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Cakes for Geeks
via Twitter: Yay! … unlazied? RT @GettingMauled: @mightymur ‘s birthday cake on cakewrecks! http://bit.ly/bDp0qi now I can say I unlazied! — so i clicked on the link (of course). i’ve been to Cake Wrecks before, but these were special! 7 cakes of geek inspired goodness, posted either because they were seen at DragonCon or reminded…
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Sci-Feye Test
The geeks at Bite have created the Sci-Fi Eye Test, using typography from 36 different movie, comic, and game logos. The first person to correctly guess them all wins a free poster of the chart (which are also available for sale). I recognize, like, three. (via Neatorama)
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Trivia Thursday
Who wrote A Martian Odyssey? Who were the Eddorians and Ploorans? What is the name of the last human city in The Matrix? The familiar theme from the movie 2001 is by what classical piece by Richard Strauss? Which was not amongst “The Powers of Matthew Star?”A) TelepathyB) Astral ProjectionC) LevitationD) TelekinesisE) Clairvoyance What was…
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Seen Online
Waitress asked if I liked my grilled wookie baby. I told her it was a little Chewie. Thanks, I’ll be here on Hoth all week. Tip your droids. — luckyshirt No sir, I was NOT born yesterday. What kind of giant scary-ass newborns are you accustomed to seeing? — goldengateblond Beyond the Mountains of Madness…
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Link Dump
Toddler Droid Dresses – Cute homemade C3PO and R2D2 dresses for twins. Science Lab Cookie Cutters – Cookie cutters in the shape of test tubs and atoms and whatnot. Make cookies…for science! Set Phasers on “Whuh?” – The mouseover text is particularly entertaining. Scenes from a Multiverse – I mainly just love the host’s name.…
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100 Planets
Comic creator Daniel Merlin Goodbrey has recently begun a new Webcomic, 100 Planets, which is an odd little minimalist strip involving a very 50s-esque spaceship’s encounters with planets such as The Planet Where You’re Always 10 Minutes Late and The Planet of Our Perfect Robotic Duplicates. They’re mostly sort of surreal, but a couple are…
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Seen Online
The weirdest part about being a parent is having to pretend to your child that the world makes sense. — amuirin Saw a kid wearing ripped up clothes while getting out of a ’89 Bronco II. I told him how awesome it is here in the future. — YeahImAshley I’d like to tell you I…
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Trivia Thursday
In what novel does Stanislaw Lem create the ultimate bureaucracy? In The Matrix, what is the name of Morpheus’ “hovercraft?” What book begins with the line, “Looking back to all that has occured to me since that eventful day, I am scarcely able to believe in the reality of my adventures?” What was the first…
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Trivia Thursday
What was the mission of the spaceship on the TV series Quark? What book begins, “The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended.”? What planet does Babylon 5 orbit? Who is Cirocco Jones? What is the motto of the Tyrell corporation? What were…
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Trivia Thursday
In what Ursula Le Guin novel are the inhabitants of the planet Winter able to become either Male or Female depending on the dominant sexual emotion at the time they enter “heat?” The movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, was based on what Arthur C. Clarke story? What football star was the other head in the…