You like cats. You like Christmas. You like sweaters. Put them together, however, and you have the unholiest of unholy unions. Here are 21 of the ugliest holiday cat sweaters available right now on Ebay. They ship promptly...from Hell.
1. Little White Angel Kitten...With Green Devil Eyes!
"Hand knit" says the seller. So ugly it comes back all the way around to cute. Almost.
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We couldn't resist this journalism humor from Barcelona-based artist Alex Noriega. Do yourself a favor and check out his illustration blog "Stuff No One Told Me (but I learned anyway."
Alex Noriega
We're nearing the end of Mustache May and as people across the web compare facial hair, we couldn't help but wonder if some of our favorite, classic sci-fi characters would look even cooler with a little (or a lot) of fuzz above the lip. Our inspiration was Lando Calrissian, but we know that not everyone can pull off the mustachioed look like the coolest Baron Administrator of Cloud City. Check out our top 5 looks below:
Lando pimped the 'stache even in a galaxy far, far away
Captain James T. Kirk, Star Trek
When you're dealing with the ladies' man of the USS Enterprise, only one mustache will do, the Tom Selleck 'stache.
Watching the Academy Awards last night got us thinking: Did Meryl Streep's Julie & Julia performance remind anyone else of Robin Williams as Mrs. Doubtfire? Just sayin'...
Are faces really wide and necks really short in Japan? Voila, the Japanese "Face Slimmer" and "Neck Stretcher." I suspect that these products are just the tip of the iceberg where attempts to achieve the Japanese beauty ideal are concerned.
Fans of Ghost in the Shell, of which we assume there are many, might want to check out this mash-up featuring audio from Sealab 2021. To echo the comments on YouTube, I'm surprised that more people haven't viewed "Ghost in the Sealab." It's just over seven minutes long, but worth the time.
More >>Coincidence? Have you ever noticed how much the Mir Mine in Russia looks suspiciously like Darth Vader's Death Star? The airspace above the mine apparently is closed to helicopters because "of a few incidents in which they were sucked in by the downward air flow." Holy crap.
That probably does not happen on the Death Star, as there is no air in space. The Mir Mine is an abandoned open pit diamond mine in Eastern Siberia. It was producing so many diamonds for a while that De Beers got worried it would lower the global price of diamonds and hurt their bottom line.
Giant hole built by Russia on the left. Giant hole built by Vader on the right.
More than anything else, the zany details are what really put the "wonder" in "Wonderland." The much-dissected, much-analyzed spectacle known as Tim Burton's film is almost here. How will Burton's vision of the secondary non-human characters stack up against previous interpretations of Lewis Carroll's wacky wondrous world?
1. The Cheshire Cat
Burton's rendition of the mysterious trickster Cheshire Cat looks kind of like the live-action evil (or, more evil) twin of Vendetta's giant cat in Amy Winfrey's "Making Fiends." It's the teeth, I think. Sir John Tenniel's version of the cat is tame by comparison. The cats seemed to get stranger over time, it seems. In this case, Disney's bubblegum psychedelic Cheshire Cat is particularly wonderful with disappearing purple stripes and pink stripes that linger like the ribs of a skeleton. Arthur Rackham, you'll notice, is not represented in this side-by-side cat comparison. This is because Rackham never drew a version of the Cheshire Cat. Sadly, we'll never know how he might have envisioned it.
2. The White Rabbit
Burton's rabbit owes a lot to Rackham's. There is something grotesque in the Rackham rabbit, something vulgar and vaguely perverted about the nose, which kind of looks like the one sported by Joe Camel in Camel cigarettes. That is not a rabbit you want to cuddle. And check out those feet! Huge! Tenniel's rabbit is stereotypically cute. Disney's rabbit is cute, with a hint of sinister. It is a rabbit that is going to jack up your fundamental sense of reality. 
Why couldn't the most powerful, most feared Jedi in the universe have been a woman? Yes, we've been on a Star Wars kick here on Style Council lately. It got me thinking about that world and about how Darth Vader, a.k.a. Anakin Skywalker, spawned two children and one was a girl. Of course sexism is rife even in the distant futuristic past, and of course it was the boy, Luke, who got to develop his Jedi powers.
But what if Princess Leia had gotten the chance to train with Yoda and lift rocks with her mind and master the art of avoiding fear which leads to anger which leads to hate which leads to suffering and a long, lonely trip to the Dark Side? She might not have wound up on some crappy frozen rebel outpost. She might not have met Han Solo. But she would be one badass Jedi warrior.
Clearly, if these images below are any indication, people out there have been thinking about Darth as a woman.
Can there be such a thing as a Sith chick? Or must the Dark Lord always be a Sith dick?
Fishnet stockings. Every sadistic planetary ruler needs a pair. Obviously.
From Dragoncon 2008
When is your hamster fetish out of control? When your hamster has a better crib than you do. When Apartment Therapy blogs about your rodent's abode--not yours. A girl named Martina made her hamster Sonic a cage out of an IKEA Expedit bookcase. I'm no expert, but this has got to be the dopest hamster house on the planet. Martina finds traditional cages "indescribably ugly" and too cramped for hamsters.
It even has a "deep space" for tunneling. Is it wrong to be jealous of a hamster? Go here for Martina's very thorough Flickr documentation of the hamster house construction process.
Yo Yo Yo MTV Cribs: Check out this hamster house.
