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Attention, puny humans! Do you need a mobile phone stand that can stand the heat of battle? Qapla’ – look no further than this iPhone stand by David Roy of Voodoo Vintage Fabrication. It looks good sitting next to your chair on the Bird of Prey, and it can probably double as a handy weapon in case you can’t find your Bat’leth: Link – via Make
Photo: Clayton Hauck for The Wall Street Journal
What if Charles Dickens were a Trekkie? Well, wonder no more. Here’s "A Klingon Christmas Carol," performed completely in the Klingon language:
The arc of "A Klingon Christmas Carol" follows the familiar Dickens script: An old miser is visited on a hallowed night by three ghosts who shepherd him through a voyage of self-discovery. The narrative has been rejiggered to match the Klingon world view.
For starters, since there is neither a messiah nor a celebration of his birth on the Klingon planet of Kronos, the action is pegged to the Klingon Feast of the Long Night. Carols and trees are replaced with drinking, fighting and mating rituals. And because Klingons are more concerned with bravery than kindness, the main character’s quest is for courage.
Douglas Belkin of The Wall Street Journal has the story: Link
Update 12/19/10 – Oops, Miss C covered this three weeks ago. See more photos and video at Kuriositas.
A Klingon Christmas play? Yes! After a run in St. Paul, A Klingon Christmas Carol is on the marquee at the Greenhouse Theater in Chicago until December 19th. Scrooge, the ghosts, and even Tiny Tim are there, albeit underneath Klingon makeup. The play, produced by the theater company Commedia Beauregard, is presented entirely in the Klingon language. See more pictures and watch a promotional video at Kuriositas. Link
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At NeatoBambino, we find out there are children’s songs and lullabies in the Klingon language. Sing them to your child, and he or she may end up like the baby in the included video! Link
This video shows an actor performing the “To Be or Not To Be” soliloquy from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, restoring the language to the original Klingon. The play became available in the United Federation of Planets in 2000, thanks to the efforts of the Klingon Language Institute.
via Wandering Goblin | Amazon.com Link
As one might expect from any involved and nurturing father, d’Armond Speers of Minnesota spoke only Klingon to his son for the first three years of his life. Hart Van Denburg writes in Citypages:
“I was interested in the question of whether my son, going through his first language acquisition process, would acquire it like any human language,” Speers told the Minnesota Daily. “He was definitely starting to learn it.”
And get this, Speers says he isn’t really a huge Star Trek fan.
We’ll take his word for it.
Does the fact that Speers has a doctorate in computational linguistics explain anything — or excuse anything — here? Maybe. His child-rearing habits were part of a larger story on the company he advises, Ultralingua, which develops language and translation software. Including Klingon.
Link via Geekologie | Image: Paramount
Meredith Woerner of the sci-fi blog io9 suspects that this video might be viral marketing for the next Star Trek movie. Ostensibly, it’s a Klingon military recruiting commercial. I’m not sure what is the original language, but thankfully it’s been dubbed into Klingon for your convenience.
via io9
Klenginem is a German rapper who performs in the Klingon language, mostly modified Eminem songs. Here is his performance of “SuvwI’pu’ qan tu’lu’be”, which is known in English as “Without Me.”
Official Website via Popped Culture
A short film celebrating the wonderful gifts that (Klingon) teachers give to their students, and all of society as well. Directed by Gord McWatters, RT: 1 minute, 37 seconds.
Via Topless Robot
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ta’ SoH neH chu’ Doch vaD lIj Duj? Well, you’re in luck! You can get your own Klingon language keyboard for only £43.99.
Link via Geekologie
