T-shirt featuring famous Robots from movies. I might have to get one of these, I think it’s compulsory given my blog!

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Got your spellcheck on? Grammar checking your longer posts? Good. So how about typography mistakes? Whaa - ? I hear you cry.
Grammar nazis are so last century. Welcome, friends, to the brave new world of the typography nazi. Below are ten mistakes that everyone makes, an explanation of why each is wrong, and details on [...]

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I’ve fallen for the Kumiko Shelf, I really want to make one. I’m going to have to price out how to do this.
Take a look and tell me this is not just great:

I’ll let you know if I start making it.
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20. Max (Black Hole)
19. Metal Mickey (TV Series)
18. Gort (Day The Earth Stood Still)
17. The Iron Giant (The Iron Giant)
16. Robby the Robot (Forbidden Planet)
15. Johnny-5 (Short Circuit)
14. Data (ST: TNG)
13. Maria (Metropolis)
12. ED 209 (Robocop)
11. C-3PO (Star Wars)
10. MechaGodzilla (Godzilla)
9. Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner)
8. T-1000 (Terminator)
7. Cylons (BSG)
6. Bender (Futurama)
5. Robocop [...]

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Wonderful story over at Drunkard.com about Andre the Giant:
As far as great drunkards go, there is Andre the Giant, and then there is everyone else.
The big man loved two things: wrestling and booze—mostly booze—and his appetites were of mythic proportion.
First, consider the number 7,000. It’s an important number, and a rather scary one considering its [...]

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I ran this one past my resident Trekkie and she declared it as two thumbs up. So go and consume this one all you Trekkies!

The Pub. The final frontier. This is the voyage of the Enterprise bottle opener. Its continuing mission? To seek out new bottle tops and new types of beers. To boldly go [...]

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I’m a huge stress bunny. I carry my stress with me and in me (in my shoulders!) and have a hard time letting it go. It’s just who I am. So I’m coming up with ways to de-stress and these suggestions are useful:
In the shower
Face the water, letting it cascade onto your head. Take [...]

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On the average Web page, users have time to read at most 28% of the words during an average visit; 20% is more likely.
The web is mostly visual I guess. My most popular posts on CR are those with a high visual content.
And on those you agree to pages —
In research for the book [...]

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