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Illustration

That’s no moon

It’s pretty damn awesome though:

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From a collection of Baroque Star Wars illustrations by Mattias Adolfsson. Boba’s little hot air balloon and Jabba the Powdered are also pretty sweet.

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Film

What up, son?

Best. Thing. Ever.

(via Coudal)

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The Web

Made by a 13 year-old in 1996

I like to think my first forays into the interwebs were better than this:

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I hope they were anyway! (Everyone likes purple lightning, right?)

Unfortunately the Geocities-izer doesn’t work on warwicksu.com but feel free to explore alternate themes.

(via Boing Boing)

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Books

Lookouts

Today sees the first part of a new six-part Lookouts story over at Penny Arcade.

You can check out the original treatment here, though the rest of that particular story didn’t quite do it for me so I’m quite excited about the new one.

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Economics

I chose… poorly

In 2001, a PowerBook G4 would have set you back $3500. Suppose instead that you had purchased $3500 in Apple stock instead of the computer…that stock would now be worth about $110,000. Even an original iPod’s worth in AAPL ($399) would be worth almost $12,000 today.

OK, so I bought my Powerbook in 2004 but even so that would work out to around £30k.

(via kottke)

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Photography

Mass Cremation in Yushu

Tragic subject matter but such an amazing photo – it almost looks like a painting:

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(The Big Picture – #27)