Because there’s no such thing as an un-themed wedding anymore, freshly married Erin and Matt posed for these Alice in Wonderland themed photos on the day of their nuptials. Why he opted for the Johnny Depp version of the Mad Hatter from the shitty live-action movie instead of the much better cartoon one is beyond me, but I suspect it has something to do with having really bad eyebrows. HIYO, down the rabbit hole! Aaaaaaaaaand I’m stuck. Those cookies said ‘Eat Me’, I swear! “Those were Chips-Ahoy and you know it.” YOU STAY OUT OF THIS. Hit the jump for the rest of the admittedly very well-done shoot.

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Mad Hatter Tea Party Themed Wedding Pictures

This is a video of Hyrulecraft, the entire world from the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time recreated 1:1 in Minecraft . You can download the entire thing now, but its creators are currently working on setting up a server with quests, etc. to make it that much funner. I’m gonna hang out with the Gorons and make bombs! Hyrulecraft is a 1:1 scale replica of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, in Minecraft! With the alpha map already available as a download, the project has now entered stage 2. The HC team hopes to have a completed server ready later this year which will include a unique Minecraft MMO experience including quests, NPCs, dungeons, free build zones, guilds, and more of the classic Minecraft stuff you know and love. Are you thinking what I’m thinking? “You want to live there?” Yes! Now somebody TRON my ass in there pronto. “We don’t have that technology.” Fine — Monkey Island it is, now blast me with that laser thingy. Hit the jump for a video tour and a link to the project page with downloads.

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Hyrulecraft: Ocarina Of Time Recreated In Minecraft

If you didn’t already catch it this weekend, this is the 2-hour director’s cut of Star Wars: Uncut , the 15-seconds-at-a-time fan sourced (each fan was responsible for making a different 15-second scene) Star Wars: A New Hope remake . Now I didn’t have time to watch the whole thing this morning , but from what I gathered a lot more scenes were shot in people’s garages than I remember from the original. Granted I can’t say I’m surprised. Get it? I’ve never seen the original! Hit the jump for two hours of Star Wars on zero budget. Bonus points if you manage to watch the whole thing at work. Suck it, the man!

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Homemade: Fan-Sourced Star Wars Reboot Finished

Your trunk and license plate: they’re doing it wrong. This is a video of some guy crashing his kit-car Cobra at 130MPH on a racetrack . He survived with only minor injuries to a knee and some bruised ribs. Pluuuuuus… “Plus what?” Admit it! “Admit what?” Admit you shit your pants too! “I didn’t though!” *BRAAAAAAAAP, squirt* Oh shi-shi. “What the f***?!” See bro? Everybody does it — now just admit it. Hit the jump for the please keep your arms in the vehicle at all times.

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130-MPH Race Car Crash From The Inside

This is a video of a modern slot car race, and let me tell you — it probably should’ve been shot with a high-speed camera . Me? I probably should’ve been shot with a rifle. You can see two cars going by in the bottom portion of the screencap I took, and they just look like little blurs . Kind of like my face right now. *shaking head* “Why are you doing that?” I’ll look ugly if I stop! “Well you’re vomiting.” Does it look handsome?! “No, it looks like cereal.” Haha, that’s cat food. Hit the jump for the video, but the action doesn’t start till 0:55. Green car flies off the track around 1:08.

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Zoom Zoooooom!: Modern Slot Car Races Are FAST

This is a 6′4″, 300-pound (just like me!) Stormtrooper cake made by Amanda Oakleaf Cakes for the Arisia Sci-Fi Convention in Boston. He provided over 600 servings, significantly more than an Ewok cake would have. Plus less hair. Nobody likes eating hair . Except my cat . God, you know you’re just gonna hock that up in the middle of the night and make me scream at you! Just kidding, I don’t actually scream at my pets. I just fake cry into a pillow and mutter things like, “God, just let me die in my sleep!” to make them feel extra bad. Hit the jump for shots from the beginning of the build to the skeletal end.

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300-Pound Lifesize Standing Stormtrooper Cake

This is a timelapse of a 30-story, state of the art hotel being built in China in a meager 15-days. Wow. I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t stay there. Get it? I don’t have the money for a hotel! I’ll sleep in the rental. Constructed in Dongting Lake in Hunan province, the hotel is 170,000 square feet and can withstand a 9.0 earthquake reports Treehugger. According to the International Business Times, the prefabricated modules were put together in a factory and then placed on steel structures at the construction site. The Chinese company behind the speedy design and building is Broad Group, a firm which previously built the 15-story Ark Hotel in Changsha, China, in just six days. Meh, I built a 30-story LEGO tower in a single weekend once. “And what happened to it?” WTF do you think happened — it collapsed before I was finished. Then I used the pieces to make a relatively anatomically correct LEGO woman. “Why?” I dunno, but if she tries to tell you that baby is mine she’s lying! Hit the jump for the video, but feel free to skip around. WTF do I care? I don’t. About anything . I’m battling depression. :/

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Timelapse Of 30-Story Building Built In 15 Days

Imagine if you could just take a nap and learn something in the process (and not just how good sleeping feels). Kind of like passing out with your head in a textbook but then NOT failing the shit out of the test the next day. Well scientists are exploring the possibility through the use of MRI machines . But not just learning boring-ass information, learning HOW TO DO THINGS. *karate chops through a stack of cinderblocks* Here’s how it works: you pick a task that requires high performance from your visual cortex, like catching a ball. Then, you go find someone who’s a pro at catching a ball, stick them in an fMRI machine, and record what’s going on in their brain while they visualize catching a ball. Now you’ve got your ball-catching program, and you’re ready to learn. Next step: put yourself into the fMRI machine, and rig it to induce that pro ball-catching imagery that you recorded earlier in your brain using neurofeedback. You don’t even have to be paying attention while this is going on. Your brain, though, becomes familiar with that pattern, which is what learning is: your brain becoming familiar with patterns. Play that pattern back enough, and you will get better at whatever activity the pattern is associated with. This isn’t just conjecture: the researchers involved have shown that this fMRI pattern playback can in fact “cause long-lasting improvement in tasks that require visual performance… In theory, a type of automated learning is a potential outcome. “Pfft, I already know how to catch a ball.” Yeah well that was just an EXAMPLE you idiot, besides, *bounces kickball off head* your reflexes could use some work. Chase me, I dare you! *watches you fall out of your chair* …If you’re wondering if I reprogrammed your brain with Stephen Hawking’s walk, the answer’s yes. An MRI machine could teach you Kung-Fu, everything else [dvice] Thanks to Marion, who doesn’t want to learn how to do anything except pick winning lotto numbers.

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The Future: Matrix-Like ‘Automated Learning’ Machines

Seen here giving the camera their best serious but cool, MIT researchers Andreas Velten and Ramesh Raskar pose in front of a Coke bottle filled with highlighter fluid or something. I don’t know, physics and I don’t always get along. That’s how I’m able to levitate . Just kidding, it’s magnets and wires. Anyway, these two studs have developed a means of capturing shots at 1/1,000,000,000,000th of a second, enabling photography of the movement of light itself. SU-SU-SU-SCIENCE!: Basically, nanosecond laser pulses are shone on an object. In front of the camera is a narrow slit, so that only a thin slice of the laser light can be seen at one time — the technical name for this device is a “streak camera.” The laser pulses, with very complex timing circuitry, are then picked up by an array of 500 sensors in the camera — but only one “scan line” at a time (thanks to the narrow slit). Using mirrors, the camera’s angle of view is changed over time until each of these one-dimensional slices can be built up into a complete 2D image. This process, which takes about an hour, has led to one of its creators — Ramesh Raskar — to dub this trillion-FPS wonder “the world’s slowest fastest camera.” There’s a video of the two creators explaining the technology after the jump that I was *this close* to being able to wrap my head around. Get it? Because my head is long like a jump rope. One time I even tripped a purse-snatcher, then used my head to tie him to a light pole until the cops arrived. True story 100% lies. Hit the jump and get your laser light photography show on.

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MIT Develops A ‘Trillion Frames Per Second’ Camera

This is a picture of a $3-million, 328-foot wind turbine in North Ayrshire, Scotland trying to cope with hurricane winds. Obviously, it coped poorly. Like me in high school getting called a dork all the time. Which brings up an important topic: bullying. Listen up kids, I want you to remember this: no matter what mean things kids might say to you in school (and they’ll try to say the worst), just know that in six to ten years they’ll ask to be your friend on Facebook and you’ll look through their pictures and see they’re fat as shit and living in squalor with like three ugly babies. Trust me. You know what I’m talking about, Angela W.! You called me a four-eyed freak sophomore year and now look at you — breathing heavy with two cross-eyed kids from some redneck! Wind turbine can’t keep up; explodes into flames [dvice] Thanks to Bryan, who agrees the only thing better than green energy is black magic . I brought a run-over squirrel back to life!

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Gusty: Hurricane Causes Wind Turbine Explosion