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“Weird Ed” Woody, my filmmaking partner, is quietly attempting to murder me.

That’s the only reason why I can conceive of his sending me this link to ThinkGeek’s product page for the Grow Your Own World’s Hottest DIY Pepper kit… because Weird Ed is well aware of my fascination with spicy hot food and he knows that I’m not going to pass up on the chance to grow my own Bhut jolokia!

This pepper, native to northeastern India, was written about more than three years ago on this blog and at the time some enterprising folks were looking at how to market it to the wider world. Well for a few bucks and some scratch you can get this pop-top can, open it up and give it water and sunlight, and in a few weeks you’ll get your first sprouts. The pepper comes in at more than a million scorching ...

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Hey y’all, been a few days since an update. All that can be said at the moment is that I’ve got a lot of irons in the fire, so to speak 🙂

Here, maybe this’ll make up for it. My good friend and brother in Christ (not to mention fellow Star Wars ubergeek) Joshua Ausley shot, edited and produced this head-slammingly rockalicious music video for a band called Death Proof out of our very own Greensboro, North Carolina!

Behold the pure awesome that is “Rip It Up”!

And if you wanna know more about Death Proof then click on over to the band’s Myspace page....

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Robert Chojecki, a fella out of Herne, Germany, went to his doctor because he had been suffering severe headaches for a year and didn’t know why.

So his physician took some x-rays of Chojecki’s head… and found a bullet nestled between his skin and his skull.

It had been there for five years. At the time Chojecki, now 35, thought that he had either bumped his head or been hit by a firecracker during a New Years celebration. But apparently the 22-caliber bullet came from a bullet that had been fired during the same festivities (note to self: stop firing guns at parties).

Read more about the heady case of Robert Chojecki here, including video depicting the x-rays and the bullet!...

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On June 23rd, Heang Uy departed from Cannon Beach on the coast of Oregon on his bicycle. He’s been pedaling ever since.

Two day ago and 3,578 miles later…

…Heang arrived at Folly Beach, South Carolina!

Here’s Heang’s account of reaching the finish line for his amazing journey.

Congratulations Heang! You were always uber-kewl in my book, and this accomplishment puts me in awe of you even more bro 🙂...

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Sporting a jet engine from a Phantom fighter plane, this school bus that Paul Stender and his team at Indy Boys Inc. out of Indianapolis hacked together can reach speeds up to 367 miles per hour!!

The downside is that top speed is sustainable only for a half-mile. And it takes 150 gallons of fuel to reach it. But that’s gotta be a hella scary ride for any kiddies that might be aboard this beast. Stender and his crew used an actual school bus to build their creation but admit having to reinforce it quite a bit because “There’s no way the original bus could have withstood the speeds that I take it to.” Still, he estimates that about 5 percent, including the door, are original parts.

Why a 367-MPH school bus? The self-taught Stender quipped that “I grew up on a farm and to tell you the truth I ...

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I wound up driving past Epic Games’ studio in Cary the other week. Wasn’t much to see. But I couldn’t help feeling like Charlie Bucket from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory: wondering if there were Oompa-Loompas inside. But chasing each other around with chainsaws.

Anyway…

What you are about to see is not an official trailer for Gears of War 3. This is something that a group of fans collaborated on and… honestly, I think this is a much better piece than the “Ashes to Ashes” trailer.

Focusing on Augustus Cole and with Johnny Cash’s cover of “Hurt” helping to set the tone, here is “What Have I Become?”

That is just plum haunting. Hey Epic Games, hire these guys now!...

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In a word: hilarity!

Rev. Fred Phelps and his demented progeny came to San Diego on Thursday to, for whatever reason makes sense to the inner fog of their warped minds, “protest” at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. What the world’s biggest comic book/pop culture convention has done to rile the “God Hates Fags” loons, I have no idea…

…but the geeks of Comic-Con certainly knew how to respond in kind!

ComicsAlliance has a bunch more photos of the counter-protest, which also included numerous “robots, magical anime girls, Trekkies, Jedi and…kittens?”...

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Last week this blog joined others in oggling with admiration a full-sized costume of a Covenant Elite from the Halo video games.

Then two days ago I shared with y’all the “impressive… most impressive!” video of a German Star Wars fan’s General Grievous costume.

If you have yet to be astonished at the costuming creativity that is apparently running rampant through the land, then this should drop your jaw to the floor: Anthony Le’s full-sized, fully automated set of War Machine armor! That photo on the right? That’s not a still from Iron Man 2: that is Anthony fully suited up.

Meanwhile I’m sitting here, looking at my humble Jedi Knight costume, looking back at the ingenuity of these other outfits, a single tear trickling down my cheek…

(Okay someday, Lord willing, I will at last put together that movie-quality Boba Fett costume that I’ve always dreamed of, muhahahahaha!)...

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