UNKLE’s latest video is amazing stuff, and features The Cult’s Ian Astbury on vocals.
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You’ll find a picture of Joseph Kittinger. What did he do to deserve such praise? In August 1960, Kittinger jumped from a helium balloon at an altitude of 102,800 feet (19 miles) (youtube video of the jump). He was in freefall for 4 minutes and 36 seconds reaching a maximum […]

Because of his collection, he even got a job w/ Lucas as director of content management and head of fan relations for Lucasfilm.
The best part: The Simpsons/Star Wars bootlegs.

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In Australia, at least.
Unions New South Wales says it is outraged that a person could be legally sacked under a motel’s Australian Workplace Agreement (AWA) for rubbing their nose or yawning at work.
A staff handbook attached to an AWA for Lilac City Motor Inn in Goulburn says it is unacceptable for staff to […]

Seventy of the world’s top Pop surrealist, graffiti, tattoo, lowbrow, comic and underground artists were given a 1:1 scale Darth Vader prop replica helmet, and told to go to town. There are some amazing works of art in here, and they will be displayed at next week’s Star Wars Celebration IV in Los Angeles. […]

Artist and post-humanist Stelarc had a cell-cultivated ear implanted under the skin of his arm.   Next he plans to have a Bluetooth microphone linked with a transmitter implanted into the ear, so it can wirelessly broadcast audio from the internet.

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Female bloggers are up in arms about Sideshow Toys’ latest figure of Spiderman’s girlfriend, Mary Jane Watson.

BRAAIIINNNSSSSS

Remember how they were going to launch James Doohan’s (Scotty from Star Trek) ashes into space?
Yeah, well… they didn’t quite make it.

There’s a new treat that is popular in the south: Kool-Aid pickles.
Those pickles were once mere dills. They were once green. Their exteriors remain pebbly, a reminder that long ago they began their lives on a farm, on the ground, as cucumbers.
But they now have an arresting color that combines green and garnet, […]