I love these huge free ebooks that come out where one geek imparts the depth of knowledge that only geekery allows. This time it is for Star Wars:
How exactly did George Lucas develop the script for the first Star
Wars? Why were the prequels so uneven when the originals were so good?
Did he really have a [...]

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A classic via the joyoftech.com

Sadly a lot of these resonate with me. Oh boy …

Tags: geek, humour, picture

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A game about balancing weights, a geek game if ever one existed.
Try it, it’s hit and miss at first but as time goes on you start to get much better and it becomes addictive.
Mass Attack

Tags: art, game, geek

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Super cool use of Lego to create lots of the vehicles from the Star Wars universe. Pretty geeky stuff. What sends this into the super geeky zone is the setting up mini-battles. Whoa.
I’d love to have enough Lego and time to be able to do this :)

Using Hundreds of LEGO Star Wars Mini-Spaceships to Create [...]

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In part one I covered ‘Why use eSATA?’ In part two I’m covering ‘How to use eSATA’ The presumption is that you want to add additional external drives to your current setup. Maybe you are a laptop user or have run out of internal space in your computer but still want super fast disk access [...]

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Sometimes little gadgets make you go ‘whoa, neat.’ Doesn’t happen often, just sometimes.
This is one of those times. Take a look at this SATA drive USB mount, pretty damned sweet. I WILL be buying one of these shortly.
When it arrives I’ll throw up a review for everyone. In fact this is now outdated by a [...]

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30 years of Lucasfilm Christmas cards. Some good paintings and ideas in here, as well as some terrible ones (Jar-jar, Ewoks). I love the Trooper card below.

It’s interesting to see when Star Wars went through its lull and the cards stopped getting sent.
Cool Stuff: 30 Years of LucasFilm Christmas Cards | /Film

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This is what my next Google cheque is going to pay for: My ideal bag.
Timbuk2 Custom Messenger
Size: Large
Color: olive / coffee / navy
Fabric: Cordura
Laptop Insert
Liner: light blue
Logo: white
Grab Strap
Reflector Tabs
Right Handed

Contents:
Water
Cliff Meal replacement bars, x2
Kabuki Clear Pouch, containing medicines, condoms, face and hand wipes in ziplocks
Glasses case, spare glasses
Phone, phone charger
iPod, USB [...]

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