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Part Kid, Part Machine, All Cop.
via Xeni Jardin, Boing, Boing The fastest reflexes modern technology has to offer. On-board computer-assisted memory. And a lifetime of on-the-street law enforcement programming. It is my great pleasure to present to you: Robocop. The boy insisted for months that he wanted to be a robot for Halloween. His sister was a robot when she…
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Original Darth Vader costume up for sale in London
Tweet: @darthvader I send my suit out for dry cleaning & this is what happens. Someone will pay dearly, most likely @vaderssecretary LONDON – The Force can be with you — for a price. Christie’s auction house says it is selling an original Darth Vader costume from the “Star Wars” movie franchise. The jet-black helmet,…
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Amazing Knit Skeleton
WOW! the details in this knit sculpture by fiber artist Ben Cuevas are divine! MORE PICTURES AND HERE
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Trivia Thursday
This author seems to have an October fixation, giving us such books as The Halloween Tree, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and The October Country. Name him. In this Star Trek episode written by Robert Bloch, the Enterprise encounters aliens Korob and Sylvia, who menance the crew with the trappings of Earth’s Halloween. In this…
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Do It Yourself Sugar Skulls
via Xeni Jardin, Boing, Boing what came first, the sugar skull or the sugar panoramic easter egg? i have no idea. but they are constructed out of the same sugar mixture. calaveras de azúcar as they are correctly known, start with sugar, meringue powder and a tad of water. READ MORE
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Dunkin the Vampire Slayer
What could possibly bring together a 450 pound vampire slayer, a drunken, acid-tongued detective, a good natured carpenter, bureaucratic vampires, giant anacondas, mutant vampire bats, Ho Hos, Twinkies and more one-liners than a night at the comedy club? Dunkin, the vampire slayer blends all this discordance and more into a hilarious adventure that moves from…
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8 Tragic Ghost Towns of the 20th Century
Desolate, ruined, hollow: ghost towns are the remnants of urban catastrophe. Whether it’s a shift in local industry or a particularly nasty disaster that sparks a mass exodus, it means the death knell for a town. Eerie and tragic, yet brimming with history, the following ghost towns are monuments to hardship, good intentions with bad…
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Trivia Thursday
It was an unpleasant profession, so who did it? The only way to get a death sentence in the Federation is to go where?A) TerminusB) Talos IVC) KaitanD) IscandarE) Yavin 4 This author, known for graphic novels, adult fantasy, and Young Adult fantasy, Won the 2009 Newberry Award for best American children’s book of 2008…
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They’re Using High-Tech Equipment; It Must Be Science
I feel for Beaker. (via Dave Lowe)
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Link Dump
Samurai Wars – Astonishing custom action figures which reimagine Star Wars characters as Japanese warriors and mythical beings. Done by the same guy who made the awesome “steampunk wars” figures a while back. Sane Clown Posse – A response to the brouhaha they set off with their anti-science lyrics. Umbilical Cord iPhone Charger – I’m…