This delicious-looking Star Wars-themed wedding cake was made by by Lisa Seidling of Cake Works.
Starfield, Ship, Princess Leia bride and Han Solo Groom are gumpaste. The cake (including the Death Star ball) was Red Velvet with white chocolate/raspberry cream filling and white chocolate buttercream covered in silver fondant.
[Source: Cakeswebake]
Yes geeks, a new chapter of the Star Wars Uncut story is coming out: The Empire Strikes Back Uncut.
This past weekend, we went to Star Wars Celebration VI in Orlando to screen A New Hope Uncut and announce the new project. We saw Muppet Stormtroopers, Hawaiian-shirt-wearing Wookies, trashcan R2D2s and all kinds of homemade Star Wars fun. Passionate fans reimagining Star Wars is precisely why we love Uncut, which is why we shot this trailer for The Empire Strikes Back Uncut. It stars all of Celebration VI, an 80s-style voiceover tribute to the original, and a bunch of characters we hope show up in this next installment.
Now is your chance to be a part of the largest fan remake ever. The Force is with us. All of us.
Gotta crotchet ‘em all!
[See more and buy them at The Quaint Cuddlefish Etsy Store | Via Nerd Approved]
Are you the king – or queen – of “cock sauce”?
Then you need this BPA-free plastic water bottle by Gage + DeSoto, modeled after the original Sriracha bottle. (Plus, it would be fun to see people do a double take as you take swigs out of it!)
[Via HiConsumption]
The Hugo Awards are an annual awards ceremony honoring the very best in written science fiction and fantasy in different categories. The Hugo is named after Amazing Stories founder Hugo Gernsback
The awards are presented each year by the World Science Fiction Society at the World Science Fiction Convention (WorldCon). In more recent years, the awards have been made even more popular by Internet broadcasts of the ceremony via Ustream.
But this year, it seems the new fancy anti-piracy copyright detecting bots over at Ustream have shut down the broadcast after short segments of the nominee’s works tripped their detection software.
In the middle of the annual Hugo Awards event at Worldcon, which thousands of people tuned into via video streaming service UStream, the feed cut off — just as Neil Gaiman was giving an acceptance speech for his Doctor Who script, “The Doctor’s Wife.”
I can respect UStream’s efforts to stop its users from re-broadcasting copyright content. However this is proof that this may not be the most effective way to deal with it.
The segments used were of the very few categories that relate to video and the bits shown were well within the “fair use” limitations of copyright law.
WorldCon and the Hugo Awards were wronged by this snap judgement of UStream’s copyright bot, and while it may lead to a refining of the tool, unfortunately this was not resolved before the ceremony ended. Fans of the presentation were robbed of the show, and twitter was all a buzz with the unfounded interruption.
If you are curious, you can visit The Hugo Awards for the results of all the categories.
Check out these ADORABLE food- and dishwasher-safe plates by Third Half Studios, depicting some animals from ‘Star Wars’!
BANTHA
DEWBACK
RONTO
TAUNTAUN
These plates – and more – were also for sale at Dragon*Con this past weekend. I missed them while I was there, but did any of you Dragon*Con attendees nab a set?
If not, never fear! Buy them here! (Along with many other designs, themes, and options.)
[Via The Mary Sue]
The evergreen rumors of Valve moving from software to hardware are looking more credible than ever with the company outright saying it’s “jumping in” to the hardware market.
Valve has just listed a vacancy for an industrial designer who is required to have at least six years experience in producing “world-class, high-tech hardware products.” It gets even more explicit about the hardware move by saying:
Valve is traditionally a software company. Open platforms like the PC and Mac are important to us, as they enable us and our partners to have a robust and direct relationship with customers. We’re frustrated by the lack of innovation in the computer hardware space though, so we’re jumping in. Even basic input, the keyboard and mouse, haven’t really changed in any meaningful way over the years. There’s a real void in the marketplace, and opportunities to create compelling user experiences are being overlooked.
What exactly the job will involve is not so clear, which is partly because of the company’s business approach that means staff work on their own choice of projects. In theory it’s possible that the decision of what Valve actually makes will be decided by the person who gets the job.
It’s also notable that the job ad specifically calls for experience in “shipping” products: that’s a clue that Valve wants to go beyond the prototype stage.
Valve has previously denied rumors that it is already working on a console dubbed Steam Box that would be far more open source than the current market leaders. The company has only confirmed that it won’t be making such a device in “the near future” but isn’t saying either way about its long-term ambitions.
The Steam Box rumors originally stem from two patent applications Valve made back in 2009: one covering a game controller where the inputs can be replaced, the other using biometric inputs that would measure factors such as heart rate, respiration rate, blood pressure or pupil dilation.
The ad comes just a few weeks after Valve confirmed it is working on porting Steam games to run on Linux.