Steampunk Star Wars

Eric's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Idea: steampunk star wars

"Lord Vader
More machine than man, Vader is the Empire's most decorated General and a very powerful practitioner of the Force's dark arts. He is obsessed with communicating with the spirits of the dead, spending every sleepless night trying in vain to contact his lost love. Twisted and broken in body and mind, Vader is driven with sadistic passion.

He is a master with the traditional weapon of Force champions, the Phlogisticated Aether Torch, more commonly referred to as the phlogisabre."

The science of Godzilla

The science of Godzilla

It's just what it says it is.

Paper Enigma Machine:

How The Death Star Works

Click Here to visit the howstuffworks.com collection of pages dedicated to the planet destroyer itself.

There's lots of good stuff here, like did you realize that by blowing up the first Death Star, Luke actually became a mass murderer? Check out the interesting "Life On the Death Star" link (or click here) to check out the Empire's interpretation of what the Rebel Alliance did that dark day.

UFO Maps

UFO Maps

This is too cool!

Click on the little flying saucers and read the sighting reports!

Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

First published in Argentina in 1941, Jorge Luis Borges' short story "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" tells the story of a secret encyclopedia of an imaginary world that slowly encroaches on "our" reality. For more insight into the story click here. Aww. Just read the story anyway.

Now, in 2005, an online gaming group called Orion's Arm is putting together a world of their own in which to write and play. It's hard sci-fi and they're building the world from the ground up, encyclopedia-style. Sounds cool, if time consuming. Now, if they can just keep their new reality from mine...

Dragons Over Tibet

From the Epoch Times International:

On June 22, 2004, the photographer went to Tibet’s Amdo region to attend the Qinghai-to-Xizang Railroad laying ceremony, and then took a plane from Lhasa to fly back inland. When flying over the Himalaya’s, he accidentally caught these two "dragons" in a picture that he took. He called these two objects "the Tibet dragons."

Looking at the photo, these two objects appear to have the characteristics of crawling creatures: The bodies seem to be covered by scales, the backs have spine-like protuberances, and also they have gradually thinning rear ends. Although the photo caught only a portion of the entire scene, it was sufficient create the appearance of two gigantic dragons flying in the clouds.

Pictures at the link.

Paper Toys

For your perusal, a page filled with links to .pdf files you can print out and put together to form cute (and sometimes very attractively designed) paper toys. They're very cool, if you ask me.