Cory Doctorow: 
This fan-made re-enactment of the final space battle from the original Star Wars movie uses nothing but elaborately posed naked hands (the actors are wearing all black and are nearly invisible) that swoop, dive, shoot and dodge. It’s surprisingly effective — and incredibly creative. Link (via Neatorama)
Cory Doctorow:
Vicale offers a DIY action-figure toolkit: use a Flash-based configurator to spec out your fig’s head, clothes, armaments and accessories and they’ll build and ship it to you. I’d like it better if there was more customization — especially in body type, etc — but this is getting one step closer to my boyhood dream of being able to create a line of my own action figs. Link (via Tokyo Mango)
Xeni Jardin: The ancient gods have heard my prayers! Behold, the entire crew of Battlestar Galactica, reimagined as Simpsons characters by Dylan Meconis.
Link to entire set. (thanks, Sean Bonner!!!)
Cory Doctorow: There are lots of amazing, beautiful robot sculptures made out of junk parts out there, but the robots at Bennett Robot Works in Brooklyn are really spesh. Link (via Watchismo)
Hollywood’s dumbest depictions of code
Cory Doctorow: Drivl’s list of “What code DOESN’T do in real life (that it does in the movies)” should be turned into a stencil and spraypainted on alternating sidewalk squares leading up to the main gates of every movie studio in LA…
Link (via Global Nerdy)
NASA Finds Evidence of Recent Flowing Water on Mars
SonicSpike writes to mention that Scientists are claiming that they have evidence of water flowing on Mars within the last five years. From the article: “Subsurface aquifers or melting ground ice were floated as possible sources of the water. One of the springs even appears at a fault line, according to Malin, just as they often do on Earth. The shortness of the gulleys, which seem to flow for but a few hundred yards, might be accounted for by a process similar to a volcano’s eruption on Earth, with water instead of magma building up underground, and ice, instead of fire, characterizing the resulting flow.”
1200-year-old problem ‘easy’
Schoolchildren in Caversham have become the first in the country to learn about a new number – ‘nullity’ – which solves maths problems neither Newton nor Pythagoras could conquer.
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Provide succor to comrades, mendicants and feckless gobshites. |
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Strength is wisdom and wisdom is strength. |
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Danger is our ale and we do not water it down. |
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Honor your kin, honor your comrades, honor the ground you tread, honor your foes, though they be unworthy. |
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There will be much woe, and thine heart must endure and thine hands must be strong. |
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Just as gold is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall our foes be melted in the midst of Tiger Team One and they shall know that we have poured our justice upon them. |
dreaming of a life after cubicles 