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    Image of Allen_Richards Allen_Richards
    02:53 PM

    The only movie to look forward to this year, and here's the first trailer!

    [www.nipponcinema.com]

    #tips
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    Image of bookwench bookwench
    12/29/09

    [www.zappos.com]

    It has robots on the inside. (Mostly of interest to girls.)

    This warranted further investigation.
    [www.irregularchoice.com]
    Apparently, the website for the manufacturer has a robot, too...

    #tips
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    Image of Allen_Richards Allen_Richards
    12/29/09

    I could really give a rat's ass about most celebrity passings, but reading this just now made me feel empty inside.

    May she follow Carole-Ann into the light...

    [www.postchronicle.com]

    #tips
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/27/09

    Absolutely THE most amazing and cool thing I've seen this year. I just wish I had seen this a bit earlier, because it makes for an awesome christmas gift.

    How to permanently capture a lightning bolt into an acrylic sculpture. Make sure to watch the videos to see the process while it's happening and also check out some of the other pages, which have lots of extremely interesting information.

    [www.CapturedLightning.com]

    #tips #madscience #lightning #observationdeck
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/27/09

    @Roklimber: Here's *just one* example of an amazing variety of styles. This is incredibly cool. I'm having a nerdgasm just browsing through these pictures.

    #tips
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/27/09

    @Roklimber: I can't resist adding another picture...

    [www.CapturedLightning.com]

    #tips
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/27/09

    @Roklimber: And here's a neat video.

    #tips
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    12/27/09

    Avatar drops only 2% in second weekend to $75 million.

    [www.usatoday.com]

    #tips
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/25/09

    Awesome picture of the milky way, from end to end.

    [antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov]

    #tips #spaceporn #milkyway
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    Image of chrysee chrysee
    12/25/09

    A British scientist has found mathematical proof of parallel universes.

    [www.telegraph.co.uk]

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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/25/09

    @chrysee:

    That telegraph article is skimpy on details and repetitive on its claims. I want to read the actual paper.

    Still, mathematical proofs do not imply physical existence so, even if the claimed results are consistent, it doesn't mean that multiple universes actually exist.

    Personally, I'm very skeptical, for a very simple reason: mass and energy conservation.

    If every event that happens splits the universe where it happened into multiple universes, where does the energy and mass contained in these new universes come from?

    For instance, if I now decide to type the letter 'x' instead of the letter 'y', at least one other entire universe was instantly created, where I typed the letter 'y' instead of the letter 'x'.

    How did my decision instantly create all the galaxies, black holes, neutron stars, solar systems, planets, life, intelligent beings, including the people reading this, in that other universe?

    #tips #madscience #multiverse
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/24/09

    How bees perform perfect landing
    [news.bbc.co.uk]

    Amazing slow-motion video showing how bees land

    #tips #bees #science #nature
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    Image of Kakkoii Kakkoii
    12/24/09

    World's First Molecular Transistor Created

    [www.sciencedaily.com]

    #tips
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    Image of Kakkoii Kakkoii
    12/24/09

    Santa’s Sleigh: Researcher Explains Science of Christmas Magic

    [www.sciencedaily.com]

    #tips
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    12/23/09

    Hubble advent calendar over at The Big Picture:
    [www.boston.com]

    Great shots.

    #tips
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    Image of Im_your_Huckleberry Im_your_Huckleberry
    12/23/09

    Leonard Nimoy joins 'Star Trek online'
    [content.usatoday.com]

    #tips
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    Image of BullfightsOnAcid BullfightsOnAcid
    12/22/09

    Wired has a great article about Asylum Films which brings us the great mockbusters 'Snakes on a Train', 'Transmorphers', 'The Terminators', and 'The Day the Earth Stopped'. Here are my favorite parts from the article:

    I said, ‘What if we did 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea?’ Latt recalls. ‘We’ll call it 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea. It’s 10,000 more leagues.’

    Toward the end of shooting Snakes on a Train, line producer Anthony Fankhauser received an unusual request from the bosses: Could the movie’s ending be changed to look more like the video box? "The cover was just a giant snake eating a train," Fankhauser says. "So on day 10, we had to cobble together this scene where one of the characters turns into a snake, crashes out the side of the train, and then eats it up.

    The Asylum keepers insist they’re not abandoning the mockbuster, but after Sherlock is released the company plans to follow it up with a meteor film, an airplane-disaster movie, a western, and something called MILF.

    [www.wired.com]

    #tips #asylum
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    Image of MonkeyT MonkeyT
    12/21/09

    Fun blog entry:

    [blogs.discovermagazine.com]

    #tips
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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    12/21/09

    I'm hesitant about sharing this, but Virgin media have spoiled the first half of 'The End of Time."

    I highly advise that you only click on the link if you have a strong constitution and are enough of a fan to watch on Christmas Day anyways, since some of the plot points mentioned sound... well... more than a little retarded.

    Still, you can't tell a movie's plot from a viewmaster reel, and that's essentially what this is. Here's hoping the episode as a whole stands up much better under close scrutiny.

    [www.virginmedia.com]

    #tips #doctorwho
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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    12/21/09

    This is an odd bit of Doctor Who filming with Matt Smith from back in October that seems to have passed under the radar. Alas, it's pouring rain, so you can't make out any dialogue, but it does look like a pretty intense scene.

    #tips #doctorwho #mattsmith
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    Image of Eseph Eseph
    12/21/09

    [www.slashfilm.com]

    If you've got the time, it's a 70 minute deconstruction of Phantom Menace... And it's all too right.

    #tips
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    Image of DoctorWhorrible DoctorWhorrible
    12/20/09

    [www.bbcamerica.com]

    Clip of the next Doctor Who special.

    #tips
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/19/09

    NASA reveals first-ever photo of liquid on another world
    [edition.cnn.com]

    'Boat' could explore Saturn moon
    [news.bbc.co.uk]

    #tips #spaceporn #titan #saturn #science
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    12/26/09

    @Roklimber: Awesome! I love that picture of the methane lake on Titan.

    #science
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/19/09

    Apophis asteroid to scrape off the Earth in April 2029 (video simulation)

    Closest approach ever of any known object.

    [www.huffingtonpost.com]

    #tips #spaceporn #asteroids
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