If you’re looking to grace your walls with minimalist Star Wars art, artist Travis English is currently selling those pretty awesome 11 X 17 posters of the original and prequel trilogies via his Etsy shop.
[Via Buzzfeed]
Unfortunately this isn’t a touch lamp, but it is still wickedly awesome.
The lamp is made of poplar, colored translucent acrylic and colored paper and it measures 16.5 x 5.5 x 5.5 inches. The top part is detachable for easy access to the 60w bulb inside.
Get the lamp here ($60 USD).
Edit: Sigh. It’s already been sold.
[Via technabob]
io9 has a great review up over Alan Moore’s old Future Shocks cartoons, which are described as Tales From the Crypt in space. The review is favorable, and has me salivating to get my hands on a copy:
People tend to forget that Alan Moore can be a funny dude, and the high points of this collection are off-kilter comedy. The best bits star weirdos like the aforementioned Bayer Lupo, the doomed planet Klakton (a riff on Superman’s origin), Dr. Dibworthy (a time stream meddler who tosses anvils through chronoportals), and the unctuous Abelard Snazz, a problem-solving supergenius who has the uncanny knack for attracting angry mobs. Moore even pens a ripping take on Tharg the Mighty, 2000 AD‘s surly, Betelgeusian master of ceremonies.
Future Shocks is available here.
via io9
Iapetus, one of Saturn’s over 60 moons, has two faces. One side is bright white, almost like snow, yet the other half is a dark black. No one really knows what the dark stuff is. However:
Close inspection indicates that the dark coating typically faces the moon’s equator and is less than a meter thick. A leading hypothesis is that the dark material is mostly dirt leftover when relatively warm but dirty ice sublimates. An initial coating of dark material may have been effectively painted on by the accretion of meteor-liberated debris from other moons. This and other images from Cassini’s Iapetus flyby are being studied for even greater clues.
On a random note, don’t you hate it when people pronounce it “ying-yang?” That’s always bugged me.
via io9
After 34 years in space, NASA’s Voyager probes will soon cross the boundary of our solar system into interstellar space.
Nathan Birch at Gamma Squad has a fun list of those superheroes unlucky enough to be cursed with horrible videogame adaptations. Batman seems to have the best track record, which reminds me that I really need to get “Arkham City” sometime in the next year or so. Superman comes out the worst, of course. Even if he had some good games (which, he really doesn’t), he’d come out on top for that N64 travesty alone.
via Gamma Squad
Here’s my mashup of voices and beats from The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air. Samples were recorded in Audition through the loopback of a Focusrite Saffire Pro 14. Sequenced in Ableton Live on an iMac. Enjoy, kids.
My favorite part of the video? Seeing Carlton dance, of course.
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Here’s a fun little video for your Sunday morning. Crows are sledding. Alexis Madrigal of The Atlantic called up Alan Kamil, the co-director of the Center for Avian Intelligence at the University of Nebraska, to hear his thoughts on the birds behavior. Kamil’s response was wholly scientific, namely that he couldn’t comment on whether the bird was playing or mimicking behavior it had seen.
“Human beings have a strong, strong, strong tendency that if we see an animal do something that’s analogous to what we do, like use a tool or answer an arithmetic question, we assume that the animal is doing it and understands the situation in the same way we do,” he said. “And sometimes that’s true but more often it’s false.”
via The Atlantic