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POPSPeople dressed as sci-fi characters Awesome! That guy really looks like Jean-Luc Picard. I wonder why the family with the Klingon dad had the curtains pulled? I like the one with the cat on the hearth-rug, too. And the kid Darth Vader.
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POPSStar Wars Cast Photo? Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamil, I take it the tall guy in back played Darth and small guy in front R2D2.
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POPSDick Cheney's losing his old black magic It's great to watch people step up to smack Cheney down. Retired Gen. Paul Eaton blasted back today, and I couldn't say it any better: "The record is clear: Dick Cheney and the Bush administration were incompetent war fighters. They ignored Afghanistan for 7 years with a crude approach to counter-insurgency warfare best illustrated by: 1. Deny it. 2. Ignore it. 3. Bomb it. While our intelligence agencies called the region the greatest threat to America, the Bush White House under-resourced our military efforts, shifted attention to Iraq, and failed to bring to justice the masterminds of September 11. "The only time Cheney and his cabal of foreign policy 'experts' have anything to say is when they feel compelled to protect this failed legacy. While President Obama is tasked with cleaning up the considerable mess they left behind, they continue to defend torture or rewrite a legacy of indifference on Afghanistan. …
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POPSSkype Voice Changer If you always wanted to sound like someone else when making calls in Skype you might find the Skype Voice Changer application handy.
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POPSWanna Buy A Death Star? • Shipping that to space: $95 million per tonne: $12.79 septillion in transport. • Add air, which will require 8.23 quintillion cubic meters of Nitrogen, and 1.65 quintillion cubic meters of oxygen, for a total delivery cost of $2.81 septillions and $212.46 quintillion. The total: $15,602,022,489,829,821,422,840,226.94. That will only get you the very basic model of Death Star, no options, no GPS, no radio, no leather heated seats, no mega-laser to obliterate planets, no turbolaser towers, no computer systems, no miscellaneous life support systems, no crew quarters, no turbo-elevators, no energy generators, no showers, no air conditioning, no Darth Vader's jacuzzi, no Emperor's home theater system, and no bloody canteen. And don't get me started on the cost of all the lunch trays and the constant supply of penne all'arrabbiata and peas needed for all the Death Star personell. Read the full thing at the source!
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POPSAnd Didn't Your Brother Do Worse To You As A Child? I will spare you the gruesome details of the CIA's other comical interrogation techniques and leap directly to the penultimate "torture" in their arsenal: the caterpillar. In this unspeakable brutality, a harmless caterpillar is placed in the terrorist's cell. Justice Department lawyers expressly denied the interrogators' request to trick the terrorist into believing the caterpillar was a "stinging insect." Human rights groups have variously described being trapped in a cell with a live caterpillar as "brutal," "soul-wrenching" and, of course, "adorable."
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POPSWho Programs the Teleprompter Posing for celebrity magazine covers and yakking it up with Jay Leno serve this purpose. Meanwhile, Rahm Emmanual, the ruthless political operative, is really the one in charge.
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POPSdarth vader money lol- it said that the guy who suggested this link liked the vader bucks- thought they were cooler looking than greenbacks- then said....best not since the hyperinflationary 100 billion Dinar not with Tesla on it
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POPSIt's Not the Economy, Stupid -- It's Limbaugh In the waning, pre-TARP days of the Bush administration, the national deficit stood at about $500 billion. A panicked Bush and Congress then voted for the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program to "bail out" the banks. Obama signed a $789 billion economic "stimulus" package, and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner announced a $2.5 trillion "rescue plan" for the financial system. Even CNBC's Jim Cramer, a former Obama supporter, called the administration's approach the "greatest wealth destruction I've seen by a president." Blame Rush Limbaugh. Obama, as part of his $3.6 billion budget, intends to spend -- strike that -- "invest" on things such as creating "green jobs," combating the effects of "climate change," health care and enabling "homeowners" to remain in their unaffordable homes. How does the President intend to pay for all these things? He wants to tax "the rich" -- those earning $250,000 or more
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POPSStar Wars USB pen drives! Adorable & a must have for Star Wars fans... except that they're $30 each for 2GB! 4 GB seems to be $45, while 8GB is $65! Crazy prices... :(
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POPSVader Love :lol: It's a caption contest over at Gizmodo. There were quite a few of the "lightsabers in the dark sides" ones which cracked me up.
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POPSThe 2 cutest Darths The other costumes at the source are your typical grown-up costumes. Princess Vader is just too cute not to clip.
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POPSRevenge of the Halloween Masks Directions: 1. Choose the mask you want to print out on a color printer. There are two sizes -- one that prints out on a standard size sheet of paper (8½x11) and a large version (11x17) for printers that can print that size paper. If you are unsure whether your printer can print the large size, ask an adult to help (and join in on the fun!). 2. Once printed, carefully use scissors to cut out eye holes and (optional) nose holes -- so you can see and breathe once the mask is on. 3. With a hole puncher, punch out side holes centered at either side of the mask. 4. Hold the mask up to your face. If the eye holes are too small for you to see through them, enlarge them cutting around them with scissors (you may want an adult to help you with this). 5. Next, cut two pieces of string, each approximately six inches long. Tie or tape each piece in each side hole you made in Step 3. 6. Tie the ends together at the back of your head to hold the mask on.