There are few gifts I like to recieve more than milk. Amazon starts selling groceries online. People start reviewing their products. Hilarity ensues.
French photographer Cedric Delsaux takes pictures of Star Wars characters (in figurine) and superimposes them onto French architecture, with interesting results. More here. Sci-fi totalitarianism meets stark European architecture. Fun Fun.
Apparently in the early 90's Fuji TV created an created a morning program combining light aerobic exercise and English conversation lessons, entited Zuiikin English.
The result was nothing less than sheer brilliance.
Rather than focusing on common mundane phrases each episode of the program was centered around a specific theme and offered relevant phrases that would come in handy in such instances. Each phrase was repeated by a trio women dubbed the Zuiikin Gals, who provided accompmanying body movements over a irritatingly catchy electronic beat. My favorite Here
"I Was Robbed By Two Men" = Stuck in my head for all enternity.
Things a Lieutenant Would Say to His Men Before Combat If, Instead of Soldiers in a Central American Revolutionary Conflict, He Thought They Were Characters in Contra for Nintendo.
By Nick Confalone -
"Teamwork is what this is all about. Having a buddy makes it, like, infinity times better."
"If you get hit, then you'll die. Most things you hit die on contact, too, though, except for big bosses."
"You can swim in ordinary water in the jungle, but nowhere else. You cannot jump out of the water, but you can drag yourself out of the side. Swimming elsewhere will kill you."
"If you are prone (on your belly) and you jump, you will instead drop down to the next floor. There are some floors that don't let you do this. Also, do not drop if there is anything deadly directly above you. Dropping makes you briefly stand up, and you will die."
"Your Laser (L) produces a column of what appears to be flame. This weapon is the worst for enemy bases where the soldiers are really tiny."
"I should probably mention the energy zone. We don't really know what's going on there, but it leaks like a bitch."
"In the hangar, watch out for spiky walls that pop up in front of you. Step onto new platforms with hesitancy. When under the mechanical arms, DON'T FREAK OUT!!! Just take tiny steps one at a time and you'll get to the alien's lair no problem."
"As you shoot the final giant alien heart, it will beat faster, just like when you shoot giant human hearts." "When you have finished this mission, you can consider yourself a hero."
"Up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-b-a-start. Live it, love it, learn it."