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I’m frankly kind of taken aback at how seriously those who love or hate Avatar take their love and hate. There’s barely a middle ground here, one where we can appreciate the visuals but not the script, etc etc.  And now we’re talking sequels?

Let’s talk turkey at Unreality’s Facebook Page

The Countdown

The 25 funniest moments in vandalism history – [Manofest]

The ultimate list of end of decade lists – [Brobible]

Seven supermodels who can’t act – [Screenjunkies]

Men are superior at parking cars – [Asylum]

The twenty five hottest women of 2009 – [Holytaco]

The best Eco gadgets of 2009 – [Attuworld]

The lack of a Road House game raises questions – [Topless Robot]

Solar Cells the size of glitter – [Gammasquad]

What your new year’s booze says about you – [Guyism]

I still enjoy the dirty santa pictures out there – [Ehowa]

Amazing balloon twisting artworks – [Oddee]

I had this conversation with a buddy of mine the other day.  At what point does a website start merchandising?  I mean should Unreality have its own shirts?  I guess you folks should decide.  And if so would you buy one?  I mean assuming our man Paul Tassi designs something kind of badass (as he did with our logo).

Which leads me to Reddit.  I had no idea this site had so much stuff for sales.  Like, are people buying these products?  I’m very curious.

The latest to come out?  A sexy ladies of Reddit Calendar.  Actually they’re not that sexy but I do have two decent girls after the jump

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I’m not sure if this is the dumbest or the most genius thing I’ve ever heard of, but someone has paid $330,000 in real-life dollars for the Crystal Palace space station in Planet Calypso. No, I’ve never heard of it either. There was a frantic bidding war a few days ago, and the “winner” was Buzz “Erik” Lightyear.

Now, before your head starts spinning around, allegedly this could potentially be a big money making investment for Buzz. According to Massively, who knows way more about this shit than I do, “All Buzz has to do is let the station run, set a decent tax rate, keep it stocked with things to hunt, and he can take all the PED he earns and translate it into cold, hard cash.” In other words, the station sells fake items that can be turned into real cash. More than $330,000 worth? I guess that remains to be seen.

Could this be the beginning of an online virtual world real estate boom? If so, I’ll be dumping my life savings to grab the Citadel from Mass Effect.

As pro-”file sharing” as I may be as a connoisseur of the internet, one film I can’t promote pirating is Avatar, not for any moral reasons, but watching a blurry 2D version on your laptop is the equivalent of looking at a pixelated picture of the Mona Lisa on your iPhone, and claiming you now have no need to go to the Louvre.

But for those of you who really, really don’t think that $15 is worth seeing a movie meant to change all other movies forever, by all means, download it. And be sure to watch this handy BTS documentary about the sheer amount of work that went in to making the most epic bootleg of all time. It’s a pretty fascinating process actually, as is clearly something of art form.

I’ve always wondered what would happen if someone strapped Guy Ritchie down and made him film a movie that WASN’T about a carnival of British criminals all after a diamond, a painting or a pair of guns. As it turns out, the man is capable of moving beyond the genre he created, and although we’re still in Britain, and still dealing with criminals, Sherlock Holmes is a different breed of film, not just for Ritchie, but also compared to the current modern slate of movies based on video games, toys and comics.

I say this with a touch of irony of course, as Ritchie’s version of Holmes IS in fact based off of a modernized comic version of the character, but Joe Average doesn’t know that so I’m willing to let it slide. What we have with this reimagining of the character is a slick, smart action/comedy franchise just asking for a trilogy.

Perhaps the best part of the film for me was the fact that it skips a painfully arduous origin story that plagues almost every initial movie in a series. Instead, we’re thrust into what appears to be the tail end of Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) and Watson’s (Jude Law) relationship, as after a multitude of cases together, Watson is moving on with his life, and moving in with his wife to be.

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James Bond

Pros:

- Will immediately attract swarms of hot ladies.

- Will take the hottest lady and leave you with the second hottest, who will still be super hot.

- Will protect you against any criminal mastermind’s henchmen that happen to be in the bar.

Cons:

- Might take all the hot ladies for himself.

- Will always beat you at poker.

- Increases your chance of being attacked by criminal mastermind’s henchmen by 1000%

Jerry Seinfeld

Pros: 

- Will entertain swarms of hot ladies for as long as you need him to.

- Isn’t good looking enough to make you look bad by comparison.

- Possibly will make a TV show about your time in the bar together.

Cons: 

- Might annoy ladies with commentary about what the deal with bar nuts is.

- Larry David might show up and kill everyone’s buzz.

- Offers no defense against henchmen.

Pens and pencils are no joke when used as weapons.  It doesn’t take an action hero or a spy to puncture skin with a writing utensil, as I had the misfortune of finding out in fourth grade.  Sometimes, all it takes is a second-grader holding a pencil under your seat before you sit down.  And it hurts.

Anyway, I got to thinking about scenes in movies where pens or pencils are used as weapons, and a few definitely stuck out in my mind.  I know I never want to be on the receiving end of a pencil again.

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Now, I wouldn’t necessarily say that Philip Seymour Hoffman in anything is obscure but come on.  You didn’t know that his character’s name in the movie is Sandy Lyle and I’m not sure many of you were thinking of this character to add to our column.  So let’s get into it.

Hoffman’s character, Sandy, is a former child star who clearly can’t get over his past.  In fact he continues to try and use his past as a way to legitimize himself in the present (which doesn’t work at all).  This inevitably leads to ridiculously awesome comedy and one liners that I will use until the day I die.

In fact, we never offcially know if he’s employed as all he does is star in some play that doesn’t matter…at all.  But there are two main reasons we should honor this character….

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As we approach 2010 all of us are reflecting back on either 2009, the past decade or even the past century.  All of us websites, blogs, fan forums, you name it are coming up lists upon lists that explore “the best of,”  “the worst of,” in a myriad of topics.

And how are most of us coming up with information on all these topics?  Yup, search.  That’s right, search engines.  But what about search engines themselves?   How have these little bad boys evolved in the past ten or fifteen years?

Here’s a look at some of the most popular search engines then and now.

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It’s tough to say how we’ll remember the last decade. The Internet destroyed industries and filled the world with cheap and accessible pornography. The real world was much less full of boobs.

Rather than trying to sum up such a complex time period by sharing our favorite things, Cracked asked our staff to pick the things that were memorably great, awful, weird (or all three) enough to represent the glorious year we just lived through.

Here are the top 5 everythings of the decade