Awesome Leisure

Hate those damned mud crabs in Skyrim? Modder Snoopey0 makes taking them down just that much more satisfying, grafting the likeness and annoying voice of Futurama’s Dr. Zoidberg onto them. Woop.

A site that makes it easy to create and share your own virtual mixtape. Search for music on YouTube, Soundcloud or Vimeo, arrange the tracks and then share the link or embed the mixtape. Demo here.

Dragging butt? Squirt this tasty zero-calorie stuff in your water, and zip through the day. Contains caffeine, guarana and ginseng, in Black Cherry and “Green Thunder” (tastes like apple to us).

Jean Yves Blondeau straps a rollerblade covered suit onto his body, lays down on the pavement and speeds down some of the most dangerous hills and roads in the world. Think wingsuit, but on land.

Combining the flavors of Voodoo Doughnut’s bacon and maple fried pastry with an ale seems like either the best or worst idea in the history of brewing, depending on your perspective.

Ridley Scott returns to science fiction, sending a team of explorers on a journey to discover the origins of mankind. Scott denies the film is an Alien prequel, but it takes place in the Alien universe.

(NSFW: Language) While you might be able to pull one off playing Shaun White Snowboarding, we’re much more impressed by snowboarder Billy Morgan’s real world Triple Heelside Rodeo flip.

These mountain bikers take a ride on a narrow path alongside cliffs which looks insanely dangerous. It’s so tight, we’re amazed that the handlebars fit alongside the rock formations.

The music video for Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains), a song about wanting to escape from the stale urban landscape and the stagnant cycle of life within it. Interactive version here.

The long-anticipated prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Here’s the first look at Peter Jackson’s fantasy spectacle, the story of Bilbo Baggins, to be told in two parts in 2012 and 2013.

It’s Fruit Ninja gone universal and existential in the music video for Pelican, the single from British indie rockers The Maccabees’ upcoming second album Given to the Wild. Making-of video here.

The already amusing desktop missile launcher gets an upgrade – letting you remotely aim and fire at targets using your iPhone, iPod or iPad over Bluetooth. Hope you can kill that sound, though.

Who do you think is going to win this fight? The experienced man with the sharpened blade, or the young Ninja woman with the rope? Of course, a gun would be even more effective.

You guys couldn’t get enough of Marquese Scott’s bad-ass dance moves, so here he is once more, dubsteppin’ in the most unlikely location, China’s Great Wall. It’s all too short, and all too awesome.

While we thought the graphics in Battlefield 3 were pretty impressive, they can never approach the detail of this level, shot with actual humans and realistic locations.

Let your houseguests know their fate if they so much as let their glass sweat on your coffee table without one of these. Complete the effect by lining your living room with plastic tarps.

Get your liquor and sugar fix all rolled into one thanks to Hard Luck Candy Flavored Vodka; they offer four favorite old fashioned sweets in a drinkable adult form. (Thanks Thomas!)

Hollywood’s fairy tale bandwagon keeps on chugging with this re-telling of that children’s story about a douchebag who kept stealing magical stuff from a poor giant and never got punished for it.

Skateboarder Rob Drydek nails an incredible stunt, landing with all four wheels on the ground after a death-defying flip through the air, using a Chevy Sonic as his skateboard.

The latest in personalization – user-generated soft drinks. Pick your flavors, upload your label, and share. For now, you have to go with pre-mixed sodas, but come 2012, you can choose your own.

Fans of Kels, listen up! On Oct. 1-5, 2012, the King of R&B will hold the first of what will be an annual concert at sea, on a 5-day cruise from Miami to the Bahamas. A cool trip with a smooth, soulful voice.

Despite the fact that snowboards were designed for snow, there’s no good reason why they won’t work on another surface, like the Utah’s Salt Flats, right? Though it is a bit more abrasive than snow.

You’re probably too busy trying to replicate that airborne bazooka kill to notice the details, but slow down for a couple of minutes and check out the sheer gorgeousness of BF3’s Frostbite engine.