Park visitors won't get forty shillings on a drum, but if French politician Yves Jégo has his way, they will get to experience the life and times of Napoleon Bonaparte. He plans to build, at a projected cost of $280 million, a theme park inspired by the French emperor:

The plan is to build the unlikely amusement park on the site of the brilliant but doomed French leader’s final victory against the Austrians in the Battle of Montereau in 1814 just south of Paris.

The 1815 Battle of Waterloo, in which the Duke of Wellington ended Napoleon's rule in France, could be recreated on a daily basis with visitors perhaps even able be able to take part in the reenactments.

They will also be able to take in a water show recreating the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar, in which Lord Nelson scored a decisive victory over a French and Spanish coalition aboard HMS Victory but died in the process.

Link -via Samizdata | Image: Jacques-Louis David -via Direktor

Until about two years ago, I had never even heard of needle felting. But now I've seen some amazing demonstrations of the craft, including household appliances, a comic book cover, and Jabba the Hutt. There's an amazing world of fabric crafts on the Internet, and plenty of people that will be glad to teach you. Amanda Carestio's terrarium, for example, comes with instructions.

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It's finally here! Star Wars Uncut is a crowdsourced fan re-creation of Episode IV. Casey Pugh, the humanitarian responsible for the project, divided the entire movie into 472 15-second segments. Fans volunteered to make those segments, which Pugh then compiled. Legal issues prevented the immediate release of the finished product, but now you can watch the entire movie in one video. Official Website -via Nerd Bastards

Thus it always was: Finn was born to adventure and Jake to help him. Here are Fashionably Geek reader Chris and his son in their simple but effective costumes. Finn doesn't stay this size. No, he gets much bigger.

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To reduce drag on the hull, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' new design blows bubbles from holes positioned on the bottom of the ship. This change reduces fuel expenditure, and therefore CO₂ emissions and cost. The agricultural conglomerate Archer Daniels Midland has ordered three such ships, which should be finished in 2014.

Link -via DVICE| Image: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

If you're the one person in a family that knows basic computer maintenance, you'll pay for it. Oh, you will pay. But generations to follow will remember your heroic deeds. They will name children after you and repeat your legends to awe-struck audiences. Come, now, and hear the tale of one such giant of a man, as told by Mike Lacher:

But then one gray morning did Internet Explorer 6 no longer load The Google. Refresh was clicked, again and again, but still did Internet Explorer 6 not load The Google. Perhaps The Google was broken, the people thought, but then The Yahoo too did not load. Nor did Hotmail. Nor USAToday.com. The land was thrown into panic. Internet Explorer 6 was minimized then maximized. The Compaq Presario was unplugged then plugged back in. The old mouse was brought out and plugged in beside the new mouse. Still, The Google did not load.

Some in the kingdom thought the cause of the darkness must be the Router. Little was known of the Router, legend told it had been installed behind the recliner long ago by a shadowy organization known as Comcast. Others in the kingdom believed it was brought by a distant cousin many feasts ago. Concluding the trouble must lie deep within the microchips, the people of 276 Fernadale Street did despair and resign themselves to defeat.

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The poor fellow in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia got his head stuck between two power lines. But linemen swooped in and rescued him.

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Huhhhh. Huhhhh. This is stupid. But cool. Special effects artist Kevin Kirkpatrick created realistic busts of the titular characters of Beavis and Butt-Head. Let's look at the other photos at the link, then set them on fire.

Link | Kirkpatrick's MySpace Page

He'd better find his spectacles before he heads into battle. There! Russian street artist Pavel Puhov found them. You can view more creative works by him at the link.

Link -via Colossal | Artist's Website (Google Translate)

Video game entrepreneur Richard Garriott took a camera with him during his recent stay on the International Space Station. He and the astronauts put it to good use by filming a short movie called Apogee of Fear. In this gripping story, the inhabitants of the ISS discover that too much oxygen is being consumed to account for their number. There must be someone else -- or something else -- on board!

Watch a recording of a performance of Apogee of Fear at the link. Crow and Tom Servo aren't in it, but Garriott can probably sign them for the sequel.

Link -via The Mary Sue | Photo: First Run Features

Dennis Manarchy's ambitious project is to travel across the United States and take pictures of people vanishing from the American experience, such as Native Americans, cowboys and Medal of Honor winners from World War II. That itself is nothing new, but to complete the project, Manarchy plans to build a camera so large that it must be towed by a truck.

http://www.thefpac.org/vanishing.html -via DVICE (where there's a video) | Previously: The World's Largest Photo

Steve Wheen, a guerrilla gardener, uses plants and miniatures to create sanctuaries of tranquility in broken urban places. Specifically, he alters potholes in east London. His website has many photos of his work. The best are his pictures of people reacting to seeing these tiny green spaces.

Link -via My Modern Met | Previously: When Potholes Become Art

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Hello, my baby! Hello, my darling! Hello, my ragtime gal!
Send me a kiss subspace, baby, to my starbase!

Ragtime pianist and composer Tom Brier sent the 24th Century Back into the 1910s with this rendition of the theme music to Star Trek: The Next Generation. He improvises in the first part of the video. You can skip to 1:50 to see the finished product.

-via reddit | Previously: Mario, Harry Potter and Star Wars Music Played in the Ragtime Style

P.S. He also did a great Animaniacs cover!

Allegedly, this is a photo of an electronic billboard in Odessa, Ukraine crashing. But those of us who understand that the entire universe is actually a holographic projection around the Earth know the truth. Worse: the universe runs on Windows.

Link -via Boing Boing

Did anyone else think of The Little Prince when first seeing this picture? Marcus Reugels, whose work we've featured previously, doesn't describe the meaning of his water drop visions, but they are mesmerizing. And working Batman and Spider-Man into the collection was a great idea.

Link -via Geekologie | Artist's Website