9.1 on the Geek Scale: If Dr. Seuss wrote for Star Trek: The Next Generation
Video Game Maps
How the Death Star Works
Continuing the Star Wars theme, How the Death Star Works, The Implausibility of the Death Star’s Trash Compactor, and an analysis of the Endor Holocaust (a perennial favorite). Let your geek shine.
Lots of Leia’s
Lots of Leia’s: thousands of women in Leia’s Metal Bikini
Second Avenue Subway
This post appeared in a previous blog and is here for posterity’s sake.
So New York state woke up this morning with an additional $2 billion in debt when the Transportation Bond passed. You might be wondering what the Second Avenue Subway might look when our half of that money is spent.
Well, it will look very similar to the above graphic, with only a 30 block segment being built (pdf) out of the whole Second Avenue plan (pdf).
How the CIA planted computer bugs in Soviet technology
One Red Paperclip
Trading a paperclip for a house: One Red Paperclip: …I started with one red paperclip back in July and I am making a chain of trades for bigger or better objects until I get a house. Right now I’m up to a 1000 Watt generator.
Rows, and rows, of unsold Hummers
13 things that do not make sense
Wall of boobs helps men remember SO’s bra-size
Not creepy at all: Wall of boobs helps men remember SO’s bra-size – here is a designer’s rendering of the store (in Dutch)