More fun with Star Wars™ baking! This sequel to our first collection of Star Wars™ cookie cutters features Rebel and Imperial starships plus the Empire’s legendary Death Star™ battle station. Even the youngest Padawan bakers will have fun creating a fleet of cookies to re-enact their favorite galactic battles. [Source: Star Wars Cookie Cutters | […]
While the videos we’ve shown you of some of the new features of Windows 8 may make it look promising, odds are the OS will suck if we take this picture into account. [Via CB]
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Grad student-turned-visual artist Greg Dunn studies neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania. In his spare time, he creates these almost-landscape prints of neurons–extreme close-ups of the hippocampus, retinas and plant-like pyramidals. You can find (and purchase) more of Greg Dunn’s work on his website, including these along with some actual landscapes with real trees and flowers, […]
Etsy user The Octopus Treehouse has a series of pretty awesome Star Wars-themed prints in his shop featuring everybody’s favorite baddies. Check these out! (Click to enlarge) [The Octopus Treehouse | Via BF]
“The primary weakness in any modern security mechanism tends to be the modern consumers utilizing it.” If you’ve got security issues, there’s a nonzero chance it’s your fault. Or, if you’re especially vigilant, the fault of another person in the chain of people who control account security. In this new video from our friends at […]
As a person with a sleep cycle that is best described as erratic (but more accurately, nonexistent), I’m fascinated by body clock studies. In this short TED Talk, Jessa Gamble talks about the influence of circadian rhythms on culture, and vice versa. In today’s world, balancing school, work, kids and more, most of us can only […]
YouTube has added an automatic convert-to-3D tool for uploaded flicks. In a less gimmicky move it’s also vastly increased the number of users who can upload clips without a time limit. The 3D tool is an addition to an existing suite of editing tools, which can be accessed by clicking on “Edit Video.” They include […]
With continued innovation in the hardware ecosystem, the biggest shift in firmware in 30 years, and software changes leading to boot times of ~7 seconds on machines with solid-state drives (SSDs), we decided it was time to bring the PC boot user experience into the 21st century. In a previous post by Gabe Aul, we […]
Have you played with Google Labs’ NGram Viewer? It’s an addicting tool that lets you search for words and ideas in a database of 5 million books from across centuries. Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel show us how it works, and a few of the surprising things we can learn from 500 billion words. […]