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A few days ago this blog forwarded along a story about a full-sized costume of a Covenant Elite from the Halo video games. If that didn’t stun and impress, maybe this one will…

A dude in Germany has built a costume of General Grievous from Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (as well as being featured in numerous other Star Wars works of fiction). Yeah you read that right: a General Grievous getup. And it not only looks incredible but it moves incredible! Check it out!

This guy has a longer video here that has more detail of the costume.

I bet he’s gonna get slammed with requests from people to loan Grievous’ help on Star Wars fan films šŸ˜›...

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The above photo was taken on the coast of Oregon a few days ago by Heang Uy. Heang is a friend from my college days, who has been a bigger inspiration to me than I’ve ever been able to articulate. He’s a true brother in the Lord, a great teacher, and an excellent coach at his school.

And this summer Heang is bicycling across the continental United States! Word has come down the wire that sometime this evening Heang should be entering the Mountain Time Zone, headed toward Idaho. If all goes well he’ll be pedaling back into North Carolina in August. In the meantime Heang Uy is out there somewhere: exerting both mind and body in an epic odyssey that will have him living the landscape like few dare to experience.

Pretty neat, aye? šŸ™‚

Here’s Heang’s blog, where he’s chronicling his journey (accompanied with photos from ...

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…will make you think you’re swimming over the edge of the world itself:

55 stories above the streets of Singapore, the Sands Skypark in Singapore provides a swimming pool, casino and greenway held aloft by three skyscrapers. The skypark is almost 1,250 feet long and the pool itself is 500 feet long.

What happens if you go over the side of the pool? You and the water get safely dumped into a basin that pumps the water back up to the pool. You, presumably, will have to walk up stairs or take an elevator back up to swimming altitude.

Click on the link at designboom for more information about the Sands Skypark and its swimming pool in the sky!...

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Oscar the cat lost most of his back legs in a harvester accident this past fall. But thanks to some British researchers Oscar is now enjoying a fully functional life complete with two fore paws and two faux paws!

Popular Science has more about Oscar: the world’s first bionically-enabled feline. It’s thought that the technology will soon be applicable to human patients.

And here’s some video of Oscar strutting his stuff!

He just needs some adamantium claws in his front paws and he’ll be all set šŸ˜›...

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Before anything else in this post, I’m gonna get this off my chest: I’ve never understood why Waterworld has such a bad rap. I saw this movie during its first week in theaters in 1995 and thought it was pretty good. Not overwhelmingly “excellent”, and the science behind it is atrocious (namely that there isn’t enough water in the polar caps to cover the Earth’s surface if they melted) but Waterworld was still a great action flick that has only gotten better with age.

Anyhoo, that photo is Kevin Costner at the till of his vessel in Waterworld… and not Kevin Costner at the controls of his very own real life invention: the “Ocean Therapy” water cleansing system. Who’da thunk that all this time he was making Waterworld, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Open Range, that Costner was also working behind the scenes with millions of ...

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Pixar animation artist Josh Cooley has been making a series of illustrations inspired by – in addition to parodying – those classic Lil’ Golden Books that so many of us grew up with. And now this summer Cooley is coming out with an actual honest-to-goodness book of his work! Lil’ Inappropriate Golden Book: MOVIES ‘R’ FUN! takes scenes from well-known R-rated movies and, ummm… “kiddifies” them.

Ever seen serial killer Buffalo Bill in a children’s book? You have now!

GeekTyrant has several more of Cooley’s hilarious renditions, including “children’s” versions of The Godfather, Se7en and The Big Lebowski....

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It was “probably the worst place in Sydney where they could have taken him”, said Steve Ashley: one of a group of Australian ninjas that came to readily assist a medical student who was being attacked by muggers.

From the story at News.com.au…

A STUDENT has been saved from a vicious assault – not by the boys in blue but the men in black.

Ninjas scared off three thugs who had the misfortune to attack the 27-year-old medical student outside their warrior school.

The German exchange student had been targeted by the men while he was riding the late-night train home, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.

They demanded he give them his wallet but when he refused and got off the train, they followed.

They pounced as he made his way through a dark alley in Sydney’s west.

They grabbed his phone and iPod and kicked him while he lay

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