Spurious Awards Of The Week

Party Trick Of The Week

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Eric inflates his own hand in True Blood .

Live Action Remake Of The Week

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Poops all over The Flintstones .

Expletive Of The Week

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For a moment there was a worried look in DJ Zane Lowe’s eyes when he was interviewing Rhys Ifans at the Amazing Spider-Man premiere in Leicester Square. The suitably green-suited Welshman summed up his character arc as the Lizard as, “’He has a bad day in the office and then everything goes tits up.” You could see Zane’s brain trying to work out if that was acceptable language on Sky Movies at prime time (where the premiere was being broadcast live).

He needn’t have worried. “Tits” was positively polite compared to something else Sky Movies broadcast during the event. There was a twitter feed running along the bottom of the screen, which was clearly being carefully edited for language and positivity (not that there was much room for either after you’d typed out the cramp-inducingly-long hashtag, “#amazingspidermanpremiere”). Not carefully enough, though, it would seem, if repeated messages from Tweeter “f**kyeahemma” were anything to go by.

Watercolour Challenge Of The Week

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This gorgeous animation comprises 3,285 aquarelle paintings created by andersramsell , giving some early scenes from Blade Runner weird new look.

Makeover Of The Week

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Suddenly My Little Ponies are cool. There’s a site full of these things here , and we especially love the My Little Cyber Ponies by savethewailes and the My Little Alien Pony by Mari Kasurinen .

Insurance Quote Of The Week

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Home Furnishing Of The Week

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By the time we’d discovered this xenomorphic light fitting it had already been sold, which, to be honest is no great surprise. But it looks like EvilRobotDesigns do commissions. Maybe they could rustle up an accompanying predator lampshade…

Opening Credits Of The Week

This has already been causing a storm on our Twitter feed, but since we know you don’t all follow SFX (tut tut) here are some Avengers Assemble credits done in the style of Firefly .

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Redevelopment Project Of The Week

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An army of 40 gamers lead by Reddit user Tigerballs07 have spent over a year recreating a 1:1 scale model of Lord Of The Rings ’ Mines of Moria inside Minecraft . According to the website Geekosystem ; “The structure is 16,000 x 16,000 blocks [one cubic meter each] and took tens of thousands of man hours to complete. The entirety of the structure was ‘Hand-Dug’, which mean that no mods were used to simplify the building process within Minecraft . The replica is based on Peter Jackson’s vision of Moria and not JRR Tolkien’s description. The replica features all of the iconic locales featured in the film; with everything from the entrance to the bridge on which Gandalf confronts the Balrog.”

Apparently the map would take days to upload to the Minecraft servers, so sadly you won’t get to run around them. Even virtually.

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Nightmare Visions Of The Week

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These are just plain disturbing – the dark side of some Disney characters that usually look so cute. This is what goes on in the minds of “Imagineers” at Disney theme parks who have to wear Mickey and Pluto suits too long. Click here to see artist Testosteronman’s full-sized versions .

Party Political Broadcasts Of The Week

Courtesy of Mother Jones .

Pulp Fiction Of The Week

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Sci-fi classics gloriously reimagined as pulp SF novels by Tim Anderson . [via postercollective ]

Unsubtle Allusion Of The Week

We assume Alan Moore is no great fan of Harry Potter. Not that anything in this universe, or any alternate universe, would have lead us to assume otherwise. Not that he’s ever said anything, it’s just that we’re talking Alan Moore. And Harry Potter. Brian Sewell liking Saw 3D would seem less outrageous.

But in case anyone was harbouring any lingering doubts, the news coming out about his latest volume of literature-plundering The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen would seem to settle the argument. Century 2009 is set in the 21st century and features the usual suspects – Mina Murray, Allan Quatermain, etc – rubbing up against a familiar-sounding antichrist. According to The Guardian , “it turns out [he] has a hidden scar and a mentor named Riddle,” who went to a “a magical school reached by a magical train hidden between platforms at London’s King’s Cross.” Moore steers clear of actually calling his antichrist Harry Potter, clearly for fear of falling foul of a Copywritus Curse.

Copycats Of The Week

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Funky Droid Of The Week

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Who says robots have no soul? [by Ian Brooks via The Daily What ]

Public Information Service Of The Week

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Fan Commitment Of The Week

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True Blood ’s Lafayette mourns the passing of another Firefly fan whose hunger strike to get the show back on air has been in vain.

Sports Stars Of The Week

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Transylvanian synchronised swimming team practice for the Olympics in Bedlam .

Medical Assessment Of The Week

Sudden Increase In Collectability Of The Week

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Got the DVD or Blu-ray box-set of Game Of Thrones season one? Then keep hold of it. It may become a collector’s item.

HBO may be the channel that’s not scared to broadcast tits’n’gore but it showed a considerable lack of balls when it discovered that the makers of Game Of Thrones had stuck a prosthetic head of George W Bush on a pole during season one of the show. The network issued a cringingly embarrassing apology: “We were deeply dismayed to see this and find it unacceptable, disrespectful and in very bad taste. We made this clear to the executive producers of the series who apologised immediately for this inadvertent careless mistake,” HBO officials added. The network then promised to remove the scene from any future DVD productions.

Ironically, nobody would probably have noticed, except that the DVD commentary actually brought attention to the fact: “George Bush’s head appears in a couple of beheading scenes,” goes the commentary. “It’s not a choice, it’s not a political statement. We just had to use whatever head we had around.” Apparently the show’s bosses only became aware of the prop’s likeness to Bush after the scene was shot and a crew member pointed out the resemblance to him. That didn’t stop incensed Republicans from demanding the heads of showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss.

George W Bush has yet to comment.

Superteam Of The Week

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It was only a matter of time until the X-gene started mutating Muppets. Cartoonist Ken Haeser created these gems, and you can see more of his work on his deviantART pages. [via IO9 ]

No, Hang On… Maybe This Is The Superteam Of The Week

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Pixar in a Marvel makeover [via 9GAG ]

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Nothing Says I Love You Like… Of The Week

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For the kind of couple who’d consider putting “Live long and prosper” into their marriage vows – a sterling silver, 14K White Gold and White Sapphire Star Fleet Engagement Ring (opens in new tab). And while we’re on the subject of wedding rings…

Boxing Clever Of The Week

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How could you resist saying, “Oh, I was expecting the diamond’s to be bigger on the inside…” [via fashionablygeek ] And sticking with the theme…

Wedding Cakes Of The Week

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Alien Vs Predator cake (above) and Zelda Wind Waker cake (below) both by The Little Cherry Cake Company .

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Rant Of The Week

Cash-In Of The Week

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Spider-Man nail varnish. Obvious thing to do, really. Though we suspect Opi has just packaged together a bunch of its more difficult to shift colours (who wears green nail varnish except She-Hulk?), given them some Spidey-related names (“Call Me Gwen-ever”, “Just Spotted The Lizard”, “Your Web Or Mine?” – we’re not making these up) and stuck them in a Spider-Man cardboard presentation box. But hats off to them for the sales pitch – it takes some guts to actually go with “In-spidered by the hottest movie of the year” as a tag line.

Contortionist Of The Week

“Mee-ooooww… ooowww… ooouch! I’ve done me back in…” as the cover caption should read.

Review Of The Week (Spoilers)

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By Faith Erin Hicks [via Tor ]

Portrait Of The Week

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Lego brick Superman mosaic [via flickr ]

Alternate History Of The Week

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Created by Esteban Izquierdo .

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