This honor goes to "Mummified Cat Slam Dunking A Mummified Bird," which up until recently was for sale for a discount $750 buy-it-now price (via Geekologie). Because if there's anything that distinguishes you as an individual of taste and distinction, it's a barf-out effigy of Bastet schooling Horus on the basketball…
For $1,200, two handguns sculpted out of dead cats' bones
Who remembers that disgusting bone pistol from David Cronenberg's eXistenZ ? If you're in the market for something similar, New Zealand artist Bruce Mahalski and jeweler Vaune Mason are offering a duo of bone pistols for the starting price of $1,500 New Zealand Dollars (a smidge over $1,200 American dollars):
Homemade Doctor Who chess set turns Matt Smith into a king, the TARDIS …
It costs a pretty penny ($949 to be exact) but this cute Doctor Who chess set by Emmi Visser transforms the Eleventh Doctors exploits into a royal game of cosmic proportions. Here's the full character list for all 32 pieces:
Print out your very own Doctor Who banknotes bearing David Tennant's…
Bad news first — Doctor Who may be back on the air
From Russia, a flying model of the Helicarrier from The Avengers
We previously saw Russian quadrotor hobbyist Native118's take on the DeLorean from Back to The Future: Part II
A Geiger counter, in the style of H.R. Giger
After the release of Prometheus, craftmaker Steve was so inspired by a tweet by Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait that he went out and constructed his own "Giger Counter" using a half-scale model skeleton (and not other simulcra of the human anatomy). And luckily for Steve, his home made for a poor testing ground:
In her dream house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu Barbie waits dreaming
Barbie's had dozens of careers, so it makes sense she'd give the vocation of "cosmic, insanity-inducing abomination" a whirl. Indeed, Sabrina Zbasnik has given the blonde icon a face full of tentacles and an authoritative wooden stick accessory with which to menace her edible cultists. As Zbansik explains of this…
Cardboard Mecha Kitty commands you to put down the catnip. Slowly.
If people can ride around in lion-shaped mechas, why can't cats cruise in their own bipedal mecha suits? Reddit user Tastybread crafted this bad-ass cat bed for his cardboard-loving kitty. His next project: Krang's human-shaped exo-suit. [reddit via Ian Brooks]
Let them eat fractal pancakes
Pancake artists, you need to up your game. Nathan Shields, an illustrator and former math teacher, is turning fried batter into an art form. In order to be a full-time dad, Shields is taking a break from teaching, but his math background — he still blogs about it at 10 Minute Math — is influencing his parenting. What…
