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Quote: "Monday, Monday/ Can't trust that day/ Monday, Monday/ Sometimes it just turns out that way." — The Mamas and the Papas, "Monday, Monday"
Inspiration: 100 Creative Desktop Backgrounds
A nice collection of 100 creative desktop backgrounds. Important to know, that a proper background image can lift your mood. Just like we enjoy personalizing and decorating our homes, we are able to get the same pleasure of decorating our digital environment. Let’s have a look at the possibilities of such decorations.
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It’s important that you pick accessories which match your fervor and instinct. Here we list some noxious USB for those with wild zing. So, get set for the venomous and some dangerous USBs, but remember that you may also encounter creepy creatures in the wild.
beyond your base-line weirdness
http://www.techfemina.com/entry/ten-wild-usb-drives-for-killer-users/It’s important that you pick accessories which match your fervor and instinct.... more
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A car collectors who also restores decided to make a BSG Viper Starfighter from the series. He succeeded in the look but has also made the car street legal.
"From what I remember, the front end is off of an old postal Jeep, it has chevy small block engine (cause Dean is a GM guy and he has lots of small blocks lying around the shop). It seats one person and has a cassette deck. No A/C."-JalopnikA car collectors who also restores decided to make a BSG Viper Starfighter from the... more
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By Jim Kavanagh
CNN
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- It's Geek Pride Week in Atlanta as thousands of fans take over four downtown hotels for Dragon*Con, an annual celebration of science fiction, fantasy, comics and gaming.
Karen Lee and husband Dillan dressed like comic book characters for Dragon*Con in Atlanta, Georgia.
1 of 2 more photos » Where else -- OK, other than San Francisco or New Orleans -- are city streets shut down for a ragtag parade of zombies, superheroes, robots, Klingons and Middle Earth dwellers?
Where else can comic book collectors rub shoulders with movie stars, vampires, alternate-history speculators and Harry Potter look-alikes, all while taking part in a lively game of Godzilla Bingo?
The whole thing is a bit of a shock to college football fans in town for the season-opening game between Alabama and Virginia Tech, one of whom called it a "freak show." But those aliens grow on you after a while.
"At first I thought it was really strange," Hokies fan Emily Nardone of Ashburn, Virginia, said. "But now I see everybody's having so much fun. And I enjoy looking at the freaks."
One Dragon*Con "freak" getting a lot of looks was Karen Lee of Cullman, Alabama. She was dressed a dramatic, cleavage-baring winged costume inspired by "Dawn" comic book artist Joseph Michael Linsner.
Lee made the costume by hand at home. "My living room is completely demolished," she said. Her husband, Dillan, made up as the Batman character Two-Face, said he could attest to the condition of the living room.
Lee is entered in a Dawn look-alike contest with a top prize of $1,000.
"The theory behind the concept of Dawn is just paying homage to women of all shapes and sizes," she said. "She can be blonde, brunette or redhead. So basically, it's just inviting women to get up there and do their interpretation of what they think beauty in women is." iReport.com: Share your pics and videos from Dragon*Con
Fashion augmented with gadgetry is what drew Pendleton, South Carolina, librarians Gypsey Teague and Marla Roberson to a Dragon*Con workshop on Steampunk costuming.
Steampunk is sci-fi set in a Victorian aesthetic. Think pearl-handled, brass-barreled ray guns. The movies "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" and "Wild Wild West" are examples of the genre.
"Anything your imagination can come up with, you can do," Roberson said as she marveled at a vendor's shoes that had little copper boilers and compasses on them.
But it seems there's a certain element of snobbery in Steampunk. A crew of Steampunk pirates entered the room, decked out in their tricorn hats and eye patches. Teague was not impressed.
"Where's your molecular destabilizer?" she sniffed.
Out in the hallway, Steampunk time travelers Candace and Kane Bacon were just arriving. They're new to the game, but Kane had a copper staff with dials on top and a big metal backpack with dials and knobs strapped to his back. A large brass key dangled from the sash around Candace's waist, and she carried a basket of dinosaur eggs they'd found.
"Some of it we had just [lying] around the house, antique stuff," Candace said. "Other parts we got from Lowe's. The backpack is made from radio parts; my dad is in the radio business, and he got some old radio parts for us. And yard sale gadgets."
She said she was a Steampunker before she knew what Steampunking wasBy Jim Kavanagh
CNN
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- It's Geek Pride Week in... more
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http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2009/11/dinkytown_dad_s.php
Is this taking the whole Star Trek thing a teensie weensie bit too far? d'Armond Speers spoke only Klingon to his child for the first three years of its life.
Klingon? Not Spanish, French, Mandarin? Not some gutteral genuflecting concoction from the deepest recesses of Borneo? Klingon? You heard it right. (And if you don't know about the Klingon Empire, look it up.)
"I was interested in the question of whether my son, going through his first language acquisition process, would acquire it like any human language," Speers told the Minnesota Daily. "He was definitely starting to learn it."
And get this, Speers says he isn't really a huge Star Trek fan.
We'll take his word for it.
More...http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2009/11/dinkytown_dad_s.php
Is this taking the... more
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I guess you could build a house with practically any material. But I never thought you could actually build one from LEGO pieces. So James May, a toy fanatic from the UK surprised me, by building a real house from one of my favorite toys as a child.
The two-story Lego palace is located in the middle of a vineyard and has a working bathroom. James used bricks pieced together by 272 Legos. Over three million bricks were used so that’s about 816 million Lego pieces. Quite an amazing job.I guess you could build a house with practically any material. But I never thought you... more
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So the coolest dad in the world built this star wars themed loft style bed for his kid in their Visalia home based off the Y-Wig fighter from the “good” Star Wars trilogy. This would be sure to help anyone have dreams of fantastic battles with Light Saber wielding Jedi in a Galaxy far far away. Unless the child is of the dark side than I am sure his dreams would be more like nightmares as primitive little teddy bear like Ewoks topple his Galactic Empire….hmmmmm.
Little is actually revealed about the details of the build but it was just too cool to not show to you guys. Check it out ad let us know what you think.
--Best dad ever!So the coolest dad in the world built this star wars themed loft style bed for his kid... more
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Your shelves officially suck compared to these. They're Donkey Kong shelves, complete with a monkey, NES, SNES and N64. Oh, and the N64 only has Goldeneye as opposed to a full collection of games. Awesome.
--Dammit! My shelves do suck.Your shelves officially suck compared to these. They're Donkey Kong shelves,... more
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