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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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ISS 10th Anniversary
via twitter.com/NASA ISS 10th anniversary programming on NASA TV throughout the day http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
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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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Steampunk is…
Steampunk is many things to many people. It is a literary style. An aesthetic movement. A way of life to some. It was with all this in mind I decided to ask more than a dozen people what they thought Steampunk is. I told them all a sentence would suffice as I wanted an off-the-cuff…
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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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On Originality (Also, an Octopus with a Balloon)
It’s an embroidery pattern – but it’s an octopus! on an exploration, no less… by corvustristis