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Adidas released a line of Star Wars trainers. Some of them are inspired by various characters or spaceships, like a Stormtrooper, Tie Fighter, or X-Wing pilot (above). One style has several iconic scenes emblazoned right on the shoes. Each pair comes in a blister pack, inspired I guess by the old action figures. I can't decide if I...

Gizmodo

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I'd totally rock this decal. :-)

We've seen a black-and-white Iron Man MacBook decal before, but this full-color one is much more striking. Although you've gotta be OK with equating Apple's logo with the powers of a superhero. Fanboys. [Etsy via Geeky Gadgets]

MAKE Magazine

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Nice. :-)

As soon as the iPad was announced, Lego fans wondered what it would look like in brick form. Check out the homage by Joe Meno, editor of AFOL bible BrickJournal.

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Fraser Speirs

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Fraser's right - the personal computing world is going to change this year.

18 months ago, in Demographics is Destiny, I wrote:

If you haven't got it already, it's time to move your head to this place: iPhone OS is Apple's mainstream platform for 2012 and beyond.

On the day that Apple is expected to turn the world upside down, again, it's time to admit I was wrong.

I ...

Marco.org

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Instapaper is the app I most look forward to using on the new tablet. It's going to be perfect. :-)

Derek Powazek: What I Hope Apple Unleashes Tomorrow:

(via John Gruber)

This sounds right. And this is why I’m so nervous and excited for the announcement: depending on the features of this product, it’s either going to completely exterminate Instapaper or be the perfect d...

foursquare

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Also works great in Google Calendar.

overkill:

1. Login to your foursquare from your web browser
2. Go to foursquare feeds
3. Copy the link (URL) for the the ICS feed
4. Open iCal’s menu -> Calendar -> Subscribe…
5. Paste the ICS URL you copied from foursquare feeds
6. Click Subscribe in iCal
7. Adjust the Auto-refresh value to your liking then click OK

Boing Boing

This remarkable recording of ice-sheets cracking on a frozen lake sounds just like a Star Wars blaster fight. Andreas Bick, a Berlin sound designer/composer, made the recording and explains, on his Silent Listening blog: "In my experience, thin ice is especially interesting for acoustic phenomena; it is more elastic and sounds are propagated better across the surface. Snowfall, on the other...

Boing Boing

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I want to do these with my kids!

Make contributor Gever Tulley and Julie Spiegler published a fun kids' acitvity book called Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do). Above, one of the activities: supergluing your fingers together.

Other activities in the book: Look at the sun, Walk home from school, Kiss hello like the French, Play in a hailstorm...

Cool Tools

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I got one of these for Christmas, and love it. Make Magazine recently wrote about its creator.

This is a cool 3-dimensional maze that is easy to get started and hard to finish. You need to steer a small metal ball along an ingenious obstacle course by rotating the clear plastic globe. There are 100 stations along the way, including some difficult...

MAKE Magazine

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WANT.

Check out Polish Lego fan Maciej Drwiega's 1:13 truck models -- the blue and black truck is a Kenworth K100 Aerodyne, the red one is a Kenworth W900 LongNose, and the truck with the crane is a Jelcz 315. Drwiega puts so much care into researching and crafting his models that they can be confused for the real deal at thumbnail size. [via the Brothers Brick]

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ReadWriteWeb

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I helped start #pdxtst. Been saying someone should do this with it for a long time. Watching with interest.

If your natural reflex when the weather gets rough is to tweet about it, that reflex can now help the National Weather Service do its job better thanks to a new Twitter storm reporting program.

The NWS has always solicited severe weather reports from the public. ...

Engadget

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Sure, the iPhone does a commendable job with heavy-duty 3D acceleration for intense virtual reality gaming, but funk that noise -- these guys want to bring you the real thing. Parrot -- better known for its Bluetooth accessories -- has introduced the AR.Drone, a WiFi-enabled remote control helicopter that takes its commands from the iPhone or iPod touch of your c...

Daring Fireball

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See also: "Tile Windows Vertically", available since Windows 3.1. ;-)

$7 window management utility from Irradiated Software. Drag any standard window to the left or right edge of a screen to resize it to fill that half of the screen, or drag to the top of the screen to zoom it full-screen. A clever, simple Mac take on Windows 7’s “window snap” feature. See also:

Daring Fireball

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Amen.

Bruce Schneier:

Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy a country’s way of life; it’s only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage. The more we undermine our own laws, the more we convert our buildings into fortresses, the more we reduce the freedoms...

Boing Boing

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Sad. I met Kim in Jr High, got to visit with him for an afternoon. An amazing person.

Kim Peek, the savant who inspired the film Rain Man, died from a heat attack on December 19. He was 58. From the New York Times (image from Wikmedia Commons):

“He was the Mount Everest of memory,” Dr. Darold A. Treffert, an expert on savants who knew Mr. Peek for 20 years, said in an i...

Boing Boing

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Amen.

Our former colleague Joel Johnson, over at Gizmodo: President Obama, It's Time To Fire the TSA. Joel, I sing this kumbaya right along with you.