I choose you, Frytato!
Artist H. Caldwell Tanner accidentally created Pokemon that are more believable than half the ones to come out since the original 151.
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If Food Were Pokemon
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Stonehenge May Have Been An Art Gallery Tops The Morning Links
New 3D laser scans of the monument are unveiling old mysteries and creating new ones. Plus, 15 “real” ghosts to hunt down this Halloween and California questions its gas price spike.
Revealing: The new images suggests that the stonemasons used the best materials where the rays would hit them - shining in the last light of the setting winter solstice sun, or at dawn on the longest day.
The scans revealed 'hidden' images on many of the stones. Here, arrow heads are clearly visible on stone 4 of Stonehenge.
Should the NFL be forced to wear pink for breast cancer awareness month? - [Salon]
10 completely inappropriate personal tweets accidentally sent through corporate accounts. - [TeamCoCo]
Celebrate John Lennon's birthday by scrolling through ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SIX rarely seen photos of the Beatles. - [CoedMagazine]
50 essential pieces of office attire. - [Elle]
15 ghosts to hunt down (or not) this Halloween. - [TruTV]
21 of the most out of nowhere sports teams in history. - [BleacherReport]
Taylor Swift is trying dubstep now. Genre over. - [Vulture]
40 creative, funny pop culture costumes for people on a budget. - [Uproxx]
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Black And White...In Color
Who needs fancy post-production when you have paint? Feel free to insert your own 50 Shades Of Grey pun here.
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15 Mannequins That Will Steal Your Soul
WHO MAKES THESE? Isn't the point of mannequins to entice consumers to buy clothes and not therapy?
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Ridiculous Reverse High Heels Look Like Torture
Would you dare to wear them? Seriously, they look like something out of Silent Hill .
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According to the creator, Lyall Coburn, Scary Beautiful sets out to challenge current body ideals by "...inflicting an unexpected new beauty standard."
All it looks like they're inflicting is pain on that poor model.
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Amazing Animatronic Admiral Ackbar And Other Links
The eyes blink, the mouth moves, and it even contains a fan to keep the cosplayer inside from overheating. Plus, living alone is not the same as being lonely and lots of fall cocktails.
It's an architectural zoo with these 10 building shaped like animals. - [Flavorwire]
A barometer usually gauges the weather but this one gauges small talk about the weather. - [CollegeHumor]
10 completely odd publicity stunts. - [Oddee]
Kris Jenner is angling to throw her hat into already crowded daytime talk show arena. - [HollywoodReporter]
Alone is not the same as lonely. The advantages of living by yourself. - [Glamour]
5 huge news stories...that left out the most important part. - [Cracked]
All the best (re: easiest) 90s costume for the guy in your life. - [TressSugar]
Fall is in the air. Which is the perfect excuse to try any, or all, 21 autumn cocktails. - [FoodAndWine]
Soda manufacturers to start posting calorie counts on vending machines. - [TIME]
Headline Story: Want to see Ackbar in action? Click through to watch a video and see how this costume came together. - [GammaSquad]
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The Joker's New Look Revealed
Oh God why? Buzzfeed was lucky(?) enough to get a sneak peek at Batman's nemesis. Let's just say it isn't pretty.
Buzzfeed showed off a few pages from inside the landmark Batman #13 Monday, but you never got a good look at Joker's face.
And now you may wish you hadn't.
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Scrapped "Jurassic Park IV" Human/Dinosaur Hybrid Concept Art
Like The Fly, only with less Jeff Goldblum and a more dubious understanding of genetics. Thank goodness this version of the script didn't make it out of pre-production.
Redditor Sketchampm dug up this concept art from the version of Jurassic Park IV that was being kicked around back in 2007. At the time, the movie was being spearheaded by William Monahan and John Sayles.
At the time Spielberg was completely on board, calling the script the "mother of all ideas" and he wished they'd approached him sooner so it could have been the third movie instead.
Had it seen the light of day, the plot would've involved an ex-commander named Nick being tapped by John Hammond to retrieve the shaving cream can full of dinosaur DNA from the first movie. However after finding the dummy shaving cream container, Nick is kidnapped by the Grendal company (I see what you did there, scriptwriters) which is determined to cross-breed dinosaurs into an insane hybrid.
The whole insane plot summary can be found on Ain't It Cool.
Hat tip to First Showing
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Pedestrian Penalty Cards And Other Links
Everyone else is so inconsiderate. Plus, movies made possible by side character incompetence and heroic animals saving animals.
8 movies made possible by bumbling, incompetent background characters. - [Cracked]
Latin America is trying to lead the world in decriminalizing drug use. - [Time]
13 examples that prove Lisa Frank was predicting the future. - [Glamour]
20 things about sports that'll make you feel old. - [BleacherReport]
What if I told you Big Bird's "parents" were an adorable gay couple? - [TheDailyBeast]
7 heroic animals caught rescuing other animals. - [Oddee]
Dentist combines drill with MP3s in an attempt to take the terror out of root canals. - [Uproxx]
Headline Story: See all 10 pedestrian offenses after the jump! - [Flavorwire]
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R.L. Stine Writes For The Twitter Generation
“I thought, I have to listen to my original audience. And that's who I wrote it for.” The master of things that go bump in the night listened to the social web when he decided to make his first foray into adult fiction in almost 20 years with the new novel, Red Rain .
Ask anyone whose formative years were the 1990s about R.L. Stine and they'll probably list off their favorite Goosebump novels. Or, if they're a little older, their favorite Fear Street books. They might even talk about his television series and how a particular story traumatized them for life, giving ventriloquist dummies or Halloween masks the power to make them tremble well into their twenties or thirties.
Stine has scared at least two generations of American kids, so one might expect him to be aloof, or even a little scary, but he was genial and cheery talking with BuzzFeed about Red Rain, his latest novel, aimed at the fans of his early books who are now all grown up.
R.L. Stine (photo: Dan Nelken)
It's been seventeen years since your last adult novel hit was published, what made you step back into the adult novel arena?
I'm on Twitter, and it's a great way to keep in touch with all my old readers from the '90s. They're all there, they're twenty-somethings and thirty-somethings now, no kids. Just my original audience. And it's wonderful for me. We have the best time! They're a great readership. And they're all saying, "Oh we loved you when we were kids, please write something for us." And I thought, I have to listen to my original audience. And that's who I wrote it for. That was really the whole inspiration for it. My audience was still out there, so why don't I give it another try?
Was the switch to writing for an adult audience difficult?
Very. It's not just the length. I've been saying it's like a runner who is a sprinter, and then suddenly has to run a marathon. You use the same skills, but everything is different. When I write a Goosebumps book I don't really want to scare kids. So I have to make sure they know it's a fantasy. They have to know it's not real, it couldn't happen. That's important for those books.
But when you write adult books every detail has to be real, and believable or the readers aren't going to go along with you. They don't want it to be a silly fantasy. It's gotta seem like it could really happen and it's just the complete opposite of what I normally do.
What was the initial spark that got this story going?
It was kids. It was doing evil kids. It was the first thing I thought of when deciding what to write. I thought people would find it really ironic if I did evil kids. Because I do so many good kids. Every book has a good kid battling evil. So I thought people would find it funny if I turned it around. And then I got interested in twins.
Yeah, for some reason evil kids seem to come in pairs. When I was reading, the boys reminded me of the girls from The Shining mixed with the Children of the Corn.
People find twins scary. I don't understand it, but all through time — I did a lot of research on twins — and it goes way back in history and people were always frightened. They'd separate them at birth because they were bad luck. You couldn't bury a twin in dry ground or your whole village would go dry. And there's all these beliefs that twins control the weather. And that's how it developed. And I always had an idea of starting out with the hurricane, or just some completely devastating natural disaster.
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Hot Tub Exercise Bike Tops The Morning Links
Supposedly it magically gets rid of cellulite too. Plus, why is Amanda Bynes imploding and does your dog really think you're his best friend?
A look inside what led to Amanda Bynes career-ending spiral. - [HollywoodReporter]
What do you think your dog really thinks of you? - [TIME]
Robin Roberts is home recuperating after a month in the hospital. - [USMagazine]
D'awwwww. The 50 cutest sports pictures, ever. - [BleacherReport]
Having short hair doesn't have to mean sacrificing stylish variety. - [Elle]
The fire alarm goes off during a taping of Conan, exposing the dangers of microwave popcorn. - [TeamCoCo]
The 8 essential hard rock music babes from the 80s. - [Uproxx]
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8 Extinct Species Science Can't Bring Back From The Grave
And two it can. Bad news everyone, DNA has a half-life of 521 years so no Dinotopia future for us.
Were Velociraptors "Clever Girls"? We'll Never Know.
Palaeogeneticists in Copenhagen and Australia examined 158 leg bones from three extinct species of bird which still contained DNA. After lots of SCIENCE! it was determined the building blocks of life degrade completely after slightly over five hundred years.
All The Preserved Ice Mammoths Were For Naught.
Laughing At A T-Rex's Tiny Arms Is Forever Regulated To Museums.
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These Pop Culture Jack-O-Lanterns Are More Art Than Carving
Pumpkin carving is a real talent. Every year Rhode Island invites artists from around the country to participate in the event.
Iron Man
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Alien Queen
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Superman
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Cthulhu
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LEGO Unveils New TMNT Minifigures
No word on if they'll come with LEGO pizza. LEGO teams up with Nickelodeon to launch these in January 2013.
Shredder
Leonardo
Raphael
Donatello
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The Ladies Of 1941 Knew How To Party And Other Links
Cigars, poker, and burlesque, oh my! Plus, social network sins you're committing and creepy unexplained phenomena.
The 5 social network sins you don't know you're committing...but you are. - [Cracked]
11 disturbing dolls the world could've done without. - [MentalFloss]
12 gross looking Halloween themed foods we dare you to try. - [Flavorwire]
Slutty Muppet costumes. This is what we've come to as a species. - [Uproxx]
A Japanese photography gives out tips on how to take couples' photos when you're Forever Alone. - [Neatorama]
50 creepy unexplained phenomena. - [TruTV]
Almost two dozen people were arrested during a CraigsList drug bust. - [NBC]
Taylor Swift does an interview, tries to convince the world she's a real grown-up lady now. Kind of fails. - [Esquire]
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BuzzFeed Meets Kevin Smith, Covers Him In Digital Cats! [Exclusive Pic]
And travels back in time with him to 2003. A simpler time, when MySpace ruled the social media landscape. Mr. Smith was at NYCC to talk about Comic Book Men on AMC.
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Buzzfeed Blings Out Adrianne Curry At Comic-Con [Exclusive Pic]
Glitter is making a comeback, you know. Ms. Curry hasn't forgotten the lost art of angling the camera up and to the left .
Bonus! She Even Remembered Man Hathaway From SDCC!
Source: provincialelitist
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Body Builder's Horrible Fake Tan Tops The Morning Links
You missed a spot. Plus, absurd super-sized fashion trends and athletes that look like animals.
Slang is a universal language. Find out how the F-bomb informs our speech. - [Salon]
What is it about Sierra Blanca, Texas that makes it the black hole of tour bus drug busts? - [Hollywood Reporter]
20 athletes that look like animals. - [BleacherReport]
7 things no one tells you about breast cancer. - [Glamour]
10 great rescue movies prove it's worth holding out for a hero. - [Time]
12 spring trends are taking "super-sizing" to absurd levels. - [Elle]
Conan finds himself disheartened by what "Knobs & Knockers" mean in Ireland. - [TeamCoCo]
According to this purveyor of fine pooping accessories, you've been doing it wrong for years. - [Uproxx]
Will Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai be their Rosa Parks? - [TheDailyBeast]
Headline Story: Number 49 was competing in the Arnold Classic Europe held in Madrid. I guess no one had the nerve to tell him. - [DailyMail]
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"Munsters" Reboot Finally Gets A Promo
Did they seriously just use the “start up” sound to revive Frankenstein's monster? Yes, yes they did.
Source: youtube.com / via: hollywoodreporter.com
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"Walking Dead" Cast Subjects Themselves To Blingees
We gave them a cell phone, they took some selfies, glitter and blood was dumped upon those selfies. The cast was there to talk about Season Three , but Buzzfeed had other plans.
Robert Kirkman - Creator
Michael Rooker - Merle
David Morrissey - The Governor
Danai Gurira - Michonne
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