https://www.feanorsworkshop.com/blog/logorss.jpg An online journal... of DOOM! Mon, 01 Jul 2013 08:49:00 +0000  by Fëanor

My hands were hurting on and off for a while. Then it got particularly bad in my left hand, and spread up my arm. My first thought when it started was, "Damn, I'm gonna have to get that Dragon speech recognition software, aren't I?" Later, when I started to get worried I was having a heart attack and was about to die, my first thought was, "I'd better write down all my passwords and where I'm keeping the latest copy of my novel."

There's nothing that makes me realize faster that I am totally out of touch with my own body than going to the doctor. They ask me questions like, "Where does it hurt? How long has it hurt? How much does it hurt on a scale of one to ten? How tall are you?" And I'm like, "Uhhh... I dunno, let me check my driver's license."

Turns out it's probably Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. So of course I'm here typing about it! Don't worry, I'm wearing a wrist brace.

My relief that my death is probably not imminent is starting to wear off and I'm getting a bit annoyed about the whole thing. All I do all day at work is type, and then when I get home, I type for fun! And I bet that Dragon thing is really a pain to use.

Anyway, here's my advice: don't use wrist rests, they suck.

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Tagged: Health, Personal]]> Health Personal Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:01:00 +0000  by Fëanor

Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.

• The latest post from the making-of blog for HBO's Game of Thrones is a talk with the fight coordinator featuring a lot of behind-the-scenes video of the fight scenes. Nice!


• You've got to love an article entitled "Scientists engineer flu-stopping superchicken."


• The Nimbus 2000, reengineered as a bicycle.


• Supposedly a sequel to Tron Legacy is about to be greenlit. Woo hoo!


• The A.V. Club's idea for a Pac-Man reality series sounds way more interesting than the one that's actually being developed - which is apparently a game show of some sort.


• I feel like this Reelizer site, with the custom-made movie posters, was down for a while? Or maybe the RSS feed just didn't work very well? Anyway, they're posting again, and it's pretty impressive stuff.


• IBM is pitting its supercomputer Watson against the two most successful Jeopardy contestants yet in a special episode of the quiz show which will air February 14th. We don't know what happened in the real match yet, but we do know that the computer won the practice round.


• Watch a video of a guy using lasers to pop popcorn.


• The letters of the alphabet and the numbers zero through nine reordered based on their popularity on Google.


• Somebody made a demon-spawnskin rug. Stylish.


• A copy of the official termination form for a Domino's assistant manager. The details of what he did to get fired are... well, you just have to read this thing, man.


• Supposedly Edgar Wright is back at work on that Ant-Man movie. Yay?


• A CD cleverly made up to look like a Little Golden Book.


• Cool set of pics from what looks like an exciting and immersive screening of Alien. (Via)


• A video game where you control actual living organisms.


• Wood carvings of mythological creatures by Yoshimasa Tsuchiya. (Via)


• A gallery of bootleg sci-fi toys by Sucklord.


• A hunter in Belarus was shot with his own gun by the fox he was trying to kill.

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Tagged: Aliens, Animals, Art, Comedy, Comic books, Computers, Craft, Fighting, Food, George R.R. Martin, Google, Harry Potter, Health, Links, Movies, News, Photography, Recyclotron, Science, Song of Ice and Fire, Technology, Toys, Tron, Tron Legacy, TV, Video, Video games]]> Aliens Animals Art Comedy Comic books Computers Craft Fighting Food George R.R. Martin Google Harry Potter Health Links Movies News Photography Recyclotron Science Song of Ice and Fire Technology Toys Tron Tron Legacy TV Video Video games Fri, 28 May 2010 09:42:00 +0000  by Hulk

Luckily, puny humans never made tanning bed big enough to fit Hulk inside. So Hulk dodged that bullet.

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Tagged: Health, News, The Hulk Thought of the Day]]> Health News The Hulk Thought of the Day Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:51:00 +0000  by Hulk

Hulk tired of hearing about puny humans' healthcare. Puny humans should just become nigh invulnerable like Hulk, then puny humans not have to worry about healthcare. And what this about Hulk having to pay for puny humans' healthcare Hulkself?!

Hulk just kidding, Hulk not pay taxes.

Hulk gotta run, IRS coming for Hulk again.

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Tagged: Health, Politics, The Hulk Thought of the Day]]> Health Politics The Hulk Thought of the Day Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:35:00 +0000  by Hulk

Hulk have healthcare plan for puny humans: pay Hulk insurance and Hulk promise not to ruin puny humans' health.

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Tagged: Health, Politics, The Hulk Thought of the Day]]> Health Politics The Hulk Thought of the Day Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:09:00 +0000  by Fëanor

Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.

• Scientists are turning HIV against itself.


• Sounds like there could be a movie based on Marvel's Runaways comic coming up.


• Triforce latte!


• Batman gets fed up with the Bat Signal.


• Turn any website into music.


• The internet does not make you stupid after all, according to the majority of a group of technology gurus. But then, they would say that.


• A new red-band, NSFW Kick-Ass trailer. This is actually the trailer I've liked least so far, because it concentrates more on the awkward teen stuff I was hoping to avoid.


• A provocative picture of Maggie Q, the actress just cast in the pilot for the Nikita reboot TV series.


• The new Flash Gordon movie will be in 3D, and it will not be campy. It'll be an update of the original comic strip.


• Another gallery of fun stuff from the toy fair.


• More Star Wars Imperial propaganda posters.


• Amusing LOLSpock. (Via)


• Impressive and cool homemade Wii proton pack. (Via)


• Cute Green Lantern illustration. (Via)


• Pretty fantastic model sheets from Tex Avery's MGM years.


• The Thundercats movie is back on, supposedly.

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Tagged: 3D, Art, Batman, Cartoons, Comedy, Comic books, Craft, Drink, Gadgets, Green Lantern, Health, Internet, Links, Movies, Music, News, Nikita, Photography, Recyclotron, Science, Star Trek, Star Wars, Technology, Toys, TV, Video, Video games, Wii, Zelda]]> 3D Art Batman Cartoons Comedy Comic books Craft Drink Gadgets Green Lantern Health Internet Links Movies Music News Nikita Photography Recyclotron Science Star Trek Star Wars Technology Toys TV Video Video games Wii Zelda Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:17:00 +0000  by Fëanor

Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.

• I follow Stan Lee on Twitter, but somehow missed these tweets of his that io9 highlighted, wherein he gives a plug to the upcoming Ant-Man movie (directed by Edgar Wright), as well as supposed future Marvel films about Iron Fist, Doctor Strange, and Black Panther.


• A gallery of the weird and fascinating art of David Jien.


• I don't quite follow this article, but it sounds like we can blow up cancer cells from the inside with lasers, which is pretty awesome.


• The first four covers of The Return of Bruce Wayne, featuring Time-Lost Batman.


• Sounds like Warner Bros. is asking Batman guru Christopher Nolan to help reboot Superman, which seems like it could be a good idea. Exactly what part he'll take in any new Superman movie (probably not director, but maybe producer?) is not clear, but somebody needs to fix Superman, that's for sure.


• Danny Glover as Captain Ahab in a film adaptation of Moby Dick where the whales have been replaced by dragons, and which also stars Vinnie Jones? YES!!


• It's a moonbow! A rainbow caused by the moon! Crazy!


• A sausage roll stuffed with a cheesy double beef burrito from Taco Bell! Nice.


• Yesterday I posted hot pics of the star of one sci-fi show I watch, so here are hot pics of the star of another sci-fi show I watch! It's Anna Torv of Fringe! (Via)


• A plush Boba Fett, and the first in a planned series of Star Wars-themed Imperial pin-ups.


• Lost LOLCats.


• H.R. Giger Tarot card deck. (Via)


• New Muppet music video, starring Beaker vs. YouTube commenters!


• In South Korea, robots star in plays! (Via)


• Tom Cruise is coming back for Mission Impossible 4, but it sounds like J.J. Abrams will probably not be back as director. However, writing duo Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec of Alias fame are involved.


• Steven Soderbergh's next movie will be an ensemble action-thriller called Contagion. The idea is that it would be a cross between the Bourne movies (in fact, the script was written by the co-writer of The Bourne Ultimatum) and Traffic, and it'd involve interweaving stories set on four continents during the outbreak of a deadly virus. The cast includes Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, and Marion Cotillard. Sounds vaguely interesting, except that Traffic was really pretty dumb.

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Tagged: Animals, Art, Batman, Books, Cats, Celebrities, Comedy, Comic books, Craft, Food, Fringe, Health, Links, LOLCats, Mashups, Movies, Muppets, Music, News, Photography, Recyclotron, Robots, Science, Star Wars, Superman, TV, Twitter, Video]]> Animals Art Batman Books Cats Celebrities Comedy Comic books Craft Food Fringe Health Links LOLCats Mashups Movies Muppets Music News Photography Recyclotron Robots Science Star Wars Superman TV Twitter Video Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:55:00 +0000  by Fëanor

Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.

• Above is the incredibly cool trailer for Here Come the Waves, the "visualization" of The Decemberists' Hazards of Love. (Via)


• The 272 fast food items highest in calories. I'm happy to say that I'm pretty sure I've never eaten any of the items in the 1000+ calories range. Although I have eaten items in the 800-899 calories range. Gulp. (Via)


• Alien humor. (Via)


• Like a number of other programs, Dollhouse is making big gains in the ratings department thanks to the addition of DVR figures. (Via)


• 22 great sci-fi insults. (Via)


• 8 ways to prepare your pets for war. (Via)


• Check out the kick-ass cover art for the upcoming Planet Hulk DVD. (Via)


• Extremely long list of comic book-related personalities on Twitter. (Via)


• An interesting interview with Mike Mignola about the history and future of the Hellboyverse. (Via)


• Brian Michael Bendis talks about what's next for the Marvel Universe after Dark Reign. It's called Siege, and it will bring Captain America, Thor, and Iron Man back together again. (Via)


• Word has it the Where the Wild Things Are movie is upsetting some kids, but as you'll see in this excerpt from a recent interview, Maurice Sendak and the filmmakers don't really care so much. Here are five clips from the movie.


• The top 10 greatest space zomibes of all time.


• Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich have been ready and waiting to make a sequel to Independence Day, they've just been bogged down in negotiations with Fox and Will Smith. Here's hoping they remain bogged down! Ugh.


• Nanoparticles have incredible potential to advance medical technology and health, but of course the first drug developed to use them will treat erectile dysfunction. Sigh.


• A Lovecraft fan is crafting and assembling souvenirs from the ill-fated expedition in At the Mountains of Madness. Brilliant! Check out a gallery of the items here.


• A map of 50 years of space exploration. (Via)


• Dark Horse might do a Dollhouse comic book series.


• The trailer for Toy Story 3. This movie is going to murder me in my heart.


• Fun trailers and clips from Turbo (about a player in a futuristic, Tron-like video game fighting tournament) and a Mexican film about aliens and paranormal activity called Genesis.


• It's that time of year again! Metal Floss has 10 epic Halloween costumes. (Via)


• Very cool Mario bon-bons.


• Transformer pirate shirts.


• A mashup of a NES cartridge and a NES controller with which you can play NES ROMs. It's a hand-held NES!


• Apparently FlashForward is doing quite well; ABC has ordered 9 more episodes.


• This story about how they used to write Star Trek makes me sad. Then again, as long as they got smart people to fill in the blanks, it's not really that bad...


• Robert Rodat, the guy who wrote Saving Private Ryan, is working on the World of Warcraft movie. Wow (no pun intended)!


• The track list for LEGO Rock Band has been released.


• No, R2, no!


• Tekken 6 is bring back the beat-em-up campaign mode to fighting games. Neat.


• It recently came out that Gary Ross would rewrite and direct a screenplay about Venom, but now it looks like he'll be doing a movie about the spy Matt Helm first.


• Apparently they're going to do 300-style versions of Moby Dick and the story of Moses?! Good lord. Cinematical picks out five more ancient epics that are ripe for the 300 treatment. But really I'd rather there never be another movie like 300. Yuck.


• Scientists are claiming they've found a kindler, gentler, vegetarian spider, but I don't believe it for a second. It's still a nasty, ugly spider. Kill it!


• Speaking of which... ah, Spider Pill!


• Steampunk toilet!


• Write a story with Neil Gaiman on Twitter today.


• A small pile of cute.


• Scans of screenshots of Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth.

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Tagged: Aliens, Animals, Art, Books, Brian Michael Bendis, Captain America, Cartoons, Clothing, Comedy, Comic books, Cosplay, Costumes, Dollhouse, FlashForward, Food, Gadgets, Halloween, Health, Hellboy, Hulk, Iron Man, Joss Whedon, LEGO, Links, Lovecraft, Mike Mignola, Movies, Music, Neil Gaiman, News, Pixar, Recyclotron, Science, Shirts, Space, Star Trek, Star Wars, Technology, Thor, Toys, Transformers, TV, Twitter, Video, Video games, Web comics, Zombies]]> Aliens Animals Art Books Brian Michael Bendis Captain America Cartoons Clothing Comedy Comic books Cosplay Costumes Dollhouse FlashForward Food Gadgets Halloween Health Hellboy Hulk Iron Man Joss Whedon LEGO Links Lovecraft Mike Mignola Movies Music Neil Gaiman News Pixar Recyclotron Science Shirts Space Star Trek Star Wars Technology Thor Toys Transformers TV Twitter Video Video games Web comics Zombies Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:19:00 +0000  by Fëanor

Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.

• Above is an amusing ad for live jazz video game soundtracks. (Via)


• Pixar is also involved with Epic Mickey! Could an animated feature film version be on the way??


• Stills from classic movies. (Via)


• The first five minutes of The Princess and the Frog. Not all the color and animation is complete, but you get a good idea. There's a lot of controversy swirling around this movie, and claims of racism. I don't know how qualified I am to speak to that, but this clip seems sweet and cute and mostly inoffensive to me.


• Dude's skull grew back. Handy!


• Awesome portraits of Star Wars bounty hunters.


• Fantastic animal portrait.


• Excellent punctuation tattoo. Semicolons rule!


• 21 sexy female stormtroopers.


• Clips from a couple of recently released, never-before-seen Gene Roddenberry TV pilots: Genesis II and Planet Earth. The general consensus seems to be that they should have stayed unreleased. Ah, well. You can't make a winner every time.


• I enjoyed this animated comedy/sci-fi short, Danger Planet.


• Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides will apparently be a loose adaptation of Tim Powers' novel On Stranger Tides, which features a trip to the Fountain of Youth.


• Eli Roth's next project is Endangered Species, which just might be a giant monster movie. Nice!


• Battlestar Galactica: The Plan is hitting DVD and Blu-ray on October 27th.


• When DVRs and other similar technology are taken into account, TV shows like Fringe actually turn out to have much better ratings than originally thought.


• Heh. What cats are really saying to each other. (Via)


• The mustache magnet, for putting facial hair on the people whose photos you're sticking on your fridge. Excellent. (Via poppy)


• Agent M is back, with cuteness! Behold the puppy roll (via) and a hedgehog with tiny feet (via).


• Jawbox is reuniting for a performance on Jimmy Fallon on December 8th.


• The top 10 craziest Star Wars tattoos (via; beware a NSFW tattoo down the bottom) and an Admiral Ackbar velvet painting (via).


• Video of The Mountain Goats performing live on The Colbert Report. (Via)


• The empty rooms of Twin Peaks. (Via)


• A video explaining the coolness of Google Wave. I might have an invitation to this soon... (Via)


• What you can expect to happen to you if and when you get H1N1 (swine flu). (Via)


• Leonard Nimoy speaks sagely about the wrong way and the right way to go about making sci-fi, and gives some teasing answers to questions about Fringe.


• Some fan-made book trailers for Star Wars: Death Troopers, that Star Wars horror novel that's coming out soon. Some are definitely better than others.


• The Russians are going to Venus!


• How about a mashup of the Where the Wild Things Are trailer and Gremlins 2: The New Batch?


• Gary Ross of Pleasantville and Seabiscuit fame is in talks to rewrite and direct the Venom spin-off movie.


• Scientists just discovered an extra really, really big ring around Saturn.


• Hey, look! It's Baba Yaga! Baba Yaga is cool. (Via)


• A mirror labyrinth.


• Pretty impressive footage from an unfortunately canceled Flash video game.


• A look at a fan-made Bill Paxton pinball machine, still in progress.


• Terry Gilliam has his Quixote and will start filming next spring. Good luck this time around, Mr. Gilliam!


• Cinematical provides handy links to the eight MST3K episodes currently available to watch instantly at Netflix.


• Check out the trailer for Stingray Sam, a musical space Western I'll be seeing at the Philadelphia Film Festival next weekend. Looks crazy! (Via)


• J.J. Abrams gives just a smidge more detail on his upcoming show about a couple of married spies: "it's more of a comedy with drama and action than a straight drama. It's certainly sweeter and more fun in tone than Alias was."


• NASA will bomb the moon tomorrow. No, really! The idea is to get some of that ice up out of there.


• A censored, but still probably NSFW, preview of a geeky, horror-themed calendar from Nerdcore.


• io9 has opened up a Flickr pool where you can drop pictures of yourself in your 2009 Halloween costume. (Via)


• That is some tattoo. I mean... wow.


• Look out! Scary clowns! Which is kind of redundant. I mean, it's not like there are clowns who aren't scary.


• Video of a ridiculous trick bowling shot.


• Play Ohio like a piano!

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Tagged: Animals, Art, Cartoons, Cats, Celebrities, Comedy, Cosplay, Costumes, Dinosaurs, Disney, Dogs, Food, Fringe, Halloween, Health, Links, Movies, MST3K, Music, Netflix, News, Photography, Pixar, Recyclotron, Science, Space, Sports, Star Wars, Tattoos, TV, Video, Video games]]> Animals Art Cartoons Cats Celebrities Comedy Cosplay Costumes Dinosaurs Disney Dogs Food Fringe Halloween Health Links Movies MST3K Music Netflix News Photography Pixar Recyclotron Science Space Sports Star Wars Tattoos TV Video Video games Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:18:00 +0000  by Fëanor

Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.

• Above, please find animation from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon combined with audio from The Big Lebowski. Pretty funny; needless to say, the audio is NSFW. (Via)


• 10 books that should be banned. I've only read one of these, but as far as that one goes, I agree! (Via)


• Cool sculptures.


• A trailer for what should be a pretty interesting documentary - Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown.


• 6 important life lessons learned from The Twilight Zone.


• One or more episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation are recut into a pretty brutal, but also pretty funny, Wesley Crusher hatefest.


• Looks like MGM has been given some time to work out its money problems, which hopefully means the studio will be able to finish making the Hobbit movies.


• Sci Fi Wire lists its 9 favorite crazy zombie kills of all time, and Underwire rates the zombie-killing weapons in Zombieland.


• Eric Powell and his girlfriend, and real roller girl, Ramb0 Samb0 review Whip It. (Via)


• Awesome Bossk collectibles. (Via)


• A preview of five pages from Ghost Riders: Heaven's on Fire #3. (Via)


• Wireless brain implants could mean a big upgrade in the control of prosthetic robotic limbs. (Via)


• Aww, cute little felt Admiral Ackbar. (Via)


• A couple of photos from the set of Clash of the Titans featuring Liam Neeson as Zeus. Cool! Looks like they're sticking with the metaphor of the Gods controlling humans by moving around figures on a game board. (Via)


• Random photo! (Via)


• Monty Python's Flying Circus is turning 40! In honor of this prestigious occasion, the Mirror picks the top ten sketches. Excellent selections! (Via)


• Some surgeons are using laser eye treatments to tailor people's eyes to their careers; for instance, they can give special forces members and fighter pilots the ability to see a thousand meters in the dark. Crazy!


• A poor video quality trailer for yet another upcoming Doctor Who spin-off: K-9. Yes, this time the Doctor's robot dog is getting his own series. Unfortunately, it looks like they're aiming it at kids, so it's pretty cheesy.


• io9 takes a look back at Wednesday Comics. I agree with a lot of this analysis - except I wasn't as much a fan of the Superman and Supergirl strips, and I was a huge fan of Strange Adventures.


• io9 picks 10 more toys for Hollywood to co-opt. I remember almost all of these toy lines with great fondness. Sectaurs! M.A.S.K.! Good stuff. In a similar vein, relive 10 forgotten cartoon heroes of the '60s! I love The Herculoids.


• Star Olivia Wilde talks about her experience filming Tron: Legacy.


• Another book trailer, this one for a coffee table book which tells an alternate history involving a robot named Boilerplate. It's quite clever, and oddly moving.


• A few fleeting hints about the plot for Ghost Rider 2.


• NBC is developing a new show called Midnighters, based on a series of novels "about characters able to access a superpowered 25th hour called the 'Blue Time' each day as a result from being born on the stroke of midnight." Interesting...


• More crazy anti-aging science: researchers may have found a way to activate muscle regeneration and restore tissue health.


• Stellan Skarsgard has joined the cast of Thor in an unspecified role. Excellent! Love that guy.


• Here's a handy bra that turns into a pair of gas masks.


• Did I post this before? I don't know, but it's awesome: dinosaur-skeleton-shaped ice cube trays!


• Impressive ballpoint pen portrait of Christopher Walken.


• Awesome concept car covered in solar panels which turn constantly to align with the sun.


• Sweet piranha plant scarf.


• Sci Fi Wire has 15 of the spookiest breakfast cereals, 14 great Cthulhu toys, and the 10 scariest Stephen King novels.


• I love this list of theories on what caused the flashforwards in the TV show FlashForward. Especially the last one.


• A video explaining Brütal Legend's multiplayer mode.


• Apparently Nintendo will fix Wii consoles that were bricked by System Update 4.2.


• A collection of cool fan-made movie posters.


• Batman on an elephant.


• I love this trash can mod.


• Heh. Pretty hilarious poster.


• Worst day ever?


• Steampunk R2-D2. (Via)


• Cinematical presents a defense of theater-hopping.


• A review of the new 3D Toy Story double feature. I was kind of excited about this, but maybe it's not worth it.


• Here's a list with an odd theme: the seven scariest movie characters on wheels. I'm linking to it mainly because of the reference to Return to Oz, a movie I have an odd attachment to.


• A review of the Coen brothers' A Serious Man. From the ads, this didn't look like my kind of movie, but I do love the Coen brothers, and this is a very positive review...


• So what's really in coffee, anyway?


• Video of an aircraft shooting a truck with a laser.


• A lamp shade made of bacon strips.

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Tagged: Animals, Art, Automobiles, Bacon, Batman, Books, Cartoons, Celebrities, Comedy, Comic books, Dinosaurs, Drink, FlashForward, Food, Ghost Rider, Health, Links, Lists, Lovecraft, Movies, News, Photography, Pixar, Products, Recyclotron, Robots, Science, Star Trek, Star Wars, Technology, Tolkien, Toys, TV, Video, Video games, Zombies]]> Animals Art Automobiles Bacon Batman Books Cartoons Celebrities Comedy Comic books Dinosaurs Drink FlashForward Food Ghost Rider Health Links Lists Lovecraft Movies News Photography Pixar Products Recyclotron Robots Science Star Trek Star Wars Technology Tolkien Toys TV Video Video games Zombies