Yep, that’s right: There’s a mobile food truck that drives around Fayetteville, AR, that sells what I’m sure are the most delicious grilled cheese sammiches on this side of the galaxy. Come on, with a name like The Grillenium Falcon, how can these sandwiches not be delicious?
[Via TDWG]
My Pal Michael Tapp just published a new video featuring the Saw Lady performing the Simpson theme on a musical saw. You may also remember her from a previous video we published where she was performing the original Star Trek theme on her saw.
[Via LATFG]
The following video exhibits some of the amazing properties of certain non-Newtonian fluids, namely their large resistance to extensional flow. Check it out:
[Via Neatorama]
Check out Chewbacca and an Ewok Slash grooving to Guns ‘N Roses’ Welcome to the Jungle during the first weekend of this year’s edition of the Star Wars Weekends at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.
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The Dark Knight Rises, the final installment of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, released the first of what will likely be many encrypted teasers for the movie. A creepy .wav file concealing a hidden Twitter hashtag (#TheFireRises) appeared on the official site; tweeting the hashtag earned a link to the image above, revealing the first image of Tom Hardy as Bane, the nigh-unstoppable juggernaut pitted against Christian Bale’s Batman in the trilogy’s final film.
Other TDKR news today includes announcements that Matthew Modine, Joey King and Tom Conti will also have roles in the film, though as of yet it is unknown which characters they will portray. Speculation that King will be a female Robin is already in circulation (a switch-up presented in the graphic novel, The Dark Knight Returns), but whether or not this will be confirmed anytime soon is anyone’s guess.
I think Hardy is well cast here. What say you, Geeks?
Researchers from Osaka University have developped a new touchscreen interface technology that allows people to use touchscreens as if they were an elastic, flexible material. Check it out:
[Via Engadget]
All this week we’ll be bringing you the most eyecatching remakes of Star Wars (as in Episode IV: A New Hope) in different media. And no, we’re not counting George Lucas’ own special edition tinkery. We start with one that can only be described as jaw-droppingly awful.
It’s a traditional film media version, but remade on an incredibly low budget in Turkey. The budget stretched neither to special effects nor to a healthy respect for copyright. The start of the movie is available right here, but to get a real feel for the sheer lameness of the whole affair you are better off with this clip of the closing 10 minutes:
