*Looks at title of own blog*

Oh yeah fandom....

This was originally posted on ThinkGeek this past April Fools' Day, and Lucasfilm finally licensed the following:

It's the Tauntaun Sleeping Bag!


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By now you have probably caught the news that President Obama has received the Nobel Peace prize, eliciting a "Whaaaaaa-" from even the folks who voted for him, including yours truly.  Granted, it is a relief to have a guy in the Oval Office who isn't afraid of cracking open a book, and isn't a chickenhawk who engages in neo-con tough-guy theatrics ( Read more... )

But seriously, the following video is a design concept by Stefan Ulrich, called Funktionide. As his thesis design project, Ulrich discussed how humans interact with objects, and the threshold at which we begin to regard such objects as "alive"; i.e. motion, response to our interactions and outside stimuli in general, and said object's imitation of ( Read more... )

And instead of bubblin' crude, finds a 7th century stash that rivals that of the Sutton Hoo treasure.  With a metal detector.  Howard Carter, eat your heart out.

I remember seeing slides of items found at Sutton Hoo in my art history classes  and being amazed.  I got to see them in person at the British Museum about 10 years ago, and the detail and ( Read more... )

Wow, what a marvelous buffet of jackassery we're having this week!

Item the First - Usually I love the articles  on The Daily Beast, but this one on Malcolm Gladwell reads like scratch paper from a Maxim columnist accidentally put online.  It is written by a guy who seems to be genuinely puzzled that the skinny dude who wrote books in the social ( Read more... )

After reading this article, the School Speech Freakout is starting to make a vague sort of sense.

In an excerpt from his new book Republican Gomorrah, Max Blumenthal examines the radical beliefs about witchcraft and the "serpent seed" that propelled Sarah Palin into politics.

In short, the article discusses the theology of Sarah Palin's Wassila ( Read more... )

Got this one off of my cousin J's Facebook.  He works as a stage electrician in Pittsburgh, and saw this video made by the electricians of the Santa Fe Opera.  Who apparently spend their days rockin' out to the strains of Lady Gaga...

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Even though my day at work felt like I was playing Whack-A-Mole for 8 hours, I am in a slightly better mood. 
That, and I got a Facebook note from Pops that is a sign that I should turn down the emo bitter a bit.  He's coming around.

Got books that I had requested from the library which should be an interesting compare and contrast.

The Da Vinci ( Read more... )

So, so many with this one...

1) To hell with architecture; art history is where it's at.  You can make a living with an M.A. in the subject, and saying that you work in an art gallery makes you instantly fascinating to people.  Your crippling neck pain and bout of mono are urgent faxes from the universe telling you to change your major posthaste, if ( Read more... )

By now you have likely heard about the guy who shot up a fitness club because he hadn't had a girlfriend since Reagan was in office; being that my love life, is a little like watching the Challenger take off on its last flight, all I have to say is boo-effin'-hoo.

Rejection sucks, and I have had a lot of it, and failures too.  So much so that I am ( Read more... )