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You’ve got a Mac Pro, a Mac Book Pro, an iPod, iPad, iPhone and the Steve Jobs biography. Why not add the final touch to your iCollection with this realistic Steve Jobs action figure from in Icons. The doll has a black turtleneck, New Balance shoes, jeans and a mini iPhone.... 
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Shot-by-shot comparison of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" vs. scenes from 30 different adventure films made between 1919-1973.
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Here we are barrelling towards 2012 and living in the future. We invented the Internet, we invented social media, we invented FarmVille, we probably invented infographics too, right? Wrong.
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For all the discussion on the pages of comic books about whether mutants are human or not, when it comes to the real world, Marvel is arguing fiercely that X-Men are not human. But it’s not an ideological debate, it’s all about taxes.
Toys manufactured in other countries and imported into the US are subject to taxes, but those taxes are lower if the toys represent non-human characters. That has led to Marvel lawyers arguing that an action figure representing, say, Wolverine, is actually “representing animals or other non-human creatures (for example, robots and monsters).” This argument leads to a good conversation on the questions of humanity and acceptance that have long been part of the X-Men storyline.
The great Radiolab podcast has a show that begins with two international trade lawyers who noticed an interesting distinction in taxation for categories of products being imported into the US. ‘Dolls,’ which are toys that represent humans, are taxed at 12%. ‘Toys,’ meanwhile, are, well, toys, but ones that don’t represent humans. Those are taxed at 6.8%. You can probably see where this is headed....
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We were digging through the storage shed this weekend to find just the right box of Christmas decorations that were needed to make things pe...
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After reviewing the second season of "The Walking Dead", the team at The Slingshot Channel realized that firearms are weapons of last resort in a Zombie outbreak. Gunshots are just too loud, veritable dinner bells for the Undead....
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The man who played the legendary Darth Vader during fight scenes in the original Star Wars trilogy has died, it has emerged today.
Bob Anderson, 89, was a former Olympic swordsman who worked on many of the best known films of the past seven decades - but very few people are aware of the influence he had on some of our favourite movies.
He is most famous for donning Darth Vader's black helmet and fighting lightsaber battles in two of the original films - most memorably with Luke Skywalker in The Empire Strikes Back.
Flea Pluckin Sherrie 's curator insight,
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well that's a different way to play a video game......
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Isaac Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular...
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Something incredible happened over at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin on New Year’s Eve. According to news reports, the hacker meet united those in attendance to embark on an ambitious program. In fact, outside of government and multinational efforts, no one has quite dreamed up a plan as fantastic as theirs. In short, they want to send a satellite to space. But wait, there’s a good reason for it...
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away... So began the three movies that were to turn a band of weird and wonderful characters into household names.
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FBed is a conceptual multipractical bed design that would allow you always to be up to date and close to your online friends even when you sleep. The idea is that you may hoop in front of your screen directly from your bed when you wake up, and inverse when you get tired and wan't to go sleep...
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