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From the Earth to the Moon
Drew Olbrich felt that most pictures of the Earth and Moon show them unrealistically close together, so he created a composite image of what the two would look like to an observer 350,000 miles away in space. It’s kinda trippy to stare at this image and then think about what the guys in the Apollo…
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Link Dump
Geeky Amigurumi – Roundup of amigurumi versions of Marvin the Paranoid Android, Darth Vader, Tom Servo, and many more. SW Chopsticks – Best. Chopsticks. Ever. Burial Ground – This comic by AmazingSuperPowers amused me. Sheep Skull Mouse – Horrorpunk mouse made of brass and part of a sheep skull. I don’t know how functional it…
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I Love xkcd
Randall has tackled the age-old Urinal Protocol problem by expressing it as an equation that will allow men* to efficiently choose the least awkward urinal. The comments are even better, in that readers consider different permutations of the problem (for a large number of urinals, for instance, urinal choice is most likely a Gaussian probability…
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Neat.
SomaFM’s MissionControl channel is playing live mission audio from Space Shuttle Discovery, backed by ambient music. (via @matthewbaldwin)
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Uncannily Accurate
Click over to AmazingSuperPowers for the rest of the strip. (via @SFSignal)
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Talk Like Warren Ellis
The other day I was telling Shadow about some of the people I follow on Twitter. I mentioned that one of them was Warren Ellis, and he asked me why I followed him. Because here is an example of one of his recent tweets: Good morning, fluorescent sex weasels of the internet. It’s a new…
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Book Blog Bonanza
The Crotchety Old Fan is guaranteeing that he’ll never lack for blog posts* by taking John Ottinger’s List of Book Review Blogs and doing capsule reviews on all of them. Here are his first three installments: Recap Day 1 Day 2 Keep an eye on his site for the rest. There are all kinds of…
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DIY Steampunk Maps
Steampunk fan Chris Howard has posted a short tutorial on turning vintage city maps into maps of fictional places for use in gaming or as costume accessories. His method assumes you have some artistic talent, but you could do something similar with clip art. Obviously, you don’t have to go steampunk. You could create maps…
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Fandom Secrets
You’re probably familiar with PostSecret, a site which features secrets sent anonymously on postcards. There’s now a site called FandomSecrets which allows fans to submit their deepest secrets about actually hating Tim Burton’s films or wanting to become one of Warren Ellis’ harem girls. As the site warns, some entries may be NSFW or contain…
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Fossil Squid Drawn with Own Ink
We haven’t done a squid post in ages. Paleontologists digging at a Victorian excavation in Trowbridge, UK unearthed a 150-million-year-old squid (Belemnotheutis antiquus) whose ink sac was so well-preserved that they were able to reconstitute it and draw a picture of it using its own ink. Which is either really cool or the final indignity;…