Steve Jobs Figurine Comes Fully Loaded, But Not with Cash

It’s true, there’s a 12-inch Steve Jobs replica accessorized with miniatures of the Apple Store’s best merchandise. Whether or not the real Mr. Jobs will let the Steve Jobs Limited Edition 12-inch Collectible Figurine see its way into production is another story altogether, but for now it’s fun for an Applehead to dream that someday, for the low-low price of only $160, he or she too can own a tiny inanimate clone of the only guy on the planet who can rock the same outfit every day of the week because he just wants to.

Included with the Mr. Jobs figurine: 1/6-scale iMac, Magic Mouse, keyboard, iPhone 4, iPad 2, Desk, Chair, New Balance 992 sneakers, black T-shirt and jeans.

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Search Your Kindle: Star Wars eBooks Now Available

"Buy my book."

For thirty years, people have been writing Star Wars books. That’s a long time (and a jumbled canon) but yesterday, finally, Star Wars entered the future. Lucasfilm and Random House announced that the entire library of Star Wars fiction titles (Del Rey/Bantam Spectra) will be available in eBook format, as will any future releases under the imprints. That’s 100+ books added to the 30 that were available already. It’s probably going to take you longer than 12 parsecs to read them.

Additionally, each title will contain extra content, the first of which sounds extremely handy:

  • An updated Star Wars novels timeline
  • An introduction to the six major Star Wars eras: The Old Republic, Rise of the Empire, Rebellion, The New Republic, New Jedi Order, and Legacy
  • Over half a dozen additional excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years

It’s a smart move on Random House’s part, since virtually every other aspect of the SW universe has been marketed to saturation. Holding out until yesterday may have been a good idea–most people have not read all 130+ Star Wars novels, so it’s like getting something new.

I’ve never read anything from the Star Wars series. If I were to pick a book now, where should I start?

[SWRandomHouse via IGN Comics]

Anyone in the Market for a Used Space Suit?

If you always wanted to be an astronaut (or cosmonaut, I guess depending on your location) but never quite made the cut for NASA, there’s still a chance you could hang out in a space suit… if you’ve got cash, and lots of it.

In April NASA announced that they would be, ahem, donating four space shuttles to American museums for a cool $30 million each. I don’t think many of us have that kind of moolah hiding out in the sofa cushions, but there are some things you can pick up for a fraction of that at auctions. They come around more often than you think–nearly every year.

A couple of items recently sold at auctions: Alexei Leonov’s suit from the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (seen above) for $242,000; the Vostok 3KA-2 capsule below, for $2,882,500; a shingle from the Mercury-Atlas 5 (“manned” by a chimp named Enos) for $43,700, and a couple of years ago, a whole bunch of random bags, brushes and pages from the flight plans of Apollo 11.

It’s great that these things are available to purchase, if you can afford them. But it really just makes me wonder who buys space stuff at auction. Do any of you own a cool something-or-other that traveled through space? Where did you get it?

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New Trailer for Immortals [Video]

Basically, this is just like 300, but with greek gods involved. There’s even a “This is Sppppaaaarrrrta”-like scene around 1:22. Enjoy!

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Female Armor Sucks [Video]

The “incredibly sturdy Dragon Mail of Protection” looks exactly like all comics armor for women. The next time I’m caught in a sword fight, I hope I’m wearing something more protective. Like, I don’t know, a sundress or something.

[CollegeHumor via Laughing Squid]