Link Thread

[Zeke]

What, really? I didn't realize you could tell personality cores apart just by looking. But yeah, now that I check, Wheatley's "eye" is blue.

That said, the title is sort of self-fulfilling. Apparently that avatar did make me stupider.

[Flying Gremlin]

Here I was, going to change it to Captain Obvious (http://captainobvious.hotels.com/). You have convinced me otherwise.

Bravo.

[Nate the Great]

Someone put a slinky on a treadmill and started both going. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=711bZ_pLusQ)Then they backed it with overblown "epic" music to drive home the point.

It's strangely relaxing...

[Zeke]

Dave Barry is still doing year-in-review columns! Here's the one for this year. (http://www.miamiherald.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/dave-barry/article51119880.html) Funny stuff as always.

[Nate the Great]

"Air theramin." Cute.

[Nate the Great]

Someone has connected a motion detector to a set of Tesla coils such that you can act like a supervillain and summon lightning. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNN4Oo0KhZo)

It's things like this that make me proud to be a nerd.

[Nate the Great]

A "music box" version of the Duck Tales Moon theme. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4hAPPAG1U4)

Every once in awhile you want a nice, simple, relaxing version of a classic song.

[Nate the Great]

The trailer for the (fake) Oregon Trail Movie.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHps2SecuDk)
Hey, if Where's Waldo, Minesweeper, and Tetris can have movie trailers, why not Oregon Trail?

[Nate the Great]

The Magic School Bus: The Movie Trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rce6HTFBaFg)

What can I say about the Magic School Bus that would be profound and not stupid? I'm stumped...

[Nate the Great]

The Antiques Roadshow features a original 1964 Star Trek pilot script. (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/season/17/seattle-wa/appraisals/star-trek-treatment-script-ca-1964--201206A28)

[Zeke]

This page (https://books.google.ca/books?id=LL_8Iclv3SIC&pg=PT183&lpg=PT183&source=bl&ots=GAvnswwd3s&sig=6Fw6a-pWw4-G9LQS4sKredfpjew&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiB49irk7LKAhUFOBoKHW43CGYQ6AEINjAK) from TNG novel 33, Dafydd ab Hugh's Balance of Power, has what's probably my single favourite joke in a Trek novel. You'll know it when you get there.

The Federation ship they're talking about is the Enterprise.

[Nate the Great]

Lazy Game Reviews connects a PS/2 keyboard to a cellphone. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjh7zAuaw-0)

And yes, it works.

[Nate the Great]

We're all familiar with the King Arthur/Black Knight duel from Holy Grail, but someone has not only replaced the swords with lightsabers, but replaced the Black Knight's dialogue with Darth Vader quotes.

Watch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CLwxObfaNE)!

[Nate the Great]

Robot Wars is returning this year! (http://robotwars.wikia.com/wiki/Robot_Wars_%282016_series%29)

I'm not sure how many of you remember or watched Robot Wars, but I enjoyed it.

[Nate the Great]

An anime ghost girl dances with two sentient shoes to the tune of "Moses Supposes" from Singin' in the Rain. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exw94kq6cHo)

Once again, I have no idea how this happened. But it has, and it's cute enough to spend a few minutes on.

[Katy Jane]

An anime ghost girl dances with two sentient shoes to the tune of "Moses Supposes" from Singin' in the Rain. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exw94kq6cHo)

Once again, I have no idea how this happened. But it has, and it's cute enough to spend a few minutes on.

Very cute. Love that song.

[Nate the Great]

A huge LEGO contraption (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHQZcRPqUkY) whose only purpose is to move tiny soccer balls from Point A to Point B in the most complicated manner possible.

[Nate the Great]

A cover of "The Power of Love (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl6Ery4Q_uE)" that's just a little bit different.

Don't worry about the Back to the Future fanfare at the start, it's just a homage.

[Nate the Great]

A Spock tribute by Melodysheep. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vNBA8mHFf8)

Perhaps a bit too much autotune, but still fun.

[Nate the Great]

Star Wars fan comics in the style of Calvin and Hobbes.
(http://designyoutrust.com/2016/01/star-wars-characters-brilliantly-reimagined-as-calvin-and-hobbes/)
I haven't seen Force Awakens yet (waiting for Netflix release), but I'm still a fan of Calvin and Hobbes.

[Nate the Great]

Neil deGrasse Tyson would rather have the Enterprise than the Millennium Falcon. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMH1vDDd1xc)

[NAHTMMM]

Tom Marshburn, Astronaut (http://i.imgur.com/0Sd4fNm.gifv)

[Nate the Great]

A classic scene from TOS, but with a fan-made twist ending. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUHcoCg2jWI)

This involves a meme that I'm not sure everyone knows, but it's still funny.

[Nate the Great]

Screencaps from some old unauthorized black and white Star Trek parody comics. (http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics352.html)

Highlights include Principal Cartwright, "Bonz" McCoy with a buzz haircut, a Guinan cameo, Krouton the Clingon (a remarkably good caricature of Koloth, you can definitely see the William Campbell in there), and Spawk "the Fonzie of the 23rd century".

[Nate the Great]

A fan animation of Calvin and Hobbes dancing (http://imgur.com/mR8KEcd).

[Nate the Great]

Doctor Who/Back to the Future T-shirt (http://shirtoid.com/125777/doctor-to-the-future/).

Yeah, so...this exists. Huh.

[NAHTMMM]

Looks amusing to me.

Doctor Who has already been crossed over with everything else anyway.

[Nate the Great]

Someone recreating the climax of Back to the Future 3 with toy trains. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2O1na0LNf4)

Wait until the end for a cute bonus gag.

[Nate the Great]

I'll bet most of you don't remember the Star Trek spoof from Garfield and Friends called...Swine Trek (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmEdKWCIj7k)!

[Nate the Great]

It's Marble Madness Day in the Link Thread!

You see, I was a major MM freak back in the day. On the NES, as I didn't get a Gameboy until much later.

A remix of the theme song. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxAYJdLXgZo)

A speedrun (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHUmDWZeE_s).

The Marble Madness portion of a student's CG creation of a number of NES classics. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_4VZOjKRxA&t=1m9s)

And now, a completely different kind of marble madness. A musical instrument played with 2000 marbles. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q)

[Nate the Great]

Alan Young died on Thursday (http://www.ew.com/article/2016/05/20/alan-young-dead-mister-ed-star-dies-96?utm_source=SpotIm&utm_medium=Recommendation&utm_content=Comments&spot_im_comment_id=sp_n0ORkeDU_article%242608713_c _MDv2A4).

I know that for our parent's generation he'll always be Wilbur from Mr. Ed, but for us he's Scrooge McDuck. I'll miss him.

Looking through his IMDB I was also reminded that he did an awesome job in The Great Mouse Detective.

Incidentally, he has a Bacon Number of 2 (http://oracleofbacon.org/movielinks.php?a=Kevin+Bacon&b=Alan+Young+%28I%29&use_using=1&u0=on&use_role_types=1&rt0=on&use_genres=1&g0=on&g4=on&g8=on&g16=on&g20=on&g1=on&g5=on&g9=on&g13=on&g17=on&g21=on&g25=on&g2=on&g6=on&g10=on&g14=on&g22=on&g26=on&g3=on&g11=on&g15=on&g23=on&g27=on).

[Nate the Great]

Tomorrow is Towel Day, so here are a few Hitchhiker's links...

A fan animation of the original guide entry on towels.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8azs11YWxs)
An epic remix of "The Journey of the Sorceror" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTdZVMdFmpo&list=PL3FDD18A99D5398D5&index=41)complete with excerpts of guide narration by Douglas Adams himself.

Another one, but with more of a techno spin and less narration (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_xCKJEeXTU).

An astronaut on the International Space Station (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpQfWLkKbhw)celebrates last year's Towel Day by reading a book excerpt and wearing a "Don't Panic" T-shirt.

Numberphile talks about the cultural impact of 42 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6tINlNluuY) and discusses some of the number's mathematical properties. I'll bet none of you had ever heard of a pronic number before today, much less a primary pseudoperfect number or a Harshad number.

Wikipedia gives a number of other properties of 42 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_%28number%29#Works_of_Lewis_Carroll).

[NAHTMMM]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incredible_Crisis

That's . . . quite a plot.

[Nate the Great]

During the ST:TAS days, Leonard Nimoy recorded a promo for the 1970's Pink Panther cartoon. (http://trekcore.com/tas/audio/misc/nimoypromotespinkpanther.mp3)

Just a little randomness to add spice to your day.

[Nate the Great]

An art gallery displays 50 pieces of Trek art for the 50th anniversary. (http://www.cbs.com/shows/star-trek-discovery/photos/1006699/this-star-trek-50th-anniversary-artwork-is-simply-stellar/112695/adam-nimoy-with-his-father-s-work/)

Some of you may recognize that one of the pieces is the epic fanart that I posted a long time ago featuring basically everybody who ever appeared on TOS (http://dusty-abell.deviantart.com/art/Star-Trek-The-Original-Series-333378020).

[Nate the Great]

A ragtime piano cover of the Tetris theme (Korobeiniki).
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSLnkyPSlEM)
It's a fun spin on the classic tune that's been stuck in all of our heads for the last 25 years.

[Nate the Great]

I've been binging on YouTube clips from ''Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", one of my favorite movies. I stumbled upon a fan's impersonation of one of Jimmy Stewart's speeches. Too bad "hoarse due to dehydration Jefferson Smith" sounds an awful lot like "Christian Bale as Batman."

Judge for yourself. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK8lXDXZK5s)

[Nate the Great]

Gene Wilder died yesterday. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Wilder#Death)

Yeah, this bummed me out.

Clip time!

Pure Imagination (original by Wilder) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2pt2-F2j2g)

Pure Imagination (Maroon 5 cover) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk82L6DwUE8)

Chocolate Factory Ending ("He lived happily ever after") (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysv5XtiZwaQ)

The Lobster Quadarille (remember when he was the Mock Turtle?) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W66miUV7Whk)

[Nate the Great]

The Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers opening remade with real chipmunks, some puppets, and a greenscreen. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLMp6Ybw3Dk)

So, yeah, that happened...

Once again, I'd like an emoticon that's a face that blinks in confusion and says "that's random" over and over.

[Nate the Great]

A site recommends "Darmok" as the first episode to watch for a person who has never seen Star Trek before in their lives. (https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/wiki/kraetosintrototrek)

Yeah, um, what?

I was going to stick this in the quintessential episode thread, but I didn't want to be mocked for necroposting, and the connection was tangential anyway.

I appreciate what Darmok attempted, the problem is that it raised too many questions about how the Universal Translator was ever supposed to work. If anything, "instant" translation should be extremely crude and mechanical. Let the eggheads over at the Daystrom Institute talk with representatives of each race to get the grammatical rules straightened out and perfected. But no, the UT works perfectly with everything including proper nouns instantaneously, except for this episode when it hiccups all over the place.

Now, just to convince you that I still like the episode, here's the Gilgamesh clip (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoM_kPGfkw0).

[Nate the Great]

A few years ago someone created "Star Wars Rock" on YouTube. That is, Schoolhouse Rock audio with the video replaced by appropriate Star Wars clips. And some goofy commentary via subtitles, of course.

Adjectives (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYLkbr2sPQY)
Interjections (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUIPVOVRpCw)

[Nate the Great]

Someone made a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BxLGYqDgbk) explaining the major and minor powers in the Trek universe along with a summary of major events in the Prime Universe.

I disagree with some of the events deemed important (and the mentioning of events from Enterprise), but it's a decent primer if someone wanted to jump into the middle of Deep Space Nine having never seen anything Trek before.

[Nate the Great]

Nimoy Sunset Pie (http://nimoysunsetpie.tumblr.com/)

Images that can be as bizarre as you want, the only rule is that it has to have Leonard Nimoy (as Spock or otherwise), a sunset, and a pie.

So yeah, um, this exists...

[NAHTMMM]

http://garfemon.tumblr.com/

Another bizarre image project, where someone's drawing Garfield as all 151 original Pokemon.

[Nate the Great]

There it is again, the desire for the blinking "that's random" emoticon.

I looked for quotes about weirdness, here are some.

Source One: (http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/weirdness)

Dick Francis: Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.
E.A. Buccianeri: Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artists's career.
Alain de Bottom: There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
Dr. Seuss: We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. (another source claimed that a similar quote is from Robert Fulghum, I'm not sure who's right)

Source Two (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/weird.html):

Sebastian Stan: Embrace your differences and the qualities about you that you think are weird. Eventually, they're going to be the only things separating you from everyone else.

Source Three (http://www.wiseoldsayings.com/being-weird-quotes/):

Jacob Nordby: Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writers, mystics, painters, and troubadours, for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.
Tom Robbins: There is no such thing as a weird human being, it's just that some people require more understanding than others.

[NAHTMMM]

Source Four (http://www.mst3kinfo.com/ward_e/Bit317.html):

Crow T. Robot: You're weird. Which results in creativity.


This could easily go in the Amazing Things thread too:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/54rjpj/im_colin_cantwell_designer_of_the_death_star/

This guy designed most of the ships in A New Hope, he worked on Close Encounters and War Games and 2001, he helped Walter Conkrite broadcast the Apollo 11 landing, he designed the first proper color monitor -- just read the thread. Amazing Thing: The Death Star trench run was basically an accident. The model for the Death Star developed a depression, and rather than spend a lot of time patching it up, Cantwell convinced Lucas it should have a trench.

[Nate the Great]

Source Five (http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/weirdness):

Mandy Hale: So you're a little weird? Work it! A little different? OWN it! Better to be a nerd than one of the herd!
Donna Lynn Hope: I like weird. Conformity bores but is inescapable for the most part. We all follow something, even if it is following the goal of wanting to stand apart. We are a sea of ordinary people; it is always the quirk, the flaw or the ingenuity that stands out.

[Nate the Great]

It's Newgrounds Day in the Link Thread!

I'm in the middle of an Ashens marathon, and I was reminded of what web video was like over ten years ago, so let's do a Newgrounds Day!

I won't link to things like The Return of Ganondorf or the Floating Hands toons again, I've already done those too many times.

You all know about the Ultimate Showdown, but what about another video by Albino Blacksheep, Geeks in Love (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbDV1afDSn0)?

The sheer number of references boggle the mind. Can you find Doc Brown and Clara, the Spock snowman, the Monty Python foot, the All Your Base guy, the Teal'c cosplay, Potter Puppet Pal Dumbledore, or the Lemmings?

Pretty Much Ocarina of Time (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/239123). A different style of abridgement than a fiver.

Magical Trevor (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/181469). I forget if I saw this one on Newgrounds or YouTube first.

Super Mario Crossover (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/534416). This is the original one, the one that I played the most.

One of many Rabbit Joint Zelda song videos (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/477421). It's not even the best one possible, but I was in a hurry and the song is the most important part. Just like Magical Trevor, the Ultimate Showdown, Badger, etc. this song deserves it's place in early Net history.

Majora's Mock (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/277296). Wait for the third option to present itself.

[Nate the Great]

They're bringing Teddy Ruxpin back in a new form. (https://consumerist.com/2016/09/30/new-teddy-ruxpin-adorable-or-the-blinking-demon-of-your-nightmares/)

Boy, did he haunt my childhood. Even back then, I thought he was creepy, and back there in the '80s he was everywhere for awhile.

When it comes to nostalgia bears, give me the Gummi Bears any day. As for actual teddy bears, I had one that looked similar to this (https://www.google.com/search?q=teddy+bear+bow+tie&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjiw4P-1rfPAhVk9YMKHXl7D_AQsAQINQ&biw=1024&bih=680#imgrc=WD1fq9PBHwPKVM%3A). Much less creepy, right?

[Nate the Great]

I don't think I've posted 331Erock yet. He takes the theme songs from our childhood and turns them into metal versions with his electric guitar. Just a few selections...

Cartoons: Ducktales Main Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLeNhr1J430), Gargoyles (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm1VETHL508), Batman Beyond (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdXX1GXXnQc), Sailor Moon, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x84hC1p1YC0)Let it Go from Frozen, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usPoug7NcZo)He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EAUSnVOCbI)
Live Action Shows: Mister Rogers Neighborhood, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57pxxEBnXEs)Star Trek, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py4caxJ08As)MacGyver, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmAh8qGKVqw)The Lone Ranger/William Tell Overture, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djcYXanoSVg)Power Rangers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPZvj0jwmV0)
Video Games: Ducktales Moon Theme, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wiH1TudsXs)Super Mario Medley, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyoNnMO3zFk)The Legend of Zelda (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgefAXTLEwU)
Films: Spider-Man Medley (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y--8NiaYmFk) (Raimi films medley, 1994 cartoon, 1981 cartoon, 1967 cartoon), Superman, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG7ea3LBg2c)Indiana Jones, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjCmgf8SxBA)Back to the Future, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78eV0vIww2I)Star Wars (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvep1WaUmOM)

[Nate the Great]

I can't believe I forgot The Jedi Song (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/238426) for Newgrounds Day!

[Nate the Great]

After doing a search it seems I haven't shilled for the works of Richard AKA stupidfingers who created the Nintoaster (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig9-wX0aaFU). That's right, a Nintendo built into a toaster case because why not. Elsewhere on his channel is the Super Nintoaster (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fsbYJNMf-Q) and the Super Genintari (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFGQnU4TaYU)(a Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Genesis, and Atari 2600 built into one case)

Anyway, somebody decided to go the other way and build a toaster into a Nintendo (http://www.ufunk.net/en/gadgets/nes-toaster/). Chalk this one up to "the world is weird."

[Nate the Great]

First trailer for the Power Rangers reboot movie. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-C4qqsgs8w)

Once again I had a whole rant typed, but I'll spare you. I'll summarize with "they messed up the fanfare, more than once I was reminded of Fant4stic (that's not a good thing), my expectations are low."

[Nate the Great]

Zoe's Hershey Kisses Collection (http://www.lauracarey.com/kisses)

There is a collector for everything, and there are more varieties of Hershey's Kisses than you'd think.

Incidentally, I'm not a fan of original Kisses, just like I'm not a fan of pure chocolate in general. I need it to be chocolate AND caramel, chocolate AND peanut putter, or at the very least chocolate AND puffed rice. The ones on that page that I've never had but would like to taste are marshmallow creme, lemon creme, and dulce de leche.

As a random sidenote, my mom was a big fudge fan. I like it with chopped walnuts added. How about you?

[Nate the Great]

Fanart of Studio Ghibli characters as Hogwart's students. (http://img03.deviantart.net/5443/i/2014/322/2/8/studio_ghibli_s_magic_comes_to_hogwarts_by_odinfor ce23-d86vmcn.jpg)

So Kiki is in Gryffindor, that makes sense.
Who's that girl in Hufflepuff?
Howl in Ravenclaw, I guess.
Haku in Slytherin, huh?

[Nate the Great]

Nine years ago (http://www.fiveminute.net/forums/showthread.php?p=74390&highlight=%22steam+trek%22#post74390) I posted a link to the Steam Trek parody.

Well, that was during the dark days of YouTube when a ten minute limit existed. The credits and other footage had to be excised. Well, the limit is gone, and the full version of Steam Trek (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCUVT4bi4dU) can now be enjoyed!

It seems only appropriate to link it again for the 50th anniversary.

[NAHTMMM]

Who's that girl in Hufflepuff?
Looks like a girl called Therru, from Tales From Earthsea. (http://img04.deviantart.net/7503/i/2014/115/7/2/therru___tales_from_earthsea_by_leandrotitiu-d7fydpc.jpg)

[Nate the Great]

Well, that's one I haven't seen yet, so it makes sense.

[Nate the Great]

Borrowed Time (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJcHPK3AEfU)

A couple of the Pixar animators put together this short in their spare time. Um, yeah...

[Nate the Great]

I forgot to repost the 40th Anniversary Tribute video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80_HKdvNhgA) for the 50th anniversary. No matter how many times I see it I still tear up a bit. Being paired with the Inner Light theme is just perfect.

As a bonus, here's Scotty with the holographic Enterprise bridge (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMIgDuIwEBk) again.

[Nate the Great]

Reposting the 40th Anniversary tribute reminded me of how much I like the Inner Light theme, so the heck with it! It's Inner Light Theme Day!

A beautiful, basic piano cover. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9sUyvFNbhM)
A full orchestra plays it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGXnkFrhpR8). The arrangement here is very similar if not identical to that used for the 40th Anniversary tribute.
Picard and Nella perform it as a duet in the Jeffries Tube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4y_oWBiwAo).
A theramin cover (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XQN9XDnRm4). A bit more otherworldly, this one.
Mario Paint cover (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6czGs0VBpU).
Woodwind Quintet Arrangement (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNk2SENvw8w). Give it a minute to get into full swing.
Accordion cover (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5BSsd6EZV8). I'll bet you didn't think such a thing was possible. I sure didn't!
Using an iPhone ocarina app (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEjIzjZW43o).

[Nate the Great]

You've all heard the Monster Bash, but have you ever heard the Monster Rap (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTTZ45IGR8M)?

:confused:

Happy Halloween, by the way.

[Nate the Great]

They're doing another live-action Grinch movie. (http://www.ew.com/article/2016/04/13/grinch-benedict-cumberbatch)

Benedict Cumberbatch as the Grinch. I'll wait for the trailer before deciding if this works.

The sad part is that I'm fairly certain they're going to do full CGI for the Grinch this time around.

[Nate the Great]

Pogo's newest song features Picard and Data cosplays. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl5TUw7sUBs)

Just when you think life can't get weirder...

[Nate the Great]

Someone turned Data's Ode to Spot (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpZl0UfIsR0) into a song.

This guy's voice is a little flat (too much autotune?), but if it's good enough for the Dr. Demento Show, you gotta give him mad props, I guess.

(Incidentally, as soon as I typed "mad props" I was reminded of that time on Frasier...)

Niles (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001383/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): I'll dispense with the usual adolescent teasing and come straight to the point: who was that babe-o-rama?
(http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001288/?ref_=tt_trv_qu)
Frasier (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001288/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Niles, please don't try to be hip. You remind me of Bob Hope when he dresses up as the Fonz.

[Nate the Great]

Ian's Shoelace Site (http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/index.htm)

More than you ever wanted to know about shoelaces. No, seriously.

[Nate the Great]

It's Star Trek Character Tribute Song Roundup Day! Part of the TOS 50th anniversary celebration. I did a roundup of "The Inner Light" covers last month, so I won't repeat those.

However, before I start in on the links I've already done before and am just copypasting off a YouTube playlist (for the most part, in general, etc.), let's do a new song that I just found:

Scotty (Hilariously bad character impersonations on this one) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KMYMfOZs5s)

Okay, back to reposting. Who knows, maybe there's one or two in here that you've never seen:

Dr. McCoy 1 (incl. "He's Dead Jim" roundup) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkMsF_H8rws)
Dr. McCoy 2 (Julia Ecklar) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1_MkXR8Ccw)
Mr. Spock 1 (MelodySheep) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vNBA8mHFf8)
Mr. Spock 2 (The Laughing Vulcan and His Dog) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBg9T_3CI1A)
Mr. Worf (DarkMateria) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da8BwV-Zrg0)
Mr. Data 1 (Ode to Spot) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpZl0UfIsR0)
Mr. Data 2 (Mr. Roboto) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CUZfxFehqQ&list=PL3A40A96F46174EA9&index=21)
Redshirts (I'm Alive!) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3cL1Aofy90)
TNG Cast (Make it So/Let it Snow) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiSn2JuDQSc&index=138&list=PL3A40A96F46174EA9)
Captain Picard (DarkMateria) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z53rk1oD-Ng)

[Nate the Great]

So I've just stumbled upon a blog called "Things Organized Neatly (http://thingsorganizedneatly.tumblr.com/)". There's a kind of art in just arranging a bunch of objects in a simple array on a table.

...

It's a good thing you guys already know I'm eccentric, right?

Pikachu rendered in Go stones (http://thingsorganizedneatly.tumblr.com/post/147751534134/submission-adam-hillman-pokemon-go-2016). I was amused.

[Nate the Great]

I just made my periodic pilgrimage to Old Man Murray's Start to Crate (http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/39.html) pages (which apparently I haven't shilled for in this forum yet). This gave me an idea for another theme day.

Early Internet Day!

By "early Internet", I mean the early 2000s, the days when audio-visual components are sparse or nonexistent, when pages were strictly text and images. Ah, the joys of dialup. I'm not including any video sites since I did a Newgrounds roundup recently and that seems to have it covered.

As If! (http://www.angelfire.com/anime2/darkgatomon/AsIf.html) Before Yu-gi-oh The Abridged Series existed, there was DarkGatomon writing MST's of Yu-gi-oh episodes. She was one of my earliest net friends, along with you guys and the gang over at the original h2g2.com

The Book of Ratings (http://web.archive.org/web/20080212045334/http://bookofratings.com/archive.html). This one's so old the actual page doesn't exist anymore and I had to bookmark the Wayback Machine version. It's just a bunch of funny lists in the Cracked or Seanbaby genre.

Computer Stupidities (http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/). Yeah, I shilled for this one in this very thread back in 2008, but eight years must be enough for statues of limitations to expire. It's still funny and I encourage a rummaging around of the rest of Rinkworks as well.

All Too Flat (http://www.alltooflat.com/). I could've sworn I've mentioned this site in the forum before, but the search function is coming up empty. Odd. Anyway, back in the day a bunch of New York college kids collected a bunch of funny stuff and engaged in various pranks. Among my favorite entries are locking a stuffed lion (http://www.alltooflat.com/pranks/lion/) in an empty gym speaker cage, turning New York's Astor Cube sculpture into the world's largest Rubik's Cube (http://www.alltooflat.com/pranks/cube/), and labeling everything in an apartment (http://www.alltooflat.com/pranks/postits/)with Post-It Notes.

The Voyager Coronary (http://www.st-minutiae.com/humor/coronary/index.html). If you want straight-up bonkers Trek fanfiction where anything and everything can happen, people from any Trek series can show up, and every Trek trope will be skewered, look no further.

Delta Blues (http://reviewboy.com/). No elaboration necessary. Jim always deserves a mention whenever a related subject is mentioned. I just wish he would take the time to do the last few Voyager Season 7 episodes.

The Cynic's Corner (http://www.cynicscorner.org/). If Jim plays "good cop" for Voyager episodes, David E. Sluss plays "bad cop". If he didn't have such good arguments, he'd be annoying. But he always has a point and defends his opinions, so you can't hate him. He also covers a bit of Enterprise, DS9, and Andromeda.

[Nate the Great]

Fan animation of a tweaked Ambassador-class design. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD4El-1395w)

I can appreciate the work that went into this, but it doesn't really look "Ambassador-class" anymore, except in a superficial manor.

[Nate the Great]

Merry Christmas!

Today I discovered a new Trek Christmas music video:

A version of "All I Want For Christmas is You (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9xAcYSIxQ4)" that's a mashup of Trek clips where characters say each word. Apparently the only character to use the word "Christmas" in the franchise is Archer, as the clip is reused a lot.

[Nate the Great]

World's Largest K'nex Ball Contraption (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc-bgMijF14)

Have you noticed yet that I'm a fan of Rube Goldberg machines? ;)

Along with LEGO, Erector, and Domino Rally, K'nex was a big part of my childhood.

[Nate the Great]

Vi Hart's YouTube channel. (https://www.youtube.com/user/Vihart/videos?flow=grid&sort=da&view=0)

Many years ago I stumbled upon her video about Pi vs. Tau (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG7vhMMXagQ), but took no real notice of the rest of her channel.

Well, today I stumbled upon her channel from a completely different direction (I think it was a comment on a CGP Grey video, but don't quote me on that), and can now recommend more videos if you happen to like humorous mathematical explanations:

Mathematical ways to eat candy buttons (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOLIB3cjFqw). (P.S. I'm not really a fan of candy buttons.)

Playing with toy snakes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx5D09s5X6U)(boy, do I miss playing Snakes on my TI calculator in high school)

Silly Bands battle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktW43nEqcDg) (wait for the Hitchhiker's Guide gags)

Properties of a Mobius Strip (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am-a5x9DGjg)(via playing around with Fruit by the Foot)

Taking turduckens to the next level (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjrI91J6jOw), including the nomenclatural problems.

Playing with cookie tesselations, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n1126GoxbU)then going 3D!

[Nate the Great]

Someone using a bunch of Rubik's Cubes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Lx_FhrXtjY) to make a stop-motion Mario video.

That is, by grouping a bunch of Rubik's Cubes together you can create "sprites".

[Nate the Great]

Little girl loses her teddy bear on a train, and Twitter helps reunite them. (http://peeking.in/post/70400404569/this-is-one-reason-why-i-love-the-internet)

Can I get an "awww!"?

[Nate the Great]

Armatron robot arm toys. (http://www.theoldrobots.com/armatron1.html)

I stumbled upon a YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KXmAktW_Xc) discussing the repair of these things and let me tell you, it was a nostalgic boot to the head. I had one of these as a child. I don't recall doing much with it, but hey, I had a robot!

[Nate the Great]

New Power Rangers trailer. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kIe6UZHSXw)

Hopes are a little higher, but still in the red. I could've done without the urine sample jar.

[Nate the Great]

I Knew You Were Tribbles (When You Dropped In) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyMJAL4KPII)

I just discovered a new Trek fan music video.

[Nate the Great]

A music box version of the movie version of the Trek theme. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAx1x-WUKBI)

[Nate the Great]

The very aptly-titled "Probably the Hardest Super Mario Level in Existence." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opUG9aOv8uE)

Never before have my thoughts cycled so many times between "this is really impressive!" and "this guy is completely bonkers!"

[Nate the Great]

Someone takes control of the "camera" in Ocarina of Time to show us new angles and secrets in the game. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUgE9L7V4oY)

It's been almost twenty years, and I'm still learning new things about this game...

[Nate the Great]

Mario Theme Played With RC Car and Bottles (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed4CHkN-Dkw)

That is, a bunch of glass bottles with different levels of water for the different notes are set up, and then a radio-controlled car with a stick attached to it is driven by the line, tinkling out the Mario theme.

[Nate the Great]

Cinemassacre reviews Groundhog Day (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc3ewkuuLrw&t=0s)

Groundhog Day is one of the classics to me. It makes me laugh, it makes me cry, it makes me ponder life itself, it makes me cheer.

Pogo remixes sound bytes into a song. Bing! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPbijgSYe_4)

CGP Grey talks about the tradition (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPbijgSYe_4) and makes a joke based on the movie at the end.

[Nate the Great]

A YouTuber attempts to theorize (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNGrm8_j0Ks) why 24th-century Starfleet changed uniform designs so much.

PS: Stay until the end for the absolutely worst Q-as-judge costume you will ever see.

[Nate the Great]

The story of the construction of the Shuttlecraft Gallileo set. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU6ZsPIegfY)

[NAHTMMM]

A transcript of a session of Lucas, Spielberg, and Larry Kasdan working on the character of Indiana Jones and the plot of Raiders. (http://maddogmovies.com/almost/scripts/raidersstoryconference1978.pdf)

[Nate the Great]

Stair Quest! (https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2057/)

A fangame in honor of all of those infuriating pathfinding puzzles in the old Sierra adventure games. Boy, have I fallen off my share of stairs (and a whale's tongue, don't ask) in my time.

If you'd rather not play for yourself, you can just watch Paw Dugan play it for you (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAHMUpPU50E).

[Nate the Great]

The latest Facebook meme: Guess this animal! (https://www.facebook.com/incomingmeme/photos/a.216590212028087.1073741828.216588388694936/416044872082619/?type=3&theater)

To the ignorant eye this picture may look like an elephant with a black censor bar over its eyes, but the more clever observers have come up with all kinds of funny alternate theories. My favorite is "Jigglypuff seen from above (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WIwFrvAOoE)", which is a reference to one of the most infuriating moments from Pokemon.

[Nate the Great]

Star Trek joke from The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm7PwCEKv1Y)

Always liked this one. "To boldly split infinitives that no man had split before!"

[Nate the Great]

Bambi vs. Godzilla (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-wUdetAAlY)

I promise that it's worth a minute and a half of your time.

[Flying Gremlin]

Bambi vs. Godzilla (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-wUdetAAlY)

I promise that it's worth a minute and a half of your time.

Surprisingly, I saw this in the 90's on Super Channel, back when that was still a thing in Canada. It was one of those filler things they put in between movies later at night.

[Nate the Great]

Well, I'm pretty sure I must've seen this one on Newgrounds back when YouTube was but a madman's dream (to quote Ashens).

[NAHTMMM]

The Mini Page! (http://cdn.lib.unc.edu/dc/minipage/)

Grandma and Grandpa would send us these out of their newspaper, back in the late '80s or early '90s.

[Nate the Great]

A short clip (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA8D5lK8guE) covering the restoration of the original NCC-1701 shooting model at the Smithsonian, and another (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa79FmRRgJ0) after it went back on display.

I'm fairly sure that I saw it in person twenty years ago on a field trip when the traveling Smithsonian exhibition came to town. I distinctly remember seeing the ruby slippers (they aren't as impressive in person, FYI).

I love museums, and I want to get to the real Smithsonian someday.

Incidentally, in these clips the experts do their best with the treknobabble, but they mess up a lot. Or at least they tend to go generic or imprecise. I kept wanting to yell at the screen "go to the Internet and you'll find hundreds of people willing to help you for free!"

The Smithsonian also has a Voyager commbadge (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csPArhoITlM&list=PL5zwq76EsRxqv42t2msfav3PkBegrsqZK&index=14) given to astronaut Sally Ride.

Size comparison of several scifi ships (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d97PbTcW_t4), done to scale in CG.

[Nate the Great]

Collective nouns for Pokemon (http://www.zam.com/article/1018/collective-nouns-for-pokemon-the-list)

I'm fond of unusual collective nouns for animals in real life (murder of crows, pod of whales, etc.), so seeing that someone has done this for the first generation of Pokemon amused me.

(PS. The page puts "s" at the end of the Pokemon names, I know that we don't do that in real life, it's one Pikachu, two Pikachu, three Pikachu, gray duck (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck,_duck,_goose#Duck.2C_Duck.2C_Gray_Duck). Sorry ;))

Some favorites: a squad of Squirtle (of course), a mischief of Pikachu, a carton of Exeggcute, a fortune of Chansey, a mystery of Mew

[Nate the Great]

Someone turned the digits of pi into musical notes to make a song. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOQb_mtkEEE&feature=youtu.be)

[Nate the Great]

The evolution and history of pop cans. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUhisi2FBuw)

Look, I'm an engineer, so this kind of nerdy stuff fascinates me.

Music boxes are more complicated than you'd think. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COty6_oDEkk)

[Nate the Great]

So I'm playing Monopoly on Pogo again, and I notice the muted sound icon. You see, there are so many other things to listen to on the Internet than musak. Out of curiosity I unmute for a few seconds to remind myself what it sounds like. Blech.

Then my mind goes to the excellent soundtrack on the 1995 PC game by Westwood. Ah yes, those dark times before widespread adoption of the Internet when you had to play games on CD-ROM. I still own the game of course, although I haven't used it in over ten years. But that doesn't matter, because you can listen to the soundtrack on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0B7C9735A9C054A8)!

[Flying Gremlin]

Westwood had a superb run for game soundtracks, then. This was their 1996 entry (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGgnywWO6Ts).

[Nate the Great]

The Vintage Computing Blog covers '80s electronic toys. (http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/1109)

I had quite a few of these things (or at least similar models based on the same concepts), how about you guys?

[Nate the Great]

A Reddit thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/60phe7/describe_the_plot_of_a_star_trek_episode_horribly/#bottom-comments) invents a game where one poster does a one sentence summary of an episode focusing on the most ludicrous element while still being accurate.

Some favorites:

Captain Picard's ability to count the number of lights that he sees is put to the test. He passes.

Kirk allows oblivious woman to jaywalk to her death.

Major Kira gets really mad at a wimpy filing clerk.

Picard makes some new friends, but Riker disapproves of this and tries to murder him.

Sisko, Bashir, Dax and Kira sing and skip to help line quarks pockets.

Captain Janeway kills a dude in cold blood using the transporter. Why? Because he existed, and his existence offended her.

[Nate the Great]

How It Should Have Ended presents all of Harry Potter in 90 seconds. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnbBcAr7XGo)

Yeah, it's an old video, but it's vaguely fiver-related. "Vaguely" being the operative word here.

[Nate the Great]

LGR unboxes an almost 30-year-old IBM computer. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLy_jEbuY-U)

Talk about nostalgia. Incidentally, does anyone know why the thing couldn't play Commander Keen 1, but it could play CD-Man?

[Nate the Great]

Irish People try Root Beer for the first time. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFRXVXhcksc)

Apparently I haven't shilled for the Irish People Try (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-L4ATBF-9Q96BDFSQrEtK7kBN8ErtjTb) playlist over at Facts yet. It's funny to watch them eat food that we take for granted, but they have no first-hand knowledge of.

Spoilers, they didn't like the root beer. Now, who else doesn't like root beer? Someone that we all know?

Hmm..... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VhSm6G7cVk)

(I love root beer, especially if you put vanilla ice cream in it. It's cream soda that's vile.)

[Nate the Great]

A cover of the Palace Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUTWZm75EV0) from various Zelda games that makes it sound vaguely like a James Bond theme.

I'll take Improbable Pop Culture Mashups for $1000, Alex...

[Nate the Great]

The band Five Year Mission (http://fiveyearmission.net/albums/) does tribute songs for TOS episodes.

These aren't quite musical fivers, but rather sung summaries of each episode, along with commentary on performances, plot holes, etc.

YouTube channel with music videos. (https://www.youtube.com/user/fiveyearmission/videos)

[Nate the Great]

Last month was the tenth anniversary of the Potter Puppet Pals short "The Mysterious Ticking Noise (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx1XIm6q4r4)."

It feels less pointless when a Buzzfeed article (https://www.buzzfeed.com/alannabennett/snape-snape-severus-snape?utm_term=.hxA76wVyE#.gaMKdmr8g) marks the occasion.

[Nate the Great]

First, there was "A Modern Major General (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIv1PRQWbRk)"...

Then Tom Lehrer turned it into "The Elements Song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGM-wSKFBpo)"...

Then XKCD turned it into "Every Major's Terrible (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji89bfrtJJM)"...

And today I discovered the "Boy Scout Merit Badge Song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_-nCH3tX1U)."

Just in case you haven't gotten your daily reminder that the world is weird.

[Nate the Great]

So today the Nostalgia Critic reviewed the 1974 version of Jack and the Beanstalk, but I'm not here to talk about that. I'm here to talk about the images on this page (http://laybize.com/13048-dzhek-v-strane-chudes-jack-and-the-beanstalk-1974-700-mb-dvdrip.html)...

Yes, these two characters are from the same cartoon. A girl who looks like she walked out of an Ozamu Tezuka anime and a boy who looks like he walked out of a Dr. Seuss cartoon.

And that's your dose of weirdness for the day.

[Nate the Great]

It's Back to the Future Pop Culture Mashup Day!

Dr. Seuss version (https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fhideyourarms.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F07%2Foh-the-eras-youll-go-detail-9281.jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fhideyourarms.com%2F2012%2F0 7%2F03%2Fdaily-tshirts-news-july-3rd-doctor-star-wars-jamie-foxx%2F&docid=8B_SC5108x9NfM&tbnid=-Em9LE-FjPWHFM%3A&vet=10ahUKEwjEqoDp5crTAhVGyoMKHeUCA8cQMwhhKBAwEA.. i&w=660&h=563&bih=680&biw=1024&q=back%20to%20the%20future%20dr.%20who%20shirt&ved=0ahUKEwjEqoDp5crTAhVGyoMKHeUCA8cQMwhhKBAwEA&iact=mrc&uact=8): "Oh, the Era's You'll Go!"

Dr. Who version (https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fs-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com%2Foriginals%2F4b%2Fe7%2Fb2%2F4be7b2 6f840e2b35108b15e89fe44eb5.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinterest.com%2Fpin%2F 8303580536056174%2F&docid=d4YYuhzTd6EFTM&tbnid=3ETvHVghWrQwzM%3A&vet=10ahUKEwjEqoDp5crTAhVGyoMKHeUCA8cQMwhaKAkwCQ.. i&w=618&h=440&bih=680&biw=1024&q=back%20to%20the%20future%20dr.%20who%20shirt&ved=0ahUKEwjEqoDp5crTAhVGyoMKHeUCA8cQMwhaKAkwCQ&iact=mrc&uact=8): The Tardis-as-DeLorean is cool.

Ghostbusters/Ecto-1 version (https://geektyrant.com/news/back-to-the-future-and-ghostbusters-mashup-art?utm_source=gametyrant.com&utm_medium=related)

Calvin and Hobbes version (http://www.ebay.com/itm/BACK-TO-THE-FUTURE-Marty-McFly-Doc-Brown-DeLorean-Calvin-Hobbes-Men-T-Shirt-M-2X-/152528967788?var=&hash=item23836f586c:m:mXZbpy7LpjEqylgVAuaRanQ)

Peanuts version (https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theshirtlist.com%2 Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F11%2FThe-Doctor-Is-In-T-Shirt.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theshirtlist.com%2Fgen eral-tags%2Fback-to-the-future%2Fpage%2F7%2F&docid=QGrgSlsyk1FpQM&tbnid=SEUFjMpN3EVawM%3A&vet=10ahUKEwi-46KP58rTAhWFx4MKHfs4A4Q4yAEQMwhTKFAwUA..i&w=550&h=400&bih=680&biw=1024&q=back%20to%20the%20future%20dr.%20who%20shirt&ved=0ahUKEwi-46KP58rTAhWFx4MKHfs4A4Q4yAEQMwhTKFAwUA&iact=mrc&uact=8)

The always classic Marty McPrime shirt (http://shirtoid.com/75376/marty-mcprime/)

Mario Kart version (http://shirtoid.com/115567/marty-kart-88/)

Crossover (http://shirtoid.com/123356/super-80s-kart/)with ALF, A-Team, Ghostbusters, and Knight Rider

[Nate the Great]

Someone made a really cool Enterprise-D model out of LEGO. (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cr5lJQBUIAAgpUQ.jpg:large)

[NAHTMMM]

Collective nouns for Pokemon (http://www.zam.com/article/1018/collective-nouns-for-pokemon-the-list)

Fun, thanks! :)


Then my mind goes to the excellent soundtrack on the 1995 PC game by Westwood. Ah yes, those dark times before widespread adoption of the Internet when you had to play games on CD-ROM.
Good soundtrack, fun background images, fun little animations on that game. :)

The Vintage Computing Blog covers '80s electronic toys. (http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/1109)

I had quite a few of these things (or at least similar models based on the same concepts), how about you guys?
That first Robie looks familiar, though we never had one. My brother did get a black-and-yellow piggy bank robot for Christmas though. And I had a couple of Tiger handhelds (baseball and a frustrating football) and an Empire Strikes Back that was probably Tiger too.

[Nate the Great]

Ex Astris Scientia covers some of the instances where everyday objects were used as Star Trek props. (http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/inconsistencies/present-day-devices.htm)

I especially love the use of floppy disk drive case fronts as textural trim. Ah, the days of 5 1/4 inch floppy drives, when program sizes were in the kilobyte range...

[Nate the Great]

A redditer gives his list of the 20 essential Trek episodes: (https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/6ag62n/i_made_a_list_of_essential_episodes_i_tried_to/#bottom-comments)

ENT: In A Mirror, Darkly, Dear Doctor, Carbon Creek
TOS: City on the Edge of Forever, Balance of Terror, Space Seed, Mirror Mirror, The Trouble With Tribbles
TNG: Q Who, The Best of Both Worlds, The Defector, Yesterday's Enterprise, The Inner Light, Tapestry, Preemptive Strike
DS9: Duet, The Visitor, In the Pale Moonlight
VOY: Scorpion

Commenters put forth missing episodes like Far Beyond the Stars, Cause and Effect, Year of Hell, Drumhead, Measure of a Man, etc.

I'm going to omit my commentary for now, but what do you guys think? Do some of these fit more in the category of "popular" or "got a lot of exposure" than "essential"?

[Nate the Great]

Almost two years ago (http://www.fiveminute.net/forums/showpost.php?p=80318&postcount=736) I shilled for Matthias Wandel's woodworking channel.
(and almost five years ago (http://www.fiveminute.net/forums/showpost.php?p=79010&postcount=672) I posted his domino row building machine without mentioning his name)

Well, he recently hit a million subscribers, so I'm going to link to a few more of his videos to celebrate.

A marble binary adding machine. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcDshWmhF4A)

A pen shaking machine. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpGMFNWZKss)

The pantorouter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wZ1v4PIsYI), his pride and joy. He invented the thing, and there's a guy in Japan (http://woodgears.ca/pantorouter/kuldeep/buy.html) who sells a metal version (sending Matthias a commission, of course).

Homemade apple grinder (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlkQly2T-Wc). Just in case you have an apple orchard and need to be able to mechanize apple grinding. I know that all of you fall into that category :D.

Giant wooden dice. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJd9SL8hjig)

Baby-proofing a giant flower pot. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auC7W8FDDvc)

The baby-rocking machine. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PWnXhpo4YQ)

Building a better mouse trap. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4PaGvAhV9I)

[Nate the Great]

I've already posted 331Erock (http://www.fiveminute.net/forums/showpost.php?p=80586&postcount=800), but that was his covers of TV and movie theme songs.

Now behold Mozart Meets Metal (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1lFtuL4rg8)!

[Nate the Great]

Someone compiled the different versions of the Sailor Moon title song. Granted, the ones from the actual show are the same song over different video clips, but I didn't know that the video game had a version with primitive CG models of the Scouts dancing while the song plays. I've linked to that part (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc6PBoy3vzU&t=3m2s), it reminds me of the Haruhi dance (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9yyX1bb3lw).

And just in case you'd forgotten the Haruhi dance, I'm also going to link to the animated (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3dOmMMNjGA) and live-action (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mfmf1QPm9k) versions of the Lucky Star dance. Bwa-ha-ha!

[Nate the Great]

Roger Moore died today. (http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/james-bond-007/news/a829011/sir-roger-moore-james-bond-obituary-dies/)

Ouch.

I'll admit that in the ranking of Bond actors he's below Connery and Brosnan (whatever Craig's positive points, he's playing some guy called James Bond without actually being James Bond), but I still liked him. I haven't seen The Saint yet, but my parents liked him in that role as well.

Tribute music video. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNjFq77bsVg)

[Nate the Great]

Alanis Morissette wrote new lyrics for "Ironic" to better reflect our current world.
(https://www.good.is/articles/isnt-it-ironic-not-really)
Official music video for the original. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jne9t8sHpUc)

Ed Byrne's standup routine making fun of the non-irony. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT1TVSTkAXg)

[Nate the Great]

Once again it's Towel Day!

I'll try to find some different links from last year (http://www.fiveminute.net/forums/showpost.php?p=80511&postcount=782)...

Someone added some drums for a bit of a funky remix of the theme song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtNkL8N0ZkM)...

Someone makes a jacket out of two beach towels (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3ae6lXxoJM) so their friend will always have her towel with her!

Making Babel Fish candy! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsBn3o0uxK0)

A different reading of the Guide entry on towels (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3ICFaSOI-E), including background skits!

Banjo cover of the theme. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50zhztSIYTU) Did you know that the main reason Douglas Adams chose Journey of the Sorcerer in the first place is that the banjo portions of the original version seemed to have a hitchhiking feel?

[Nate the Great]

Bootleg Zones covers R2-D2 toys that are dressed like Batman and Superman. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp24IdKiCcg)

Apparently I haven't covered Phelous or Bootleg Zones yet. Weird. This time I had to link to him. Look, pop culture mashups are nothing new, but when you give R2-D2 a cape it goes into complete insanity.

More bonkers pop culture mashup bootlegs from Phelous:

The Turly Gang (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EvscPuJbOU&t=1400s) (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Meets He-Man)
iPhone Iron Man (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX3eZdZWOiw)
Super Thomas (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO8MkgOff50)(Thomas the Tank Engine Meets Combiner Mecha)

[Nate the Great]

Perhaps some of you will remember when there was a site about ten years ago called Smash Our Stuff (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smash_Our_Stuff) (originally Smash My iPod), who would buy a brand new Apple device on release day and then destroy it in front of the line of people who are still waiting to buy one. They did this for a few different models of iPod and the original iPhone. The site doesn't exist anymore, but last Wednesday a different group took it to the next level.

They attached a Nintendo Switch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8QCFNAgPDo) to a drone, flew it up to a thousand feet, and then dropped it. And the thing (at least the main console and one of the Joycons) worked afterward!

There is an online meme called Nintendium (http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/nintendium) that comes to mind. Remember that Gameboy that went through the Gulf War (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBeTXPaewMo) and still works?

[Nate the Great]

It had to happen...

The recent fidget spinner craze has inspired someone to make one out of gallium (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1s0yts5bgk)...

The shame is that he had to melt down his gallium LEGO minifigs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKCKv6OmS0Q) to do it...

If you didn't know already, gallium (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium) is a metal that has a melting point of 86 degF/30 degC. Your body heat can melt it if you hold it long enough. And unlike that other "liquid at room temperature" metal, mercury, it's nontoxic. I first heard about it from an Isaac Asimov science article twenty years ago.

PS: Your totally useless, random gallium fact of the day is...
While the official source of the name "gallium" is "Gaul", the old Celtic name for what is now France and some surrounding areas (the discoverer Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran is French), some believe that it also refers to Lecoq himself (Le coq=>French for "the rooster"=>gallus is Latin for "rooster").

[Nate the Great]

By choosing the order in which Tetris pieces emerge (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJkHwulsac4), and then placing and clearing out the bits in a certain order, you can "build" sprites of video game characters.

Cool, huh?

[Nate the Great]

This one just enrages me...

Consumerist asks if it's possible for someone to get sued for texting to a driver who gets into an accident because he was looking at the text. (https://consumerist.com/2016/05/06/could-you-get-sued-for-texting-someone-while-they-are-driving/)

Um, no, it's not. Or at least it shouldn't be. Even if X knows that Y is driving during the time he sends a text, nothing is obligating Y to read the text at that instant.

[Nate the Great]

This comment chain from a video clip from "In The Pale Moonlight" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6icPPDXa5_M)where Sisko and Garak discuss obtaining an official Cardassian data rod made me laugh. You know how much I like in-jokes:

Bobaklives: He should've counter-offered with self-sealing stem bolts, those are always a hot item in the sector.
Paul Engler: Maybe they could find out if he's interested in an authentic Willie Mays baseball card.
landfair123: Maybe a picture of the captain's desk.
Vincent Adultman: I heard the NoJay Consortium cornered the market on those bolts. Perhaps reverse-ratcheting routers?

[Nate the Great]

Adam West died today.

Ouch. I mean, seriously...ouch.

Yes, 88 is nothing to sneeze at, and we're lucky we had him as long as we did, but it still hurts.

It's clip time. Yes, most of these I've already posted over the years, but I don't care.

Bruce Wayne talks to Batman. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgCkmUS1IYI)

The Batusi (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsYA8Gr5NTY).

Batclimb compilation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE_CM3tvkys).

Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CDH9XJEOjw)

Batman, a Batcopter, a shark, and some Batspray. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjRphRTk6EM)

Adam West and William Shatner costarring in a movie. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR14SH5tby4)

[Nate the Great]

Someone built a replica of Mjolnir (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_8Xhzt5YQI) that only he can lift, because the electromagnet inside won't release unless his thumbprint is on the scanner.

It's funny watching other people try to lift it.

And just for fun, the original "Avengers try to lift Mjolnir (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq8oLc6dT6A)" clip. You can never see Thor's face fall when Cap budges it too many times.

[Nate the Great]

To celebrate the life of Adam West 331Erock has done a metal cover of the 1966 Batman theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpePOJgwqvc).

[Nate the Great]

I'm in the middle of another SF Debris marathon, and that led to me to a compilation of funny clips from Stargate SG-1's "Window of Opportunity" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMBNJ1A_CjI). Definitely one of my favorite episodes.

[Flying Gremlin]

Chancellor Martok is running for Congress.

No, really. (http://www.14850.com/06104035-hertzler-ny23-reed/)

[Nate the Great]

Some fun Star Trek posts on Pinterest:

Beadcraft Mr. Spock (https://www.pinterest.com/pin/454933999833481156/)

A failed attempt at Steampunk TNG uniforms (https://www.pinterest.com/pin/461900505515718671/) (you don't mix and match TOS and TNG uniform elements!)

Star Trek coloring sheets (http://www.activity-sheets.com/coloring_page/movie-characters-superheros/Star_Trek/) (link from Pinterest)

TOS cast cross stitch (https://www.pinterest.com/pin/525443481495001248/)

TNG cast cross stitch (https://www.pinterest.com/pin/525443481495001248/)

To Boldly Go cross stitch (https://www.pinterest.com/pin/538532067925611120/)

Admiral Kirk cubecraft (https://www.pinterest.com/pin/354869645610126371/)

Variety of felt pins of Trek characters (https://www.pinterest.com/pin/454300681136739476/)

[Nate the Great]

Theme song for the Ducktales Reboot Revealed
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUU1HxsHaKM)
Original theme song for comparison (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMU2NwaaXEA)(and the full length version in case you want it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxSJr2xErUE))

(Rant deleted)

Yeah, um, the new one is a courageous attempt and all, but I'd just as soon keep the original.

(Time to go relax with the orchestral version of the Moon theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwbMkIROOGU)...)

[Nate the Great]

As a result of being in the middle of the Annotated Alice in Wonderland, I'm on an Alice kick on YouTube at the moment...

So I hope everyone has a very merry unbirthday (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdsZT7WKjW8)!

Various answers for "why is a raven like a writing desk (https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/702/why-is-a-raven-like-a-writing-desk)".

Phelous reviews an Alice mockbuster (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMHBlxNIDco).

If you haven't seen the dub of the '80s anime (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSz-GmA3Ptc) yet, give it a whirl. It's not for everyone, but has some good bits in it.

A YouTuber pretends that the Disney version is an anime and creates an anime opening (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpqiJISMDeo)for it.

[Nate the Great]

A LEGO stop-motion version of "The Trouble With Tribbles." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWH5ROnI9Ac)

(abridged to about seven minutes)

It's fun! Pay attention to the detail of the mouth flapping-there was a lot of head-swapping between shots going on there.

(I can't say I care for the LEGO version of the Enterprise that was used, there are far better ones available. For example, this one. (https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fs-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com%2F736x%2F18%2F8f%2F69%2F188f690d36b 7d1124bf0e09cda219ec2.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinterest.com%2Fpin%2F 428404983286541868%2F&docid=qDGOLwsVOU8VRM&tbnid=2GzrMTNb187WyM%3A&vet=10ahUKEwjUu9nJoMXUAhWI7YMKHTG6BKMQMwg4KBEwEQ.. i&w=640&h=425&itg=1&bih=680&biw=1024&q=lego%20starship%20enterprise&ved=0ahUKEwjUu9nJoMXUAhWI7YMKHTG6BKMQMwg4KBEwEQ&iact=mrc&uact=8))

[Nate the Great]

Boundary Break covers Pokemon Snap, including the original Professor Oak dub actor, Stuart Zagnit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQLYWeQjAIw)

Boundary Break is a show where control of the in-game camera is taken away from the A.I. so we can see secrets and things that we were never meant to see. Shesez covers both console and PC games new and old.

Just as a sampler, Arkham Asylum (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpLr7J-wukw&list=PLYfhW_P-MkU7vBmWwwyqdIWNDzXfEZwnO&index=2), Mario 3 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6YtzwW3jO4&index=10&list=PLYfhW_P-MkU7vBmWwwyqdIWNDzXfEZwnO), Goldeneye 64 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Reaz4aKYci8&index=21&list=PLYfhW_P-MkU7vBmWwwyqdIWNDzXfEZwnO), and Ocarina of Time (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUgE9L7V4oY&list=PLYfhW_P-MkU7vBmWwwyqdIWNDzXfEZwnO&index=39).

As for how he got Zagnit, apparently Shesez just asked. Wow. Now let me inflict his singing on you (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRcAADjkwz8).

[Nate the Great]

Crushing a Prince Rupert's Drop in a hydraulic press in super-slow motion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRUngxK2yXY&t=0s).

Of course you all know what a Prince Rupert's Drop (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Rupert%27s_Drop) is...

[NAHTMMM]

More Trek coloring pages. (https://twitter.com/PulpLibrarian/status/875707427769004032)

[Nate the Great]

I've been on a Rankin-Bass kick on YouTube lately...

Live-action lipsynch of "My World is Beginning Today" from Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67FyaCxVAOs)

I didn't even know I needed the laugh, but it turns out I did.

[Nate the Great]

A funny clip from "Offspring", leading into a TNG version of the Cheers theme song.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M__peoQIE4M)
I haven't seen as much Cheers as I'd like, I was a little too young for it when it first aired. However, my parents were fans, and I've seen my fair share of reruns.

Besides, any day you get to see Data ask Riker "What are your intentions toward my daughter?" is a good day.

In reply to the first clip, someone decided to do the same for DS9. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4n7wZpTM-k)

Cheesy laugh tracks are a good way to cheer up sometimes.

[Nate the Great]

Someone created a home automation system that can be triggered by playing Ocarina of Time songs on an ocarina. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glZnkpIDWSE)

Play Zelda's Lullaby->the front door unlocks.
Play Sun's Song->the living room lights turn on.
Play Bolero of Fire->the thermostat triggers more heating.
Play Song of Storms->the humidifier turns on.
Play Minuet of Forest->a pump waters the plants.
Play Song of Time->a talking clock tells you the time and temperature.
Play Saria's Song->it calls your cellphone if you've misplaced it, the phone even plays a soundclip of Navi saying "Hey, listen!"
Play Epona's Song->the car outside unlocks.
Play Song of Healing->it tells everything to go to standby.

[Nate the Great]

It's Lugia's Song Day in the Link Thread.

Yes, Lugia. From Pokemon 2000. I don't need a reason.

The Original (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG57tjQTtBY).

Metal Version. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb_pPrVYgEo)

Ocarina Version. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BiPEXPodi4)(P.S. Plug for David Erick Ramos' channel. He's done much better covers and performances than this).

Flute Version. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNeHlya4VnQ)

Dubstep Version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sx6Ibm2zv4) (because of course there's a dubstep version).

[Nate the Great]

Camera tests from the shooting of The Muppet Movie.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci9gPZnqiGY)
I never saw this before, maybe it's the same for some of you. Watch Kermit and Fozzie deal with the cosmic implications of being puppets instead of real animals!

[Nate the Great]

Someone on the Star Trek Reddit mentioned Sev Trek today... (https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/6jas34/anyone_else_remember_sev_trek_old_star_trek/)

Boy, do I miss Sev Trek. I actually submitted a few punchlines back before you needed an account to do that, before they put up the paywall, before Puss in Boots even existed. Yikes.

Sev Trek archive. (http://sevspace.com/stupidarchive/contents.asp.htm)

[Nate the Great]

It's "Star Trek fanart posted on Deviantart" Day...

Popeye characters cast as TNG characters. (http://l00u.deviantart.com/art/Star-Trek-TNG-Popeye-Bluto-Wimpy-Olive-Oyl-688823720)

Discovery characters drawn in manga/webcomic style.
(http://loreley1701.deviantart.com/art/Discovery-688562458)
How Christopher Pike would look wearing a Discovery-style uniform. (http://jonbromle1.deviantart.com/art/Star-Trek-Discovery-Captain-Christopher-Pike-688292505)

Painting of TNG Characters (http://nickybarkla.deviantart.com/art/Star-Trek-50th-Anniversary-687566669)(I wonder why Pulaski is there but Guinan, O'Brien and Ro weren't)

Gosalyn from Darkwing Duck in a TOS uniform and carrying a Type 2 phaser. (http://jialgri.deviantart.com/art/Where-no-duck-has-gone-before-Gosalyn-686777388)

Anyone remember the Vulcan Healer from "Yesteryear" (http://nightwing1975.deviantart.com/art/vulcan-healer-685734040)?

Hayley Atwell wearing a Monster Maroon. (http://gazomg.deviantart.com/art/Hayley-Atwell-Star-Trek-685148032)

Dusty Abell (I've posted his TOS fanart before) has created two new images for the 30th anniversary of TNG: Good Guys (http://dusty-abell.deviantart.com/art/Next-Generation-30th-Anniv-27x40-print-FOR-SALE-689414789) and Bad Guys (http://dusty-abell.deviantart.com/art/Next-Generation-30th-Anniv-27x40-print-FOR-SALE-689415587).

I tested myself, and I think I could name about 75% of the characters, and could at least name the episode for about 90% of them.

Notes (Good Guys): Who's that Romulan between Sarek and the Roshenkos? It doesn't really look like Tomalak or Pardek. Why is Q2 here in the "Good Guys" print? What's the ship between Shuttle 2 and Junior? Is that the criminal ship from "Gambit"?

Notes (Bad Guys): Does Texas really count as a villain? Ditto for the T'Kon Portal. The renditions of Lursa and B'Etor could've been better.

[Nate the Great]

A couple of guys pull off the Emperor's New Groove "lean against each other to climb a crevice" trick. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvlxeH8OtHk)

[NAHTMMM]

Looks like the original of the Popeye Trek is here (http://zenzmurfy.deviantart.com/art/Pop-Trek-The-Next-Generation-211212802). :)

[Nate the Great]

Today's discovery is Mariachi Entertainment System.

Yes, video game covers in a mariachi style.

Ducktales: The Moon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-pknfNhY20)
Ocarina of Time: Gerudo Valley (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sHLumKX3L8)
Star Wars: Throne Room (the awards ceremony from the end of A New Hope) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClIZ0NuLQuw)
A Link to the Past: Dark World (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8zedXN_bdQ)

[Nate the Great]

Today's discovery, part two is Player: Piano
Where these people get so many geeky piano cases is beyond me.

Burton Batman Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CBJDtsjjZ8) (still can't help but add in Goldentusk's lyrics (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUPBgYeanZ0) when I hear this)
Ducktales: The Moon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbeEDE4XMEc) (I try hard not to let Brentalfloss's lyrics (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHEgzRtKC5o) infect this one)
Star Wars Medley (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt20uO4cFYs)
Williams Superman Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84UgLH8E2eQ) (Goldentusk lyrics (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELNh23yRiJc) strike again)
Mario Bros Medley (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lID0A5p0_SY)
Doctor Who Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv_FRBRM0cg)(I do like how she keeps changing her Doctor cosplays between shots)
Tetris A Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8rcTvAoRzk)(the LEGO bracelet is a nice touch)

[Nate the Great]

An NES sits in a barn for 20 years rusting out, and a guy cleans it up and makes it functional again with minimal replacement parts. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOCfLN0bKcg)

I'm especially impressed by the Link to the Past cartridge that still has usable save files. All of my games that have internal button batteries have long since died.

[Nate the Great]

Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry:_Willy_Wonka_and_the_Chocolate_Facto ry)

Cue the TVTropes link for Flat What (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FlatWhat).

When I saw the trailer on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdAVwckh_EE) I was gobsmacked.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, don't remake things unless you can improve them or put a new spin (not just adding comic relief characters in the background) on it. Being lazy and expecting to make a profit from it is wrong and should never be encouraged in any artistic field.

Do I feel that any insertion of pop culture figures into preexisting stories is wrong? Of course not! It just has to be done properly. The first step is actually having the pop culture figures play roles in the story, as opposed to just fooling around next to the story.

[Nate the Great]

Today's new YouTube channel is Lofty Pursuits (https://www.youtube.com/user/LoftyPursuits/videos). They're a toy store/soda fountain/candy store in Florida that uses traditional methods and antique equipment. Their videos show how the candy is made and gives a little history lesson to boot. In addition the narrator is a scifi fan, he can talk intelligently about his fandoms as he works.

Last Towel Day I linked to their Babel Fish candy video, but there's so much more.

Candy Canes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXOouUXqPyI)
Tardis Candy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uV6doQCqoI)
Christmas Ribbon Candy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkhPHwXj0Po)
Root Beer Mug Candy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUmPYPaKJeA)
Rose Lollipops (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxunkUiLpBQ)
Pokeball Candy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5sYmlOwr6g)

[Nate the Great]

So I decided to start a marathon of Is It A Good Idea To Microwave This, only to discover that this month is the tenth anniversary of the show. If you have never seen the show, give it a try. However, I'd recommend starting in the middle somewhere and going back to the start later, as there were a few growing pains that had to be sorted out.

[NAHTMMM]

http://www.prooffreader.com/2014/05/graphing-distribution-of-english.html

Someone plotted the distributions of letter positions in English words.

[Nate the Great]

Like everyone else I hate spam emails. But what if someone decided to strike back by playing games with the spammers to waste their time?

Enter James Veitch and his series Scamalot (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSKUhDnoJjYmeW6nNasZSaVAGh4u91pEk). Each episode is four minutes or less. You'd be surprised what happens and how long it takes some people to realize that their chains are being yanked.

[Nate the Great]

I've already shilled Matthias Wandel's LEGO Technic domino row building machine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de4xdOVVROQ), but this time he's made an improved wooden version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1-wU9NgsV4).

[Nate the Great]

Five different versions of the DuckTales Moon Theme synched with each other. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ8R0Xe2G4Y)

Not my favorite version of the song, but definitely a different experience.

[Nate the Great]

So DisneyXD posted the pilot episode of the new DuckTales on their YouTube channel... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP0Neif7Y4E)

Don't worry, it's good. Unlike some other misguided revivals of recent memory *cough, cough Teen Titans Go, Powerpuff Girls 2016, Xiaolin Chronicles, cough cough* this one is being run by people who actually care about quality.

It does rush through things a little too fast. They accomplish in two episodes what I think could've easily been extended to five if they wanted to include more substantial character and plot development.

I must admit to wishing that the posted family tree was just a little more involved. Of course the full Don Rosa-made family tree (http://scrooge-mcduck.wikia.com/wiki/Don_Rosa%27s_Duck_Family_Tree)wouldn't have fit, but a few more names would've been nice.

My only real nit is that Donald didn't know that Flintheart Glomgold was an enemy of Scrooge's. Didn't Donald tag along on a bunch of adventures in the past? Even if he'd never met the guy personally, wouldn't Scrooge have mentioned his name before now?

[Flying Gremlin]

I hate it when YouTube still recognizes international borders.

[Nate the Great]

More random Star Trek Pinterest links:

Someone dressed the Mona Lisa in a TOS miniskirt uniform. (https://www.pinterest.ie/pin/286611963757045997/)

Paintings of the TOS cast in Napoleonic uniforms (https://www.pinterest.ie/pin/292100725817373654/).

The Peanuts cast as the TNG cast (https://www.pinterest.ie/pin/28217935137069434/).

Charlie Brown as Picard, Linus as Wesley, Franklin as Geordi, Peppermint Patty as Tasha, Pigpen as Worf, Lucy as Deanna, Little Red-Haired Girl (or Heather if you insist) as Beverly, Snoopy as Data, Woodstock as Spot, and Schroeder as Riker.

[Nate the Great]

30 Student Hacks You'd Wish You'd Known Sooner (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFaHoWtEm10)

It's amazing what you can do with binder clips and plastic bottles (among many other things you have around your house).

[Nate the Great]

The Daily Dot's list of nine Klingon episodes to watch before Discovery (https://www.dailydot.com/parsec/klingon-star-trek-netflix/)

TOS: Errand of Mercy, The Undiscovered Country
TNG: Heart of Glory, Sins of the Father, The Emissary, Reunion
DS9: The Way of the Warrior, The Sword of Kahless, Once More Unto the Breach
VOY: Barge of the Dead

My reaction? Ditch Heart of Glory, Sword of Kahless, and Barge of the Dead and substitute Redemption and Birthright. How about you guys?

[Flying Gremlin]

ENT: "Affliction" and "Divergence" is something that I would want to show, along with "Judgment". Probably the latter more than the other two, as it talks about how the warrior ethos has take over Klingon society and shows how the Klingons view outsiders from their perspective.

"Heart of Glory" should be included, as it was actually a more in-depth intro to anything Klingon psychologically. Everything afterwards just refines this knowledge. Agreed on the other two, though "Barge of the Dead" can be valuable due to the fact that it is Gre'thor and the Klingon value of afterlife they discuss at length...

[Nate the Great]

The list of essential Klingon episodes made me ask a similar question about Romulan episodes.

A discussion on Quorra (https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-Romulan-episodes-of-Star-Trek)yields Balance of Terror, the Defector, In the Pale Moonlight, The Enterprise Incident, Unification, Face of the Enemy, Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges, and The Enemy

I disagree with In The Pale Moonlight, it's not really a "Romulan episode", just an episode that has Romulans in it.

A reddit thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/1m77lb/what_are_your_go_to_romulan_episodes/) yields:

TOS: Balance of Terror, The Enterprise Incident
TNG: The Defector, Unification
DS9: In The Pale Moonlight, Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges (again, the Romulan culture was completely incidental in these two episodes, DS9 really didn't use the Romulans as anything other than plot devices)
VOY: Message in a Bottle (it could've been any antagonistic TNG race, the Romulans were plot devices again)

As a side not-quite-PNQ: Can you think of another way the Romulans could've been used besides as generic antagonists or "evil Vulcans"?

[Nate the Great]

This month is the 20th Anniversary of Goldeneye 64 (http://screenrant.com/goldeneye-007-video-game-20th-anniversary-facts-trivia/)

Ugh. Even though I still have a copy of this game, it makes me feel old to stumble upon this factoid.

Did You Know Gaming covers a bit of background (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO0b2HjRXBg)

Some fans create a sketch based on the premise that Goldeneye has been updated with lifelike graphics. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RR5V0rmN4o&t=37s)

Speedruns courtesy of Speed Demos Archive
(http://speeddemosarchive.com/GoldenEye.html)

[NAHTMMM]

http://www.the-record-collector.com/Picture_Discs.htm
http://www.colourlovers.com/craft/blog/2010/03/30/unusually-colored-vinyl-records

"Picture discs" are vinyl records that feature images on the area where the music is recorded. Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_disc) mentions:
One picture disc was even billed as a genuine "live album." Made as a demonstration for Stevie Wonder's Journey through the Secret Life of Plants, it featured a layer of blotting paper between the clear vinyl layers that contained alfalfa seeds. A tag of the blotting paper protruded below the record, and resting the disc on a glass of water with the paper in the water allowed the seeds to germinate and grow inside the record. When the prototype was taken through customs in Canada it was seized by the Department of Agriculture, making it not only the only real live album but the only record ever banned by the Department of Agriculture (alfalfa being a prohibited import).
Which is uncited, or I would have put this in the Amazing Things thread.

[Nate the Great]

A Venn diagram to tell the difference between dweebs, geeks, dorks, and nerds. (https://laughingsquid.com/nerd-venn-diagram-geek-dork-or-dweeb/)

No further comment...

[Nate the Great]

Another excellent Star Trek Deviantartist: Spiritus (https://spiritius.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=%2F&edit=0&q=star+trek)

A very good balance of photorealism and accenting the unique features of each actor.

[Nate the Great]

This month one of the items in Ashens' mystery box lot was a set of old Yu-gi-oh cards. In the "Nostalgia Box", no less.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfYNiR_DhG8)
Original Yu-gi-oh counts as "nostalgia" now. This makes me sad.

[Nate the Great]

I've plugged for David Erick Ramos before, but this time he's done a cover in a style that's a little different:

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks Overworld (i.e. Full Steam Ahead) on ocarina, train whistle, piano, and sax in almost a nightclub jazzy style. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i02JoSs2k7Y)

[Nate the Great]

Netflix reports that the Star Trek episode watched the most on their service is "Endgame".
(http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/tv-shows/the-episode-star-trek-fans-rewatch-the-most/news-story/12ae3acf08d2dea66d7ddf5ba9347fa5)
This makes me sad. You'd think one of the Tribbles episodes would have that honor.

[Flying Gremlin]

Netflix reports that the Star Trek episode watched the most on their service is "Endgame".
(http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/tv-shows/the-episode-star-trek-fans-rewatch-the-most/news-story/12ae3acf08d2dea66d7ddf5ba9347fa5)
This makes me sad. You'd think one of the Tribbles episodes would have that honor.

As long as it wasn't "Threshold".

[Nate the Great]

Nintendo is restocking the NES Classic next year.
(http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/12/technology/nintendo-nes-classic-edition-2018/index.html?sr=fbCNN091317nintendo-nes-classic-edition-20180707AMStory)
I'm glad Nintendo realized that stock=profit=good and scalping=no profit=bad.

[Nate the Great]

In anticipation of the TNG 30th Anniversary Discussion Marathon here are some TNG fan videos:

(YouTube links from specific episodes are for the episode-specific posts in the main thread)

A baby is so happy that TNG is starting that he's jumping up and down in his seat! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCENCiyt0Tw)

DeForest Kelley tours the TNG sets in 1990 while filming a news segment. Wait for a segment with Gates McFadden comparing their sickbays. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UvlqGcE-S0)

I'm sure I've posted the TNG Episode Guide song before, but why not do it again? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3F-C-rDVtU)

Footage of the TNG pinball game. Jump to 5:33 to hear Picard say "All hands, prepare for multiball!" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG73i6U2tSQ)

YouTube slideshow of TNG fanart. There's some good stuff in there, including Dennis Budd's stuff, who I've shilled for enough already. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee3L_QSo3VY)

Old commercial for the VHS tapes. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAUKRLELGvc) I'm glad I didn't have to pay $4.95 each for mine!

[Nate the Great]

I'm sure I must've posted Wintergatan's Marble Machine, but the forum's search function is coming up dry.

The original. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q)Wintergatan has created a machine to...well, think of it as a giant music box, only instead of a cylinder of pins plinking at metal strips its marbles hitting a xylophone and various other percussion instruments to create a unique sound.

The cover playlist. (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLLYkE3G1HECSsIy4IBqUVyJ76Q4oaA97) The variety of physical and virtual instruments is astounding. Even if one cover is unimpressive, the next one won't be.

[Nate the Great]

One of my newer webcomic discoveries is Spiked Math (http://spikedmath.com/archives.html). They take geek humor in a different direction than other strips like xkcd.

The strip in question (http://spikedmath.com/541.html) concerns the Seven Bridges of Konigsberg. I trust all of you know about this problem, but if you don't you can go to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Bridges_of_K%C3%B6nigsberg) or watch Numberphile's video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W18FDEA1jRQ) on it.

Anyway, Mike is the guy being Spiked Math and he came up with the various humorous ways non-mathematicians would approach the problem. Wait for the punchline, it's worth it.

[Nate the Great]

There's a new Herbie the Love Bug series in the works for Disney XD. (https://tvline.com/2017/06/28/herbie-series-disney-xd-love-bug-reboot/)

This worries me.

Lili/Landon is “part scientist, part entrepreneur, part daredevil” and realizes, when her/his parents go missing, that they’ve secretly been working on a government project: a talking car named Herbie.

That had better be a typo. Herbie does not talk except via car horn.

"A talking Herbie? Did these people accidentally get confused and watch a bunch of old Knight Rider episodes?" (http://jalopnik.com/disney-is-about-to-ruin-herbie-the-love-bug-if-we-dont-1796526380)

It doesn’t really matter why Herbie seems to be self-aware and capable of so much more. Any attempt to fill in some complex, logical backstory is doomed. Did the addition of microscopic midi-chlorians (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Midi-chlorian) somehow make Star Wars better?



And now, to cool down, here are some more Herbie links...


The Herbie theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2tyn9cotZU)



Piano cover of the Herbie theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yrzgJPs4xs)


The Nostalgia Critic covers the first movie for Disneycember (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYBnwNXdJzw)


Star Cars features a fan-made Herbie duplicate (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmK5JsKS0fI)

[Nate the Great]

Someone stuffed a Gameboy Color into a TI-83 calculator. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ONh_7Kzt0E&list=PLFD34CD3130EC4105)

"Why," I hear you ask? What you should be asking is "Why not?"

[Nate the Great]

A set of twins recreate "Let's Get Together" from The Parent Trap shot for shot. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp-ih4itmSI)

And since I just discovered this video today, it's now Let's Get Together Day!

Original Hayley Mills (movie version) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1IyrZZQd0g)
Hayley Mills (album version)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndRYOSB9_ew)
Tommy and Annette
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3W8gHB-7PU)The Go-Gos (Disneymania) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI91nA61_xQ)
Nobody's Angel (1998 movie soundtrack) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohGZ5V1paRE)

Another fan recreation, this time lipsynching to the Hayley Mills vocal (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ENAci41EQk)

[Nate the Great]

For this post I should probably create a counterpart to the Amazing Things I Learned Today thread called Pathetic Things I Learned Today, but that would go downhill really fast, so I'll just post it here:

A pizzeria has created Pumpkin Spice Pizza. (http://www.accessatlanta.com/news/local/pumpkin-spice-pizza-coming-metro-atlanta-deal-with-that/Gl2DuMZPz1rhaqZXxZ3PQO/)

That's right, pie filling in the crust and spices with more filling on top.

From the comments:

I wish this obsession with pumpkin spice everything would mercifully end already! Some things just get carried way, way too far!

This makes me cry on the inside

Please tell me this is click bait....

Enough with the pumpkin already!!

[Flying Gremlin]

I once saw an adult entertainment establishment offer out "pumpkin spice lap dances".

[Nate the Great]

The Nostalgia Critic going "What? Pumpkin" What?" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BksfByBxNNk)

[NAHTMMM]

Something called Game Maker's Toolkit analyzes Mario levels to figure out what makes them so fun, then applies that in Mario Maker. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0c5Le1vGp4)

[Nate the Great]

The new Ducktales does have a full length version of the theme song. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=greRWnaQWc4)

The skipped verse deserves a little love too, if you ask me.

When it seems they're heading for the final curtain
Good deduction never fails, that's for certain!
The worst of messes become successes!

[Nate the Great]

So today I rediscovered "Happy Together" by The Turtles (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZEURntrQOg)...

Which reminded me of the classic Smash Brothers 64 commercial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K783SDTBKmg) that featured the song.

The trailer, of course, is narrated by the often-imitated (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzrerZ0133c), but never duplicated Don LaFontaine (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/DonLaFontaine).

And that, my friends, is how you go from a seventies hippy song to a trailer for a comedy scifi movie.

P.S.=The two members of the Turtles and Don LaFontaine have Bacon numbers of two. And that's your randomness for today.

[Nate the Great]

Someone builds a doorbell into an NES controller.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBmS7_C7RMM)
Why? Because he had a spare controller lying around, and he could.

In the blog post (http://deambulatorymatrix.blogspot.com/2011/04/wireless-nes-controller-doorbell-2008.html)he admits that there were a few bugs to work out, and someone has already improved on it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyEzqTS_fNI&feature=watch_response) with a switch to choose between a Mario coin-collecting sound and a Zelda puzzle-solving sound.

[Nate the Great]

It's Eighties Day in the Link Thread!

I have to share this one. The link won't last, so pounce when you can.

An image from the most '80s garage sale you'll ever see. (https://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/gms/d/rad-retro-garage-sale/6327114220.html)

The image shows a table that has:

'80s TMNT merchandise: Turtle Van, lunch box, and what I believe is an action figure carry case.
Baby Mickey and Minnie bag
Hello Kitty wallet, the retro puffy plastic kind
A neon plastic pencil case or makeup kit, I'm not sure
A neon green belt bag (it could only be better if it was a full-blown fanny pack)

And now, to celebrate this discovery, some '80s music videos!
(You can't imagine how much I had to resist not linking the Weird Al parodies as well!)

Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ&list=PLd9auH4JIHvupoMgW5YfOjqtj6Lih0MKw&index=5)
Girls Just Want to Have Fun by Cyndi Lauper (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIb6AZdTr-A&index=6&list=PLd9auH4JIHvupoMgW5YfOjqtj6Lih0MKw)
Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&index=11&list=PLd9auH4JIHvupoMgW5YfOjqtj6Lih0MKw)
Eye of the Tiger by Survivor
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btPJPFnesV4&index=15&list=PLd9auH4JIHvupoMgW5YfOjqtj6Lih0MKw)Beat It by Michael Jackson (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRdxUFDoQe0&index=17&list=PLd9auH4JIHvupoMgW5YfOjqtj6Lih0MKw)
Another One Bites the Dust by Queen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0WxgSXdEE&index=35&list=PLd9auH4JIHvupoMgW5YfOjqtj6Lih0MKw)
The Power of Love by Huey Lewis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NMph943tsw&list=PLd9auH4JIHvupoMgW5YfOjqtj6Lih0MKw&index=193)
Celebration by Kool and the Gang (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GwjfUFyY6M&index=274&list=PLA35590428110D90F)
The Heart of Rock and Roll by Huey Lewis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7JVlpm0eRs&index=345&list=PLA35590428110D90F)

And since I can, it's '80s sitcom theme day as well!

The A-Team (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyz_2DEah4o&list=PL6z6OgcOWW85HpkeoNwQQtw-qpGvPXM7i&index=2)
Cheers
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-mi0r0LpXo&list=PL6z6OgcOWW85HpkeoNwQQtw-qpGvPXM7i&index=7)Head of the Class (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J7QURtyTxU&index=23&list=PL6z6OgcOWW85HpkeoNwQQtw-qpGvPXM7i)
Mr. Belvedere
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IUSSrldd0U&list=PL6z6OgcOWW85HpkeoNwQQtw-qpGvPXM7i&index=35)Night Court (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUltrX-ICew&index=40&list=PL6z6OgcOWW85HpkeoNwQQtw-qpGvPXM7i)
Perfect Strangers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vbnLYROCj8&index=41&list=PL6z6OgcOWW85HpkeoNwQQtw-qpGvPXM7i)
Who's the Boss (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0iuXeOfmdQ&list=PL6z6OgcOWW85HpkeoNwQQtw-qpGvPXM7i&index=53)
Charles in Charge (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpYxDAIALtU&list=PL6z6OgcOWW85HpkeoNwQQtw-qpGvPXM7i&index=71)

And of course we can't talk '80s without the TNG Theme! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5kcBxL7-qI&index=62&list=PL6z6OgcOWW85HpkeoNwQQtw-qpGvPXM7i)
Although I can't remember the last time I heard the non-Picard monologue version. Even A Final Unity on Windows 95 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwMVZJ5sawo&t=1m56s) had that!



[/URL]



[URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J7QURtyTxU&index=23&list=PL6z6OgcOWW85HpkeoNwQQtw-qpGvPXM7i"] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vbnLYROCj8&index=41&list=PL6z6OgcOWW85HpkeoNwQQtw-qpGvPXM7i)

[Nate the Great]

It's only been a few weeks since my last David Erick Ramos plug, but when he celebrates the 30th anniversary of TNG by covering the Inner Light theme on ocarina and guitar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GnDfYly9Z8), I feel that an exception is warranted.

[Nate the Great]

I haven't plugged Acts of Gord (http://www.actsofgord.com/index.php) since 2012, but when he's referenced in the comments to a Not Always Right story (https://notalwaysright.com/that-was-the-wrong-answer-2/92514/), I felt that it was time.

The story concerns a trucker who entered a BBQ restaurant, asked if they serve food, and leaves upon getting the affirmative. A similar scenario happened in Gord's shop, and he made a quote that was remembered by quite a few Not Always Right readers.

[Nate the Great]

Today's discovery is cakewrecks.com (http://www.cakewrecks.com/)

Sometimes professional cake decorators mess up. Badly. This blog has photos of the disasters, but also some spectacular cakes and, my favorite kind, the photo of what the customer wanted compared with a photo of what they got.

[Nate the Great]

AOL Instant Messenger will be shutting down on December 15th. (https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/6/16435690/aim-shutting-down-after-20-years-aol-instant-messenger)

I'll admit that I didn't have an AIM account (I think...), but this still hurts. What I did use back in the day was mIRC. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIRC)

Ah, the days of dial-up. Before YouTube. Before Facebook. Back when my websurfing consisted of e-mail, the old h2g2.com, Delta Blues, and Newgrounds. And the occasional site for college, of course.

Anyway, does anyone have any interesting AIM memories to share?

[Nate the Great]

I already posted the Redshirt Tribute Song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3cL1Aofy90&list=PL3A40A96F46174EA9&index=36) awhile back, but I had to do it again to relate some comments:

Crusader Nikolai: A redshirt and a stormtrooper get into a fight, the stormtrooper misses every shot and the redshirt dies anyway.
Martin Baxter: And we have a winner!
Dennis Vance: Second the motion.

The father is watching the scene from "Obsession" where there are dead redshirts all over the place:
Son: Are those guys dead?
Father: Yeah, but they're redshirts, they always die in Star Trek.
Son: (Beat) Can't they just take their shirts off?

[Nate the Great]

I stumbled upon this huge Disney jigsaw puzzle (https://www.amazon.com/Tenyo-Disney-Characters-Stained-Jigsaw/dp/B005SL87LU/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1485470336&sr=8-1&keywords=Disney+2,000+piece+puzzle&linkCode=sl1&tag=wwwcakewreckc-20&linkId=60ce9775104e40b741f4ce699cdff57b#dp-customer-review-header)...

I love how it goes beyond the usual Disney canon to include some more obscure characters, especially from the shorts. It was fun seeing them.

[Nate the Great]

A compilation of a number of music-based memes through the years. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6K3T63w8AA)

I must express my disgust that "All Star" by Smash Mouth was only referred to as the "Shrek Anthem", even though they showed video of the original music video.

[Nate the Great]

A collection of Star Trek-related stories from Not Always Right: (https://notalwaysright.com/the-needs-of-the-company-outweigh-the-needs-of-the-few/56528/)

You Will Be Medicated (https://notalwaysworking.com/you-will-be-medicated/30444)
(I’m a regular patient at a particular clinic due to a lasting disease. I’m going into a procedure that requires anesthesia; the anesthesiologist is asking me several questions.)
Anesthesiologist: “…and last, are you familiar with Star Trek?”
Me: “Yes, I am.”
Anesthesiologist: “The gas we’re about to give you is similar to the Borg. Resistance is Futile!”
(They proceed to put the mask on me. I show the Vulcan salute. And as I’m drifting off, he salutes back.)
Anesthesiologist: “Live long and prosper.”
(I was glad to have been taken care of by a fellow geek!)

Working Your Way Up To The Bridge (https://notalwaysworking.com/working-your-way-up-to-the-bridge/31108)
(It’s my first week on the job, and I’m talking to a few of my coworkers, trying to build some sort of friendship.)
Me: “Oh, do you watch Star Trek?”
Coworker #1: “Oh goodness, not another one.”
Coworker #2: *shaking her head* “You’ll get along with [manager], then.”
(Just at that moment, [manager] leaves for lunch. Before he leaves, he turns to the assistant manager.)
Manager: “Number one, you have the bridge.”
Assistant Manager: “Aye, captain.”
(I can’t stop laughing, while my other coworkers shake their heads. Later on, I need to ask my manager a question about my work.)
Me: “…so, [manager], I believe that’s the correct course of action.”
Manager: “Make it so.”
(I try to stifle my laughter, as I see my coworkers shaking their heads even more. Needless to say, my manager and I have become the best of friends!)

Aimless Assimilating (https://notalwaysworking.com/aimless-assimilating/32125)
(This happened when the ‘Star Trek Experience’ was open in Vegas. One of the gimmicks were they had actors dressed as the franchise’s iconic aliens walking around the hotel.)
Me: “Excuse me; my son is asking for a picture with the Borg drones that were in the lobby earlier. Do you know where they went?”
Receptionist: “Hmm, if they aren’t on the floor then they’re probably participating on one of the rides.”
Me: “Well do you know when they’ll be back? I mean are they on a rotation to come out, or do they just walk around aimlessly whenever they aren’t needed?”
(The receptionist gives me a funny look.)
Receptionist: “Sir, they’re the Borg. Walking around aimlessly is kind of what they’re known for.”
(I stare blankly for a moment.)
Receptionist: “Sorry, I just couldn’t let that one slip.”
Me: “No, no that was actually pretty good.”
(We eventually did manage to snag the drones after they reappeared, and specifically asked the receptionist to join us in the photo.)

Boldly Going Into Employment (https://notalwaysworking.com/boldly-going-into-employment/32584)
(We just hired on a bunch of new people. The kid I am training has never had a job before and is a bit nervous, so we chat a little.)
Coworker: “You do everything so fast! But, I guess you’ve been doing it for a while.”
Me: “Yes, long enough that the managers are comfortable with me training new people.”
Coworker: “So why don’t you have a red shirt like the other crew trainers?”
Me: “Oh, there was a little part of my certification that I didn’t complete in time so I was not officially promoted to a crew trainer. However, I still make the same amount as them and I still train people. The only difference is the red shirt.”
Coworker: “I think it was a good idea to pass up on the red shirt.”
Me: “Was that a vague Star Trek reference?”
Coworker: “Yes! I think I’m going to like it here…”

A Long But Prosperous Day (https://notalwaysworking.com/a-long-but-prosperous-day/33136)
(I have been summoned for jury duty and am going through the courthouse security checkpoint. As requested, I empty my pockets of all metallic objects, including my keys, before passing through the walk-through metal detector. When the guard sees my keychain he does a double take with a quizzical look on his face.)
Me: “Oh, that strange-looking item is my keychain. It’s just a small electronic toy that resembles one of those communicators from the original Star Trek series. I’m not sure if you’ve ever watched it, but I assure you, this keychain is definitely not harmful.”
(Anxious to prove that the keychain wasn’t in fact a concealed weapon of some sort, I demonstrated to the guard that it just flipped open and made chirping noises that sounded just like the communicators from the show. As the guard observed this, his expression became overly serious, which worried me.)
Guard: “Here. I need to examine it more closely.”
(He motions for me to hand it over to him. After I comply, he flips it open and holds it up as though he is about to speak through it.)
Guard: “This is Captain James T. Kirk. Beam me up, Scotty!”
(Needless to say, I had worried for nothing! Furthermore, this put a big grin on my face and brightened up what was otherwise a long, dreary day in the jury room.)

Hopefully The Next Supply Will Live Long And Prosper (https://notalwaysworking.com/hopefully-the-next-supply-will-live-long-and-prosper/33458)
(I work in the deli section of my store. Lately we have been having trouble getting supplies in stock.)
Me: “Where are all the trash bags?”
Coworker: “We don’t have any.”
Me: “Are you serious? Again?!”
Coworker: “Yup.”
Me: “I’m going to head over to bakery and see if they have any.”
Coworker: “Not gonna work.”
Me: “Why not?”
Coworker: “[Baker] is working today. You know how he is. He never helps anybody out.”
Me: “I know how to handle him. Trust me.”
(The baker who’s working today happens to be a huge ‘Star Trek’ fan. I head over to the bakery and don’t see him as I proceed to grab a few trash bags, but then he shows up as I’m about to leave.)
Baker: “What the hell do you think you’re doing?”
Me: “Getting bags.”
Baker: “No, you’re not. Put them back.”
Me: “We have zero bags at the deli.”
Baker: “Well, I have almost zero bags here. I can’t let you have any.”
Me: *deadpan, holding up a Vulcan salute* “It is only logical. The needs of the deli outweigh the needs of the few.”
(A few seconds pass.)
Baker: “HA HA! All right, all right. Take your stinkin’ bags.”
(I can still hear him cracking up as I walk away.)

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Dusty Abel strikes again!

The villains from the Adam West Batman show (https://dusty-abell.deviantart.com/art/Rogues-650013615)

Oh, I love these guys. Every so often a guy just wants to watch villains who are 100% Eeeeeeviiiiilllll and are as shallow as a puddle. Just to cleanse the proverbial palette, you understand.

'60's Marvel Villains (https://dusty-abell.deviantart.com/art/60-s-Marvel-Villains-29588342)

That'd be Kraven the Hunter, Klaw, Mr. Hyde (looking remarkably Ferrigno Hulkish if you ask me), Absorbing Man, and The Melter

'70s TV Detectives (https://dusty-abell.deviantart.com/art/Cops-Detectives-and-Private-Eyes-of-the-70s-461737806)

I'm the first to admit that I didn't watch these shows, but my parents sure did! The only ones I recognize are Kojak, Columbo, Starsky and Hutch, Charlie's Angels, and Scarecrow and Mrs. King.

Superman through the Years (https://dusty-abell.deviantart.com/art/Superman-75-line-up-449653910)

'70s Action Adventure (https://dusty-abell.deviantart.com/art/Sat-Morning-Action-Adv-TV-83825680)

I didn't watch these shows, and the only ones I recognize are Captain Marvel (still wish they'd renamed him to Captain Thunder and not Shazam, Shazam is the wizard!) and Isis.

[Nate the Great]

Captain Kangaroo visits Mister Rogers
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv1eP_ULZ1o)
As the cliche goes, "who's been cutting onions around here?"

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Gizmodo's wish list for a Gameboy Classic Edition (https://gizmodo.com/these-are-the-25-games-the-game-boy-classic-edition-sho-1818843497)

First, I wouldn't want Pokemon Red, Blue or Yellow, I'd want a version of Yellow that had all 151 first-gen Pokemon in it. Make us jump through hoops to get Mew, but have the option! And throw in NPCs to trade with for the trade-only evolutions. Since trading wouldn't be possible and all that.

Second, no Marble Madness? Heathen! You do remember my Marble Madness Day, right? (http://www.fiveminute.net/forums/showpost.php?p=80506&postcount=780)

[Nate the Great]

I could've sworn that I've shilled for Cockeyed/How Much Is Inside before, but I can't seem to find it. I'm going to do it again, then!

How Much Is Inside

Are there really 360 threads in 360 thread sheets? (http://cockeyed.com/inside/threadcount/threadcount01.shtml)
How many celery sticks can you fill with a jar of peanut butter? (http://cockeyed.com/inside/peanutbutter/peanutbutter01.shtml)
How large is a million dollars of hundred dollar bills, and what do you need to carry it around? (http://cockeyed.com/inside/million/million.html)
How much gold is in goldschlager? (http://cockeyed.com/inside/goldschlager/goldschlager.html)

Cool Homemade Halloween Costumes

Fidget Spinner (http://cockeyed.com/incredible/fidget_spinner/fidget_spinner_costume.html)
Spinning Tornado
(http://www.cockeyed.com/incredible/spinning_tornado/spinning_tornado_costume1.html)Paparazzi (http://www.cockeyed.com/incredible/paparazzi/paparazzi.html) (old school reporter surrounded by a cloud of cameras)
Doctor Octopus (http://www.cockeyed.com/incredible/octopus/octopus1.html)

Pranks

(http://cockeyed.com/pranks/whole_mall/whole_mall.html)Calling every store in a mall at once (http://cockeyed.com/pranks/whole_mall/whole_mall.html)
Replacing job application forms with parody versions (http://cockeyed.com/pranks/job_application/job_application01.shtml)
No Dancing Pickles (http://cockeyed.com/pranks/pickle/pickle.shtml) (I don't need to say any more, do I? You're going to click the link anyway!)
Fake roadkill (http://cockeyed.com/pranks/roadkill/roadkill01.shtml)

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Star Trek fan shirts from Shirtoid (http://shirtoid.com/search/star+trek)

I'm not being paid, I promise. I just stumbled on this site and thought the designs were cool.

TNG vs. Borg Pokemon Parody (http://shirtoid.com/141712/gotta-assimilate-em-all/)
Cochrane Delta-shaped starfield with silhouette of the Enterprise (http://shirtoid.com/103599/the-final-frontier/)
Janeway-branded Coffee Ad
(http://shirtoid.com/169847/janeways-premium-blend/)Stormtrooper vs. Redshirt (http://shirtoid.com/167871/the-dark-side-and-the-pride-of-the-federation/)
Star Trek Rock (http://shirtoid.com/159858/star-trek-rocks/) (parody of Schoolhouse Rock)
Ten Forward Cheers Parody (http://shirtoid.com/157613/ten-forward-full-illustration/)(classic sepia tone!)
The ABC's of NextGen (http://shirtoid.com/149308/the-next-alphabetization/)
Super Tribble Trouble (http://shirtoid.com/84321/super-tribble-trouble/) (fictional NES game)

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I know I plugged Tom Lehrer just a few days ago in the Amazing Things thread, but when a fan combines "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" with Mary Poppins clips, something special happens (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkEpyMi6m3c&list=PL515B5502DD02C165&index=22).

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It's not really the "Halloween Season" anymore, but here's some fanart of Roll from MegaMan as various other characters (http://www.themmnetwork.com/blog/2013/10/31/31-days-of-halloween-costumed-roll-by-ryan-jampole) (SFW, I promise). My only problem is the NES Link costume combined with Navi from OOT. That's two different game generations, artist! I also like the use of a mini Wily dragon as Lockheed. And I think that's a Matt Smith Doctor costume...

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The first teaser for Incredibles 2 is here.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJDMWVZta3M)

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Today is the 10th Anniversary of I'm A Marvel and I'm A DC (AKA the Randomverse). (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p38Lbm84JhI)

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What a shock, I'm a sucker for geek humor:

A Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe for Chemists
(http://home.utah.edu/~msm25/Funnies/cookie.html)
I'll leave the instruction list full of chemist-babble on the website for those of you who are interested, but I'll give the ingredients list here for you to guess what the more common names are:

1.) 532.35 cm³ gluten
2.) 4.9 cm³ NaHCO₃
3.) 4.9 cm³ refined halite
4.) 236 cm³ partially hydrogenated tallow triglyceride
5.) 177.45 cm³ crystalline C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁
6.) 177.45 cm³ unrefined C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁
7.) 4.9 cm³ methyl ether of protocatechuic aldehyde
8.) Two calcium carbonate-encapsulated avian albumen-coated protein ovoids
9.) 473.2 cm³ theobroma cacao
10.) 236 cm³ de-encapsulated legume meats (sieve size #10)

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Thanksgiving joke roundup!

Site One (http://www.jokes4us.com/holidayjokes/thanksgivingjokes.html):

What kind of music did the Pilgrims like?

Plymouth Rock.


Why do the pants of pilgrims keep falling down?

Because their belt buckles are on their hats!



Why do the pants of pilgrims keep falling down?

Because their belt buckles are on their hats!



Site Two (http://www.theholidayspot.com/thanksgiving/jokes.htm):


Why didn’t the turkey bake properly on Thanksgiving?

I’ve no idea but I suspect some fowl play.


Can you tell the difference between a female and a male turkey?
The male is the one with the TV remote.

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First, a plug for The Lost Media Wiki (http://lostmediawiki.com/Home). There are lots of things that were made but were assumed lost, not just a bunch of Doctor Who episodes.

Well, today's discovery is the alternate Singapore dub of Yu-gi-oh (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=36&v=YOkG1EE9zmE). It's just so wonderfully cheesy!

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It's time for another Star Trek Deviantart day!

Black and White sketch of all the main characters (https://thisismyboomstick.deviantart.com/art/Star-Trek-150089599)
The TOS crew copies the Abbey Road cover. (https://rabittooth.deviantart.com/art/Star-Trek-Abbey-Road-301614462) Note the classic Trek bottle.
The TOS crew in the style of Lucky Star. (https://mixed-blessing.deviantart.com/art/Lucky-Star-Trek-127300055) Just look at it (http://blog.alltheanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/lucky-star-01.jpg)!
The MLP: FIM cast as the TNG crew (https://hollulu.deviantart.com/art/Star-Trek-The-Pony-Generation-559019496).
The Stargate Atlantis cast as a variety of Star Trek aliens (https://lairis77.deviantart.com/art/Star-Trek-Atlantis-174613877). Excellent job matching alien races to cast members here.
What if TOS was set in a steampunk world (https://rabittooth.deviantart.com/art/Victorian-Steampunk-Trek-300584794)?
The TNG cast along with major recurring characters (https://benttibisson.deviantart.com/art/Star-Trek-the-Next-Generation-painting-617241159)
The TNG cast as chibi manga characters (https://p-joart.deviantart.com/art/Star-Trek-TNG-Chibi-Crew-122415058)
Starfleet emblem stained glass window
(https://bigblued.deviantart.com/art/Star-Trek-Stained-Glass-145556405)DS9 cast in deformed webcomic style (https://aerettberg.deviantart.com/art/Star-Trek-DS9-333203139)
Star Wars cast in TOS uniforms (https://pungang.deviantart.com/art/Star-Trek-Wars-576698492)

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Jim Nabors died today. (https://www.snopes.com/2017/11/30/actor-jim-nabors-dies/)

I confess that I never watched the Andy Griffith show, although my parents did (and apparently Don Knotts was really good in it). I remember Jim more for his (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtNGu845Wmg) guest (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVtKADjHvxk) appearance (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq7kJ5uQcuc) on (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uZU_voRgGU) The Muppet Show.

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Today's shilling target is the Today I Found Out (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC64UiPJwM_e9AqAd7RiD7JA) channel. I don't like how much self-promotion and in-video ads that they do, but since this is their full-time job and they make daily videos I guess I can't complain.

Anyway, today's video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6tLeYJQS58) is about whether tapping a shaken can of pop (they call it soda, but to me it's pop!) helps to stop foam spillover. If you don't want to watch it, the short answer is...no, it doesn't. Just give a shaken can a minute to settle down.

There are lots of charts and experimental results (and lots of pouring perfectly good coke into a foam cooler to throw out later, ugh). To quote Adam Savage, "The only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSUMBBFjxrY)".

And I think I already posted the pop vs. soda survey results (http://www.popvssoda.com/) years ago, but I can't find it, so here it is again.

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Our newest Trek tribute video is The Engineer's Hymn (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRvKRv6Udvk), all about Scotty's job and duty.

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https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/ItayKeren/20150511/243083/Scroll_Back_The_Theory_and_Practice_of_Cameras_in_ SideScrollers.php

A long, in-depth article about different ways of programming the camera in sidescrollers. There are a lot of illustrative GIFs.

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Today's latest silly online game straight from the Straight Dope forum:

How many taps (i.e. hitting the same button over and over) can you do in a minute? (http://www.all8.com/tools/bpm.htm)

I start out over 400, but around 380 seems to be my average, at least for the first minute.

The forumgoers (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=623840) have multiple strategies for upping the numbers, including multiple fingers on multiple keys, which I think is a different category entirely. Random flailing over the entire keyboard gets me up to about 1400, but gets exhausting really fast.

Anyway, if you want to waste a minute on a meaningless task and are at an actual keyboard (and aren't somewhere where the noise would bother someone), give it a try.

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Fan trailer for TWOK. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ToQ7wAwZ8w)

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So I'm working my way through a YouTube playlist of anime songs remixed to sound like they're being generated by music boxes...

The Mach Go Go Go (AKA Speed Racer) Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PucsGJwqRFA&index=817&list=PLADHzEaWA6KCKombPxPEoIxQnZXHNZIyN)

Wasn't expecting that.

[NAHTMMM]

Today's latest silly online game straight from the Straight Dope forum:

How many taps (i.e. hitting the same button over and over) can you do in a minute? (http://www.all8.com/tools/bpm.htm)
I started out at 500 and tailed off.

[Nate the Great]

Apparently I haven't shilled pocket83 yet. He does the most remarkable things with everyday items. Today he made bookends from hand-shaped clumps of BBs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gY6gsWYua8). No, really.

Here are some highlights from his channel:

A yard feeder that lets hummingbirds eat, but prevents ants from stealing their food. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9By2MzJvS1I&t=605s)
Custom-made Lincoln logs for more building option (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eveFVEu_Rp4)s.
How to sink a nail in one hit. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdDzaIN3Ex8)
Attempting to turn a potter's wheel into a pumpkin lathe (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brJliCOar4M).

[Nate the Great]

Every so often I try to post a Trek-related Christmas music video...

The Twelve Days of Star Trek (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrkpubLLefQ)

And as a bonus...

A Trek-themed yard lighting display complete with authentic sounds! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpaJmZq9HdQ)

PNQ: Is that stuff at around the two minute mark from the Kelvinverse movies or something?

As an afterward, say what you will about STTMP, you can't deny that the full Goldsmith main theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AiSbxZYViE) isn't a thing of beauty.

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An cover of The Elements Song with an extra verse to include the more recently discovered elements. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dv1UJMYPDs)

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Let's have some covers of Lehrer's Christmas Carol!

Ray Wright (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt_4o7C4ZXE)
Molly Lewis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqU2K6km950)
David Quah
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sh1lXduYgM)Andrew Williams
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hRi9atKe_M)

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Fanart by Amy Mebberson (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/archive)

Most of her stuff is Disney related (and more specifically, the Disney Princesses), but there are other franchises represented. Here are a few highlights:

Elsa, Belle, and Snow White can't handle summers, so they'll stay in while Jasmine and Tiana stay out. (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/163808566609/pocket-princesses-214-summer-hibernation-please)

What kind of doughnut would each princess ask for on National Doughnut Day (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/161365874539/pocket-princesses-206-national-doughnut-day)?

The princesses play in the giant Money Bin attraction (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/163016479579/pocket-princesses-211-d23-expo-2017-please).

Belle's dress needs something else... (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/158251732774/pocket-princesses-195-new-dress-please-reblog)

Aurora tries using a "dinglehopper" to curl her hair. (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/155500971149/pocket-princesses-187-life-hacks-please-reblog)

Merida and Mulan go shoe shopping...for their horses. (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/139621839199/pocket-princesses-180-shoe-shopping-please) Note the name on the crates...

Back to the Future...kiddie edition (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/131656277259/happy-back-to-the-future-day-my-humble)!

A black cat/Friday the 13th prank backfires...and is that Figaro (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/133156070229/pocket-princesses-171-friday-the-13th-please)?

The princesses cosplay as Marvel superheroines (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/117868708534/pocket-princesses-146-free-comic-book-day-please)

Jesse the Yodeling Cowgirl rides Applejack (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/115779168169/run-like-the-wind-applejack)

Kristoff welcomes Anna home, he's a keeper (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/116064431824/pocket-princesses-144-welcome-home-please-reblog)

The princesses dress as their animal friends, and that means Elsa has to dress as Olaf (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/101431688074/pocket-princesses-125-happy-halloween-please)

Tiana doesn't like Pumpkin Spice any more than I do (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/100259644359/pocket-princesses-123-pumpkin-spice-please)

Cinderella goes through glass slippers at an impressive rate... (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/91491875534/pocket-princesses-111-replacements-please)

Anna and Rapunzel look similar (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/93221323249/you-look-familiar-sdcc-piece), tying into that whole linked Disney universe theory. It's a mess, but you can read about it here (http://www.eonline.com/news/523425/after-reading-this-you-will-never-watch-frozen-tangled-or-the-little-mermaid-the-same-way-again)...

Tiana is chagrined by the great Sleeping Beauty pink vs. blue debate (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/87334275559/pocket-princesses-105-cupcakes-some-things)

Basic Kiki's Delivery Service fanart. (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/77417118479/emerald-city-comic-con-pre-commissions-are-now) Is that Kiki supposed to be more in the style of another animated character?

Mickey and Minnie do their own version of Paperman (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/66168923025/papermouse-i-did-this-as-a-little-demo-at-d23)

DC superheroine group shot. (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/66544387672/briannedrouhard-dc-princess-bash-they-could) It's interesting how some of these are in the style of the DC Nation shorts, but others edge a bit more toward manga or the Timmiverse style.

Gaston's fan club (aka the Bimbettes) as Huey, Dewey, and Louie. (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/69338841326/bimbettes-up-to-no-good-another-coloured)Incidentally, today I learned that the red one is Claudette, the yellow one is Laurette, and the green one is Paulette.

Tinkerbell as Wonder Woman. (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/58299080176/wonder-tink)I love how she kept the boot pom-poms.

A collage of Disney redheads. (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/56535198307/redheads-silkscreen-no-longer-available-from) Pop quiz: Can you tell me the name of that cowgirl next to Jesse without looking it up?

Disney Princess Singalong (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/54397160443/singalong-ltd-edition-lithograph-sold-out)!

Belle cosplaying as Han Solo. (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/55273749372/a-beauty-but-a-stuck-up-sharp-witted) I didn't know that his blaster was called a DL-44.

Disney Afternoon group shot. (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/56535223998/silvaniart-theres-so-much-to-do-gettin)I admit that I don't like the limited number of colors, and that row of Beagle Boys at the top should be the different ones, not just a bunch of clones of a generic Beagle Boy.

The Sailor Moon cast drawn as though they were created in more recent time. (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/47216437948/this-is-probably-the-very-first-sailor-moon-fanart) It's good art, but I'm reminded of that much-hyped Archie redesign and relaunch of a few years ago...

Belle and Beast as the main characters of Paperman (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/43547101833/silvaniart-paperbeast-if-this-doesnt-go-to-a).

Belle enrolls at Hogwarts. (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/33826098162/ravenclaw-belle-nycc-sketch)I question her placement in Ravenclaw, but that's a discussion for another day...

The princesses cosplay as the different incarcations of The Doctor, and various Pixar characters cosplay as Star Wars characters (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/32857419992/it-is-time-for-the-unveiling-of-shiny-new-swag-for)

Steampunk Aurora and Belle (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/33393540642/steampunk-aurora-belle-nycomiccon-sketch)

Belle and Beast enroll at Howarts. (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/29562749771/silvaniart-commission-the-beast-who-lived-to) This time they're in Gryffindor.

Princess Kida's application to join the Pocket Princesses (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/21941176768/pocket-princesses-16-application). With the benefit of hindsight I'm willing to accept that Atlantis the Lost Empire wasn't as good as I remember. That doesn't mean that the characters deserve to be forgotten, however.

The princesses cosplay as Batman villainesses (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/17383239495/gotham-city-princesses)

The princesses cosplay as Marvel superheroines (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/15311260192/mutant-princesses-warming-up-for-a-busy-year-a)

Rapunzel as Wonder Woman. (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/12025763426/silvaniart-charity-piece-i-keep-wondering-and) Pascal as Steve Trevor is more of a mystery...

Rapunzel as X-23. (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/11543496398/fun-size-rapunzel-as-x-23-nycc-commission) This one is just weird...what connection is there? With her haircut and look I would expect her to be the Wasp or Black Widow before X-23.

Belle reads the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/11014752461/belle-cant-talk-readin). The connection eludes me, is it just because it's a geeky book?

Belle in "1630" style. (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/10586253190/belle-1630s) She looks great and I guess she is supposed to be a Regency-era English heroine, but she still looks more like a 19th-century Southern belle if you ask me.

The princesses in '40s USO costumes. (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/10585331441/disney-princess-uso) I'll just throw up a link to "Star Spangled Man (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i574Em3IrI)" again...

Tinker Bell as Eliza Doolittle. (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/9396709665/tinker-bell-doolittle-d23expo-commission)

Beaker from the Muppets as a member of SG-1. (http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/7703800166/col-beaker-oneill-sg1-sdcc-commission) Who gave him a gun?

[Nate the Great]

Irish people watch an episode of TOS for the first time, and then an episode of DIS for the first time. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZFh-PDEwRo)

[Nate the Great]

Apparently I haven't shilled yoyomax12 (https://www.youtube.com/user/yoyomax12/featured) yet. Tammy (Max is her son) cooks creative and attractive food that I would never have the patience (or the food budget!) for. But just like many other "how to" channels, I like to watch other people be creative.

Highlights:

"Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGJ4KndxNi8)"-really pound cake, frosting, and pudding!
"T-Bone Steak (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aoa-7oMRRcw)"-really a brownie!
Pizza Cake (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r8IxbQMjA)-it's a layer cake made out of pizza!
Raisin Bread that looks like watermelon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diUDQmlOQfI)-it's funny how many people ask if there's a non-raisin option, forgetting that chocolate chips will melt and not look like watermelon seeds.
Minecraft cake (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zwvplLBtMU)-cake, Jello, and rice crispy bars!
Rainbow unicorn poop cookies (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrq8v9ijPs4)-there's a fad I'm glad seems to have faded away, the rainbow unicorn poop thing. Ro of Nerdy Nummies made these afterward, but Tammy made them first!
Kit Kat Ice Cream Cake (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MohhyHgQKRE)-I'm always reminded of my mom when watching this video, she loved Kit Kats...
Melted Snowman Cookies (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcWdu6-rbdg)
Marshmallow Cereal Christmas Wreaths (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl6VzOrRkmQ)-This one reminds me of my mom, she would make treats out of chocolate and chow mein noodles (what some call "chocolate easter nests (http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/holidays/easter-ideas/a31622/chocolate-nests-recipe/)", only without the bells and whistles)

[Nate the Great]

Today Numberphile tackles the Wolf/Goat/Cabbage River Crossing Problem.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCVAGb1ee8A)
This is one of the earliest logic problems that I encountered as a child, thanks to this book (https://www.etsy.com/listing/583200943/1978-childcraft-annual-mathemagic-world?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=childcraft&ref=sr_gallery-1-3) (oh, did I learn a lot from the Childcraft Library!), just look (https://i1.wp.com/www.plumfieldandpaideia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/773604_10153523451181375_2862758115851600585_o-2.jpg?resize=320%2C240)!

For some reason Wikipedia calls this the Fox/Goose/Bag of Beans (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox,_goose_and_bag_of_beans_puzzle) Puzzle. I've never heard it called that...

[Nate the Great]

A NextGen tribute video: "To Better Ourselves (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vu5TsBwG9w)"

Just some of the best quotes backed by great music. It's worth three and a half minutes of your time, I promise!

[Nate the Great]

The borders between the nations of the world, along with when each segment was finalized. (http://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/age-of-borders.html)

You'd be surprised at how "new" some borders are and how "old" some others are, especially when there's a new one next to an old one.

There are also notes for several critical segments.

Incidentally, the oldest continuous border segment between current nations is the 120 km perimeter of Andorra between France and Spain, 1278. Wow.

[Nate the Great]

Star Trek Medley on an organ. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC2gReO90_c)

It starts out fine, but after about fifty seconds it starts to sound like a Star Trek-themed carousel. Absolutely hilarious.

And then at eight minutes we get the radio melodrama version of the theme. You can just imagine the Guardian of Forever shilling for soap powder.

[Nate the Great]

3Blue1Brown stumps some math YouTubers with a topological problem. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvCytJvd4H0&index=7&list=PLj2MRlZMC5coULrSrFwKEuq3e_UtqwtRG)

I've mentioned that I'm a topological geek before (http://www.fiveminute.net/forums/showthread.php?p=80656&highlight=topological#post80656), and I'm a fan of a lot of the YouTubers shown, and it's fun to see them work through a problem, especially the eureka moment when they figure out why they were given the problem in terms of a coffee mug and not just a piece of paper.

[Nate the Great]

The Pi Search Page (http://www.angio.net/pi/)

Put a string of numbers in the box and the page will tell you where they first occur in the full value of pi, i.e. which decimal place they start at.

For example, 42 starts at position 92, 47 starts at position 119, and 1701 starts at position 20,239.

And that's your meaningless bit of trivia for today.

[Nate the Great]

A review of the Enterprise-D PC conversion kit. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmTsWmnfWWM)

Just in case you happen to be living in 1995 and want to make your PC look like a few cheap slabs of plastic with Cochrane deltas and LCARS design elements on them.

[Nate the Great]

The Engineer Guy explains how drinking bird toys work. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCKC-QVcVn0)

The amazing thing that I learned today is that Albert Eistein (http://awesci.com/einstein-couldnt-figure-drinking-bird-worked/) couldn't figure out how they worked upon discovering them in 1922.

I also learned that if you think the bird isn't bobbing fast enough, you can use alcohol instead of water.

[Nate the Great]

Ghostbusters cosplayers gather around a Herbie recreation. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180124/cae3a14a2a971614be6c52bd1e8b2850.jpg)

Talk about an odd pop culture crossover...

[Nate the Great]

The technical 25th anniversary of the release of Groundhog Day isn't until the 12th, but we might as well start today. Favorite lines? YouTube clips?

Pogo does his magic in the music video Bing
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPbijgSYe_4)CGP Grey on the holiday (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-Nl4JFDLOU) (again, call it a time loop)

Your Amazing Thing to Learn Today is that Groundhog Day coincides with the Gaelic festival of Imbolc (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imbolc), yet another Christianized Pagan holiday.

Furthermore, today I finally found out what the definition of "early spring" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog_Day) is, thanks to Wikipedia. If a majority of days between Groundhog Day and the Spring Equinox reach 40 degF (4 degC), it's an early spring.

[Nate the Great]

Wintergatan is making another marble machine

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkI22V_v-xY)And the amazing thing that I learned today is that he's using Mattias Wandel's Gear Generator program (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MycFQKnZkA).

Knowing that Wintergatan is a fan of Matthias Wandel just brightens my day.

[Nate the Great]

How To Make Stuff makes a half-scale Optimus Prime Ion Blaster
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvA0VrdRRUA)
I must confess that I didn't watch much G1 when it was first airing, I guess I was still in my Disney Afternoon phase back then. I jumped on board the whole Transformers thing for Beast Wars later on. However, I do really like the design of G1 Optimus Prime and agree that Peter Cullen is the voice of the character.

JTMitchell87 reviews the Masterpiece Optimus Prime collectors toy/statue (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PawvKjOL68E). This is one cool toy.

Phelous reviews the Pepsi Convoy toy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVhYZaGXJwI).

The death of Optimus Prime (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1vJVlYoar8).

Optimus Prime "meets" Optimus Primal (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NtaL2j2eVg). I think I was aware at the time how they'd mixed up Optimus Prime's spark holder and the Matrix of Leadership, but at least they tried to cover it up by having Rhinox say that the spark "has the Matrix with it", implying that both could possibly be held in the same holder. Other sources imply that the two holders are different sizes, and one lies behind the other...look, continuity in Transformers is almost as bad as Star Trek and Star Wars, let's move on...

Orchestral version of the theme. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SQCZDMgfsU) I think SFDebris took this version as the theme for his Transfomers reviews...

Peter Cullen announces (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0Jtt2BVMLU) that he's no longer the voice of Eeyore in Disney's Winnie the Pooh productions (starting with the 2011 movie), so he has Optimus Prime "talk" to Eeyore.

Acapella theme courtesy of the Game Grumps
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5RSPypJgFw)

[Nate the Great]

It's Studio Ghibli Fanart Day!

Alice in Wonderland has tea with Chihiro (https://www.pinterest.com/pin/357332551666307633/)
Group shot of various Ghibli characters (https://www.pinterest.com/pin/403001866628488283/)
Another group shot, but this time everyone is drawn in more conventional manga style
(https://www.pinterest.com/pin/523684262898583363/)The Ghibli girls gather to take a ride on the Cat Bus (https://www.pinterest.com/pin/486740672206680552/)
Everyone is flying in a spiral toward the singularity of Totoro (https://www.pinterest.com/pin/298222806559050961/)
This group shot is even more expansive, including non-Miyazaki characters (does that Anne of Green Gables look more like Judy from Daddy Longlegs to anyone else?) (https://www.pinterest.com/pin/307722587030418316/)
Ghibli characters drawn in Adventure Time style (https://www.pinterest.com/pin/523684262891846518/)
Sailor Venus and Artemis take over for Kiki and Jiji (https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2F38.media.tumblr.com%2F3 a2a4edcfcc784f3160419e11f4d8bf8%2Ftumblr_nd5uezgLW M1r3st5mo1_r2_500.png&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Frebloggy.com%2Fpost%2Fanime-kiki-s-delivery-service-fanart-manga-crossover-sailor-moon-sailormoon-sail%2F99544596398&docid=ebcWmHzA3n_MkM&tbnid=DWXhL-ebxEfOlM%3A&vet=10ahUKEwi20ryVoJrZAhUQWK0KHXhGCqUQMwiHASgyMDI. .i&w=485&h=750&client=firefox-b-1&bih=844&biw=1280&q=kiki%27s%20delivery%20service%20fanart&ved=0ahUKEwi20ryVoJrZAhUQWK0KHXhGCqUQMwiHASgyMDI&iact=mrc&uact=8)



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[Nate the Great]

List25 made a video on the 25 funniest test answers kids have ever given. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj-LMniVfJ8)

I knew about some of these already, but most were a surprise.

[Nate the Great]

Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood's first episode. I wasn't aware of that until today. So it's Mister Rogers Day here in the Link Thread! Yes, a few of these I've already posted, but I don't care.

Remixes courtesy of melodysheep: Garden of Your Mind (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFzXaFbxDcM&list=PL3A40A96F46174EA9&index=89&t=0s) and Sing Together (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdAZ79AhcfY&t=0s&list=PL3A40A96F46174EA9&index=123)
331Erock performs a metal cover (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57pxxEBnXEs) of the theme song
Today I Found Out and List25 present 20 Interesting Facts About Mr. Rogers
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWHYJpJcLcU)Watch the pilot episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=467_WIAlQ58)! He looks so young!
Captain Kangaroo pays a visit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv1eP_ULZ1o)
Mr. Rogers visits Sesame Street (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqWDjJRhCkc)
Mr. Rogers visits Arthur (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q6cJYZpUCM)
Margaret Hamilton pays a visit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb0tyJQp5dA)
LeVar Burton pays a visit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osTUPkufemM)
Bill Nye the Science Guy pays a visit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1CAmeJLpM4)
How bass violins are made (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m2J8LiJ87c&index=10&list=PLwcJzKYtuGphQt7T_p7lZEicxtQkzknjr)
How trumpets are made (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD-BgDOnZoM&index=12&list=PLwcJzKYtuGphQt7T_p7lZEicxtQkzknjr)
Snopes (https://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/mrrogers.asp) debunks a number of urban legends about Mr. Rogers

[Nate the Great]

It's Vintage TV Commercials Featuring Star Trek Actors Day!

Leonard Nimoy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4pBk3-fduU) (in a wonderful Seventies mustache) shills a LaserDisc player and talks to a beeping crystal.
MCI Phone Plan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9EBHIhx8ik)featuring the TOS cast (and Jonathan Frakes for some reason)
This Cheer laundry detergent is a weird one (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l96aDWIbn48). The TOS music and sound effects are authentic enough, but the costumes and transporter visuals are just wrong. No Trek actors, but there is a guy who it looks like he's attempting to evoke the Klingons, along with a Leonard Nimoy voiceover.
A group of TOS lookalikes shill for Kentucky Fried Chicken (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZBTDlvShYg). Nice usage of music and sound effects, but it's a little unsettling how close the impersonations got. I suppose the Uncanny Valley can exist even in live-action.
DeForest Kelley shills for Trivial Pursuit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XrVZS2eUsw&index=2&list=PL5zwq76EsRxoIMpHe67dgwDTjAEIKiwAC). "I'm an actor, not a doctor!"
Robert Picardo (with hair, a mustache, and a cheesy French accent) sells Crystal Sugar. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eThoFZKfnY&list=PL5zwq76EsRxoIMpHe67dgwDTjAEIKiwAC&index=27)

Back in the 90's Hallmark made some commercials for their Star Trek Christmas ornaments featuring minor characters:

Nurse Ogawa (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJfS4bVfJj8)
Chancellor Gowron (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6Af0Tvk5B0)
Sub-Commander T'Rul (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKe3ZF5i6L8) (or Martha Hackett playing another Romulan)
Leonard Nimoy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4pP0ci6RTQ) (not a minor character or even in-character, but still!)

[Nate the Great]

Mathologer presents alternate ways to prove the Pythagorean Theorem. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-0SOWbzUYI)

Just in case you didn't really believe that a^2+b^2=c^2.

Stick around for a proof of how the cosine rule ties into the theorem.

[Nate the Great]

What happens when you launch what would normally be ten minutes of fireworks all at once? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dabnx8VSdkE)

It's rather underwhelming, if you ask me.

Some more Tom Scott recommendations:

Shelves of lava lamps that generate random numbers that keep the Internet secure.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cUUfMeOijg)
The musical road that's out of tune. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef93WmlEho0)

What is the largest clock in the world? And what counts as a "clock"?
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odX81LsE5RY)
The absolutely insane border between the Netherlands and Belgium. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE93J33SfHY)

[Nate the Great]

Mathologer gives another method of solving the "how do you measure out 4 gallons when you only have a 3 gallon jug and a 5 gallon jug" problem. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Oef3MHYEC0)

I find this stuff fascinating.

[Nate the Great]

The TNG cast made a sketch for the Comic Relief charity back in 1994 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hra0I-w3XBY). Wait for the inevitable "Whoopi Goldberg looks like Guinan" joke.

[Nate the Great]

Coming on Thursday is Episode One of the Hexagonal Phase of the Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09vm093) (based on the pseudocanon sixth book And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer) with a CD edition being released later this year (https://www.amazon.com/Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy-Hexagonal-Phase/dp/1785299115).

I appreciate that they've kept as much of the original cast as possible, but I don't really care. I never read And Another Thing because it's not by Adams (and you never use frood as a verb or capitalize zark (http://www.fiveminute.net/forums/showpost.php?p=77152&postcount=496)).

[Nate the Great]

The first teaser for Mary Poppins Returns was released yesterday. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzcaR1N0pTI)

My feelings about this film are complicated and will have to wait until later.

[Nate the Great]

Maybe it's a bit too soon, but I'm going to do another Star Trek Deviantart Day anyway...

And just to make it easier when I do this again, this is the Third Deviantart Day, and the first two are here (http://www.fiveminute.net/forums/showthread.php?p=80879&highlight=deviantart#post80879) and here (http://www.fiveminute.net/forums/showthread.php?p=81126&highlight=deviantart#post81126).

Hugh meets Livingston (https://aloiinthesky.deviantart.com/art/Contemplation-Gift-for-SentinelSpockNimoy-663092636)
The TNG cast as crocheted dolls (https://leftandrightdolls.deviantart.com/art/Star-Trek-The-Next-Generation-Group-499303827)
The DS9 cast presents "Last Call" (https://rocketdave.deviantart.com/art/Deep-Space-Nine-Last-Call-425731778) (totally not a spoof of The Last Supper!)
The major Cardassians if they really were snakes (https://nattherat.deviantart.com/art/Star-Trek-DS9-TNG-VOY-Cardassian-profiles-485532327)(with hair for some reason)
Someone decided to draw Vreenak as though he was actually a pleasant person (https://no-one-o1.deviantart.com/art/Senator-Vreenak-151319471)

Nymeria-Stark gives us very nice colored pencil portraits:
Guinan (https://nymeria-stark.deviantart.com/art/Guinan-330168704), Geordi (https://nymeria-stark.deviantart.com/art/Ten-La-Forge-320741916), Kang (https://nymeria-stark.deviantart.com/art/Kang-202447122), Janeway (https://nymeria-stark.deviantart.com/art/Cpt-Janeway-195487633), Moriarty (https://nymeria-stark.deviantart.com/art/Moriarty-164009452)

Starfire Productions gives us collages of the many faces of TNG characters:
Data, (https://starfire-productions.deviantart.com/art/Inktober-Day-27-Lieutenant-Commander-Data-711952466)Crusher, (https://starfire-productions.deviantart.com/art/Inktober-Day-29-Beverly-Crusher-712268625)Picard, (https://starfire-productions.deviantart.com/art/Inktober-Day-28-Jean-Luc-Picard-712096162)Worf (https://starfire-productions.deviantart.com/art/Inktober-Day-14-Worf-Son-Of-Mogh-709665361), (https://starfire-productions.deviantart.com/art/Inktober-Day-28-Jean-Luc-Picard-712096162) Deanna (https://starfire-productions.deviantart.com/art/Inktober-Day-10-Deanna-Troi-709020420)

JamieFayX gives us the women of Trek in a nice balance between caricature and realism:
Ezri (https://jamiefayx.deviantart.com/art/Ezri-Dax-Star-Trek-Deep-Space-Nine-669148932), Kira (https://jamiefayx.deviantart.com/art/Col-Kira-Nerys-Star-Trek-Deep-Space-Nine-668765037), Janeway (https://jamiefayx.deviantart.com/art/Captain-Kathryn-Janeway-Star-Trek-Voyager-665157769), Seven (https://jamiefayx.deviantart.com/art/Seven-of-Nine-Star-Trek-Voyager-663545453), Deanna (https://jamiefayx.deviantart.com/art/Deanna-Troi-Star-Trek-The-Next-Generation-662296145), Tasha (https://jamiefayx.deviantart.com/art/Lt-Tasha-Yar-601206783)

[NAHTMMM]

Pictures from the National Czech and Slovak Museum in Iowa. (https://imgur.com/a/EdRt0)

There are a lot of pretty things and some thought-provoking exhibits as well.

[NAHTMMM]

Someone recreated Mega Man 1 in Mario Maker. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_ofy9Ae87M)

And Mega Man 2 in another of their videos, maybe more.

[Nate the Great]

Apparently today is the newest geek holiday, Mario Day (https://nationaldaycalendar.com/national-mario-day-march-10/), (MAR 10, get it?).

To celebrate, here are some links. Some reruns, of course.

Custom Rubik's Cubes creating Mario pixel art in real life (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Lx_FhrXtjY&t)
JWittz presents Zelda cameos in Mario games (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cFoweFrSlI) and Mario cameos in Zelda games
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl14ucMAyK8)The 30th Anniversary Music Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-DaJGGDoNI)
Mario Music on Marimba (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtzpGKadgew)
Mario Theme on Piano and iPad (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWH5qFYjnrY)
Mario Disco Medley (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6cPLtEEOsw)
Mario 64 Menu Music Box Version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FATFLwHjk7g)
Mario 64 Menu Guitar Collab (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5DcdAletRU)
Mario Parkour (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67qqEcGDC0s)(watch out for all the lost caps!)
Mario Parkour 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drFaO02N5U0)(more impressive this time, and fewer lost caps)
Collegehumor animations: Luigi Finally Snaps (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2C4F1xV8dg), Bowser and His Minions (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOcixShtD5o), Mario's Warp Whistle, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGHiy9B_vcU)Koopa's Hell (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxO--IzJtcQ)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGHiy9B_vcU)

[Nate the Great]

Stephen Hawking died. (https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/14/health/stephen-hawking-dead/index.html)

Ouch. I know it's a miracle that we had him as long as we did, but it still hurts.

Of course I have to link to the TNG poker game
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg8_cKxJZJY)Dogbert goes to fetch Professor Hawking (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LURf6m2gzwY)
His children take the Ice Bucket Challenge in his stead
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZV_3n_fdQg)His daughter Lucy talks a bit about him
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVVR4QyiqMc)He performs Monty Python's Galaxy Song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfcC6FYyL4U)
Clip of him performing as the new voice of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in the Hexagonal Phase of the radio show. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p060hy01) Since it's based on And Another Thing, which I don't consider a real entry in the series, I don't care to listen to the rest, but I still consider it a kick to hear him here.
Clip of him performing as Deep Thought in a documentary about the Hitchhiker's Guide (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g21icaGo1WE). It's a shame he couldn't deliver that "42" punchline with the same gravitas as Valentine Dyall did in the TV series (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZLtcTZP2js).

Incidentally, I never did get around to watching The Theory of Everything. I've read about him and know how depressing it's going to get, why torture myself again?