Gearfuse

Imagine if we could actually see the cursors being used by everyone checking out Google Maps. The world would be flooded with flags and cursors. Just completely flooded. 4chan would make sure of that.

But since we can’t see every single cursor, we’ll have to settle for just a single spectacle. The Computer Mouse Cursor Bench, officaly called the Urban Cursor project, provides a taste of what could have been, if Google had decided to use a different cursor method than the traditional mouse.

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How in the hell did he score a hot piece of ass like Olive Oil? Rick Baker composed this artistic rendition of what Popeye would look like IRL.

*shudder* Scary.

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I grew up with the Peanuts, even if they were way before my time. My dad had all of his old Charlie Brown comic strip books and I read through all of them hundreds of times. So, I was sort of well acquainted with Charlie Brown as a kid.

Tim O’Brien’s untooned Charlie Brown shows what the wishy-washiest bald kid in the world would look like if he were a living, breathing person. The result, although terrifying, is ultimately just what you would expect. Good grief.

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They should have used a real ape. And a real princess. And a real superhero plumber (not you Joe).

Video after the jump.

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Designer Marc Owens came up with a machine that prints out little sheets of paper with a date-stamp and time-stamp. Write in your own message, slap it on a street sign and boom: instant tweet. It’s like Twitter for people without friends. Something like that.

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