Note: This only shows Star Wars and Harry Potter. But you wanna know how Pokemon, Twilight, Dr. Who and Star Trek stack up, right? Click HERE, RIGHT HERE DAMMIT for the whole thing. This is an infographic comparing various sci-fi /fantasy franchises based on their internet presence. Things like number of Facebook likes, fan-fiction submissions and Wiki entries. Apparently Harry Potter is the big winner though, which I’m okay with since it wasn’t Twilight . Although I was a little disappointed Jurassic Park didn’t even make the cut. Come on, I’ve written over 20,000 pieces of fan-fiction myself. I met a t-rex at a bar, we boned. I wrote about it in my diary. Haha, there’s 19,999 more where that came from! (It came straight from my heart is the thing) Internet Fandom Infographic of the Day [geeks.thedailywh.at] Thanks to Mark and carlo, who were both pissed Lord of the Rings didn’t make the list and may or may yes be into hobbit fantasies.

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Sci-Fi/Fantasy Franchise Internet Fandom Infographic

Mmmm, boogers a la baby doodoo — my favorite! Printable food : because who wants a human being touching meals with those grubby-ass fingernails of theirs when it can be squirted out a nozzle in paste form? Mmm, paste. Enter Cornell’s Creative Machines Lab, which is apparently on the leading edge of printable food technology because, remember: being the only one doing something automatically makes you the best at it . “And worst.” Dammit Debbie Downer, I was trying to sound inspirational! The CCML food printers require edible inks and electronic blueprints called FabApps. This machine prints food using multiple cartridges, going line by line until the desired shape is extruded. “The electronic blueprint specifies exactly which materials go where–it is essentially a blueprint of the food item,” says Hod Lipson, the head of the lab. With most 3-D food printing concepts today, the inks are the foods themselves in fluid form–think molten chocolate, cheese, or cookie dough. Foods that can’t be readily extruded from a syringe such as meats and vegetables are ground and mixed with other liquids to create novel food-inks. Essential Dynamics, a tech startup in New York, plans to bring out a commercial version of the 3-D food printer that will retail for $1,000 initially. Its founder Jamil Yosefzai believes that the desire to customize foods will make 3-D food printers an essential part of everyone’s kitchen in due course. Call me crazy, but…”YOU’RE F***ING NUTS, BRO!” Okay from everybody else’s continued silence I’m gonna assume you realize that was actually meant to be a rhetorical ‘call me crazy’ and you feel stupid for yelling now. “I’M NOT STUPID YOU’RE STUPID, I’LL CUT YOUR ASS!” Ugh, my point was this Ragey McFlyoffthehandle: I’d rather take my chances with a chef not washing his hands than have my meals extruded out of a Play-Doh Fun Factory. Know what I’m sayin’? I’m saying I’ve already eaten enough Play-Doh for six lifetimes. Ramen by HP? The Wild Possibilities Of Printing Food [fastcompany] via Printable food is coming [dvice] Thanks to my buddy Clark, who’s never printed food before but did write, “KEEP GOBBLING THOSE WIENERS!” on my birthday cake in icing one year.

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Mmmm, Printer Jam: 3-D Printable Food Closer To Reality, My Gaping Face-Hole

According a questionable study conducted by the The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, the 70% of teenagers that use social media websites like Facebook and Twitter are almost “twice as likely to use marijuana, three times as likely to drink alcohol, and five times as likely to use tobacco” (previously: be insecure, narcissistic, and have low-self esteem ). Possibly because they interact with other people besides mom and dad. The other 30% are home-schooled. Oh — this questionable study just in: social media didn’t exist when I was growing up, and look how I turned out. SPOILER : A f***ing mess. Some experts say kids see images of teens drinking and using drugs online, which takes the shock value out of bad behavior and leads some to think it’s what everyone is doing. Some viewers on our Facebook page say they monitor their kids’ social networking habits closely so they know what’s happening on the websites. ” I will look through dressers, clothes, Facebook, PC’s, whatever I want to make sure my child is safe,” writes Kelly. “They will hate me now, but one day they will love and thank me.” First paragraph: there are experts, and then there are the experts that actually believe this shit. The second group are f***ing idiots. Third paragraph: or just always hate you. That’s a very real possibility. Ha — building relationships based on trust. I’M IN YOUR UNDERWEAR DRAWER LOOKING FOR WEED, LOLOL! Teens who use social media mostly likely to drink and use drugs, says study [king5news] Thanks to Evil Ares, who’s evil and uses the persuasive power of peer pressure to coerce his friends into doing things for him. Join in the debauchery on Geekologie’s Facebook and Tweeter

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Study: Social Media-Using Teens More Likely To Drink, Smoke, Do Drugs (And Prolly Sex!)

Cannapult, get it? Like cannabis. Alternatively, the catapot. A catapult used to launch 2-kilo (4.4lb) bricks of shitty Mexican schwag over the border was confiscated by Mexican authorities earlier this week, bringing Wile E. Coyote’s drug smuggling operation to a screeching halt (probably in mid-air after running off a cliff!). Mexican soldiers, tipped off by U.S. National Guard troops monitoring the area with surveillance cameras, seized a few dozen pounds of marijuana, a sport-utility vehicle, and the catapult it was towing near the small town of Naco near the Mexico-Arizona border on Friday. The smugglers had already fled the scene. The catapult was found about 20 yards from the fence, standing roughly ten feet tall and prepped to launch several 4.4-pound bales of pot into the United States. And from what we can gather from the few grainy photos available, it looks like a legit piece of elementary medieval siege weaponry. Listen: as a man who’s no stranger to enduring eight-hour flights with a rectumful of drug-filled Doritos bags, I have to admire these smugglers’ ingenuity. But is smuggling 4-pounds of the worst quality brick-weed one catapult launch at a time really worth it? You gotta think outside the box 20-sack, guys. Two words: Spanish fly. IT’S REAL, IT’S ILLEGAL, AND I WANT SOME. One more shot of the catapult in tow-mode and a night-vision video of the POS in action after the jump.

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The Cannapult: Border Security Confiscate Weed-Tossing Catapult At US/Mexico Border

Note: Full resolution version available HERE for those of you without HD laser vision. Suckers! This is a diagram showing the incestuous relationships between the various car manufacturers . I found it pretty eye-opening. For example, did you know Honda is actually a wholly owned subsidiary of a Norwegian car manufacturer? Just kidding, I made that up because all the lines started hurting my eyes. Like when I catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror. Which — anybody seen a grocery bag lying around here? It has a face drawn on one side. Who Owns Who: An Automaker Family Tree [jalopnik]

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Diagram Showing The Relationships Of Car Makers To One Another (Looks Incestuous)

Note: This is only a small portion of the useful info, click HERE to see the whole life-changing thing. Finally, an infographic that might actually change my life . Granted it won’t, but still, it could . I mean, if I weren’t such a deadbeat. How about number one there, the hanger idea — that’s pretty good, right? Well it would be if all my clothes weren’t in a pile on the bathroom floor. I call it my nest, and it’s where I sleep at night. Bathmat pillow aside, don’t you dare judge me . I don’t judge you, do I? Yes, I do actually, I’m very judgey. Anyway, read the graphic, learn some shit, then get out there and get life hacking! But a word of warning: don’t go overboard, bricking = certain death. 35 Life Hacks You Should Know - Infographic [theirtoys] Thanks to JustGil, CONOR and Ralph, who are so good at hacking their lives the government asked them to explain how they did it. You know what they said?

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Wait, An Actually Useful Infographic? Get Out!

Note: Video is after the jump for fear of accidentally FATALITY-ING your ass all over the front page. This is a video making its way around the interwebs that appears to be an 8-minute trailer for an upcoming Mortal Kombat movie. BUT THAT AIN’T THE CASE. It’s actually believed to be some viral marketing for a new Mortal Kombat game . But is it? I have no idea. It is incredibly well made though. Plus Reptile eats people’s heads. Sick! Kidding, it’s not any worse than a dog licking it’s own a-hole. *ahem* CHLOE! Gimme kissies. Eight minutes of worthwhile billable time awaits you after the jump. FINISH IT!

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WTF Did I Just Watch: Mortal Kombat: Rebirth

Allegedly this is a picture of the internet (high-res version HERE ). Only thing is, I freaking live in the internet and it doesn’t look all that familiar. I mean, where are all the naked ladies? Everybody knows the internet is at least 40% naked ladies. AND men. I just shy away from the men areas. No, no I don’t. BECAUSE I’M OPEN MINDED. The Internet: The Picture [buzzfeed] Thanks to Drew, who knows the internet is predominately tubes. Gerbil tubes . It’s basically a giant Habitrail.

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Questionable: A Picture Of The Internet

This is a video of a building demolition in Turkey (arguably my favorite country on rye) gone horribly wrong . Now I’m not saying I could have done better, but I totally could have. With fireworks. Youtube Thanks to Lord Tarl, who once imploded a building simply by looking at it funny (and secretly pushing the detonator).

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You Did It Wrong: Building Demolition Fail

This is a video of a building demolition in Turkey (arguably my favorite country on rye) gone horribly wrong . Now I’m not saying I could have done better, but I totally could have. With fireworks. Youtube Thanks to Lord Tarl, who once imploded a building simply by looking at it funny (and secretly pushing the detonator).

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You Did It Wrong: Building Demolition Fail