Hamburg Science Center and Aquarium is going to be a big upright circle?!

Link.

Toycutter updates

Over at my action figure and miniature customizing blog, recent posts include King Leonidas, Darth Maul, and Flying Monkey Munnys, tips on choosing the right glue and sculpting hands, and an Alex Ross-style Wolverine action figure.

Cheeseburger in a can

Buy.

Rice vs. Clinton book cover

Found here.

Interesting: BP plays a major part in the new version of SimCity

BP and EA have partnered to create SimCity Societies, the city-building game that deals with the causes and consequences of global warming. The game presents options for city power generation through various high- or low-carbon means, making available solar power, wind power, hydrogen power, natural gas and biofuels — the same alternative, cleaner forms of energy BP is working with leading researchers, scientists and engineers to provide.

Official site.

Mecha Naga Buddha T-Shirt Design

Vote for it here.

Fortune Magazine Named Enron "Most Innovative Company In America" Six Times In A Row

Link.

List of everything that made Bruce Banner turn into the Hulk on the tv series

For example:

3. Thinking about either of his wives.

Toy: Baby-Eating Crocodile by Amanda Visell

Part of the new StrangeCo Vivisect Playset.

The secret history of Silicon Valley

In WW2, 3/4 of aluminum foil "disappeared." The populace didn't know that the US had figured out how to use aluminum to foil German radar.

Don Solomono, the Jewish Indian Chief

From the earliest contact between North American Indians and white European settlers, the Europeans held the upper hand. Almost unremittingly, the Europeans imposed their idea of private ownership of land on the Native Americans, obtaining it from them by purchase, stealth and war. Virtually every Indian tribe in North America found its contacts with white settlers painful, if not fatal, and few Indians trusted or respected, much less loved, the white men and women they knew.

One exception to this generalization was Solomon Bibo, a white trader who won the trust and affection of the Acoma Pueblo Indians of New Mexico. In 1888, "Don Solomono," as he was known to the Acomas, became governor of the Acoma Pueblo, the equivalent of chief of the tribe. Remarkably, the Acomas asked the United States to recognize Bibo as their leader. Even more remarkable is that Bibo was a Jew.

Keep reading.

Warhammer 40K Dreadnought, made out of Lego

Larger photos here.

Funny screenshot from Jumper

I love this screenshot from the upcoming movie Jumper, showing the main character teleporting an enemy into a shark's path. Found here.

Flying hotel is a cross between a whale and a zeppelin

More concept images of "Manned Cloud" here.

"Mommy, why is there a server in the house?"

Apparently a Microsoft giveaway at CES. See more images from the booklet here.

Kayaking with huge shark

Allegedly not photoshopped. Buy a poster.

Smoking mittens with built in cigarette shaped hole

There's no longer any reason for your hands to get chilly when you sneak out for a smoke. Buy.

Poster: Tokyo 2016

Larger version here.

Valiant comics custom action figures

More here.

"We gladly feast on those who would subdue us."

Not just pretty words. It's the Addams Family motto.

Awesome U.S. Military Patches Part 6 (Starbucks edition)

Thanks to Wired's Danger Room, I was reminded of the great U.S. Military patches I dug up last month. Here's another batch:












Awesome U.S Military Patches Part 1

Awesome U.S Military Patches Part 2

Awesome U.S. Military Patches Part 3

Awesome U.S. Military Patches Part 4

Awesome U.S. Military Patches Part 5.


These patches (and many, many more) are all on sale at McGrogan's.

FoodTees

Buy.

Bat Sentry Customized Action Figure

Link.

100 things we learned this year, courtesy of the BBC

For example, Anthony and Cleopatra were ugly. Full list here.

How Archie Leach became "Cary Grant"

An insipid, undefined pretty boy on screen, he appeared in twenty pictures in four years, nearly a quarter of the films he'd ever make, and failed to distinguish himself—though he woodenly received Mae West's most famous, and most misquoted, line: "Why don't you come up some time and see me?" Indeed, his pervasive, obvious discomfort in these creaky movies is the only evidence of his innate intelligence and taste as an actor. But in 1936, something clicked when he played a supporting role in Sylvia Scarlett. Though it was a mess of a picture, he shone as a Cockney swindler, a character close to his roots, rather than the stilted Valentino he usually played. The film's director, George Cukor, recalled that the nearly thirty-two-year-old Grant "flowered; he felt the ground under his feet.

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Awesome U.S. Military Patches Part 5

I thought it'd be fun to post some military patches, and ended up finding a treasure trove of good ones. I'll be posting more soon.












Awesome U.S Military Patches Part 1

Awesome U.S Military Patches Part 2

Awesome U.S. Military Patches Part 3

Awesome U.S. Military Patches Part 4


These patches (and many, many more) are all on sale at McGrogan's.



Finally, this book about military patches sounds great:

Shown here for the first time, these seventy-five patches reveal a secret world of military imagery and jargon, where classified projects are known by peculiar names ("Goat Suckers," "None of Your Fucking Business," "Tastes Like Chicken") and illustrated with occult symbols and ridiculous cartoons. Although the actual projects represented here (such as the notorious Area 51) are classified, these patches-which are worn by military units working on classified missions-are precisely photographed, strangely hinting at a world about which little is known.

By submitting hundreds of Freedom of Information requests, the author has also assembled an extensive and readable guide to the patches included here, making this volume the best available survey of the military's black world-a $27 billion industry that has quietly grown by almost 50 percent since 9/11.

I Could Tell You but Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagons Black World

Freeform Sofa and Ottoman

Link.

Awesome U.S. Military Patches Part 4

I thought it'd be fun to post some military patches, and ended up finding a treasure trove of good ones. I'll be posting more soon.












Awesome U.S Military Patches Part 1

Awesome U.S Military Patches Part 2

Awesome U.S. Military Patches Part 3


These patches (and many, many more) are all on sale at McGrogan's.