Optimus Prime and Bumblebee Happy Meal toys, imported and available for preorder at the BBTS.

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Fine dining at McDonald's photo gallery. Clever marketing or genuine prank? Via.

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McDonald's employees advertising outside of a Sonic in Connecticut.

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Roger and Tetsuo by Michael Dialynas.




How to make oatmeal wrong (i.e., the McDonald's way) by Ben Mullins.




Santánico Pandemónium (Salma Hayek in From Dusk Til Dawn) by Jason Levesque for an upcoming Tarantiono/Coen Bros-themed show. You can buy prints from the first show here.




Alice by Joseph Fox - - the winning entry in Dark Horse's Alice: Madness Returns art contest.




In this video tutorial, Todd McFarlane shows how to draw "dynamic hands."

*Buy Akira toys at eBay.

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A few gems from Reddit:


Peek-a-Boo Walrus.



Al Gore hoverhands.



The internet's favorite dog gets a mustache, top hat and monocle.



If Colonel Sanders and Ronald and McDonald were in Final Fantasy. Per the comments, this is the source.



I wish I didn't get this joke.



The Galapagos Islands are the happiest place on Earth.

*Buy Final Fantasy toys at eBay.

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1. An assertion that Detroit will soon close half its public schools, leading to 60+ kids in each class. (Schools in Los Angeles face a prospect nearly as dire.) Via.

2. Maybe it's just because I don't like brainteasers that much, or maybe it's because I haven't enjoyed a Spielberg movie in at least 10 years, but I find it a little hard to believe that people (as opposed to marketers pretending to be fans) have really spent so much effort deciphering clues about the JJ Abrams/Spielberg movie Super 8.

3. McDonald's inedible new oatmeal apparently contains more sugar than a Snickers bar.

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