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Perhaps the best use of auto-tune since the release of the iPhone’s I Am T-Pain application, this segment of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos features Stephen Hawking and Sagan himself getting down with their bad selves. Link

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Even Mario loves making some extra bling bling on the side. And that’s exactly what you get in those secret warp levels in Super Mario Bros. (if you’ve ever seriously played the game you know what I’m talking about). Just take a jump down the right pipe and profit. These excellent and super stylish Warp Zone socks remind you that ...

Star Wars fan and tangled wire advocate Brian De Vitis managed to have one of the greatest brainstorm ideas ever. Why not take every console I own (all eight of them) and stuff them all into that R2-D2 replica I’ve had sitting around the house. Well, EVERYONE has the supplies needed for this project. No excuses. Grab your droid and ...

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Have you ever played poker against a blind guy? And not a poker blind, I’m talking a dude that literally can’t see. It’s super effective. All you have to do is peer over his shoulder to scope out his hand. You’ll know just when to fold ’em and when to hold ’em. Luckily for me I feel no guilt. In ...

Seeing as custom felt cases are quickly becoming the “cool thing” to have on your iPhone, I had no choice but to post this amazing first look at the hand embroidered Xbox 360 felt iPhone case and included key chain controller. For both the case and the key chain you’ll be shelling out $45. Subtract $10 if you don’t care ...

I’m in love with the subtle beauty of these two awesome t-shirt concepts. The Pac-Man shirt features Packy om-nomming your buttons while the Tetris tee shows a set of Tetris blocks at the base of the shirt, but my favorite part is the long vertical Tetris block used as the zipper. Hit the jump to see the Tetris shirt.

Us humans are so vicious. We take poor innocent potatoes, skin them while their friends watch and then mash them into a creamy pulp. Doesn’t sound too appetizing when explained so truthfully, huh? But what happens to the dead potatoes that are left behind? They become zombie potatoes, of course. This Zombie Potato Halloween costume is equally bizarre and surreal. ...

A team of researches conducted the first ever video game census, analyzing the characters of 150 of the top selling video games. The results were totally unsurprising if you’re an avid gamer. 89.5% of the characters are male, 85% are white. The most under-represented demographic was Hispanics, appearing in 2.7% of the games, only a fraction of their actual world ...