Aussie Stormtrooper Paul French is currently walking across Australia, from Perth to Sydney (a total of 4100 km or 2547 miles,) to raise money for the Starlight Children’s Foundation. For more than 25 years, Starlight Children’s Foundation has been dedicated to improving the quality of life for children with chronic and life-threatening illnesses and life-altering [...]
There’s not a lot of info on Tommervik, the artist behind these wicked cool Star Wars paintings, but that’s okay because they’re awesome in their own right. Early cubist influence plus pop culture equals the droids we’re looking for. Tommervik’s eBay store is packed with items for sale, not all Star Wars-related. Check out this [...]
For today’s edition of Deal of the Day, Amazon has the first and second season of Warehouse 13 for respectively 19.49 and $19.99 each. That’s over 60% off each season’s regular retail prices of $49.98. After saving the life of the President, two top Secret Service agents find themselves abruptly transferred to Warehouse 13 — [...]
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OK, so these are a bit dagger-like for my taste–I can’t type with those!–but I’m in love enough with the idea to try this out on my own (considerably shorter) nails. This hand belongs to redditor Sweet_Acid, who says she had to redo Aquaman’s emblem “twice because they indeed look like a pair of pants.” [...]
K.C. has the oldest piece of computer hardware I’ve ever seen–a modem from 1964-5, complete with finely crafted wooden case. It’s got a good 20 years on me, and it still works. The story goes like this: Background: This modem was given to me ~1989 by the widow of a retired (IBM?) engineer. Computerhistory.org has [...]
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I’ll set the stage for you: San Diego morning show, dude with a water jetpack. Aaaand, go: What is that?! What is that?! That, Miss Newscaster, is how not to open a segment. That said, it looks insanely fun after the guy actually gets it under control. [DVICE]
Event cloaks are the sort of thing movies and far-future, ten-tome science fiction tales are made of. That is unless you’re Moti Fridman or part of his group of sharp-minded companions at Cornell, in which case you have designed and built a cloak that hides events in time. The concept of event cloaking works like this: [...]
Robots! Cute ones! That dance! Oh, my! Most of us do not (yet) have access to a 3D printer, but these little Spazzi dancing robots could probably be rigged out of some moldable material and patience. Unless, of course, you do have a Thing-O-Matic, in which case I will be right over, thanks for letting [...]
If you’re curious about things like where your Internet service comes from or what a giant system of cables that spans the globe looks like, it’s your lucky day. Compiled by Greg Mahlknecht using resources he found on the internet, this map shows the major pipes flowing to and from all major countries by way [...]
A newly published study has been interpreted by some as a sign that search engines are damaging people’s memory skills. In fact, it seems more of an indication that the brain makes a smart use of its resources. The study carried out by researchers at Columbia, Wisconsin and Harvard Universities, and published in Science, involved [...]
