GeekDad Review of Machete (Wired)

Botched Transformers 3 Stunt Sign of Negligence? (Spinoff)

Another Adorable Japanese Robot (TechnaBob)

Star Wars Smash Bros. You Know You Want It (Kotaku)

This Is A Spinning Black Hole (APotD)

PAX Cosplay Gallery (1Up)

Pokemon Fusion! (Alex Onsager)

(pic via Reddit.)

HP ousts chief for hiding payments to friend (NY Times)

Amazing marriage proposal in memes finds success (TDW)

PB&J’s deconstructed (Neatorama)

8-bit comic superheroes reimagined for the NES (ComicsAlliance)

Matthew Vaughn: Superhero movies will be dead soon (Nerd Bastards)

Civilization V is starting to sound pretty awesome (GameSpot)

The greatest, most dramatic, and silliest Wikipedia edit wars (Gizmodo)

Bonus video: The mini-cannon is back:

The iOS PDF flaw that makes iPhone jailbreak work could let bad people hack your phone (Ars Technica)

50 neat facts from mental_floss (mental_floss)

How to make meme cutouts (Urlesque)

Nine minutes of hot Catan-on-Microsoft-Surface action (Topless Robot)

In defense of anonymous commenting (Salon)

Breakup 2.0 (Newsweek)

Facilitate audience conversations and drive engagement with social currency
(wtf is my social media strategy)

(title screaming watermelon via BuzzFeed)

As we all know, the internet is 90% cats. Here is one of them. It plays a little drum, and it dances a bit. Mostly it plays a keyboard. We suppose that would make it a keyboard cat. But not the first keyboard cat. A second keyboard cat.

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Accompany our exit with a musical selection, piano feline!

Chatroulette’s rise through the various layers of Internet culture has been illustrative — illustrative, that is, of how online phenomena bubble up first in the strangest and most arcane of places before finally dribbling down to the “mainstream” outlets that make up the sprawling majority of media. From the horrific cultural smelters of 4chan and SomethingAwful, out through the sprawling network of topical forums, and finally, onto sites like BlackBook, Buzzfeed, and NYMag, the site — which, in case you’ve been speedrunning Dragon Age or something, randomly connects users through their webcams — has evolved to the verge of Internet behemoth-dom.

Ah, Chatroulette — now that you’re about to go mainstream, let us savor the last lingering moments of your cultural relevance, before your meme-riddled concupiscence goes the way of all flesh. And what better way to do that than with a gallery of The Best of the Worst of Chatroulette!