Tag Archives: Lego

Friday Links: Happy StarWars Day & Free Comic Book Day

• Don’t forget tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day! Find a participating store near you. Speaking of, The Mary Sue, points out that between StarWars Day, The Avengers’ opening, and Free Comic Book day this weekend is like nerdvana.
• Betsy the KegDroid beer dispenser.
• Want to intern at The Nerdery this summer? You can win a postion by apply at The Intern Game.
• Anil Dash on why you can’t trust the tech press to teach you about the tech industry.
• This Advertising Life: emotions from advertising life represented by animated gifs.
• Wil Wheaton on why he left StarTrek: The Next Generation.
• The iPhone may be the best thing for the blind since Braille.
• Use a Mac power adapter to open your beer.
• Attracting more women to computer science requires shattering the brogrammer culture.
• LEGO wigs.

Friday Links: Banksy in LEGO

• Banksy rendered in LEGO. I repeat, Banksy rendered in LEGO.
• Just one more game. . . Angry Birds, Farmville and Other Hyperaddictive ‘Stupid Games’.
• Don’t forget to RSVP for one of next week’s Nerdery Webinars on supporting legacy browsers.
• The Line has a nice write up of this year’s Overnight Website Challenge.
• Yoda speaking correctly.
• The world’s sweetest Scrabble set is now a reality and it’ll cost you 199 bones.
• For those who aren’t afraid of profanity and like their ad-world blogging with a definite point of view the news that Copyranter is blogging fulltime for Buzzfeed was cause for much excited hand clapping.
• Also on BuzzFeed (which is rapidly gaining favor with this here blogger), gowns of the internet.
• The secret science behind memorable movie quotes.
• Why $7.99 beats $0.99.
• Weird advertising characters. The Oreo Middleman is pretty rad.
• Should you keep your personal and professional identities separate online? Sounds like a lot of work.

LEGO Minecraft is a real thing now

More than a few nerds are so filled with joy at this LEGO Minecraft news that they are losing their minds. The Brothers Brick, my favorite LEGO blog, has more pictures and the full scoop. But here’s the relevant details for those of you who can’t even wait for a web page to load:

“The new set, which was the first to receive 10,000 votes of support from users on the global LEGO CUUSOO idea collection platform, will be available for purchase in summer 2012, but can be pre-ordered from today, exclusively through Mojang retail partner Jinx.com for $34.99 €34.99 at. The sets will also be sold in select LEGO brand retail stores and the LEGO online shop from summer 2012.”

Friday Links: The secret power of introverts

• We’ve added pics from last night’s Open House & Spirit Showcase to the Spirit Week album on Facebook.
• This is how you sell products, on the adorable movie about the new red Field Notes notebook.
• The secret power of introverts.
• Five year old analyzes logos.
• In defense of video games: more than just an entertaining time sink.
• You’ve seen the LEGO Moleskine notebooks, right? Please tell me you’ve seen them, they’re awesome.
• Where’s the pixel? Does not work with a dirty monitor. Also it might make your eyes a little wiggy. Finally, lots of fun.
• A peek inside LEGO Headquarters.
• Saatchi & Saatchi CEO Kevin Roberts claims marketing is dead.
• The Flaming Lips have a new song called “Now I Understand” featuring Siri.
• Unreal estate.

Friday Links: DC Comics launches new brand & Hipster StarWars

• DC Comics unveils new brand (a follow up to this).
• Don’t forget to RSVP for our February 2nd Open House.
• Matt Haughey shares lessons for Kickstarter creators fomr the worse project he ever funded.
• Animated Leo Burnett tells agency “When to take my name of the door”. Highly recommended for people enamored with the history of advertising (and cute animations).
• Hipster StarWars. You know you wanna look. Also, If StarWars were made today, and finally I’ll follow you into the dark, a valentine for your StarWars loving sweetie.
• 12 sci-fi film locations you can actually visit.
• Is new Google the new Coke?
• LEGO slowly revealing Lord of the Rings minifigs.

Probably the best year-end list ever: The year in pictures in LEGO

So much brilliance to choose from. I had to go with Pepper Spray Cop.

Hop on over to The Guardian to see them all.

Friday Links: AT-ATs, nerdy vacations, and deadly sins

• 9 nerdy movie locations you should visit, just in time to make vacation plans for 2012.
• Edible gingerbread AT-AT.
• Stop Motion + Minecraft + Super Mario Bros = This video.
• Perfect secret santa gift for the chocolate-loving nerd in your life, handmade Space Invader chocolate bar.
• The most iconic weapons in video game history.
• Wired’s Geek Dad presents the 5 best toys of all time. It’s hard to find fault in this list.
• FTC and Facebook reach a settlement regarding user privacy abuse.
• Taxidermy Deer LEGO Kit a.k.a. $12 of awesome.
• Books for the geeky creative in your life.
• This isn’t so nerdy so much as the best thing I found on the Internet this week, The Rap Board. It’s super fun and will steal entirely more time out of your day than you anticipated.
• The seven deadly sins of StarWars.
• Swanky doodle, a nice story about Google’s doodles.
• Don’t forget you can give Toys for Tots to remember the Bucklin Boys.

8-foot LEGO man washes up on Florida beach

You can learn more about this awesomeness at BoingBoing.

LEGO robot solves Rubik’s Cube in 5 seconds

If that headline didn’t make your head explode, you can get the full scoop on this mind-blowing event over at Singularity Hub.

Friday Links: A cool LEGO iPhone game thing

• Harvard Business Review says Facebook’s Timeline will impact your career.
• LEGO’s new game experiment, Life of George. This looks like a gob of fun.
• 4 classic ways to recession-proof your brand.
• Wampa-fur kicks from Adidas.
• ThunderLOLcats.
• A greenhouse made out of LEGO bricks.
• Floppy disc Imperial March.
• For your little nerdling: HTML for Babies.