Tag Archives: Star Wars

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.

Friday Links: Dungeons & Dragons perfume, the business of funny, and more!

• Simple ways to save the world from your home.
• iPad overtakes Linux in browser usage.
• Dungeons & Dragons themed perfumes.
• How to create advertising that sells.
• Bands playing the Tatunes Music Festival . Very clever.
• The business of humor. An interview at Harvard Business Review with Ben Huh the CEO of the Cheezburger Network.
• A history of LEGO packaging design.
• The science of why we don’t believe science.
• Saying Apple will never do something is always dangerous.

There’s still time to add these to your holiday wishlist

We’re just gonna offer this up without comment. You can get more details at Wired.

Friday Links: You’re stealing it wrong

• Why the revolution will not be tweeted, a thought-provoking piece by Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker.
• Can experience be designed.
• George Lucas stole Chewbacca, but that’s okay.
• Doc Searls says let’s kill interruptive ads. Yes, let’s do that, shall we?
• 8-bit wood, I’m pretty sure The Nerdery needs these woodcraft Mario characters.
• How to detect a Photoshopped image.
• 10 best jobs of the future.
• How advertising reinforces Mommy and Daddy roles.
• You’re stealing it wrong, 30 years of inter-pirate battles.

Friday Links: Lots of StarWars links for reasons I cannot explain

• StarWars Uncut a re-make of StarWars: A New Hope reenacted by fans in 15 second chunks.
• R2D2 iPhone case coming soon.
• Stormtroopers singing in the rain.
• 35 lessons in 35 years.
• Trends in Fantasy Cover Art.
• The Old Spice campaign by the numbers.
• A letter to all of advertising and marketing.
• McCann responds to Mad Men diss.
• Science cookie cutters.
• 250 beautiful typography shirts.

Friday Links: Modern Brands, More Bogusky & Maps

• Modern brands 2.0: revenge of the corporation.
• More Bogusky? Why not.
• What happened to Yahoo.
• The EFF reviews Verizon and Google’s Net Neutrality Proposal.
• The 2010 social networking map.
• 25 songs about outdated technology (some what related, This is the tapedeck you’ll leave your great-grandson).
• StarWars X-Wing Fighter mailbox.
• A cool-looking MoMA App.
• Twitter: The Movie.