Discovery Shuttle Wakeup Call
This awesome wakeup call featuring a very special message from William Shatner was used this morning to wake the crew (at 3:23 AM ET) of the Discovery Shuttle. [Via TDW]
Category Archives: General
Awesome New Star Wars Bookends: Jabba’s Palace
We’ve featured many cool Star Wars-themed bookends on [GAS] in the past (here and here), and we just noticed that our fine friends over at Starwars.com had some new ones for sale in their online shop! Featuring Boba Fett, a gamorrean guard, and Princess Leia disguised as a bounty hunter, these awesome polystone bookends are […]
Comic book dealer faces ultimate punishment
An alleged methamphetamine dealer may have his comic book collection seized by the US government. But this isn’t just a case of the legal system taking away a couple of issues in the style of a disappointed parent disciplining a troublesome youth. Instead it’s a proposed seizure of around $500,000 in what prosecutors call criminal […]
Disney’s “Up” House Re-Created in Real Life [Video]
For National Geographic Channel’s upcoming show “How Hard Can It Be?”, a team of engineers constructed a simple house structure and lifted it into the air for more than an hour by 300 weather balloons. Check it out! [Via]
Rock Wins All!
[Via]
Charlie and the Apple Factory [Video]
Definitely one of the most brilliant parody CollegeHumor has ever produced. [Source]
New Kickass-Style Superhero Flick: Super [Movie Trailer]
Planned for release on April 1st, James Gunn’s Super tells the story of Rainn Wilson, an average, run of the mill, everyday guy, who starts fighting crime in an attempt to win his wife back (Liv Tyler) from a drug dealer (Kevin Bacon). Check it out: Face the wrath of the Crimson Bolt! [Super @ […]
Hitchiker’s Guide To The Galaxy “Don’t Panic” Tattoo
*SPLAT* Hmmm I only one problem with that tattoo: Isn’t that vase supposed to be a bowl? [Via TDW]
Awesome T-Shirt: Get a Life!
[Get it on a shirt @ Splitreason.com]
Scenes from Antarctica [Pics]
Today on The Atlantic, a beautiful photo essay on Antarctica, featuring not only the requisite scenery and penguins, but also images of the South Pole Telescope, radar images of ice sheet formations, SCINI (Submersible Capable of under Ice Navigation and Imaging) vehicles, the famed Shackelton’s whisky, and my personal favorite, researchers assembling the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. […]