Thanks to King Abdullah of Jordan, this theme park is going where no theme park has gone before. Explore the strange new worlds of … Star Trek theme park. And it only cost a mere $1.5 billion (that’s dollar, not latinum, mind you). [Source | Via]
“Placebos: pretty freakin’ weird.” That just about sums it up. Created by: Daniel Keogh - http://www.twitter.com/ProfessorFunk Luke Harris - http://www.lukeharrisgraphics.com [sciencecenter]
For today’s edition of Deal of the Day, Amazon has Super on Blu-ray for only $13.49 — that’s 55% off of the usual retail price of $29.98! When sad-sack loser Frank (Rainn Wilson, The Office), a short-order cook, sees his ex-addict wife (Liv Tyler, The Lord of the Rings) willingly snatched away by a seductive drug dealer [...]
Etsy seller ArtificeClothing makes these glow-in-the-dark latex costume pieces, perfect for dressing as the cast member who was cut from the final version of TRON so the movie could keep its rating. If you fancy an underbust corset or latex tights, there’s your hookup. [ via technabob]
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By designer Zack Hiwiller, an idea of what Super Mario Bros. might look like if it had been designed last year. It’s all in fun, though: While this post is meant to be humorous, it isn’t meant to be humorous at the expense of my fellow designers. I know we all try to do what [...]
PC Mag is celebrating the PC’s third decade (and the 30th year of its own publication, too) with an illustrated history of the technology and magazine, including notable names, hardware and benchmarks along the way. Follow along with our timeline as we point out a few of the important folks, products, and waystations in this [...]
Comics get a bad rap. Say the words “comic book” to anyone who’s unfamiliar with the breadth of the medium and all the many forms it takes, and an image of Action Comics or Archie or X-Men comes to mind. But some of you know that comics are as varied as their non-illustrated counterparts (that is, books), [...]
If you’ve ever dreamed of staying up late chatting with NASA astronomers while watching the Perseids streak across the sky, tonight might be the best of your life. And even if you aren’t all OMGNASA, you can still catch a glimpse of the meteor shower if you’re in the right place (and the moon doesn’t [...]
This almost-entirely edible Death Star was created by Rachel Linhart for a friend’s 7-year-old son, a project that took several days and about 24 hours of baking and artistry. So naturally something horrible happened to it, right? This Death Star was destroyed not by Luke and Han but a New York City taxi ride. It’s [...]
Good news for Phirm ‘n’ Hard fans from Nerdist recently: Mike Phirman’s “W00tstock” is available on iTunes, and even better, streaming for free online. Mike Phirman. “W00tstock,” a parody (like you wouldn’t be able to figure this out yourself) of Joni Mitchell’s song (or, more precisely, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s cover of Joni Mitchell’s [...]
Not too long in the future, on a tiny island, far far away, Star Wars fans will be able to purchase limited mint copies of silver-plated coins featuring Luke and Leia and R2D2 and C3PO. The Pacific Island known as Niue is issuing the coins as collector’s items – a collection of four silver $2 coins [...]
