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Captain America dies on the page via /.

A sniper guns him down as he is coming out of a courthouse according to the article. But in all fairness, a death in a comic book is Mythbusters material, and there’s a movie in the works for Captain America. OTOH, Marvel is the same publisher that parlayed the first X-Men movie into a 10% drop in comic sales.

Everything You Need To Make Your Own Battlestar Galactica Films via Digg

Music, video and sound effect clips so you can make your very own BSG movie.

10 Biggest Nerds in TV History via Digg

I can understand why Wesley, Urkel and Screech, but Gilligan?

Marv

Show #161: Save the Geeks..Save the World

1. Star Trek Stuff..Go Figure
2. Hacks and…
3. Chuck Phones it in

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Astronomy Picture of the Day via Digg

A trippy, composite photo of the sun taken at the same time of day throughout the course of the year.

Summer Glau will be a Terminator via Digg

As reported in an earlier Slice of Sci-fi, Summer Glau will be in the Terminator TV series. It has now been announced that she will be one of two Terminators. One of them will be a good little cyborg and try to protect the Conners. The other will plod along relentlessly like a zombie spambot. You know, if the Terminator had even one halfway decent sniper program…

Incredible LEGO Arena via Digg

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Listener feedback show #160

Where O Where is Chuck?

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Error: Printer on Fire via Digg

Remember when…a combination of paper, dust, printer cleaning fluid, a printer drum rotating at 2400 RPM and the inevitable paper jam would sometimes cause a fire? And Unix had a special error code for just that condition. And to think how you would mock the PC LOAD LETTER message for being stupid.

Principles of Economics, Translated via Freakonomics blog

A hilarious spoof of Mankiw’s Ten Principles of Economics. Best line: Microeconomics is when economists are wrong about specific things. Macroeconomics is when they’re wrong about general things.

Astronaut has ‘Wasabi Spill’ in Space via /.

Not sure what kind of wasabi they’re using. The stuff I’m used to seeing doesn’t squirt or spill in any meaningful way.

Marv

Uncomfortable Questions: Was the Death Star Destruction an Inside Job? via Digg

The story has no mirrors and the original server is down due to the Digg effect, but someone reposted the text in the comments. Gotta love this one piece of “evidence” of the conspiracy. I can’t wait to hear TD-0013’s rebuttal:

7) Why has their been no investigation into evidence that the droids who provided the rebels with the Death Star plans were once owned by none other than Lord Vader himself, and were found, conveniently, by the pilot who destroyed the Death Star, and who is also believed to be Lord Vader

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Show #160: Bugs & Creatures

1. Flickr
2. Antarctica
3. VW Beetle

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Forget a hourse of cards, this guy made a whole city via Digg

I remember seeing this guy’s work on TV. Watching him construct the world record breaking tower of cards was particularly impressive since it was all done by hand and the top most levels were crumbling as he added cards to it. He’s moved onto more historic designs for his structures and Guinness has created a separate World Record for those accomplishments.

Command Sit via CNet

Stackable stools shaped like keyboard keys.

Super Mario snow portrait via Boing Boing

Slick impromptu street art.

Marv

Listener feedback show #159

We’ll get in your head one way or another.

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Light Saber Umbrella via Boing Boing

This will make you stand out in a crowd, even in the rain.

The Most Thrilling Art Installation in the World via Digg

A five-story tube slide for adults. Makes you long for kindergarten again.

Algorithm helps computers beat humans at Go via Digg

For a while, chess has been the field of battle to determine human vs. computer superiority. Ever since Deep Blue took down Garry Kasparov, the focus moved to Go. An Asian strategy game where human intuition rather than straight computational power. Now, it seems that a new algorithm and multi-process computing has been closing the gap.

Marv