Once in a while you’ll pop across an awesome picture of a celebrity that you have never seen before.   Just the other day I ran across an interesting one of Ian Mckellan.  He looked very slick, young, and it was so out of context.  I think it’s really because most of us know him as an older actor.

So I decided to look up a few more actors.  Nothing special.  Nothing exhaustive.  Just a few that I thought were kind of cool and pictures I hadn’t seen before.

Here are 5 awesome “when they were young” photos of big time actors….

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It’s been argued by Madison and myself that action stars just aren’t what they used to be.    It’s just a different breed these days.  I mean are we really to think that guys like Daniel Craig can hold a candle to Arnold?  Things are just different these days.  Maybe it’s the lack of steroids.  Maybe it’s the sleeker more technological films.

But I do miss the days of explosions, stupid lines, and my action heroes being super huge.  Call me crazy.  Call me a little fruity.  Whatever.  But it’s not just the big explosive dudes I miss.  I miss Bruce Lee.  I miss Van Damme.   I miss all those guys.

Well.  That’s my little rant on that.  But what if we could match up some action guys of past eras and have them square off?  Here are five I would love to see throw down….

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What if our favorite movie, TV and video game characters all used Facebook? And all used it poorly? That’s the subject of Cracked’s latest photoshop contest which produced some pretty great results, including the one you see above.

Check out the rest here.

Go here to see if sex in games has changed.

It’s been five years since the “Hot Coffee” mode in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas became the video game industries first real sex scandal. 1up wonders if times have changed since then, or if developers are even more scared of putting sex in their games than they used to be. Read more above.

Unreality’s Facebook page wonders why there are boobs in R-rated movies everywhere, but Miranda Lawson must keep her top on.

The Countdown

Famous unsolved mysteries that are totally solved – [Cracked]

Conan’s new show is just called “Conan” – [WarmingGlow]

A gallery of the Happy DiCaprio meme – [Izismile]

What we learned from the 2010 fan expo – [HolyTaco]

America loves Mel Gibson anyways – [FilmDrunk]

Seven styles you should not wear as a guy right now – [AskMen]

Joseph Gordon-Levitt will be a lovelorn zombie – [Pajiba]

Illegal Spider-man caught climbing things again – [Asylum]

Guess which reality star this is – [Celebslam]

Danny Trejo is a career killer – [ScreenJunkies]

Katy Perry wins celebrity body contest over Rihanna – [Flisted]

The Walking Dead gets a second season already – [ToplessRobot]

A sink/urinal combo is an awful idea – [SmokingJacket]

Ballerinas are usually small for a reason – [Barstool]

The 15 biggest celebrity degenerate gamblers – [BroBible]

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Sim City is a frustrating game. You build a police department, your citizens want a school. You lower taxes, they want better air quality. You send Godzilla to attack them and they want Mothra. There’s no winning!

That’s why I can understand why one frustrated user spent a good long time crafting this RageFace landscape that accurately portrays the anger that often accompanies the game. It’s a masterwork of geographical engineering, and one I’m proud to share with you here. The “RageFace” for the uninitiated is an internet image used when something happens that really pisses you off. It is usually followed by the exclamation of “FFFFFFUUUUUUU”

Many of you are like me, currently trying to play Starcraft II on the ladder, and getting your ass kicked left and right. Well, it turns out there might be an explanation for this that DOESN’T involve you sucking. Map hacks are back with a vengeance, and this video is forensic investigation into one particular match where the player thinks he was playing a cheater.

With the upgraded replay capabilities of the new game, it’s quite easy to go back in and see what your opponent is seeing and document evidence like this. That’s exactly what PsyStarcraft does here, and though he can’t actually see the hack through his opponent’s vision, there are a ton of indicators that’s what’s happening. Mainly, his opponent is constantly checking on his base, which he can’t see due to the fog of war, and he has an almost prescient-like ability to predict where exactly he will be attacked, and he moves his units accordingly.

The best part about all this is that PsyStarcraft STILL kicks his ass in the end. The reason being that hackers usually aren’t terribly good at the game to begin with, and even with the correct unit composition, can still be overwhelmed by a better player.

Do you think you’ve ever been map hacked in a game? What tipped you off?

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Credits are always talked about in Star Wars as the dominant form of currency, but are rarely seen. You would imagine that in the future, paper money would cease to exist (and maybe it does in that universe), but if not, here is one artist’s interpretation of what a Galactic Credit might look like.

A few notes. How many “founding fathers” can they really go through here to put on their various bills and coins? There’s Vader and the Emperor sure, but who else would get a face? Grand Moff Tarkin? Darth Maul? Count Dooku? That’s really most of the top figureheads right there.

Also, were they in such a rush to print money that they decided to go with the unfinished second Death Star as a back image? That’s like putting the Lincoln Memorial on the back of our money with scaffolding all around it.

[via Mark Brooks]

So I’m technically getting around my self-imposed ban on Pokemon stories by having this post be pictures of animated people dressed up as Pokemon, rather than Pokemon themselves. If you say that still counts, I make the rules! I decree this is legit!

Hah, anyway, I just thought this was a pretty cool art project from DeviantArtist HoshiCat. Not the crazy best art I’ve ever seen, but I think it’s a really creative concept. I totally want to see a Pokemon-based Project Runway challenge now. Yes, I watch Project Runway and it is fabulous. Yes, I am straight. Seriously. For real.

Alright, check out the rest of the art below.

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This is without a doubt the dumbest thing that’s made me laugh all week, but if I laugh, I figure someone else might too, which is why I’m sharing it here.

Contrary to his intense demeanor here, the original Bob Ross was literally the most relaxing person on the planet. I am horrific at painting, but I could just watch his show for an hour and it would put me in a trance for the better part of the afternoon.

“Happy trees! Happy trees!”

I think I enjoyed Scott Pilgrim a great deal more than my colleague Paul – I certainly didn’t find either Scott or Ramona to be unlikeable – and as a child of the 80s, I greatly appreciated the plethora of 8- and 16-bit video game homages.  I’d even go so far as to say that Scott Pilgrim was one of the best movies I’ve seen this year, although this has been an extremely weak year for movies and I doubt that it will remain in my top 10 come December.  Anyway.

The surely is something about Scott Pilgrim that lends it to be mashed-up with other movies (and other stuff), what with the general concept of a series of “boss fights” to win the heart of a girl.  I’ve assembled what I think are the 8 best and posted them below.  Enjoy.

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