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How to make a Death Star Melon [Make]
Danny Mavromatis appears to be nearing a launch of his sweet-looking home automation software.
Each of the plaintiffs in the 2nd amendment case to receive a Model 442 Special.
Nice Italian hat on eBay - 7 1/4.
Hmm… Not even John Stewart will have this best-selling former Los Angeles District Attorney on to talk about his book.
NPR’s Day to Day interviews Alpha maker Mr. Jalopy on giant iPods, the Maker’s Bill of Rights, and more.
Matt Sotis just sent me this picture of the newly completed POTA chimp mask that I commissioned. Full post to come upon completion of costume.
I know a few Obama campaign donors who are starting to feel a little Buyer’s Remorse over Obama’s breaking of his campaign pledge on FISA. [image credit]
Don’t worry, you can buy them back at Grandpa Marbles Homepage.
The always lucid Naomi Klein talks to Tavis Smiley about her new book, Shock Doctrine.
Dinosaurs and Robots points out that you can buy this fantastic Soviet space rover toy/model/prototype on ebay.
Apparently in Fiji they play a cocopunk version of petanque. What’s that you say? you don’t even play regular petanque yet? You will my friend, you will.
Petanque boules were once handmade by pounding nails into a wooden ball.
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Feast your eyes on this gorgeous pulp cover that was given to us as a house warming gift by my friend Pat after we bought our first house 12 years ago.
I think of this paleo-futuristic real estate scene everytime I happen upon a 37 signals product logo in the course of my web browsing.
…meet George Jetson!
schweeeet ! i ‘member that…. its purty cool. was it 12 years ago or longer ??
Hmmm, perhaps original inspiration for The Inflatable Space Commune Orbiting Mars, aka cohousing in Madison, Wisconsin.
I love how they thought back then that this might happen one day, but baldness was never gonna get a cure!
Love the picture of space ship etc. Isn’t it funny how things that you never thought would come to past are now happening in our day and age.
Love the picture of space ship etc. Isn’t it funny how things that you never thought would come to past are now happening in our day and age.
Love the picture of space ship etc. Isn’t it funny how things that you never thought would come to past are now happening in our day and age.
Aha, that is a partial cover of the December 1953 issue of Space Science Fiction magazine, featuring the story mentioned, which has nothing to do with that.. interesting… cover illustration.
Here is a link to a page showing the full cover.
http://www.tomfolio.com/bookdetailsmem.asp?book=PA400&mem=46
or to the image
http://www.booksfromthecrypt.com/pa-400.jpg
OR… lol, Science Fiction Adventures… damn, that was the same color and everything… oh.. wow.. both magazines were very short lived, like 12 issues for one, 8 for the other… damn if they didn’t look really similar to me
example:
http://www.zarthani.net/Images/ullrupr53a.jpg
This is one of the two issues that I own of this short lived rag, because it was the only way at the time I could find a copy of an out of print story by a favorite author, H. Beam Piper.