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Redshirts!
I love ThinkGeek. Have I mentioned? Get this T-shirt, and stay the hell away from me.Link (via Wil Wheaton)
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Treknobabble
The Random Treknobabble Generator creates lovely long sentences that sound wonderfully technical and obscure. Will modulating the configuration of the prototype generator calibrate the strength of the malfunctioning Heuseberg compensator, Captain? Sir, the polarity of the photonic inversion has been synchronized. Reconfigure the fluctuation of the distortion field. Link (via Wil Wheaton)
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Great Bounty Hunters Have Great Trophies
Another beauty from ThinkGeek, leading me to regret once again the fact that I work in an environment so staid, even a simple rubber iguana causes comment. Nothing says “Hey, respect me” like a collection of skulls. Dragons, Aliens, and Androids – all are worthy adversaries. To have their skulls as souvenirs on your desk…
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Put Yourself in Springfield
The Simpsons movie site has a game which allows you to create an avatar of yourself as a Springfieldian. The site is all Evil Flash, so I can’t link directly to the page, but it’s one of the links at the top of the screen.Link (via Neatorama)
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The Stamp Collector’s Guide to the Galaxy
Fortean Times is featuring a neat gallery of postage stamps with extraterrestrial themes. Seen here is a 1999 stamp from Turkmenistan.Link (via BoingBoing)
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Holographic Fashion Show
Here’s something that sounds like an excerpt from Stephenson: The Diesel Spring/Summer 08 fashion show features models “accompanied” on the catwalk by ghost-like CGI holograms. I assume it would distract watchers from the clothes just a tad, but the images are awesome.Link (via Neatorama)
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Theremin Cover of “Crazy”
Randy George of The Aether and Ether Experiment has done a Theremin cover of Gnarls Barkley’s hit “Crazy.”Link (via BoingBoing)
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USB Doorbell
ThinkGeek, whom I love to the point of inappropriateness anyway, has fulfilled a long-standing dream of mine: To have a doorbell that screams like the one in Murder By Death. Connect the USB Doorbell to your computer and upload up to 30 seconds of your favorite sound effect, song, or movie clip. Change it as…
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Nautilus-Inspired Office
Game company Three Rings Design commissioned Jillian Northrup and Jeffrey “Toast” McGrew of Because We Can to convert some open office space into an environment modeled on Captain Nemo’s Victorian submarine.This is now at the top of my list of frivolous things to do when I get rich, supplanting my previous intention of endowing a…
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Bad Spock Drawings
I love blogs that are dementedly devoted to a particular, obscure subject. They’re the Internet equivalent of a museum dedicated entirely to shrimp forks. Bad Spock Drawings is just such a blog, and it’s devoted to just exactly what it says it is. I particularly like the first in their list of inclusion criteria: When…