In 1982, Mark Hamill’s wife Marilou and young son Nathan visited the set of Return of the Jedi. Here are a few of their personal photos. (more…)
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Photos: Mark Hamill’s family visits Luke Skywalker at work (1982)
“Friendly tag-based Javascript animators” JADSDS have made a gigantic HMTL5 map of the overworld from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past , also known as the best Zelda . Read the rest
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Whoa, it’s Zelda: A Link To The Past’s world map, in living detail
On The Intercept, Micah Lee follows up on his great primer on NSA-proof passwords with a soup-to-nuts tutorial on encrypting your laptop. Read the rest
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Encrypting your laptop demystified
Every time I read an interview with a Downton Abbey cast member, they seem to be discussing how much downtime they have on set Read the rest
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Downton Wars: Cast of ‘Downton Abbey’ creates parody video with lightsabers
MadameBerry has made us a neat toy: EDDA , An atmospheric slam poetry battle based on a collection of Old Norse poetry . Alongside warm firelight in a great hall, you choose how to complete phrases in response to your challenger, with the aim of besting four different types of poets. Read the rest
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Try performing in atmospheric Norse slam poetry competition
A restaurateur in Lecce, Italy dug up the plumbing for his perennially blocked toilets and discovered thousands of years’ worth of tunnels beneath the building, including a Messapian tomb. Read the rest
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Blocked Italian toilet leads to thousands of years of buried history
“Because there are so many technological world-firsts in the demo, and because we’re bending the hardware in ways that people have never thought to do so, it’s only fair that we try to explain exactly how this was achieved .”
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Amazing demo gets 1000 colors out of 4-color CGA PC card from 1981
Design studio Studio Drift created “Shylights” that unfurl as they lower from the ceiling, looking more like glowing jellyfish than chandeliers (more…)
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Undulating jellyfish-like chandeliers
Adrian Berry of The Telegraph says “the Great Attractor is neither a black hole or a super-cluster of galaxies, but we are travelling towards it inexorably.”
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An unknown force is pulling the Milky Way towards it at 14 million mph
Maker Ben Saks of KinetiGear is crowdfunding BoXZY , a desktop fabricator bringing micromanufacturing to the masses. Users can shape wood, plastics, and many metals using most commercial CAM programs. Read the rest
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BoXZY all-in-one 3D printer, CNC mill, & laser engraver