What- or who-ever Fall On Your Sword is, he/she/they/it put together some grrreat music/video mash-ups. Above, Captain Kirk takes too much acid and hilarity ensues. More after the break -- but don’t let me stop you from going straight to the site.

Powerless Man

A brief surreal interlude with…

Tangerine

Shatner Of The Mount

See more at the source, including a Cylon singing a tune from Oliver!

Thanks to Yukon Cornelius for sending me a link to this site, which hosts 360-degree panoramic shots of Easter Island, its moai and gift shop.

Photo: Maurice Weiss / OSTKREUZ

Umberto Eco might be my favorite living author. Foucault’s Pendulum is a must-read for anyone with an interest in conspiracies, history, or life itself, and The Name of the Rose is a great philosophical treatise disguised as a ripping mystery novel.

Now he’s curating an exhibit at The Louvre on the theme of “The Infinity of Lists,” which sort of runs counter to my opinion of the top ten lists which seem to grow on the internet like maggots in a rabbit carcass. In an interview with Der Spiegel, he says:

The list is the origin of culture. It’s part of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order — not always, but often. And how, as a human being, does one face infinity? How does one attempt to grasp the incomprehensible? Through lists, through catalogs, through collections in museums and through encyclopedias and dictionaries.

And he’s right… about some lists. But I still contend that most web lists (those on cracked.com in particular) are nothing more than cheap and easy ploys to get traffic.

Link.

Information Is Beautiful has posted a pretty great infographic on the 2012 issue/conspiracy/theory/thingy (excerpted above). It’s pretty huge (960×6263), so it may take a while to load on a cell phone, but it’s definitely worth a look no matter which side you’re on – “skeptic” or “nutball believer.”

Link.

Answer after the jump…

It’s a thermal image of someone passing gas. (Source: Geekologie)

I’m posting a lot of butts today… My apologies.

Roger Hagadone’s website doesn’t give much point of reference for these bigfoot photos, but they’re well done, so here’s the link.

Just in case you don’t have enough presidential bigfoot t-shirts, shirt.woot.com is offering the above design with a bit of Loch Ness flavor thrown in.

Myself? I prefer the Cthulu ticket, even though he hasn’t chosen (and by “chosen” I mean “not devoured”) a running mate yet.

In the meantime, here’s a kickass tattoo from the Kustom Kulture Gallery in Baldwin, New York:

We are proud to announce the release of Curster’s Yeti. Yeti is a freestanding plush with articulated arms and is 9.5″ (24cm) in height. They are made from ultra soft faux fur with four face options available. Each Yeti retails for $25.00. This will be our first manufactured toy and will be limited to 375 pieces per face. We worked closely with ESC-Toy Ltd. who handled the production for us.

Four types are available: “The Smirker,” “The Happy,” “The Worrier” and “The Whistler.”

Click here for more info.

Hat tip (and link to) Cryptomundo for pointing out “The Secret Saturdays,” a new Cartoon Network production. It’s being promoted as “starting this fall,” but tomorrow (Labor Day) CN is going to be airing “sneak peeks” from 8am to 10pm. Warning: It appears the vast majority of that time will be taken up by Pokemon.

Promo clip after the jump.

It looks to me that these Saturdays seem to spend more time killing “cryptids” than anything else (at least in the video game on the show’s site). Yeah, they try to balance that out by employing a token Sasquatch team member, but this one’s on our “hate speech” radar.