Tag Archives: Star Wars

The White House Responds to the Death Star Petition

The White House’s response to the Death Star petition hit over the weekend. If you missed it, go read it. It includes this line:

Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?

Friday Links: Justice League of Defaced American Currency

• The Justice League of Defaced American Currency.
• Imaging an English to Ned Flanders version of Google Translate.
• Did you find the time to watch that nutty Qualcomm CES Keynote? You totally should!
• There are now 181,000 social media gurus, ninjas, etc. on Twitter. Or at least 181,000 people who want to call themselves that kind of thing.
• Cultural fit matters in job interviews.
• New Book: The Anatomy of Type, Salon reviews it.
• Carrie Fisher makes peace with Princess Leia (beware some salty language).
• Star Wars Trilogy as maps.
• Schoolhouse Rock turns 40.
• Geek Girls & Boy Kings, on being a woman at Facebook and in Silicon Valley.

Friday Links: Most Visited Wikipedia Pages & More

• A Lorem Ipsum type generator that uses Commander Riker’s dialogue on Star Trek: The Next Generation instead of Latin.
• For the healthy, delete my browser history medic alert bracelet.
• 6 common tech myths that cost you money.
• Most visited Wikipedia pages of 2012.
• Stanley Kubrick wrote a letter so IBM was clear that HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey was a robot.
• 50 most anticipated indie games of 2013.
• An illustrated talk between Terry Gross & Maurice Sendak.
• Want: Pantone 2013 wall calendar also Chewbacca hoodie.
• This is one you have to look at to see how awesome it is: wooden charts showing underwater topographical features.

Friday Links: Tech insurgents & the myth of the fake geek girl

• From The Atlantic: When the Nerds Go Marching In, on how nerdpower worked on Obama’s successful re-election campaign.
• Betabeat’s 2012 tech insurgents.
• Geek masculinity & the myth of the fake geek girl.
• Eleven weirdly spelled words & how they got that way.
• The Oatmeal’s thoughts & musings on making things for the web. Sad & true and it’s The Oatmeal so if you have delicate sensibilities, skip it.
• 10 games Pong is better than.
• Marc Cuban says Facebook is driving way brands starting with his.
• Nine best minimalist print ads.
• Rock Me Archimedes, a cleverly named, smartly packaged board game.
• What stunningly beautiful nerdery is this? An R2D2 engagement ring.
• For nerds who like to collect random trivia: How mint became the default flavor for dental hygiene.

Friday Links: How many LEGOs would it take to build your house?

• How many LEGOs would it take to build your house?
• The Awl is trying to come up with a grand unified theory of nerdrage using Diablo III as a case study.
• Do you want your fingernails to look like teeny, tiny Stormtroopers? Then watch this video narrated by Darth Vader. Also, StarWars family decals for your car, admit it you want them.
• While CNN’s SCOTUS gaffe yesterday had nothing to do with ethics, I still thought of it while reading severe ethical breaches of superhero journalists.
• The Mac tax, according to Orbitz.
• Stop the snarky voice inside your head.
• For nerds who want to declare their BFFdom, Best Fandom Friends Forever Necklaces featuring Doctor Who, Super Mario Bros, and much more. Also check out the awesome time-laspse Super Mario chalk art video.
• Geeky street art.
• Top 10 Typography Crimes.

Friday Links: Triskaidekaphobic edition

• Why Tim O’Reilly is fighting SOPA.
• A follow-up to the illin’-whack controversy, Mike D of the Beastie Boys weighs in on The Colbert Report (much hilarity ensues).
• Don’t forget to RSVP for The Nerdery’s Agile webinar coming up Tuesday, January 17 & Thursday, January 19.
• We’ve all had our cell phones go off at inopportune times, but nothing is as bad as when it happened at the New York Philharmonic on Tuesday.
• What’s up with the weather?
• Star Trek vs StarWars: Which is better?
• Attention Design Nerds! PBS has posted the Charles & Ray Eames documentary.
• Why JRR Tolkien never won a Nobel prize.
• Ending an endless game: an interview with Julian Gough, author of Minecraft’s epic finale.
• Forecasting next week’s Apple education event.
• Lifehacker has the best tech-friendly airports and airlines.
• World’s most stunning beauty product: Fotoshop by Adobe.
• The magic & madness of the creative process.

Pancakes just got about 83% better

From Jim’s Pancakes comes the AT-AT Pancake.

Friday Links: Life-sized Conan in Lego and a Rubik’s Cube cake

• Zealous Good has a very nice write up about the Chicago Overnight Website Challenge. You should check it out.
• The Internet Tidal Wave, a 1995 memo from Bill Gates to Microsoft employees about the rising importance of the net.
• Conan O’Brien’s Flaming C in Lego, almost as good as Conan in Rubik’s Cubes.
• Speaking of, super awesome Rubik’s Cube cake.
• StarWars themed XBox 360 Kinect
• Five reasons geek culture should go away.
• This Zepplin was lurking around the Twin Cities last week, here’s what one rider/writer learned while riding aboard it.
• Comic-Con Bingo!
• If you missed it, you should watch When Sesame Street met the Beasties Boys.

Would you pay $400 to recreate Darth Vader’s Super Star Destroyer Executor

First of all, it’s called the Super Star Destroyer Executor? For real? Anyway, on September 1st LEGO is releasing a 3,152 brick, 50-inch, $400 set that lets you create Darth Vader’s personal spaceship in your own home.

So, would you pay $400 for a LEGO set? I paid $100 for the Harry Potter castle and that seemed a little ridiculous. However, it was a lot of fun putting it together with my nephews.

Also, of interesting Minneapolis Lego note: The Guthrie Theater made out of LEGOs.

Friday Links: You’ll find nothing about the end of the world here

• In case you missed it earlier this week, the ad agency bloodline.
• The Cosby Sweater project. More awesome than the law should allow.
• From Forbes: The 7 Biggest Mistakes Clients Make When Choosing an Agency.
• Oglivy Brazil did personalized business cards for kids. It’s a pretty cool project.
• Five stages of grief for StarWars fans.
• Dear recent graduates: How you start an email reveals a lot more about your intentions than you know. What Your Salute Says About You.
• In the NY Times: Study Sees Way to Win Spam Fight.
• Cars 2 trailer done in LEGO.
• Make an X-Wing Fighter from office supplies.