lego death star redux

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lego album covers

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STOP ALIEN ABDUCTIONS

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IT'S BEEN USED SUCCESSFULLY BY FORMER ABDUCTEES FOR NINE YEARS.

 

THIS WEBSITE TELLS YOU HOW TO MAKE A THOUGHT SCREEN HELMET, THE MATERIALS AND TOOLS YOU NEED TO MAKE ONE, AND WHERE YOU CAN OBTAIN THE MATERIALS

IF YOU ARE ABDUCTED BY ALIENS THE HELMET WILL WORK FOR YOU

http://www.stopabductions.com/

know your spock

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how to knit a dissected rat

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death star over san francisco

if h.p. lovecraft wrote descriptions for chocolates

from mcsweeney's 'Selections From H.P. Lovecraft's Brief Tenure as a Whitman's Sampler Copywriter':

White Chocolate Truffle

What black arts could have stripped this chocolate of its natural hue? The horror of the unearthly, corpselike pallor of this truffle's complexion is only offset by its fiendish deliciousness.

Toffee Nugget

Few men dare ask the question "What is toffee, exactly?" All those who have investigated this substance are now either dead or insane.

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the rapture index

christians have been tracking signs of end times (false christs, satanism, financial unrest, and so on) for a while now. over at rapture ready, they've created an index of 45 signs we're approaching the rapture. we're at 160 this week, down from 161 last week. it's a swing away from rapture, to be sure, but anything over 160 is aparently a sign that it's time to, as you put it once, stand up on the roof so you don't knock a hole in the ceiling. i quote from the site: behold!

The Rapture Index has two functions: one is to factor together a number of related end time components into a cohesive indicator, and the other is to standardize those components to eliminate the wide variance that currently exists with prophecy reporting.

The Rapture Index is by no means meant to predict the rapture, however, the index is designed to measure the type of activity that could act as a precursor to the rapture.

You could say the Rapture index is a Dow Jones Industrial Average of end time activity, but I think it would be better if you viewed it as prophetic speedometer. The higher the number, the faster we're moving towards the occurrence of pre-tribulation rapture.

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the large hadron collider is hott

the large hadron collider is nearly ready. it's pretty sexy. (click on the pictures to make them more awesome.)


did you know there's a bunch of folks trying to stop it? they're worried it will form tiny black holes which could get out of control.

'bah!' say their opponents. 'those black holes will be so tiny they will cease to exist in an instant!'


..which you may notice doesn't deny the black hole thing, just pooh-poohs its significance. yes, the old 'black holes? ha! i'm not afraid of black holes and if you are you are soft in the brain' defense.

i heard on the radio some science magazine like nature surveyed its readers and two-thirds of them agree there's no chance we will get swallowed up by a runaway black hole as a consequence of large hadron collider experiments. i don't know about you but a 1/3 chance of being swallowed by a black hole as a result of human activity seems pretty fucking high, if you ask me. fortunately

a) no-one has, and
b) nature readers are not the ultimate arbiters of the world. but then again, you'd think they had, on aggregate, the best chance of predicting the outcome of any given experiment on the physical world.


anyway, i guess we'll find out when they switch it on. sure is pretty, anyways. you couldn't ask for a better-looking agent of apocalypse.

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the earth with the surface removed

according to the british geological survey this is what the earth would look like if you took the soil and the water and cities off to reveal the pure geology under it all.

(found via bldgblog, which i think you would also like.)

johnny depp sausage

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ernie and bert: party starters

we can rule the universe as Father and Son

taken this morning in bondi, according to ellie.

a wizard has turned you into a whale

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lego giant squid

barney: the thing about lego is you can make something giant just by calling it giant. the squid doesn't look that big to me, quite frankly.

it does, however, look fierce. look! it's attacking the aqua station!



i found it at squid, "a blog about all things squid".

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the small humans are tastier!

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lego versions of famous photos

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sesame streets

casting and cinematography by bill henson, script by martin scorcese

the different methods of defending oneself with a walking-stick or umbrella when attacked under unequal conditions

hey baterz: if you have ever wanted to sever a man's jugular vein through the collar of his overcoat with your walking-stick, the journal of non-lethal combatives has an article you may find helpful. the author is one edmund william barton-wright, developer of the fearsome bartitsu; his topic: self-defense with a cane or walking stick. here's a quote:

No. 4. -- How to Defend Yourself, without Running any Risk of being Hurt, if you are carrying only a Small Switch in your Hand, and are Threatened by a Man with a very Strong Stick.

Imagine that you are walking in a lonely part of the country, carrying a light switch or an umbrella, when suddenly a foot-pad bars your way, carrying a stout stick, with which he threatens you.

It is obvious that under these conditions if you gave your assailant time to assume the offensive, he would have no difficulty in breaking down any slight guard you might offer, and in felling you to the ground. Knowing this disadvantage, and without giving him time to realise it, you must at once attack.

You should aim a vicious blow at your assailant's head, holding your hand very high in order to force him to guard high. Simultaneously, you should jump forward from the attacking position, shown in the second photograph, to the position shown in the third photograph, and strike him with the open hand high up on the chest, pulling his foot away from beneath him at the same time -- in order to disturb his balance, and destroy his power to hit you. You could now strike your adversary such a blow with your fist on the face as to render him unconscious, or, of course, you could belabor him with your stick if it were suitable for the purpose.

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squid vs whale

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lego death star

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martian soil could support asparagus

Martian soil appears to contain sufficient nutrients to support life - or, at least, asparagus - Nasa scientists believe.

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lego secret vault contains all sets in history

dear baterz

did you know there was a vault underneath the lego factory with a copy of each of the lego sets ever made?