Look What I Found
I found this on two of my favorite sites: The Force.net and HowStuffWorks.com
Howstuffworks “How Lightsabers Work”
Chances are that you have seen a lightsaber at one time or another, whether on the evening news or down at the local cantina. Therefore you know that a lightsaber is an amazing and versatile device that is able to cut through nearly anything in a matter of milliseconds.
If you are a fan of Cartoons and/or Legos you are in for a treat.
The Cartoon Network and Lego have a new movie coming out on May 8th at 7:00pm it is called Star Wars:Revenge of the Brick.
The trailer looks great and I look forward to seeing it.
Consider it an appetizer for the main course on May 19th.
I saw this via Hack-a-day. It is a pinhole camera that you put together and it resembles a real 35mm camera. It was originally printed in a magazine and you follow the instructions and create your camera. I thought that this was a especially worthy hack considering what you can do when you have very little to work with.
Dirkon – The Paper Camera [pinhole.cz]
During the 1970s, magazines published in Communist Czechoslovakia were controlled by the state, like the majority of other enterprises. Very few good magazines were available and were difficult to get hold of, so people would borrow and exchange them when given the opportunity. This also applied to magazines aimed at young people, which was probably one of the reasons why almost everyone from my generation, when we get on to the subject of pinhole cameras, has fond memories of the cut-out paper camera known as Dirkon*, published in 1979 in the magazine ABC mladých techniků a pÅ™ÃÂrodovÄ›dců [An ABC of Young Technicians and Natural Scientists].
Don’t forget that Free comic book day is Saturday. I am planning on taking my son again this year. It was a lot of fun seeing my son pick out a few books last year, and a big dusting off some old feelings walking back into the comic book shop.
It isn’t just about the free stuff…pick up a few books too while you are there! Kill a Tree!
How about a link to the closest thing to the “Guide” that we have today. Wikipedia.
Let see what the Wikipedia has to say about The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
At the top of my site I have changed my graphic in keeping with my HHGG day (At least it is HHGG day in my world today) I had some people email me and ask where I got the pic of the Bable fish.
I got it from the BBC’s hitchhiker site. They have images and all sorts of things related to the the radio and tv shows.
Check it out here.
The picture is on the “Picture gallery” link on the left.
In keeping with my HHGG only posting today to celebrate the Movie of same name coming out…I find this from digg….
Gear Live | The Final Cut: A Look at The Hitchhiker’s Guide Movie and History
Time for another weekly column, Gear Live style. This week she gives us a bit of background on The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy:
This is a nice tribute to Douglas Adams…Seems like I am having a HHGG only posting day.
FilmForce: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Douglas Adams
Friends and colleagues — including Terry Jones, Neil Gaiman, & Stephen Fry — remember the man behind the Guide.
BBC – Radio 4 – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Steve Meretzky
In 1984 Douglas Adams got together with Steve Meretzky of Infocom to create the Hitchhiker’s Adventure Game.
In this interview Steve explains how the project evolved.
If you haven’t seen googlesightseeing.com, basically he is posting pictures of landmarks and such that he is finding with Google Maps Satellite images.
Some of the pictures that this guy is finding are awesome…so I decided to find something of my own.
This is Carowinds. An amusment park that just about everyone that had been a teenager in this area has worked at some time or another.
Click on the image to see a full blown version.
