What is it about putting lightsabers where they don’t belong that is so funny? Do you remember this YouTube clip that went viral a while ago of a man getting into an altercation with a goose? If you’ve ever run into one, you know they can be extremely territorial, especially when their babies are involved. Really, he should have just run for his life but because he didn’t we now get to see what a man versus goose lightsaber fight looks like.

(via Boing Boing)

Most people choose adorable/annoying relatives to act as ring bearer or flower girl at their nuptials but not Laura Cressman. Oh no, this particular bride-to-be settled for nothing less than a bomb disposal robot. Yup. 

Here at the Mary Sue we’re big fans of cardboard standee humor. In case you hadn’t already guessed. So we certainly couldn’t let a creative post about Peeta Doing Stuff slide without bringing it to your attention. In the case of Roxane Gay, writer and assistant professor of English, Peeta just showed up on her doorstep one day.

Last night we showed you a video of Batman at a birthday party, but for those children who prefer mysterious, prehistoric stone monuments over superheroes, have we got the rentable item for you. INFLATABLE BOUNCY CASTLE STONEHENGE! Sorry, I felt like it needed that sort of loud introduction. This inflatable Stonehenge is actually an art instillation by Jeremy Deller called Sacrilege. It’s been set up as part of the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art. “Situated on Glasgow Green, Sacrilege was revealed as a full-scale, inflatable replica of Stonehenge, one of the UK’s most recognisable heritage sites,” it says in the video’s description. The ambitious new sculptural installation in the form of a magnificent bouncy castle is characteristic of Deller’s on-going exploration of contemporary culture and continues the Festival’s commitment to presenting engaging works in the public realm.” In June, inflatable Stonehenge will start making the rounds around the UK before winding up at London’s CREATE festival.

(via io9)

Just a month ago we were talking about the shady things Amazon.com does to use its 60% of the ebook market muscle to make smaller publishers lower prices against their better judgement. We were also talking about how the US Department of Justice had announced that it would be investigating six of Amazon’s competitors in ebook publishing (Apple, Simon and Schuster, Hachette Book Group, the Penguin Group, Macmillan, and HarperCollins) for colluding to set prices in the ebook market. Well, it only took about a month for the DoJ to announce that they had indeed found, in their opinion, enough evidence to prove that the six were trying to fix prices. And it took less than a day for Amazon.com to, seemingly coincidentally, announce plans to push down pricing on its ebooks, from $15 to $10 in some cases.

Okay, here’s our only concession to April Fools day, a brain busting attempt to pull the wool over our eyes by Mathematics and Felt Tipped Markers’ own ViHart. If you’d like to see the real reasons why .999… = 1, venture below the cut.

It takes a particular kind of person to find the places where humor lies in a situation as bleak as going through rehab for alcoholism. In this case, it takes a cartoonist. Julia Wertz is a former-member of the now defunct Pizza Island, seven lady cartoonists (including Kate Beaton of Hark! A Vagrant and Deana Sobel of Philip the Sea Lion) who shared a art studio in Brooklyn for two years. Her own comic, Museum of Mistakes (formerly The Fart Party) is largely autobiographical, so, after she went into rehab in 2010 sending cartoons and letters to her friends back on Pizza Island was only natural.

Wertz recently found a few of them, and decided to post three of the less personal ones on the internet. To paraphrase Ladies Making Comics, they are as hilarious as they are honest.

I admit that when I saw the headlines about the Encyclopaedia Britannica going out of print, I thought it was an Onion headline about the Encyclopaedia going out of print hundreds of years from now, with descriptions of just how much shelf space it took up, or hard drive space, or dilithium valence matrix space or somesuch.

But nope. The EB is permanently shuttering its hardcovers due to competition from online research sources, and they’re… actually not at all bitter about it.

The first thing you need to know about actor Sam Witwer is, he’s a huge geek. So it’s no coincidence he’s had roles as the vampire Aiden on the U.S. version of Being Human, Doomsday on Smallville, Crashdown on Battlestar Galactica, or Starkiller in the video game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. He’s truly living the dream. The actor has also voiced the character, the Son, on Star Wars: The Clone Wars and just took on another role for the animated series, that of Darth Maul. To publicize his latest appearance, Witwer visited the Today Show to give hosts Hoda and Kathy Lee a few pointers on how to wield a lightsaber. Take a look at the video after the jump! 

Point one: Back in 2001, thieves ran off with a copy of Action Comics #1, the first appearance of Superman and arguably the beginning of the superhero genre, that belonged to none other than Nicolas Cage.

Point two: It is now clear that there exists a movie role that Nicolas Cage will turn down.

Can you guess what these two facts have in common?