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On August 12, Propworx will be auctioning off tons of Star Trek memorabilia. Spock’s ears, Worf’s latex forehead piece, phasers, tribbles, models of Quark’s bar . . . The catalog alone will have any self-respecting Trekkie drooling. Never have I so wished I was worth my weight in gold-pressed latinum.
A few of the cooler items up for grabs:
Prosthetic Vulcan ears worn by Leonard Nimoy in the Original Series
Yellow uniform shirt worn by George Takei in the Original Series
Dedication plaques for the Enterprise-E, Enterprise NX-01, Voyager, the Xhosa, and theSao Paulo
A model fragment of the Enterprise-D (as wrecked …
Headline, Movies, Pop Culture »
“Hi Spielberg, let’s do it together,” reads a graffitied message on a wall in one scene from Tony Jaa’s Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior. It’s a invitation for Spielberg to cast him in a film.
That’s one offer Spielberg should be glad to accept. Jaa, a martial arts star of almost superhuman abilities, knows how to an execute a thrilling action sequence. And he and the directors appear share the same fundamental belief about action/adventure films, namely, that it’s fine to suspend logic and plausibility as long as you make things look …
Chinese, Culture, Internet, Pop Culture »
Mah jong and hip-hop: together at last!
Cooking, Food and Drink, Headline, Italian, Pop Culture, T.V. »
Or, in my unique version, oily-yet-delicious tomato sludge.
Miscellany, Pop Culture, T.V. »
This blogger’s experience working at the behemoth that is the Googleplex put me in mind of the Simpsons episode where Homer goes to work for Globex. But does Google offer self-cleaning kitchens?
What happens when Google swallows your life? A new hire at the internet company is blogging the experience, from waking in his Google apartment to taking a Google car to Google dinner and then Googling home via Google.
A Sun veteran, software developer Tim Bray was no stranger to big-company life. But he knew Google enveloped employees on a whole …
Critters, Featured, Pop Culture, T.V. »
I spoke too soon: Oprah very nearly ruined this one.
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Even Oprah can’t ruin the amazing sequel to “Planet Earth.”
Movies, Pop Culture »
This year’s Oscar gowns were brought to you by a group of birds and little mice armed with needle and thread. They will make your dress so pretty; there’s nothing to it, really.