Category Archives: Arty Stuff

432 Matchstick Ships

Posted on September 1, 2010 by alan

Master modeler Phil Warren has been building match stick ships for 62 years. Every one is made from just wooden match sticks and the wooden boxes they come in. Amazing.

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Graboids!

Posted on September 1, 2010 by alan

Monstrous Wildlife from Frank Robnik on Vimeo.

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Augmented Reality Rock Band

Posted on August 27, 2010 by alan

I am WAY too uncoordinated to play regular Rock Band, there’s no way I could do this… But I like it. Augmented reality is going to change the world in ways we can’t even begin to imagine.

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Voices from the past – 120 years

Posted on June 26, 2010 by alan

120 years ago, in 1888, the new Edison Phonograph was used to record over 3000 voices singing in the Crystal Palace. They are the oldest audio recordings still in existence from Great Britain. The original wax cylinders have been converted … Continue reading →

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Good… Bad… I'm the guy with soup

Posted on June 23, 2010 by alan

Now you can have the REAL Campbell’s soup. Bruce Campbell’s that is: SciFi Wire has created new soup labels in honor of Bruce Campbell’s birthday.

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Robb has a new icon

Posted on June 11, 2010 by alan

Can’t happen soon enough.

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Gun Porn, Texas Style

Posted on June 3, 2010 by alan

Blackfork has his photos for the TSRA 2010 calendar up. Also, a couple of gorgeous LeMat revolvers. Drool….

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xkcd iPad app!!!!!!

Posted on May 28, 2010 by alan

Oh hell yes. Here’s a screen grab:

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Everybody Draw Mohammed Day

Posted on May 20, 2010 by alan

I am horrible at drawing, even my stick figures suck but Everybody Draw Mohammed Day is not about the quality of the art but that it is done in the first place. Here’s mine: (Truly horrible, but you can plainly … Continue reading →

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Tomorrow: Everybody Draw Mohammed Day

Posted on May 19, 2010 by alan

Tomorrow, May 20th is Everybody Draw Mohammed Day Our Draw Mohammed contest is not a frivolous exercise of hip, ironic, hoolarious sacrilege toward a minority religion in the United States (though even that deserves all the protection that the most … Continue reading →

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