This darkened photo doesn't really do the project justice -- it just shows the neat lighting that illustrates why the class of this transport vessel was called Firefly. That was an important detail that Doyle didn't want to leave out. There's a complete minifig crew appropriately modified to look like the characters from Firefly, as well as articulated ship parts and a detachable shuttlecraft. Click on the link to see more photos.

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Previously: Chris Doyle's Flying Spaghetti Monster LEGO Church

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The comedy troupe Half Day Today, which made the very funny trailer for an Oregon Trail movie, now envisions the board game Monopoly as a fast-paced thriller similar to The Devil's Advocate. It just might work as a real movie.

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The steam engine, lightbulb, the polio vaccine -- and now this modern marvel. Since the beginning of time, humanity has been unable to drink two different slurpee flavors from the same cup, let alone alternate between them. Now crack researchers at the convenience store chain 7-11 have solved the problem and bestowed upon the world their solution:

In June, 7-Eleven will be slapping Slurpees into cups with dual chambers, a special valve and two straws that let folks drink one or two Slurpee flavors at a time. One in three customers at 7-Eleven buys a drink, says Jesus Delgado-Jenkins, SVP of marketing.

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The length of a man's ring finger has been tied to success at financial trading, and its length in relation to the index finger is an indicator of exposure to testosterone in utero. Now a recent study suggests that men with long ring fingers are more likely to be considered attractive by women. Camille Ferdenzi of the University of Geneva explained:

"The aim was to understand what makes a man attractive," and whether at least some of those qualities "were in part conditioned by the foetal environment," Ferdenzi said in an interview.

For the visual test, the results were unambiguous. "The longer the ring finger compared to the index -- that is, the greater the exposure to testosterone -- the more attractive the face was rated," she said by phone.

Link via Glenn Reynolds | Photo by Flickr user marysecasol.com used under Creative Commons license

A fertility clinic in Copenhagen wanted an easy way to transport biological materials in insulated storage through the city, and so commissioned the construction of the Sperm Bullitt:

The Sperm Bike is, like the company's sperm donations, a Danish product and constructed around the Danish Bullitt cargo bike from Larry vs Harry.

Producing the Sperm Bike was no easy task. It was constructed by the Danish company 10 Tons - who specialise in zoological and botanical models as well as paleontologic reconstructions, including full-size whales and dinosaurs.

With the tail, the bike is 2.9 metres long and fully-loaded with... um... sperm... it weighs 50 kg. About the same as my cargo bike with two kids and a bag of groceries.

If you scroll to the bottom of the linked article, you can find links to images of other unique custom cargo bikes built by the same company.

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Would you like to smell like an orc? You're most of the way already, but let's finish you off with this new scent from Black Phoenix Alchemy Labs. The company describes it as "Field grey courgette musk, roughly cured leather, and vetiver." It's one of several scents based on D&D races, character classes, and alignments. Oh, they don't call it D&D, of course, but that's the obvious inspiration.

Link via Atomic Nerds | Previously: Play-Doh Cologne

This doesn't seem like a good plan for a robbery. According to a local news report, the suspect:

[...] hid the game controller in his pocket and pretended it was a gun as he tried to rob the Sun Food Store on 62nd Avenue S.

He was arrested by a police officer who walked into the store in the middle of the robbery, police said.

Talk about bad luck! If only he brought a caulk gun instead, it might have worked.

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There's not much evidence to support the claim, but allegedly, this is a picture of two bullets that collided with each other, head-on, from opposite directions. One is French and the other is Russian, and the two met in 1854 during the Crimean War.

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An armed robber entered the home of 81-year old Bobby Smith. That made Mr. Smith angry, and you don't want to make Mr. Smith angry:

The man told Smith to "gimme what you got" before shoving him to the ground and taking his wallet, according to the police report. That didn't stop Smith, who said he "went back after him." He grabbed the nearest weapon, while Sones grabbed for something else to give him.

"I grabbed the frying pan and hit him upside the head. I knocked his teeth out ... and he went to the floor," Smith said. "There was a pitchfork about six feet away. ... I stuck him."

Police soon caught the robber nearby. There's a video at the link.

Link via Say Uncle | Photo: Kelly Jordan/Times-Union

Instructables user lizzomarek made an amazing model of the castle from the anime movie Howl's Moving Castle. It's made in the Japanese pottery tradition of raku-yaki and given a steampunk flair. There's a really neat video about halfway down the page at the link showing the castle, still glowing red hot, coming out of the kiln.

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Previously: Two models of Howl's Moving Castle in paper

Etsy seller Donna Terraza doesn't specialize in Star Wars scenes, and that's a real shame because it's a medium that, like everything else, can only benefit by more Star Wars content. Terraza has, however, produced two fine works showing Yoda and a stormtrooper, respectively, at the links.

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Extreme ironing is a sport in which people take an iron, an ironing board, and clothing to extreme locations, such as mountaintops or erupting volcanoes. Participants then proceed to neatly iron the items of clothing. Security camera footage in the UK caught one man ironing in the middle of a freeway. That section had been temporarily closed, so there wasn't much risk. Still, it's a good start, and the bathrobe was certainly an appropriate costume.

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Passover begins today, so, naturally, Phillip Torrone used a laser to etch an image of Spock into a matzoh wafer. This is especially amusing since Leonard Nimoy is Jewish and the Vulcan salute is derived from a Jewish tradition.

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Last year, Teddie Films produced an excellent Star Wars parody of Ke$ha's "Tik Tok" which got a lot of attention on the Internet. That crew is back, now lampooning Rebecca Black's song "Friday". "Prime Day" is narrated by Princess Leia, and she's taking the rebellion a little less seriously. Here's a selection from the lyrics, available in full at the video link:

7am, waking up in the morning
Gotta be fresh, gotta do my hair
Gotta roll my buns, gotta have blue milk
Force in everything, light saber's glowin'
Attack is goin on, everybody's fightin'
Meeting at bay nine-ty-four
Gotta find Kenobi, I see my friends

Solo in the front seat
Luke is in the back seat
Gotta make my mind up
Which one is my mate?

via Nerd Bastards | Previously: Rebecca Black's "Friday" as Radical Text

We often post about inventive cakes and cupcakes, especially those made with other delicious foods inside, such as Oreos and Cadbury Creme Eggs. Now it's no longer necessary to scrounge around for such confections. Thanks to the specializing tendency of the Internet, there's a blog devoted entirely to baking foods inside cakes and cupcakes. Pictured above is on example from Bake It in a Cake -- a banana cupcake with a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup inside and topped with chocolate buttercream and chocolate chips.

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