That’s Bono done up in the shape of a giant egg … an egg that also happens to be up for auction this month. If you’re in Dublin during the next couple weeks, you’ll find this at the St. Stephen’s Green shopping center, near the site of the old Dandelion Market.

It’s part of a charity event called The Big Egg Hunt, which has 100 big eggs scattered around Dublin and on display prior to a live auction on March 23rd. The winning online bidder doesn’t automatically get the egg; s/he wins a chance to attend and bid during the live auction. All proceeds benefit the Jack and Jill Children’s Foundation.

The Bono egg is the work of well-known Dublin caricature artist Niall O’Laughin, who’s appeared on @U2 before.

Great thanks to Gary Paul in Dublin for the photo!

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Bono as an Egg (and You Can Bid on Him)

This reminds me of the ones created by our own Kelly E., who did four displays of them in her Achtoon Baby column. One of my favorites is the Adam portrait made out of cat food!

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Weirdest U2 Crafts

Forget the hundreds of millions of albums sold, forget the globetrotting tours that set records that may never be broken, forget the throngs of adoring fans … you know you’ve made it when scientists name a spider after you.

That honor has been bestowed on Bono.

According to the Riverside Press-Enterprise, taxonomist Jason Bond recently discovered a couple dozen new spider species, including three inside Joshua Tree National Park. Given the discovery location, he named one of them A. bonoi.

That’s a photo of the Bonospider at right. We’ve helpfully added a pair of fly shades just to mess with taxonomy and science and all that phylum, class, order, genus stuff from high school.

Important: Next time you’re out wandering around the California desert, watch your step lest you step on …. let’s not even think about that.

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Introducing Bonospider! (Bono has a spider named after him. Really.)

You probably don’t need to be a word geek to love this, but it might help. Me? I think we need more U2 parody videos like this, and the sooner, the better. Great stuff!

(tip via Galleycat)

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Best. Book Promotion (and U2 Parody) Video. Ever.

It seems that while B&E were at the Sullivan Theatre, they taped a funny little skit that aired on Thursday night’s show. Enjoy!

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VIDEO: Bono & Edge’s Elevator Music on Letterman

I was going to post the images , but I thought it would be fun for you to think about something first. Which U2 album covers would you choose and how would you incorporate the Harry Potter theme on it? Then you can check out the ones that made it here. I think they are all quite good. I do have a favorite. I think Peter Rowen would agree with me on this one!

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U2 and Harry Potter

Empire magazine asked readers to submit their inspired U2-themed movie posters, and I must say, there are some people who have some mad photoshop skills. After viewing Larry’s “Man On A Train” movie still, I have to say that some of these movie posters could be mistaken for the real deal! Here’s a few of my favorites from the 39 posters available for viewing on Empire‘s site:

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Empire’s U2 Movie Mash-ups

These job postings came across my desk the other day. It was posted back in February in Kantipur, Nepal’s daily newspaper. Sorry, students, these are for faculty and staff positions. And sorry to all non-Nepalese U2 fans … they are only hiring qualified natives (and you have to be “looking dynamic”!).

Still, it’s funny to read and it’s nice to know there is a college out there called U2 College. They even have the font right. Also, it’s the kind of thing Google sends you when you ask for “academic U2″ alerts.

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U2 College … in Nepal?

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Even Better Than The Real Thing

William Shatner is going to cover U2′s “In A Little While” on his next album.

Yes, that William Shatner … star of Priceline commercials, Star Trek, TJ Hooker and many more roles. He even announced it on his official website.

The album is called Searching for Major Tom and a lot of the songs he’s singing have space-related theme — “Space Oddity,” “Rocket Man” and more. You’ll look at the track list and think he was inspired by seeing a U2 360 show at some point, actually.

There’s no exact release date — the announcement just says later in 2011.

(photo courtesy of LostinTexas via Creative Commons; thx to @LanceASchart for the tip)

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William Shatner to Cover U2 on New Album (SRSLY)