Robot Unicorn Attack is a Flash game from Adult Swim in which you control a robot unicorn in a quest to make its dreams come true (collect fairies and charge through giant stars?). It’s highly addictive, and not just because of the soundtrack , although I dare you to come up with a better song . I suggest you all waste a few precious moments of your Friday work-day playing. Trust me — you’ll feel better about yourself knowing you stuck it to the man, if only for a minute. And speaking of sticking it to the man, check it — I’m going to cover the back of my dress shirt in superglue and wait for my boss to initiate the ol’ pat-on-the-back. When he does, he’ll stick and I’ll thrash around yelling “HE’S HITTING ME! ASSAULT, ASSAULT!!” Yep, this promotion’s in the bag. Robot Unicorn Attack Thanks to Jeno, Drew, AJ, G33k, Gir, Isaac and jim, who have all avoided doing a lick of work today. *sniff* I’m just so proud.
I remember when I was growing up I only had one crayon color: stick. You had to really bear down on the paper, but it was kind of a brownish-green. Sometimes more brown, sometimes more green , but always ready to poke your eye out. Maybe your parents bought you things though, maybe you had a plethora of colors , which is even more likely if you were born in the past ten or fifteen years. Which, according to a quick calculation, would make you around 10 to 15. My target demographic. I’m hip, I know what’s up with you guys. So, you cats wanna slam some pogs or what? Yeah? Cool, I’ll Rollerblade right over. Color Me A Dinosaur [weathersealed] via Crayola Color Chart, 1903-2010 [buzzfeed] Thanks to Martin, who used to smear shit on the wall by his crib. Still does.
I remember when I was growing up I only had one crayon color: stick. You had to really bear down on the paper, but it was kind of a brownish-green. Sometimes more brown, sometimes more green , but always ready to poke your eye out. Maybe your parents bought you things though, maybe you had a plethora of colors , which is even more likely if you were born in the past ten or fifteen years. Which, according to a quick calculation, would make you around 10 to 15. My target demographic. I’m hip, I know what’s up with you guys. So, you cats wanna slam some pogs or what? Yeah? Cool, I’ll Rollerblade right over. Color Me A Dinosaur [weathersealed] via Crayola Color Chart, 1903-2010 [buzzfeed] Thanks to Martin, who used to smear shit on the wall by his crib. Still does.
Because it’s illegal and I don’t do anything illegal , I’ve never defaced currency or put pennies on a train track. Nor have I looked at another man’s junk while standing at a urinal. Or have I? I totally have — I do it often! Peekaboo. Hit the jump for 15 more presidents dressed as different characters. There are laughs to be had!
This is a piece of handpainted art by Jude Buffum (prints available at his site) showing Rainbow Brite kicking Strawberry Shortcake’s head off Mortal Kombat fatality style . There’s another one of a Carebear (who I suspect is Tenderheart Bear) ripping Teddy Ruxpin’s heart out after the jump. I especially liked that one. Because as many of you may know, Teddy was my first and last robotic lover. Yeah, I caught him trying to kiss my Spike plushie from The Land Before Time . Insight: you have some now. Hit the jump for one more and a Big Lebowski print I liked as well.
This might be what a Rubik’s Cube would look like if it were made out of glass . Except mine would be sharper because I shattered that bitch on my head like an empty beer bottle . WHO’S TOUGH?! Not me, I just drink too much and stop feeling. That said, I feel like no matter what side you’re looking at on this thing it’s gonna appear brown . Everyone’s a winner! Except me. I always lose. My house keys. Call the paramedics, I’m gonna break another window! Glass Rubik’s Cube Looks Groovy! [walyou]
I like trains , and not just because they go CHOO CHOO. I also like the hobos that jump on them! THAT’S ENOUGH FOR ME, OKAY? Anyway, this is a Thomas the Tank Engine/ Voltron mashup toy available from Singapore for around $8. It is in no way shape or form licensed or legal. But it is cool. Everybody’s calling it a Transformer but it is clearly a throwback to Voltron. Who, despite being a robot, I still liked as a child because he was rainbow colored and, damnit, I’m a sucker for a rainbow . One time I even got a girlfriend to dress up as Rainbow Bright on Halloween. And not to brag, but she did go home with the handsomest pirate at the party. I was one sad ninja turtle.
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To celebrate Bill Cosby’s birthday on July 12th, artist Andrew Salamone made a portrait of the comedian using Jell-O shots. Which, I think we can all agree, is a fitting tribute. Does he still do those commercials ? Damn, now I want a Jell-O Pudding Pop. Do they still make those? Okay, so maybe I have been down in this robot shelter too long. I kid, I kid — now somebody bring me some new cassettes to play. Hit the jump for a couple more shots and a video of the portrait’s transformation over the course of a night.
Somebody hacked the ESPN.com site to accept the Konami code (↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A) and then to start adding unicorns and rainbows to the page every time you hit ENTER. I can attest to it working because two tipsters hit me up with the goods before ESPN caught on. Suffice it to say, I unicorned the hell out of that shit and then cooked pork chops on the grill. Unfortunately, when I came back to write this it had already been fixed. So if you’re the one that did it, do it again (but not to Geekologie) so everyone can play with it. Then, I want you all to write your congressman about the unicorn olympics and sick that would be. Hit the jump for another screenshot of the site from a reader who also wanted to display his bacon loving pride.
The Bulbdial clock is like a sundial except, instead of the sun, it uses little LEDs to cast shadows from the timepiece’s center spoke. Impressively, it casts three different shadows to correspond to the hours, minutes and seconds. It achieves this feat by having three tiers of LEDs , with the highest casting the (red) hour hand (explanatory pictures after the jump). Additionally, for fun and clarity, we used red, green, and blue LEDs for the three rings, making each shadow hand of the clock a different color. Each ring has 12 LEDs, and the 36 LEDs are efficiently multiplexed by an AVR microcontroller that also handles the timekeeping part of the project. So it’s a a sundial for inside — awesome! I swear, what will they come up with next? Interactive adult DVDs? Haha, already been done. And not to brag or anything, but I did crack the disk. Ladies? Hit the jump for a couple more shots and a link to the build page.