Get a Steampunk Voice with the Victorianator
If you are contemplating a steampunk Halloween this year, or just want to bring a touch of verisimilitude to your steampunk conventioneering, you shouldn’t stop with just brass fittings on a costume....
View ArticleThis Week in The Clone Wars: “Mercy Mission”
As you can tell from the peaceable look of the clone troopers pictured above, this week’s episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars involves a mercy mission to the planet Aleen, which is being plagued by...
View ArticleThis Week in The Clone Wars: Gulliver’s Droids (Plus a Peek at Darth Maul)
In last week’s episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, C-3PO and R2-D2 are briefly separated from their battalion of clones, and have an adventure entirely of their own, in a bizarre underground world....
View ArticleFree Your Toys and Join #OccupyLegoLand
As the #OccupyWallStreet protests spread around the globe this weekend, intensifying in some places into open conflict with authorities, it was inevitable that the movement would strike at the heart of...
View ArticleThe CClones Project Documents Stormtroopers as Parents
The CClones 365-2011 Project juxtaposes stormtrooper and clone trooper action figures (parents) with Lego minifigs (kids) to create scenes of imperial parenting. It’s such a simple idea that it’s pure...
View ArticleThis Week in The Clone Wars: The Shadow Planet of Umbara
After the droid-centered hijinks of the last two episodes, Star Wars: The Clone Wars returns to its core competencies this week, with clone troopers riding AT-RTs into battle against overwhelming odds...
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RIP Bob Anderson, Master of the Lightsaber
Everyone knows that Darth Vader was voiced by James Earl Jones and acted by David Prowse; fewer realize that The Empire Strikes Back and The Return of the Jedi also featured an actual sword fighter for...
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This Week in The Clone Wars: Anakin and Obi-Wan Escape Slavery
Star Wars: The Clone Wars returns from its winter hiatus to conclude a three-part story arc about the alliance between the Separatist forces and the Zygerrian slavers, who resent the Jedi for forcing...
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This Week in The Clone Wars: The Mandalorians Are Back – With Katee Sackhoff!
Last year, in an episode called “Heroes on Both Sides,” Ahsoka Tano learned that not all of the Separatists are motivated by evil. That realization even coincided with a change in how she was drawn,...
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Google Tips Its Hat to Charles Dickens on His 200th Birthday
Today’s Google Doodle commemorates the 200th birthday of Charles John Huffam Dickens, the celebrated author of such novels as Great Expectations, Bleak House, Oliver Twist, Pickwick Papers, A Christmas...
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Book of Sith Reveals Secrets and Artifacts of the Dark Side
In the Star Wars universe, the Sith consistently portray themselves as the ones who know the true nature of the Force, or, at least, the ones who are brave enough to confront truths about the Force...
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On Not Apologizing: Review of Forgive Me, I Meant To Do It
William Carlos Williams was a poet of extraordinary innovation and ambition, and so it’s a little funny that he’s probably best known today for two of his (apparently) simplest poems, “The Red...
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Outsmart the Weather With the Dark Sky App
Coaching and otherwise volunteering in Little League, I've learned that accurate intel about weather makes the season run much more smoothly. Rain-outs wreak havoc with the schedule -- they eliminate...
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Have Fun Offline With the Presence Project
I was struck by Presence Project (via Alex Soojung-Kim Pang), in which two graduate students in the Institute of Design at Stanford, Kyle Williams and Emily Goligoski, are trying to help families...
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5 reasons Why Independence Day is the Geekiest Holiday of Them All
Independence Day is secretly a great geek holiday. Underneath all that grilling and baseball and apple pie is a holiday dedicated to those inventors and makers who dedicated themselves to the...
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Go Further: Beyond the Threshold in Chris Roberson’s New Series
Receiving a copy of something billed as the first book in a new space opera series is not, by my tastes, unqualified good news. I prefer my science fiction a little harder, with protagonists who are a...
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Every Girl Should Go To The Science Fair
A couple of weeks ago, our family's main babysitter, an undergraduate chemistry major, made a depressing -- and depressingly accurate -- observation: She has several female friends who are chemistry...
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Have Authors Write to Your Child With Letters for Kids
When you're a child, the concept of getting your own mail is pretty exciting. Now imagine how cool it would be for your kids to regularly get letters from authors.
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Horrible Hauntings Lets Ghosts Haunt Your Mobile Device
Horrible Hauntings is a children's book/augmented reality app that brings ghost stories to life.
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Watch This | Hang Out Tomorrow With the Cast of Star Wars: The Clone Wars
After you watch Darth Maul's reunion with Darth Sidious this morning on Star Wars: The Clone Wars, join the cast for a Google Hangout at 10:30 PST.
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