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The famous clip that featured the debut of Mickey Mouse as we know him, Steamboat Willie, first aired on November 18, 1928, making today Mickey’s 81st birthday. (He appeared in Plane Crazy six months earlier, but that version of the character, considered by many to be more interesting, was scrapped and re-worked for Steamboat.)
He’s now [...]

You know, it’s not just people that wear costumes on Halloween–you filthy humanist!–cars, vans, buses and motorcycles gotta get their “trick or treat” on too. And we’re not just talking about the dog-mobile from Dumb & Dumber, there are innumerable real-world examples of vehicles dressing up as other things (no, not Transformers). Cool Material has [...]

Today is Name Your Car Day, a truly ridiculous occasion that we can only hope will soon be replaced by Name Your Bike Day (ours is called Kandinsky). In the meantime, though, we kind of appreciate the idea of treating cars like boats and giving them names, it makes something so hard and mechanical a [...]

We’re pretty fond of nifty and creative ad campaigns, even insidious viral commercials that pretend to be something else. We especially applaud the innovative thinkers and crafty designers who make such things so seamlessly realistic. That, in turn, means it’s an awful shame when all their efforts go to waste, as seems to be the [...]

Some cupcakes are just pretty baked goods, and some are delicious, spectacular, nerdy cupcakes (or “nerdcakes”). Topless Robot found two dozen of such nerdcakes for this photo-op featuring 24 Awesomely Nerdy Cupcakes. Now we’re going to spend the rest of Sunday eating cupcakes and watching old sci-fi movies and shows.

Few poses convey a mood of resigned defeat more effectively than the facepalm, which Urban Dictionary defines as “The act of dropping one’s face/forehead into one’s hand. Usually accompanied by a ‘thunk’ or a cr a cry of ‘D’oh!’” For visual support, we suggest Rocketboom’s listicle of 13 Famous Facepalms, although we’re surprised by some [...]

As we undoubtedly all know by now, no matter how many times you desecrate a movie franchise about toy robots, or how many times a creepy high tech bot takes a tumble, robots just keep on bringing the cool. That’s what they’re programmed to do. You too can bring the cool, by wearing any or [...]

When/if we tie the metaphorical know with another person, animal or thing, we’ll likely forgo a traditional ceremony and just throw a big messy party. That said, if we keep one traditional wedding ritual, it’ll be the massive cake (because we love cake). And since we’ll presumably have to decorate the top of it somehow [...]

Michael Bay’s latest Ford commercial army recruitment propaganda blockbuster movie, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen comes out this week, and we’re told it will feature all manner of nifty, techy shape-shifters, from building-sized behemoths to bug-sized crawlers. Of course, the latest installment in the franchise begun decades ago by toy-maker Hasbro has plenty of material [...]

Well, let’s face it, when your TV show was created by a toy manufacturing company as a narrative advertisement for young boys, it’s no surprise that you find yourself reaching for ridiculous plots and characters pretty quickly. Such is the case with the Transformers series (whose latest reiteration hits theaters next week), which featured some [...]