Becky Gould made this plush of Boba Fett meeting a well-deserved fate in the bowels of the Sarlacc. It's one of her contributions to Stitch Wars, an annual exhibition of Star Wars-themed crafts hosted by the Bear and Bird Boutique. Link -via Super Punch | Stitch Wars Information

Previously: Sarlacc Throw Pillow

Sharks aren't hostile to human divers. On the contrary, the understand that humans can't breathe underwater and need to be rescued. http://brain-rain.tumblr.com/post/8438936797/he-was-just-trying-to-help-and-yall-have-to-go -via Joe Carter | Image: Brain-Rain

A friend of redditor xxlizzle was given this receipt by his/her waitress. Question: was this a punitive toll levied against the customer, or a paid service provided by the staff?

Link | Headline borrowed from redditor navinpt2

Alan Turing, the brilliant mathematician, computer scientist, and codebreaker, helped win World War II before being prosecuted and driven to suicide for his sexual orientation. The Bletchley Trust acquired some of his personal papers, including this hand-drawn Monopoly board that he made while sequestered from the rest of the world due to his top secret work. Link | Photo: Cory Doctorow

Okistugu Kado is an amazing food artist and sushi chef from Japan. His blog is filled with stunning creations, including sculptures of superheroes and scenes from Star Wars. Link -via Geekosystem

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If you want a really roomy place, you can live in a 90-square foot apartment. But Luke Clark Tyler, an architect in Manhattan, figured that he could do just fine with a cozier place. His apartment, which includes furniture that he designed and built for it, is only 78 square feet in floor space. Tyler has a murphy bed, a couch, a microwave, a refrigerator, and a closet.

Did I mention that Tyler works from home? That tiny space is also his office. -via Doobybrain

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Here's a video of The Jaybirds, a bluegrass group, and Red Chamber, a Chinese string ensemble, playing bluegrass music. The members of Red Chamber are performing their contributions on several Chinese instruments: a liuqin, a pipa, a sanxian, and a ruan.

-via MetaFilter | Red Chamber | The Jaybirds (auto-sound)

Bakerella cooked peanut butter and chocolate chip chocolate pudding and poured it into completely edible chocolate bowls. To make the bowls, she dipped balloons in chocolate and refrigerated them. Once they solidified, she just popped the balloons and removed the rubber. Link -via Craft

It was 20 years ago today that Tim Berners-Lee (left) of CERN built the world's first website. Here's how Berners-Lee described the project at the time of its launch:

The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system.

The project started with the philosophy that much academic information should be freely available to anyone. It aims to allow information sharing within internationally dispersed teams, and the dissemination of information by support groups.

The web grew rapidly and transformed cultures around it. And it's just getting started. Imagine what the web -- or whatever grows out of it -- will be like twenty years from now. One possibility is a concept called the Semantic Web:

The Semantic Web will see metadata, designed to be read by machines rather than humans, become a more important part of the online experience. Tim Berners-Lee coined this term, describing it as “A web of data that can be processed directly and indirectly by machines,” – a ‘giant global graph’ of linked data which will allow apps to automatically create new meaning from all the information out there.

The future is going to be awesome.

Link -via Gizmodo | Photo by Flickr user campuspartymexico used under Creative Commons license

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Peter Simon's friend Tom Offer-Westort had a full beard and head of hair and wanted to shave them off. So they made a stop motion video of the process and then reversed it. Now it looks like Tom is applying his hair like makeup. -via Blame It on the Voices

To celebrate the passage of the State of New York's Marriage Equality Act, an architecture website named Architizer and a wedding website called The Knot held a design competition for mobile wedding chapels. Submitted designs had to be assembled in under two hours and not have a footprint greater than 2.4 meters square. Judges selected two winners, including this one by Guy Zucker called "The Kiss". It's made of two pieces of recycled honeycombed cardboard that must rely upon each other for structural support. You can see more pictures of this chapel, as well as the other winner, and happy couples who got married in them at the link.

Link -via Dude Craft | Photo by Melissa Murphy, used with permission

Etsy seller Elizabeth Kohn made a set of earrings that look like the piranha plants from Super Mario Bros. Ouch! Hopefully these don't spit fireballs. Link -via reddit

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Allie Goertz wrote and performed a touching song about how gamers escape from their mundane lives into worlds of their own creation. "Tonight" captures the role-playing experience so very well. -via Nerd Bastards

Previously:
Dungeons & Dragons Song: Roll a D6
A Song about the Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual

Geeky Tattoos has a roundup of some of the cleverest knuckle tattoos that geeks have acquired. Chris M. got this one in response to the common "Game Over" knuckle tattoo, writing "when it comes to video games, quitting is never an option, unless you’ve got work, a kid, or some other crap to do." Link | Photo: Knuckle Tattoos

Although it's not made of carbon fiber, this toilet seat is made to take the most brutal torture tests that a human body can offer. It has hinged wings, too, for, uh, added stability. Perfect! I've just ordered one for my cubicle here at the office. Link -via Gizmodo | Photo: Adjustable Advantage