Take R2D2 to some snow shredding

Now you can shred the icy mountainside of the planet Hoth in royal Star War style with this R2D2 helmet.

Stay away from Wampas and caves, of course.

More after the jump.

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http://www.burton.com/boys-helmets-protection-helmets-avid-grom-r2d2-helmet/268173,default,pd.html

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Tweeting using morse code

Enter Tworsekey, a tweeting morse key, fully documented Open Design project. The device has a built-in Arduino board, connects to your LAN and uses the Twitter API to send messages. Check the ‘steampunk’ design and the device working in the video below.

 

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Aurora Borealis over the North Atlantic Ocean

 

Yes, we live in this planet.

 

High Definition video of the Aurora Borealis over the North Atlantic Ocean

Video courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center

http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/Videos/CrewEarthObservationsVideos/

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Google’s Winter Easter Egg

Go to www.google.com and type ‘let it snow’ – without the quotation marks.

Welcome to Winter Wonderland! Now, have fun defrosting your monitor.

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2011 Trolololo Comeback Special

 

… he’s still got the groove.

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Apes will take over the world

A boy dropped his Nintendo NDS into the Gorilla enclosure at the San Francisco Zoo.

More photos on Flickr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/spicuzza/4867302743/sizes/m/in/photostream/

Photos by Christina Spicuzza

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How to Accomplish More by Doing Less – Tony Schwartz – Harvard Business Review

Interesting take on productivity.

How to Accomplish More by Doing Less – Tony Schwartz – Harvard Business Review.

 

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47 year old television signals bouncing back to Earth

http://www.rimmell.com/bbc/news.htm

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Diet craze leaves Norwegians starved of butter

(Reuters) – The soaring popularity of a fat-rich fad diet has depleted stocks of butter in Norway creating a looming Christmas culinary crisis.

Norwegians have eaten up the country’s entire stockpile of butter, partly as the result of a “low-carb” diet sweeping the Nordic nation which emphasizes a higher intake of fats.

Diet craze leaves Norwegians starved of butter | Reuters.

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Top 10 reasons why Darth Vader was an amazing project manager

 

 

via Top 10 reasons why Darth Vader was an amazing project manager – GeekWire.

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