It appears that Princess Leia and Captain Kirk are in a bit of interstellar combat, albeit 30+ years later. And regardless of what Kirk has to say about it, I think that Star Wars rules! So, the big question is, why are we even talking about this?… Well, back in September, William Shatner, who portrayed
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The Lego Star Wars series is just cool – they’ve made kits for the Death Star and the Millenium Falcon. Plus, they have video games (that my daughter really loves!…). But, the video below is absolutely awesome, retelling the Star Wars trilogy (Episodes IV, V, and VI) in about two minutes with what appears to
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HBO is airing a docudrama they produced in conjunction with BBC on the pursuit for a new theory of gravity. The movie “Einstein and Eddington” details (if not dramatizes a bit…) Albert Einstein’s efforts to come up with his theory of general relativity, and Arthur Eddington’s efforts to prove him right, all in the backdrop
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60 Minutes did a two-part story interviewing Michael Lewis on his new book, The Big Short. In his book, Lewis details how probably only 10 or 20 people in the entire financial sector knew what was going to happen, and how Wall Street nearly created its own demise. In the 60 Minutes piece, Lewis describes
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Unfortunately, I can’t find a real good reason to post this – except the fact that I LOVE Seinfeld, and I thought these T-shirts were some of the coolest things I’ve run across in a while. Since there was a Seinfeld episode about Jerry going to see “Plan 9 from Outer Space”, I thought I’d
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I ran across these blog posts about how the Motion Picture Academy did their voting for the Oscars, and I thought they were interesting enough to forward along. (By the way, thanks to Nikki Love for bringing these to my attention…) Unlike most American elections we’re used to, the Oscars used an “instant runoff” procedure
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With the new “Alice in Wonderland” movie coming out, MSNBC.com takes a look at how science has evolved through the hundred years since Lewis Carroll’s story. You can read the article here…
When I first saw this, I thought, “Yikes!” But it’s the artistic creation of RoboSteel, an Ireland-based firm that creates sculptures from scrap metal (their website is www.robosteel.com, where they also make metal scupltures of Star Wars, Predator, and Terminator characters). The large Alien Queen is only 4,500 Euros (what a bargain!)… Here’s the article from
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