Just a friendly reminder that the NSA ‘s children’s website, “CryptoKids, ” is an actual, not-in-the-least-bit-weird thing that exists. Read more…
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The NSA’s website for kids isn’t creepy. Nope. Not creepy at all.
Noel Rubin designed the user interfaces for Star Wars Episodes 1 and 3, and now he’s put together a sizzle reel , showing just how awesome the computer screens on those ships really looked. Read more…
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Amazing Footage: The Spaceship User Interfaces of Star Wars
Back in the late 19th century, impressionist artist Claude Monet captured this striking sunset on the Normandy Coast. Now, thanks to the work of forensic astronomers, we known the precise moment it happened: February 5th, 1883 — at exactly 4:53 PM. Read more…
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Astronomers know when Monet made this painting — to the very minute
With a literacy rate hovering around an estimated 5 to 10 percent of the population during the Middle Ages, only a select few of society’s upper echelons and religious castes had use for books. So who would have use for a sextuplet of stories bound by a single, multi-hinged cover like this? Some seriously busy scholar. Read more…
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This Transforming Medieval Text Is Actually Six Books in One
This concept plane is called the AWWA Sky Whale and it’s the brainchild of Spanish designer Oscar Viñals. Should it ever leave the ground, the three-floor aircraft would hold 755 passengers and be powered by four large hybrid engines. Read more…
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The monstrous Sky Whale could be the future of air travel
Italian animator Rino Stefano Tabliafierro breathes subtle (and not-so-subtle) life into dozens of classical paintings in his captivating short, Beauty . [ Fair warning: here be nudity, sex, violence and death. Sometimes all at once.] Read more…
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Watch Classical Paintings Come Alive, in Beauty
In 1988, two fans of Star Trek: The Next Generation broke onto the Paramount lot and wandered through the Enterprise sets, filming a homemade documentary as they went along. They also caused a little accidental mayhem along the way. Read more…
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Two fans broke onto Star Trek: TNG sets to film their own documentary
In an alternate universe, the feature-length adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! isn’t a live-action film starring Jim Carrey but a CG animated film, with Jack Nicholson voicing the Grinch and designs by Bloom County cartoonist Berkeley Breathed. Read more…
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Berkeley Breathed’s concept art for a Grinch movie with Jack Nicholson
The Expanded Universe as we knew it will soon be no more. Disney has created a special committee whose job it will be to figure out what is and isn’t part of a complete Star Wars canon — meaning all the EU material created over the years will be judged, and either become official or deemed invalid. Read more…
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Disney appoints a group to determine a new, official Star Wars canon
The Library of Congress’s website hosts a high-resolution scan of a rare edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” illustrated by Gustave Doré. The title-page is at page 11 , the list of illustrations is on page 14 . The illustrations are amazing, like no other illustrated Poe I’ve seen. I’ve collected my favorites below, and there are a lot of them — honestly, it was impossible to choose. The Raven / by Edgar Allan Poe ; illustrated by Gustave Doré ; with comment by Edmund C. Stedman. ( via Reddit )
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High-rez scan Poe’s "Raven," illustrated by Dore