Print may be dying, but that doesn’t mean that it’s single greatest contribution can’t make the leap to digital with these Choose Your Own Adventure books on iBooks. True to their 1980s roots, these stories are still presented as books with links to other pages at critical decision points. However, there have been a few upgrades — such as a map to help guide your way.

Galaxy Quest was one of those rare films that comes along with an amazing ensemble cast (Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell, Tim Allen — I mean, come on!) and completely blows you away. For the unfamiliar, the movie was a loving lampoon of Star Trek and general geekery, and received high critical praise. Now it seems that this light-hearted comedy was once headed in an R-rated direction, with cusses and some steamy scenes.

The Old Murder House Theatre troupe in Austin, Texas has a mision. And that mission is apparently to perform stage versions of “classic” films from the ’80s and ’90s. For their rendition of Aliens, the group decided to go the extra mile and turn the sci-fi action epic into an ice skating musical. And that is wonderful.

If you thought the idea of Pokémon was always a little weird, well, it just got a little weirder. Remember how the ghost Pokémon would always scare the characters out of their wits despite being sort of cute? Well, just imagine if it had been these bad boys instead and it makes a little more sense. Stephen Lefcourt took it upon himself to make some Photoshop images of what several Pokémon might look like in real life and though he’s only done a handful so far, who knows what others may pop up on his flickr down the line. Check out the rest of these curiosities after the jump and be careful in that tall grass.

The playground equipment at Audenshaw’s Shepley Wood Park was getting a little old, so it was dismantled and town officials promised it would be replaced with new, updated facilities. However, funding was pulled, so the playground equipment was replaced by a brick wall, you know, for children to “kick a ball against,” as member of Tameside council Kevin Welsh explained. He doesn’t seem to be an evil fella, though:

“We would have liked nothing more than to create a play area at Shepley Wood Park.

There was a project in place but the money was taken from us by the Coalition government which first froze Playbuilder funding and then slashed it.”

What Welsh forgot to mention was the multiple uses of the brick wall, as one can paddle a ball against it as well!

(via Manchester Evening News)

Yesterday morning ABC News filled some of their airtime by interviewing the creators and stars of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, otherwise known as the yes-it’s-totally-happening Spider-Man Broadway musical. The show is being directed by Julie Taymor, with music and lyrics by Bono and The Edge, and is apparently the most expensive Broadway musical of all time. Opening night is December 21st.

The highlight of the whole thing was a performance of one of the songs from the show, Boy Falls From the Sky by the house band and Reeve Carney. Yes, there is video after the jump.

I don’t know what to believe anymore. First Pluto takes the bullet, and now this: The triceratops may have never existed. Two paleontologists are now arguing that the three-horned dinosaur species — perhaps first made iconic with “Cera” (pictured above) in the classic 1988 animated film The Land Before Time — is simply the juvenile form of the “torosaurus,” a dinosaur with differently-angled horns and a longer, thinner, and smoother frill with two holes.

Needless to say, we were speechless.