Another Link roll-call

Either the internet has really been cooking the last few days, or I'm more easily amused than normal:

Via the usual set of BoingBoing links:

• Retro-future designs are way too cool.
• GM's Stop Motion proto-lego people explain how the economy works in 1939, at exactly the wrong level of detail.
• Jesse Ventura claims that given a waterboard and an hour of time, he could make Dick Cheney confess to the Sharon Tate murders. (As a side note, how did we end up in a place where we need a former wrestler known as "the body" to provide moral commentary on torture?)

Also:

This comic strip sums up my entire lifestyle.
And this gentleman walks the thin line between Genius and Paralyzed.

Finally: It's MEGA SHARK VS. GIANT OCTOPUS.