There are really no words. Except that this is a good lead-in to the weekend. And watching Martin lose it repeatedly is worth the price of admission.

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A long-time creature creator and robotics animator, Tom Kuebler now concentrates on making life-size sculptures of freaky looking types as well as more famous creatures like Frankenstein's Monster. It's kinda like what would have happened if Maxwell Gaines had been the one to create Madame Tussauds.

Found via Neatorama.

The latest in geek attire comes with a shirt that displays a game of pong on your chest via an "animated decal". Throw in a cape and you're Pong Man. Or something. At least the thing can be tossed in the laundry.

The question is: Do I want this because it's geeky or do I want this because it's so dark grey it's almost black? Or could it be both?

Found via Gizmodo.

Squid.us points us to Adopt a Squid, where you can…well, do exactly what the title says. How huge is huge? Well, check it out: yes, that's a person behind the squid's head, holding it up. Huge, baby! And all of the squid for sale come with their own personalities. The one shown is Benedict:

Lets get something straight. Benedict is Archibald's arch nemesis. No one is sure why, but the feud has lasted for years. If ordering both, please keep them seperate.

Nice. And of course: Benedict is black, which goes with everything I own. Pricey, though. Oh well.

Whatever Harry Breuer is doing with that xylophone, it's making that poor woman try to hang herself. What, is Harry a Flash villain or something?

Found via Check the Cool Wax.

IESB reports that Jeff Bridges is set to play baddie Obadiah Stane in the Iron Man movie. And has pics of Bridges to boot.

Here's what we want to know…there have been Nobel-worthy studies about the correlation between Jeff Bridges' hair and his box office success. But what does it mean when he's freaking bald? Scientists worldwide are scrambling. More news as we get it.

Chris over at the Invincible Super-Blog writes up a tribute to the late Arnold Drake by dissecting the brilliance of a Doom Patrol villain: Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man…

Why have a story where the heroes fight a giant tranatula when you could have them fight a giant tarantula that can turn into a swarm of gnats?! It's perfect!

Can't argue with that. Although the true tragedy of all this is that he never faced down Matter Eater Lad in a fair fight.

P.S. As for that word balloon in the image, what's odd is you get things like that said in the Gabfest all the time.

As if we need any reason or explanation.

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Written by: Joan Sinclair.
Published by: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.

As your Minister of Naughty Bits, I wanted to bring to your attention that the Ministry will be issuing bulletins to keep the public advised of media that deals with the sexy. Because it's all about the sexy. This is all for your health, so grin and bear it.

This selection takes us across the Pacific to the land of the Rising… Sun. In the new book, Pink Box: Inside Japan's Sex Clubs, Joan Sinclair gives us a tour of the Japanese sex industry, or fuzoku, rarely seen by Westerners. Since the various sex clubs have to be seen to be believed, the book is primarily photographs. This book runs the gamut from the simple pleasures of buying expensive drinks for a little attention at hostess bars to the complex sets and costumes customers can request at image clubs. Any fetish can be indulged–from voyeurism and breast worship to green gel play and messing with an anatomically correct doll. The pictures show the dichotomy of selling fantasies and fetishes with the straightforwardness of ordering sushi and sex workers whose jobs induce more giggles than shame. The book is a little pricy but the glimpse you get into how another culture approaches the most beautiful and nature event money can buy is worth it.

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Cory over at Boing Boing found this sign in a restaurant. That's right: no laptops allowed.

Now, there's only one sensible way to respond to something like this. And that's to break out one of these.