At the Knowsley Safari Park outside Liverpool, England, the baboons were given the chance to play around with a Hyundai to put its child-proofing to the test. Good. It’s about time we all just acknowledged that having a couple of kids in your life is exactly like getting attacked by a f–kload of baboons.

On the other hand, is it a good idea to let primates, who are assuredly plotting against us, get behind the wheel? They are very crafty little beasts. For example, below is a picture from the Hyundai test and one more picture of the inevitable future if we let the baboons get too comfortable breaking into cars.

Read the rest of this entry »

The 3 Best DJing Apps Out Now |Smoking Section|

This Week in Posters and Publicity Stills |Film Drunk|

Patricia Heaton Makes A Staggering A$s Of Herself On Twitter |UPROXX|

Roger Sterling’s ‘Sterling Scooper’ Will Roam Your Hillsides With Fictional Ben & Jerry’s Goodness |UPROXX|

TV Network Power Rankings: What’s Their Greatest Season Ever? |Warming Glow|

Ten Jokes To Make About The Upcoming Hulk Hogan Sex Tape |With Leather|

Yabba Dabba Do You Want Dick Clark’s Flintstones House? |UPROXX|

Adidas Is Apparently Going After The Cowboy Demographic |With Leather|

‘Justified’ Discussion: The Two-Headed Snake of the Law |Warming Glow|

If ‘The Avengers’ Were More Like ‘Friends’: Now With Video |UPROXX|

Will You Be Buying Apple’s New, Improved iPad? |Smoking Section|

Peyton Manning Is a Great Tipper |The FW|

10 Tantalizing Cloud City Illusions |Buzzfeed|

The 9 Funniest Former ‘Daily Show’ Correspondents |HuffPost Comedy|

Haptic Thumbstick Videogame Controller Renders Rumble Obsolete |Technabob|

You’re the Vulgarian, You F*ck: Our Favorite Verbal Film Fights | The 2011 Fun Oscars |Pajiba|

Brazilian late-night shows are a far sight better than their American counterparts: Exhibit A |FARK|

VIDEO BELOW: Alley-cat the kitten and Darwin the baby monkey play at The Nile River Camp in Bujagali, Uganda |via SayOMG|

Read the rest of this entry »

A supervillain should always have an entourage of monkeys.

The Playlist interviewed director McG, whose real name is Joseph McGinty Nichol but that’s not director-y enough. He talked about not liking the happier ending the studio convinced him to give to Terminator: Salvation, which you can read about over there. What we really want to get to is the time McG almost rebooted Superman:

In the early aughts, McG was attached to “Flyby,” a rebooting of the “Superman” series that, thanks to a boldly different take from screenwriter J.J. Abrams, would have made wholesale changes to the origins of Superman, his home planet Krypton, and his main nemesis Lex Luthor. McG ended up exiting the project when the studio was adamant about shooting in Australia. He blames his fear of flying for being “thrown off” that project, calling it his “rock-bottom” moment, which would eventually lead him to taking on his next film, the plane-crash drama “We Are Marshall,” as a catharsis. [The Playlist]

And here we thought McG’s rock-bottom moment was when Bill Murray headbutted him. Anyway, McG says they were considering Henry Cavill as a potential Superman. Cavill is playing Superman in the movie currently in production (relevant shirtless set photos here). He also reveals they had an actor locked to play Lex Luthor: the Iron Man and sexy pinup girl known as Robert Downey Jr. Holy crap, Robert Downey Jr. as Lex Luthor? That’s either entirely awesome and/or batsh-t insane. The only way to know for sure is to let Joss Whedon make that version. YES, THAT’S THE ONLY WAY. I’M NOT BEING SELFISH.

[Banner picture via ONTD.]

Play With Leather Free Fantasy Football With Draftstreet And Win $250 For Week 6 |With Leather|

Rihanna’s Reveals “Talk That Talk” Album Cover, Becomes “Sexiest Woman Alive” |Smoking Section|

The 10 Most Disgusting Meals in Cinematic History |UPROXX|

‘Straight Outta Dunwoody’ Is The Hardest ‘Straight Outta Compton’ Parody To Ever Come Out Of Suburban Atlanta |UPROXX|

New ‘Justified’ Villains Cast! |Warming Glow|

JCVD & Hilary Swank: ‘Sorry for Partying’ |Film Drunk|

Reddit’s Jailbait Message Board Shut Down For Good, It Seems |UPROXX|

Jaleel White to Host Syfy Game Show |Warming Glow|

The Best And (Mostly) Worst Of WWE Raw 10/10 |With Leather|

Gang tries to kidnap Saddam look-alike to make porn |Film Drunk|

WTF, Japan? |GorillaMask|

Most Likely the Nerdiest Tattoo on the Planet |Unreality|

Wishlist: 12 Nominations for Future ‘30 for 30’-Style ESPN Documentaries |Brobible|

Star Wars Movie Poster Photoshop Contest Gets Strange but Funny Results |Technabob|

Fun with Penis Confusion: Comparing Alison Brie’s Cleavage to Joel McHale’s Buttcrack |Pajiba|

TV chef claims eating puppy meat is no worse than pork, and also likely to fetch more in the market |FARK|

Johnny Depp Probably Isn’t in ‘Hugo,’ and 6 Other Revelations from the Secret NYFF Screening |Moviefone|

10 Gimmick Characters that Made Pro Wrestling Even More Ridiculous Than It Already Is |Smoking Jacket|

VIDEO BELOW: “Milou the baby chimp living at Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center, in Cameroon, likes to spin.” — BioTV

Read the rest of this entry »

Gel-ink pens aren’t just for drawing nyan cat on black construction paper anymore (not that I’m going to stop now).  Jennifer Lewis and Jennifer Bernhard at the University of Illinois have designed an ink pen which contains real silver able to create a closed circuit on any surface you can draw on, including flexible surfaces.  In lab testing using paper as the flexible surface, they had to bend the paper back and forth about 6,000 times before the dried silver ink flaked and cracked too much to carry a current.

To demonstrate their pen-and-paper approach, the researchers drew a copy of a Chinese landscape painting with the pen and affixed an LED to the peak of a house’s roof. Once the silver lines were connected to a battery at the edge of the page, the LED lit up. And by drawing interconnections between LEDs arranged in a grid on a sheet of paper and hooking them up to a battery, they created several glowing block letters. They even built a 3D antenna by drawing lines on a piece of sticky-backed printer paper that they folded around a glass ball. [DiscoBlog]

I’m almost certain pens like this have been made before, although I’ve never heard of them being used with LEDs or to make antennas. Another great application for these pens?  Fixing important electronics on the fly when the primates rise and take up arms against us.  Oh, it’ll happen. Don’t believe me?  Well then how do you explain this?

Read the rest of this entry »

This cat is cool like snakes.

Do We Really Believe CEOs Anymore?  Did we ever? [UproxxNews]

100 Of The Most Ridiculous Yahoo! Answers Posts [Uproxx]

I like my soccer players like I like my Eddie Izzard references. COVERED IN BEES. [WithLeather]

The Essential Parry Gripp Collection [Filmdrunk]

Grossest news story in a while right here [WarmingGlow]

The Dugout: Goofus and Gallant [WithLeather]

Chick-fil-A Campaign Takes Decidedly Ominous Turn [KSK]

Hard Ticket to Hawaii for Six Bucks. [Filmdrunk]

20 Animals Wearing Shoes  [Buzzfeed]

Advice Meme Joke Formulas Made Easy [Urlesque]

Pop Songs Made Creepy by the Movies [Moviefone]

100 Stupid-Hot Suicide Girl Photos [CoedMag]

“Beer Wars Review: Why We Drink Piss” Because you’re Bear Grylls? [Pajiba]

They’d gotten undergraduate degrees; why couldn’t they write in sentences? [Fark]

If Childhood Participation Trophies Were Less Sensitive [CollegeHumor]

VIDEO BELOW: Helpful dog gives his cute friend a pushstart. [via HYST]

Read the rest of this entry »