Every Mad Magazine Cover
Doug Gilford's Mad Cover Site. Has just about every magazine cover since 1952. Here are some of my favorites: 1) Alfred E. Neuman's first appearance on the magazine cover (see if…
101 Weapons For Women: The Floppy Disk
Caution: Please don’t try this in the office, if you manage to find a floppy disk, that is. From “101 Weapons for Women,” published in 1992.
50 Best Author vs. Author Put-Downs Of All Time
A great compilation of quotes by famous authors, trash talking about other, equally well-known authors, and literary rivals. Jane Austen, according to Mark Twain (1898) I haven't any right to…
The Mediterranean Billionaire’s Blackmail Bargain And Other Sordid Tales
Mills & Boon, the highly successful publisher of romantic novels, is celebrating it’s centenary year. The novels have sold in the hundreds of millions, lapped up by a staunchly loyal…
40 Hauntingly Beautiful Photographs Taken In Graveyards
Photo Credit: Onkel Wart Last week, I spent a few pleasurably-languid hours reading Neil Gaiman’s "The Graveyard Book." Gaiman’s wonderful tale of a young boy - Nobody Owens - who…
1600 Year Old Book Proves Ancient Romans Had A Sense of Humor
Mary Beard, the controversial Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge, informs us in this Guardian article that ancient Romans had (gasp!) a sense of humor, after all. She…
Hitler Rants Against The Changed Watchmen Movie Ending
Bruno Ganz’s brilliant and electrifying turn as Hitler in Der Untergang has been parodied many times before. The spoofs were created by mashing up scenes from the film with fake English subtitles. Obviously, it’s funny only for people who can’t speak the German language.
And now, there is one more addition to the list. The latest viral video shows Hitler ranting against Hollywood’s fat-cats for changing the Watchmen movie’s ending. Or more specifically, the absence of a multi-tentacled monster in it.
Watch it after the jump. (The clip is NSFW due to bad language.)
Be a Nose! – Art Spiegelman’s Works Animated
Art Spiegelman is, as some of you may know, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Maus, and one of the most important and influential artists of the graphic novel medium.…
Sleeveface – The Book
Sleeveface is a popular internet meme wherein people take pictures of themselves holding record sleeves over their body parts to create an optical illusion. The Sleeveface blog is a good…
The Atlas of Cyberspace – Free PDF Download
The Atlas of Cyberspace examines the visual nature of cyberspace and its infrastructure. Written by Martin Dodge and Rob Kitchin, the book catalogues the evolution of cartographic and visualization techniques…