I’ve always been a fan of nesting dolls, aka matryoshka. And it’s always fun when something not normally geeky gets turned geeky. We’ve posted some actual nerdy nesting dolls before but artist Michael Myers has done a few illustrations that look at the concept a different way. He turned Poké Balls into nesting dolls with perfect little monsters at the gooey center. Ok, I admit, I’ve taken this to a weird place. I digress. Meyers calls his Pokémon nesting dolls, Poketryoshka. Enjoy.

“I just wanted to order a three piece [in Pollos Hermanos] and really freak people out. Then people would be going, ‘Wow, was that him?’” — Samuel L. Jackson on his proposed Breaking Bad Nick Fury cameo; when The Avengers was shooting in Albuquerque, Breaking Bad was in the studio right across the street.

Oh, Samuel L. Jackson. I love so much about the things you choose to be.

(via: MTV)

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If there was ever one boardgame that I wanted as a kid and almost never got to play because we didn’t own it and whenever I was around a set nobody else wanted to play it… it was Guess Who. It involved logic! And process of elimination! And flipping REALLY LOUD pieces of plastic down in an INCREDIBLY SATISFYING WAY.

So, this realization of how easy it would be to brand Guess Who to franchise fiction in the same way that Monopoly, Life, and Trivial Pursuit have been is a now constant itch of frustration. Why can’t I go out and just buy official editions of Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, or DC Universe themed sets of Guess Who and try to stump my friends with incredibly obtuse and niggly questions of canon.

Fortunately, youtube maven Karen Kavett, who created the above video, has also created a how-to.

I must make a slight amendment to that category. It should read: THINGS THAT MUST EXIST NAO! Like, totally! The 1988 classic board game, Girl Talk, is improved upon by College Humor in this video. Why just talk about boys, make-up, and dating when you can talk about boys, make-up, and dating while also trying to avoid being murdered by your fellow tributes? And yes, it’s called The Hunger Games Game, and we can imagine the tweens in the Capitol playing it right now. We can also imagine ourselves playing it: Right. Now. Also, one or more of us may still own Girl Talk or a Girl Talk-type telephone. You can guess but I’m never telling. Unless I draw the truth card.

(via HuffPost Women)

I’ll never forget the day I learned about universal translators from Star Trek. I remember thinking I wouldn’t have to bother learning any other languages because surely we were close enough technologically to them becoming a reality. Well, three and a half years of German classes later, we still didn’t have them. But! The time is near, lazy language lovers! Microsoft is developing a universal translator as we speak! 

Well, I don’t know about you guys, but if this sparkly token was presented to me followed by or immediately preceding a marriage proposal, you can color me convinced. Even if it was presented by a Cyberman. Okay, maybe not. Created by Tumblr user Pathetic Paripatetic, this TARDIS ring features a “tension set 1CT Princess Cut center stone.” Click through for more details.

Someone posted this picture of a Nestlé Crunch Bar on Reddit that, according to the label, is flavored like a Girl Scout cookie known as the Thin Mint. And that on the aforementioned label, this is part of a series of “Limited Edition Cookie Flavors,” which is plural. Which means there might be a whole line of Nestlé Crunch Bars that are flavored like Girl Scout cookies. But for now, all we have is this mysterious sample candy, taunting us … playing with us … making us crave a minty, crunchy chocolate dream … Even the delusion is better than Girl Scout cookie lip balm.

What happens now? Petition? A march on Nestlé headquarters? I will go to Vevey, Switzerland if I have to, if that’s what it takes. I will go to Vevey, Switzerland.

(via That’s Nerdalicious)

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It’s rare that I see things that make me yearn for my fantasy-filled childhood of the 1980s as much as this video does. Space Stallions is the creation of a group of students of The Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark, and it’s an homage to everything we loved about ’80s cartoons: He-Man, She-Ra, ThunderCats, keytars, rainbows … and horsies. Seriously, the only thing that could make this more awesome is a cameo by Swift Wind himself. Adult Swim needs to get on this yesterday.

All hail Mother Mustang!

(Nerd Approved via The Awesomer)

It’s fair to say that we’re heading into the dead of winter, when we’re really not all that moved to, well, get moving. But a little cold air is good for the soul, especially when mixed with physical activity — and a Portal gun. Guys, if this could happen in real life, I’d be so good at basketball. And hockey would be even more scary and dangerous.

(via BuzzFeed)

As a newly-minted Harry Potter fan and life-long Disney fan, this interpretation of the former in the style of the latter makes my heart so warm that it’s bubbling. Joyfully, not dangerously. DeviantArtist Makani is behind these character portraits and, oh my goodness, all her work is so great. But here, just an idea of what Harry Potter would look like as a Disney movie.