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This precious collection of rare close-ups of the ships used in the original Star Wars Trilogy gives us a glimpse into the great effort and detail that went into assembling them and shooting them. Curiosities: Detailed Close-Ups of Star Wars Spaceships.
cache hit 73:single/related:ffb4a759485aae27047f3c90f0c6f74a empty A funeral was held Monday for a Pennsylvania teen whose alleged killer took a selfie with the dead boy after shooting him in the face. Defendant Maxwell Morton, 16. The authorities said Ryan Mangan, 16, was discovered dead Wednesday by his mother at his Westmoreland County residence. His accused attacker, Maxwell Morton,…
cache hit 73:single/related:57e9fdb783359c4a460dfd4c98a1c7fa empty The BBC has revealed its fiendish side—tricking kids into learning how to code with a free Doctor Who game. The Doctor and the Dalek is available now on Android, iOS, and Amazon app stores, and combines a platforming adventure with an introduction to Boolean logic-based programming.Peter Capaldi, the current incarnation of The…
I’m willing to bet that in the near future, we will live in a world without mirrors. Yes, it sounds absurd. But hear me out. When I change lanes, I no longer use my right-hand mirror to check if I’m about to smash into a passing vehicle. Most of the time, I don’t look out…
For the past eight years, TechCrunch has hosted a bizarro tech world version of the Oscars called the Crunchies. The industry gets all dolled up, walks the “green carpet,” and watches Silicon Valley insiders present trophies for categories like “Best On-Demand Service” and “Best Overall Startup.” At the eighth annual Crunchies last Thursday, the best startup…
According to their latest update, published on their blog on Monday, there was definitely a jump in that number between the first and second halves of last year. “We’ve received ~40% more requests for account information affecting 128% more account holders during the second half of 2014 than in the previous reporting period,” Twitter said….
Kevin Winter/Getty Images Iggy Azalea went after Papa John’s on Twitter on Sunday after a delivery man from the pizza chain passed out the singer’s phone number to his family and friends. Papa John’s sort-of apologized, tweeting this light-hearted response quoting Azalea’s lyrics, and never actually saying the word “sorry.”: Azalea did not find the…
Would making all of this taller actually solve the affordability problem? (By Flickr user @sage_solar, via Creative Commons Attribution license) In San Francisco, pretty much everyone agrees on one thing: The city’s housing is crazy expensive. Apartment-hunting causes its own form of PTSD. The rent, to put it simply, is too damn high. But even…
So Felix Salmon set journo-Twitter afire this afternoon with some very grim advice to aspiring journalists; namely, don’t become a journalist. Like Felix, I also get occasional e-mails from aspiring journalists. And my advice is very different; namely, become a journalist! Awhile back I sat down and tried to write up my best guidance for…
The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan is one of the most popular book series of all time. So you’d think the first episode of a TV version would air with massive fanfare… so why did the pilot air in the middle of the night instead? We reached out to the producers and found out…