If you’re a Star Wars fan, music simply sounds better when channeled through a Death Star speaker. Sure, there are already some pretty fancy speakers out there that employ the design of the Empire’s most potent weapon and take advantage of Bluetooth technology. DIY audiophiles can even print out their own Death Star speakers. But …
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A video of an Australian woman snowboarding while singing Rihanna’s “Work” — with a bear in pursuit — has roused the doubters. In the video description, Kelly Murphy wrote: “OMG! I was going through my snowboarding videos and I found a bear chasing me!!! I nearly got eaten!!! This was at Hakuba 47 in Japan, filmed yesterday! Be careful people!!!” …
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Rumors of Sherilyn Fenn reprising her role as the quirky and captivating Audrey Horne in director David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks” revival series appear to be confirmed. On Monday, Fenn tweeted a current photo of herself dressed as Horne with the message “Audrey Horne Lives,” followed by three cherry emojis. Her tweet has since been removed from Twitter. It’s possible that …
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Normal teddy bears are cute, but wouldn’t you’d rather hug a creature that’s adorable and helped take down an evil empire. Starting next week at Build-A-Bear workshops in the US and the UK and online at Buildabear.com worldwide, Star Wars fans can make their own 16-inch version of Wicket the Ewok from 1983’s “Return of the Jedi,” the retailer announced …
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As we already gleaned from the “Ghostbusters” movie trailer, each new member of the team has her own specialty. Kate McKinnon plays the “brilliant engineer” Jillian Holtzmann. Kristen Wiig is the quantum physics genius Erin Gilbert. Leslie Jones is Patty Tolan, the street-savvy New York expert who also owns the hearse they transform into their legendary ghostbusting vehicle, Ecto-1. Melissa …
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Back in the ’90s, when Webcams were hot and we used the World-Wide Web Worm as our preferred search engine, I worked for a tiny online village of Apple Mac users called eWorld. Apple dabbled in this easy-to use community between June 1994 and March 1996, and eWorld became my first full-time job in college. From 1995 to 1996, I …
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Perhaps you’ve watched “MythBusters” and thought, “I know Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman are experts at demolishing buildings and crashing cars in the name of science, but I could totally do that too!” Well, you’re in luck. Less than a month after the popular, educational TV series “MythBusters” ended on the Discovery Channel, it appears that its sister channel Science …
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Art is subjective, but this sculpture called “Stormtrumper” is objectively terrifying. It seems appropriate that Star Wars is the muse in this political art piece about Donald Trump, considering how in the films, the Clone Wars started with an emperor who knew how to influence the masses while also impressing the Intergalactic Banking Clan. Artist Greg Dietzenbach even quoted Jedi …
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Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and the Avengers aren’t the only superheroes willing to stand up for us mere mortals. Electra Woman and Dyna Girl are ready to punch their way through the bad guys with snazzy costumes and witty comebacks in an new reboot from Legendary Digital Studios. This “Electra Woman and Dyna Girl” reboot stars YouTube sensations Grace Helbig …
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“I’m gonna be an engineer!” “I’m gonna be a lawyer!” “I’m gonna be the nation’s No. 1 investment banker!” When little girls excitedly proclaim their future professions anything seems possible. That is, until they start playing the fictional board game “The Glass Ceiling.” In this Comedy Central parody video posted Wednesday, we see happy girls get a reality check when …
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