Stephen Colbert's star-studded send-off

Stephen Colbert, who begins his new stint as host of The Late Show on CBS next year, ended the The Colbert Report last night with an epic, celebrity-filled finale:

'Parks and Trek' is a brilliant mash-up

Cartoonist and writer Neill Cameron has created a brilliant mash-up of Parks and Recreation and Star Trek. The result...

Check out the rest of the crew at Cameron's web site.

(via io9)

Map showing the most hated college football team in each state

(Based on a survey conducted by a user on Reddit.)

(via Saturday Down South)

Beautiful rendition of 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas' in a minor key

I'm usually tired of Christmas songs by November 30, but I think I could listen to this one all the way through New Year's Day...


(via 22 Words)

'Dollar' store

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means...

(via Reddit)

The official teaser trailer for Star Wars: Episode VII

Can't wait!

This is what Black Friday would look like as a movie

The scary thing is that it's probably a little too close to reality...

Obama's executive action on Saturday Night Live

"Wait a second. Don't you have to go through Congress at some point?"

"Aw, that's adorable! You still think that's how government works."

Italian cook pronounces 'Worcestershire sauce'

"One chest of shoe shine"? That can't be right.

Exercise in a bottle? Does it at least come with a straw?

I was already excited about the robotic couch I could drive to the kitchen. Now, along comes Nestlé with a product that provides at least some of the benefits of exercise:

"Ideally, we'll be able to develop products that will help promote and augment the effects of exercise," said Kei Sakamoto, who heads the diabetes and circadian rhythms department at the Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences in Switzerland.

Specifically, Nestlé is working on a product that would regulate AMPK, an enzyme that scientists have dubbed the "metabolic master switch." The target customer is someone with diabetes or someone who is obese, according to the company.

Researchers at Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences and several other institutions found that a compound acts on the AMPK enzyme in mice to stop their livers from producing fat, according to a study published in July in the journal Chemistry and Biology.

Where can I get a case?

But don't think you're going to drink your way to a beach body.

The product won't outright replace exercise, Sakamoto said in a statement, explaining that even run-of-the-mill exercise has such a dynamic role that Nestlé will "never be able to mimic all those effects in a single product."

Oh. Never mind, then.