another group of images to add to his Secret Lives of Superheroes collection. I question some of his choices of superheroes. I mean, Robin, Cat Woman, Batman? They...

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New In-Class Reading Material

Remember sitting in your British Literature class wondering to yourself why everything you are reading sucks so bad? Well here’s one for you to try and convince your tenured teacher, who couldn’t give...

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That Explains That: Periodic Table of Game of Thrones

Etsy seller and artist Christian Petersen of Columbia, South Carolina is a good guy. He saw the struggles everyone is having keeping all the characters straight in Game of Thrones so went ahead and...

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Biography with Centerfolds: Hugh Hefner’s Playboy

If you’ve ever wanted to learn more about how Hef did it, instead of just looking at the girls that did him, then now if your chance. His Biography is coming out. Unlike most biographies however, this...

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Works of Shakespeare, From Beyond the Grave

Due to his trademarked misspellings and bad handwriting (I doubt he actually trademarked either) new works of William Shakespeare have just been identified. This is important to you because, well, it...

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The Snacking Dead: A Zombie Cookbook

If there were a couple of things I could talk about at length, I would do it. Unfortunately I don’t like to talk about any one thing for too long. It’s boring and if you keep your lips flapping the...

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All Work and No Play: Not a Story for a Toy

For any of you who spend more than a couple of minutes a week at your job I’m sure you have glorious fantasies of bringing an axe to work and breaking up the place. Unfortunately we can’t act on those...

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What Is The World Coming To: New Words Added To Dictionary

Seen above displaying one of the new words recently added to the Oxford Dictionaries Online, Miley Cyrus is “twerking” at the VMAs that happened a couple days ago. I’m not sure why my browser is...

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Who Knew? The Geometry of Pasta

Before you leave in fear, I promise this post will contain no actual math, Caz Hildebrand and Jacob Kenedy has bestowed on the world a new book on pasta. They call in The Geometry of Pasta and it’s for...

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Want: Grown Up Games as Little Golden Books

I hope you all know what Little Golden Books are. If you don’t Google it for me and you’ll find that you really do. Well now, Etsy seller joebot has created a group of art prints that turn your...

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I’ll be There: Town Hall Bondage Workshop

If your city held a town hall on bondage would you attend? If you can answer yes then you must live in a larger and less judgmentally community than I do. Or you are way smoother than me and you just...

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Want: Nintendonomicon

While reading the Necronomicon, John Southwood came up with the idea to create the Nintendomonicon. I have to say, I’m more than a little impressed. It’s good to see people still getting use out of...

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Need: Rap to English Translation Book

When you’re with someone, say for example, on a road trip, and they suggest you listen to some music what station do you tune in to? If you answered anything that plays rap music more often than never...

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Do Me Next: DIY Encased in Carbonite

Have you ever wondered why the Ugnaughts didn’t use a deeper mold to freeze Han so he didn’t poke out of the carbonite? Or if he didn’t need to be submerged, why did they use a mold as deep as they...

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Missed Their Letter To Hogwarts: Owl Smashes Into Window

It’s a sad day for one of the children of Lisa Loader, 41, of Bridport, Dorset, England; they just missed their letter to Hogwarts. How and why did they miss it? Well, the how is that they apparently...

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So Much Jowl Resistance: High-Speed Photos of Dogs Shaking

20 points to anyone who can guess which of these pictures I just made my desktop background. If you had a high speed camera what would you do with it? If you wouldn’t take pictures of people sneezing...

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Always Read The Manual: Deathstart Owner’s Technical Manual

Whenever you purchase a new product it’s always a good idea to read the owner’s manual. We all know that and we all ignore it too. Well, I did read a manual for a camera I bought once, it was pretty...

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Start ’em Early: Introductory Calculus for Infants

“What can we do to get our 4-year-olds into Princeton?” I kid you not, I heard that question yesterday. Well crazy parent, here’s your answer.  Calculus for infants.  It’s described as “The storybook...

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Coming to a Nightmare Near You: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark the Movie

Remember these books? You read them in like 5th or 6th grade and didn’t sleep for two weeks afterwards. Your mom got mad and went and talked to the school counselor to see if you would ever recover and...

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Well That’s Horrifying: Dental Training Dummy Calendar

What scares you the most? Wow, that’s really screwed up. You should talk to a priest or something. If that last statement doesn’t apply to you and you answered “the dentist” or “mannequins” or...

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Move Over Star Wars Nativity Scene: Cthulhu Santa is Here

Nothing says Christmas quite like an indescribably horrible beast with a bag full of the same, spreading feelings of terror to all the little girls and boys around the world. Oh, and instead of...

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A Man and His Quest toDraw Himself in 100 Styles

Artist Mike Holmes is on a quest to draw himself, and in most cases his cat, in 100 different styles. I didn’t even know there were 100 different styles that someone and their cat could be drawn in....

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NeverEnding Story for Today’s Audience

Okay, I’m gonna level with you. I’ve never seen The NeverEnding Story. Apparently that makes me a horrible person and I’m being threatened with a severe beating. I need to find new friends. Anywho…...

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Kama Pootra: 52 Ways to Poop

If you asked me before now I would have told you there are two ways to poop. The correct way and in your pants. But it turns out I wasn’t being imaginative enough. But Daniel Cole Young is nothing if...

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How the Grinch Gave me the Diabeetus: Awesome Grinch Cake

This epic pile of icing was created in part by Jennifer Miller aka the DeviantArtist known as ArteDiAmor. Since I found the cake on her page I’ll just let her take all the credit. As you can tell the...

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Best Use Ever: Carved Encyclopedia Set

You know those encyclopedias that you’ve been packing around with you from move to move for years? The ones that are so outdated you haven’t even thought of opening them since you wrote that report on...

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Would Steal: Beautiful Hobit Artwork Journal

Like everyone else int he world I’m pretty infatuated with The Hobbit and previously The Lord of the Rings movies. I read the books too, in fact, The Hobbit is one of a very few books that I’ve ever...

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For Father’s Day: Darth Vader and Son Statue

If you know when Father’s Day is without having to look it up then you are already more prepared than I am. But when I did look it up I found out it falls on June 15th this year so I think I’ll be able...

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For the Nursery: Cthulhu Wallpaper

Designer Megan Rose Gedris aka Rosalarian created this awesome wallpaper pattern that I can’t believe hasn’t existed until now. Of course it wasn’t cool until now. Thank you Internet. Imagine the kind...

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So Many Feels: Wearable Book lets you Feel Characters’ Emotions

In the last book you read did you spend time wishing that you could really feel the emotions that the characters in the story felt? If you had to then you know that the author wasn’t doing their job...

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R-Rated Movie Scenes in Childrens Book Form

Pixar storyboard artist Josh Cooley created a bunch of “Little Golden Book’s” type illustrations depicting scenes from movies that your average 4-year-old would not have seen. Can you imagine your...

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You’re a Wizard Cake Harry

Does anyone still like Harry Potter? I do but it seems like everyone else has moved on. Come on people, the books are still good, can’t we just forget about the failings of the films and love the books...

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Secret’s Out: Map of Harry Potter Locations

When I read any book I like to imagine where in the real world the story might be taking place. Even stories that aren’t set in our world like Lord of the Rings or A song of Ice and Fire I like to...

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Trilogy, Our Favorite Word: Harry Potter is Getting 3 New Movies

Since movies can’t be alone these days for some reason, and if they are alone they will soon be remade into the same movie with older actors. We’re going to see 3 new Harry Potter movies soon....

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Sign Me Up: You can Now Enroll in Hogwarts Online Classes

A new site just hit the internet offering online classes for all the wizards ad witches out there. Hogwarts Is Here allows students to sign up and take the same classes that the characters int he Harry...

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Minor Diffences: Artist Corrupts Coloring Books

Do you ever purposefully color outside the lines? I don’t. I have a hard enough time keeping inside the lines to begin with if I let myself start coloring outside them who knows what could happen? I...

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Who Knew: 13 Facts about Lightsabers

We all know that lightsabers can vary in color somewhat but did you know that they can actually come in any color. Turns out they can. So those of you that complained about Mace Windu’s purple...

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Seeing the Future: Sci-Fi that Became Real

I don’t know about you but I haven’t read a lot f Sci-Fi. Some I have read and I enjoy a good Sci-Fi movie as much as the next guy but it’s down on the list of reading materials some what. Apparently...

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Want: Car that Inspired Bond to Drive and Aston Martin Up for Sale

Name the five coolest makes of cars you can. Did you include Aston Martin? If not you can just get out right now because you’re views on life are skewed. Did you seriously include Morgan? I’ll admit...

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5 Tolkien Characters too Big for the Big Screen

I’ve had this theory for a while that some movies don’t adequately communicate the terror of the monsters simply due to the shear size of said monsters. People just can’t wrap their minds around a...

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Totally Worth It: Goerge R.R. Martin will Kill You for $20,000

He’ll only kill you in the book though so for those of you planning an expensive suicide-by-author you’re pretty much out of luck here. The honor is reserved for a top-tier donator on Martin’s Prizeo...

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I’m Alive: Would you Survive the Game of Thrones

If you’ve been watching or reading the Game of Thrones series you know that the only way to assure that you’ll survive is to make sure you aren’t ever featured in the story anywhere. It’s best to hole...

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Harry Potter and the Mid-Life Crisis

We all know that Harry Potter has had a rough life. So what makes you think that things are going to improve just because he killed off his mortal enemy and saved the Wizarding World? Where is the...

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I Got a Book, You Should Get a Book

Several weeks ago I was contacted by the folks at Trend Hunter asking if I’d like to do an interview with them about Uncanny Flats and in return they’d send me a book written by their CEO. This is that...

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