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Link Dump
Base Pair Friendship Necklace – Matching DNA/RNA molecules. Tell someone that they’re the adenine to your uracil. Awesome Papercraft Robots – A collection of 50 robots to download and assemble. AT-AT Wedding Cake – It’s the accompanying Ewok cupcakes that really make this. Fake Science – “For when the facts are too confusing.” I think…
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Trivia Thursday
This movie was unfortunately released soon after Dr. Strangelove, but where Strangelove was humorous in a macabre sort of way, this movie was deadly serious, starring Henry Fonda in a believable role as an American President up against the wall. What author is responsible for the term “cyberpunk?” What does the “R” stand for in…
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Take a Walk on the Moon, Virtually
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera has taken lots of new extremely high-resolution pictures of the moon, and they’re crowdsourcing their analysis. The public is invited to visit the Moon Zoo site to view and interpret the new images. “We need Web users around the world to help us interpret these stunning new images of the…
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The Empire Strikes Back (1950)
YouTube user whoiseyevan specializes in “premakes:” Trailers for modern movies the way they might have been made 50 years ago. There are lots more on his YouTube Channel. I like that the comments for each trailer include the “recipe” of clips used in its production. (via Wil Wheaton)
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Nimoy Sunset Pie
I would like, very, very much, to understand the train of thought that terminated with this.
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You’ll Just Read it for the Article
Chris Sims, of Chris’s Invicible Super-Blog fame, has done a piece for the SyFy Channel’s SciFiWire site. It’s a scholarly retrospective of five decades of skintight catsuits in SF. As he puts it: It’s meant to be a comprehensive, chronological overview of the skin-tight outfits and what it means about our society that we’ve spent…
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Trivia Thursday
In this Lois McMaster Bujold novel, Cordelia Naismith and Aral Vorkosigan were once enemies in an interstellar war. Now a fragile peace has been established and they’re a married couple expecting their first child. Name it! Arthur C. Clarke was awarded a Marconi International Fellowship in 1982 for inventing what concept? What was the title…
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“Empire” Sketchbook
This month marks 30 years since the release of The Empire Strikes Back,* and artist Dave Lowe is celebrating by producing from-memory sketches of some of the characters and critters from the movie. I’m not going for movie accurate versions here, nor any intentional “re-imagining”. I’m just gonna have fun drawing and see what spills…
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A Real Electric Monk
An “I-Fairy” robot presided at a wedding ceremony in Tokyo last Sunday. The groom is a professor of robotics and the bride is an employee at Sanrio’s humanoid robotics division (although a BoingBoing commenter had a more plausible theory). The little robot’s normal job is to conduct people around museums, but Sanrio reprogrammed it for…
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Why Geeks Make the Best Parents
They build their kids bunk beds that look like Imperial Walkers. This triple-decker marvel has a sleeping area, a Hoth Lego display case, play/climbing areas, and a “clubhouse.” The heck with the kids; I want one of these. Lots more pics here.