Thankfully, this picture of a kitty dyed to look like a Pikachu isn’t real, it’s an impressive Photoshop job. Knowing that this kitty wasn’t put through the abuse of an extensive dye job, I can now not feel so terrible for thinking it’s adorable.

(Huush Little Honey Hive via Neatorama)

There’s A Demo for Super Smash Bros if it Were on a GameBoy Now (Kotaku)

If DC Comics Were Actually Little Nemo Stories (io9)

Papa Sangre: A Videogame With No Video(Boingboing)

Meanwhile, In Sweden… (Hoebeler6)

Bungie’s Holiday Greeting Card (GameInformer)

Photoshop Tutorial Rap (College Humor)

Play Us Off, Keyboard Robot! (New Scientist)

(pic via DC Women Kicking Ass.)

Mehmet Gozetlik has designed a series of posters riffing on a theme that today’s techies have all thought about at one point or another: Today’s software is very, very big when compared to the standards in place not too many years ago. (See: Moore’s Law.) To hammer the point home, Gozetlik has calculated how many 3.5″ high-density floppy disks it would take to hold the contemporary likes of Firefox and The Sims. (Formatted 3.5″ floppies hold up to 1.44 MB.)

His findings: It’d take 12 disks to hold Firefox, 36 disks for Firefox Add-Ons; 46 disks for notorious piece of bloatware iTunes; 358 disks for Adobe Photoshop CS4; 1760 disks for The Sims 3. Can you believe that all of Windows 3.1 fit on six floppies?

(Behance via NOTCOT)

It’s always fun when an industry juggernaut is caught being susceptible to simple things. As Engadget pointed out, some screenshots of the new iPod Touch have fallen victim to poor Photoshop jobs, displaying iPhone features that don’t exist on the iPod Touch.

For all of the brand-new information and diversions that the Internet brings us each day (and which you closely follow on sites like this one), some of its brightest treasures exist in forum threads from long ago. People with odd image libraries, Photoshop, and too much time on their hands sculpted and collected the amusing and bizarre pictures that still pop up, often without context, to this very day.

Below, we’ve gathered some of the longest and highest quality image threads, with themes like “you nostalgia, you lose,” CAPTCHArt, Caturday, and, of course, animated GIFs. Warning: Any one of these could easily suck up a good portion of your day.

Until late yesterday, the above picture was posted here on BP’s website. But as you can now see if you click the link, the image of the crisis center is different in a major way: some of the screens are blank. It turns out that the above photo is just Photoshopped (poorly; see below) such that it looks like all the screens are active. Of all the things BP has done this year, this certainly isn’t the most egregious, but it shows that they may be putting some focus on company image that should be put on solving the problem permanently. Also, they really suck at Photoshop.

The combination of Anime and American teenagers has produced a number of things we might be better off without. The suffixes -chan, -hime, and the word baka used without discrimination, not to mention an extensive new genre of slash fanfiction, and now: dangerous contact lenses.

The New York Times reports on a new trend among young girls in America: circle lenses.

Lady Gaga’s wider-than-life eyes [from the Bad Romance video] were most likely generated by a computer, but teenagers and young women nationwide have been copying them with special contact lenses imported from Asia. Known as circle lenses, these are colored contacts — sometimes in weird shades like violet and pink — that make the eyes appear larger because they cover not just the iris, as normal lenses do, but also part of the whites.

Some girls are wearing them every day, like “mascara or eyeliner.” The problem is… they’re illegal to sell in the US and many doctors think that they are harmful to the eyes. The eyes that are wearing them, we mean.

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Recently, Adobe Labs has been posting some videos of new tools that will be included in upcoming editions of their ubiquitous Photoshop software. They’ve released two videos so far, the first a couple of weeks ago and the latest earlier today. We’re of two minds while watching these. First, it’s really frightening to know that we now exist in a world where we can never truly trust a reproduced image ever again and that people can easily create complete fabrications for nefarious means that will trick 99% of the population into believing whatever they want. On the other hand though, OMG, LOOK HOW COOL THESE VIDEOS ARE! HE MADE THAT TREE F’ING VANISH!