The Best Award Acceptance Speech This Year, or EVER? [Video]

Yesterday we reported on the announcement of the Hugo Awards–the sci-fi Oscars, if you’ll forgive the sort of inaccurate comparison–and you may recall that the The Drink Tank‘s editor Chris J. Garcia won a Hugo for Best Fanzine. His acceptance speech is exactly what you’d expect from someone who won an award unexpectedly–surprise, gratitude, swearing. It’s perfect.

(Skip to 1:30 or so to get to the announcement.)

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I’m not gonna lie–if I ever won a Hugo I’d do just about the same thing. If you’re not already a reader, do check out The Drink Tank. Clearly it’s staffed by people who love what they do.

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The Mercedes-Benz Buggy

Is that what a Mercedes buggy looks like? Well, close: actually that’s the Mercedes-Benz F-Cell Roadster concept car. It’s a hydrogen electric fuel-cell powered, joystick controlled, bicycle-wheeled buggy.

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Explaining The Amazon Kindle to Charles Dickens

When Rachel Walsh, a second year illustration student at Cardiff School of Art & Design, was given the school assignment of explaining “something modern/internet based to someone who lived and died before 1900,” she geekily rose to the task.

This what she made: a clever books-within-book papercraft to explain the Amazon Kindle to Charles Dickens!

 

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The Sound of Hydrogen [Video]

Just last week’s post about the Radioactive Orchestra, this video illustrates the concept of atomic radiation through sensory switch techniques–by exchanging light waves for sound waves, we can hear hydrogen.

Produced by Henry Reich, this short animation is part of a series of animations that quickly explain a physics concept. We featured “Something from Nothing” here a couple weeks ago, which explains antimatter pretty handily. Check out the rest on the MinutePhysics YouTube channel.

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Rubik’s Cube Cake

If trying to solve the Rubik’s Cube has got you hungry, here’s the cake for you. Vicky of Stasty blog created this geeky version of Battenberg cake and generously shared the recipe: [Source | Via]

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LOL >> Emergency Reboot Button

When things get out of control, just hit the big red Emergency Reboot Button from the NeatoShop. The fun little gadget will emit a siren and a robot voice saying “Reboot! Reboot!”

Perfect for you cubicle-mates who always have computer problems!

[$11.95 @ NeatoShop | More fun Cubicle Toys]

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Sweeeet: The Hobbit House Hotel

Forget Motel 6! Next time you go on a road trip to northwest Montana, stay at the Hobbit House instead. That’s right, it’s a cottage modeled after J.R.R. Tolkien’s Hobbit dwelling.

Joyce Wadler of The New York Times explores this unusual guesthouse, and the equally unusual proprietor who owns it:

No need to bring slippers: a big hairy pair await you. Also a wizard’s hat, belonging to someone named Gandalf. How to get there? It’s a long, long journey, because wherever you live, it is not close. […] The Hobbit House, in northwest Montana, about a three-hour drive from Spokane, Wash., is a guesthouse. Number of units: one. But it is a large unit. The Web site, which the reporter studies before arriving, shows a 1,000-square-foot structure built into a hill, on a 20-acre site dotted with structures that range from small to perfect for squashing with your foot: a four-foot stump-shaped troll house, a few round-door hobbit houses with chimney pipes and several shoe-box-size fairy houses.

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Photo by Janie Osborne for The New York Times

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