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Ashtar Command is either a band or a New Age religious group, or both. At any rate, here is a performance of a band by that name of "Deadman's Gun", a song from the Red Dead Redemption soundtrack. Guitars, a string set, and an accordion -- great choices for a fine song.

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Zork was a text-based computer game from the late 1970s loosely based on Dungeons & Dragons. Brian Gaines, the artist responsible, wrote:

I loved Zork so much that a high school buddy and I made ourselves stained glass windows of the logo in 1983. To the best of my knowledge, they are the only such windows in existence (but I could certainly be wrong)

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Previously: Rap about Zork

LA-based artist Misha does a lot of pop culture work, including paintings featuring Super Mario Bros., Star Wars, The Big Lebowski, and Donkey Kong. The above work is modeled after Michelangelo's Creation of Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Stan Lee, of course, is God.

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It's been done before, but not this well. This one is finely executed, down to the warped film and John Williams theme played on a piano. It was made by a French team in 2007 and modified this past June.

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Previously: The Empire Strikes Back (1950)

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In a brief 2009 interview, Mark Hamil denied ever shooting the long-lost lightsaber scene from Return of the Jedi.

It's a conspiracy!

In the comments, propose elements of and motivations for this plot.

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What is the meaning of a double rainbow, asked Yosemitebear. The greatest minds are still pondering this mystical conundrum. In the meantime, YouTube user Disasteradio remixed the double rainbow video with scenes from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey in which Bowman approaches the monolith.

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You do what you have to do to pay the bills. Flickr user torakamikaze suggests that Sonic may have to resort to selling off his gold rings.

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The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra once performed an operatic rendition of the theme music and story of Final Fantasy VI. Eliot Hagen integrated it into the video presentation of game, and the result is this amazing video. Full credits are available at the video link.

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Power Girl is very popular among both faculty and students. Once again, cartoonist Caldwell Tanner offers a set of funny cartoons, this time depicting Marvel and DC heroes in their college days. Six more at the link.

http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1808189 via Nerd Bastards

Previously by Caldwell Tanner: Video Game Characters in College

Scottish DC writer Grant Morrison has some interesting observations about the social class differences between Batman and Superman:

Bruce Wayne is a rich man. He's an artistocrat. Superman grew up as Clark Kent on a farm bailing hay, and he's got a boss that shouts at him if he's late to work. He's actually more human; Batman is the fetish fantasy psyche of the aristocrat overlord who can do anything he wants, and that's fascinating. The class difference between the two of them is important.[...]

People often forget Superman is very much a put-upon guy. Bruce has a butler, Clark has a boss

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OMG! Shatner was fooling around at a con and decided to photobomb some Trek cosplayers posting for a picture!

Well, possibly. But look at the name in the bottom left corner. It's Rachel McCauley, a professional photograher and photoshop artist.

Be assured that if The Shatner wished to photobomb you, you would be photobombed. Nothing could stop him. But I suspect that this isn't real.

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Marvel has come out with a new webseries. The Handi-Cats is about a blind, flying supercat and a bionically-enhanced disabled cat who try to correct the BP oil spill. It's based on a bestselling memoir by Gwen Cooper about a blind cat who brings meaning into Cooper's life.

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"I say that we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." You know, over the years, I've found that there are very few problems for which this is not an appropriate solution.

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A long-lost scene from Return of Jedi was displayed at Star Wars Celebration V. It shows Luke tinkering with a lightsaber. Someone secretly recorded it and uploaded it to YouTube. Watch it while it's still available.

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At Star Wars Celebration V in Orlando, George Lucas presented The Daily Show host Jon Stewart with an action figure modeled after him. It comes with an interchangeable head -- one with a goatee and one without. You can view more pictures at the link.

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