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Agent Dale Cooper action figure (Twin Peaks)

Posted: 07 Jun 2008 10:47 PM CDT

From a Worth1000 photoshop contest.

If Mike Tyson had starred in A Beautiful Mind

Posted: 07 Jun 2008 10:32 PM CDT

Photoshopped poster part of a contest at Worth1000.

WuChess, an online chess site backed by Rza of the Wu-Tang Clan

Posted: 07 Jun 2008 10:00 PM CDT

Go play here. Via.

Well-written review of Stratford Shakespeare Festival's production of "The Trojan Women"

Posted: 07 Jun 2008 09:56 PM CDT

I'm not a big fan of live stage productions, but Noah Millman has written an excellent review of Stratford Shakespeare Festival's production of "The Trojan Women." Here's a taste:

The play is set after the fall of Troy. Hector is dead. Priam is dead. Paris is dead. The city is sacked and the women wait in tents outside the walls for their new masters to parcel them out amongst themselves as slaves. Before meeting the women, we open with Poseidon's impotent fury at the loss of his city, and his surprise at Athena's sudden reversal of sympathy and determination to visit revenge upon the Greeks whom she had only just led to triumph. These gods depart, and we are left with the women. Hecuba, Queen of Troy, stirs to bemoan her fate – no sons, no husband, no city – and learns soon enough that so long as she can say "this is the worst" the worst is yet to come.

It's not the way one normally chooses to spend an evening, listening to the lamentation of women. Conan accounted it the greatest delight, but he spoke specifically of the lamentation of women whose husbands he had slain, and anyhow he was a barbarian.

Read the whole thing. Via.

Gnar Wars: Video of Jedi and Sith snowboarding, lightsaber action

Posted: 07 Jun 2008 09:52 PM CDT

Gnar Wars by Mike Benson from Mike Benson on Vimeo.

Via.

Fake airline created to test ad results

Posted: 07 Jun 2008 09:41 PM CDT

The ads are running at Philly.com and in the Inquirer and Daily News print editions. The airline is called Derrie-Air. Via.

Seattle to ban beach bonfires in effort to fight global warming

Posted: 07 Jun 2008 09:34 PM CDT

According to a memo to the park board from the staff released Thursday, "The overall policy question for the Board is whether it is good policy for Seattle Parks to continue public beach fires when the carbon ... emissions produced by thousands of beach fires per year contributes to global warming."

Link. Via.

Meanwhile, researchers have uncovered measurement bias in six-decades-old data on global surface temperatures.

Threadless T-Shirt Design: This cup of coffee will put you in a good mood, like it or not

Posted: 07 Jun 2008 09:31 PM CDT

cup of good mood - Threadless, Best T-shirts Ever

Artist's site.

Run Xbox Media Center from a USB Drive

Posted: 07 Jun 2008 09:23 PM CDT

Step by step instructions at Lifehacker.

Tips for surviving if you happened to be transported back to 1000 AD

Posted: 07 Jun 2008 02:17 PM CDT

Here's the question:

I wanted to ask for survival tips in case I am unexpectedly transported to a random location in Europe (say for instance current France/Benelux/Germany) in the year 1000 AD (plus or minus 200 years). I assume that such transportation would leave me with what I am wearing, what I know, and nothing else. Any advice would help.

Interesting discussion here. This would be a great assignment spread across every class in junior high/high school.

The character of John Constantine was created because the artists wanted to draw Sting

Posted: 07 Jun 2008 02:06 PM CDT

Alan Moore, speaking about Steve Bissette and John Totleben:

One of those early notes was they both wanted to do a character that looked like Sting. I think DC is terrified that Sting will sue them, although Sting has seen the character and commented in Rolling Stone that he thought it was great. He was very flattered to have a comic character who looked like him, but DC gets nervous about these things. They started to eradicate all traces of references in the introduction of the early Swamp Thing books to John Constantine's resemblance to Sting . But I can state categorically that the character only existed because Steve and John wanted to do a character that looked like Sting.

More Comic Book Urban Legends here.

Danboard Papercraft

Posted: 07 Jun 2008 01:42 PM CDT