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How far did Sam and Frodo walk? Middle Earth’s journeys compared to real-world hikes
How far did Sam and Frodo walk? Middle Earth’s journeys compared to real-world hikes
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1860s photos of the last Samurai
Felice Beato photographed Samurai in the 1860s and hand-colored the prints. According to Getty, he “made hundreds of ethnographic portraits and genre scenes in Japan. Read the rest
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1860s photos of the last Samurai
Heavy Metal band-name generator
The internet’s official heavy metal band name generator : pretty good names, with a brilliant presentation. What webfonts are for! ( Thanks, Eirik! )
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Heavy Metal band-name generator
Sony’s contract with Spotify revealed
The Verge obtained the 2011 agreement between the label and the music streaming service, which launched later that year. ” Sony Music came out the winner, ” reports Micah Singleton
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Alien drawing from 1906 edition of War of the Worlds sells for $32k
Henrique Alvim Corrêa’s fantastically beautiful pen & ink drawings for a 1906 special edition of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds were a hit at Heritage Auctions’ recent illustration art auction . Read the rest
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Alien drawing from 1906 edition of War of the Worlds sells for $32k
Could this beautiful game signal the end of our dystopia fetish?
Over the past decade or so, gritty, apocalyptic worlds were the favored setting of popular video games, and machinelike cyber-dystopias were a reliable aesthetic before that. But No Man’s Sky , a highly-anticipated upcoming world, is infinite and hopeful. Read the rest
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Hourglass full of magnetized "sand"
This $14, 100-second hourglass is filled with magnetized iron filings that form beautiful fans and other shapes as the sand drains into the bottom bulb. ( via Canopy )
Photos: Mark Hamill’s family visits Luke Skywalker at work (1982)
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)
Whoa, it’s Zelda: A Link To The Past’s world map, in living detail
“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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Ransomware decryptor
If you or someone you love has been hijacked by Coinvault ransomware — malware that encrypts your data and won’t decrypt it unless you transfer Bitcoin to criminals — Kaspersky may be able to help you ( via Hacker News )
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