This clip of Darth Jackson on Britain’s Got Talent is hilarious.  The mashup of Michael Jackson and Darth Vader is great.  I laughed so hard, though I have a weakness for dancing Storm Troopers.  The only thing I think he should have done differently is when they asked him to take off his helmet he should have had a Michael Jackson mask on underneath.  If he had done that I think he would have won… he still had my vote but what can I say Dancing Stormtroopers!!!

Watch the clip below

(via Club Jade)

update:  Here is the link to watch the video, it has been disabled by request… maybe Simon didn’t like how he looked in it.

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I love the growing robot technology and how it can better everyone’s lives.  The idea that one day I  could crawl into a Mech suit to “run around in” excites me and is one of the things I’m looking forward to in the new G.I. Joe movie.  This suit is of no exception it uses sensors attached to the skin of the wearer to operate.

“HAL catches these signals through a sensor attached on the skin of the wearer. Based on the signals obtained, the power unit is controlled to move the joint unitedly with the wearer’s muscle movement, enabling to support the wearer’s daily activities. This is what we call a ‘voluntary control system’ that provides movement interpreting the wearer’s intention from the biosignals in advance of the actual movement. Not only a ‘voluntary control system’ “HAL” has, but also a ‘robotic autonomous control system’ that provides human-like movement based on a robotic system which integrally work together with the ‘autonomous control system’. “HAL” is the world’s first cyborg-type robot controlled by this unique Hybrid System.”

The humor of the company working on this is at no loss to me either:

• Naming themselves Cyberdyne after the Terminator films
• Naming the suit Hybrid Assistive Limb or Hal

I’m not sure if I like their use of all the darker films where the robots turned on the humans and killed them but being an optimist I go to my happy place and think that the ominous warnings given in the films is what was on their minds… besides the suit needs us so if it gained sentience and went crazy it would merely assimilate humans instead of killing us off.

(via /Film)

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This is so disturbing to look at.  The first image that comes to mind is from the movie Aliens when the alien baby bursts from the chest of their victims.

Imagine:  Aliens five Revenge of the Queen.  In it we find out that the Alien Queen used Ripley to get back at the humans for her demise but this time the alien spawn are a hybrid species which have human faces and murderous alien bodies…

(via Fantasy & Sci-Fi Lovin’ News & Reviews)

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I don’t know why this Onion clip makes me laugh so much, but it does.  I suppose this is the freak in me taking a little glee in the idea of it.

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The brilliantly funny people over at college humor does it again.  I laughed so hard at this more reality based look at Wolverine’s powers.

I love superhero stuff especially the X-Men.  In the comic they had the common sense to put in the blood that would inevitably occur when Wolverine sheds his claws.  This is, as expected, one of the major problems with the latest catastrophe (I just can’t call it an X-Men film).  For those of you unfortunate enough to have watched it you can now get come catharsis with this video.

The premise is a couple of guys save up to go through a medical procedure to get Wolverine’s mutant powers.  They saved up all the money they could but unfortunately find out that the costs of the procedure will be double since Wolverine has two mutant powers adamantium claws and mutant healing.  Which one will they choose?  Watch the video above.

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This is a hillarious Old Spice commercial of Bruce Campbell Singing a cover of Hungry Like the Wolf.  I love the part when he lifts his fingers off of the keybord and the panio keeps playing.  Watch the video above.

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I so want one of these for making jello in… yeah jello.  It’s an ice tray that is shaped like the

aliens in the Space Invaders game.  Though I could not resist having the Mooninites going through my head while playing… using these shaped Ice.

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What would currency look like if the Empire ruled the galaxy?  I really like Mark Brooks artist interpretation in answer to the question.

Yet I wonder how would Darth Vader feel being put on the 1 credit bill?  Does that mean we should we put Mira Jade on the 20?

(via /film)

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Big game hunters eat your hearts out…

I could mount this Velociraptor head from Jurassic Park on my wall… imagine the conversation starter it would be.

“Oh! I see you noticed my catch while I was on safari.  Just wait till you hear the story of how we spent 3 days in the jungle hunting each other until I got the upper hand.”  Yea I think it would go something like that.  Of course in order to pull it off properly I would need to get a Predator head and an Aliens head to go next to them.

(thanks /Film)

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Vote for your favorite fan work based on Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.

They have already collected nominees from across the web of Videos, songs, written fics and many, many costumes based on Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.

Now we need to vote for the winners of each category!

The list of nominees are here.  I’m very curious to see who wins The Cheesy on the Outside Award and The Death Whinny Award.  There are many great categories with lots of fan works listed.

For more information and to vote check out The Horrible Awards here.

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