Designing an X-Wing Fighter

Hey Oscar Wilde! - Designing an X-Wing Fighter

Star Wars T-Shirt iron-ons

Hey Oscar Wilde! - Star Wars T-Shirt prints

Ludwig Hohlwein

Game Of Thrones map

Game of Thrones World Map Poster 13X19 von RonGuyatt auf Etsy

The Wire - animated

Christoph Niemann: Red Eye

Red Eye - NYTimes.com

Goodnight Dune

Goodnight Dune

Tintin vs Lovecraft

C64 glitch book

Romantically apocalyptic

Best webcomic I've seen in a while: Romantically Apocalyptic by Vitaly S Alexius.

Romantically Apocalyptic

Ikea prison

Need a quick solution for your imprisonment needs? Artist Bill Burns can help with his handy Ikea cells and prison tower blueprints. His series "IKEA Playlist Kit for Primates" also comes with a useful selection of music that guards used to torture inmates at Guantanamo.

An Alternate Universe Where IKEA Helps You Build Prisons - Art - io9

Periodic table of imaginary elements

I'm not such a big fan of the ubiquitous periodic tables of anything that are swarming the Internet, but this one actually makes sense: the periodic table of imaginary elements, taken from books, movies and video games. Pretty cool. Available as a poster print from Russell Walks.

Russell Walks Illustration

Nazi ufo cockpit

New production pic from Iron Sky: the interior of one of their Nazi UFOs.

Ever Wondered What a Nazi UFO Cockpit Looks Like? « Beyond the Iron Sky

North Korean propaganda posters

No further information on these gruesomely detailed North Korean Anti-American propaganda posters but I would suppose they are from the ages of the Korean War.

Anti American propaganda from North Korea | Oriens

Guernica in 3D

This interesting 3D rendering of Picasso's Guernica was created by art student Lena Gieseke from the University of Georgia. The close-ups do look a bit funny and cartoony but it's a nice effort.

The Presurfer: Picasso's Guernica in 3D

Portal 2 puzzle

What you see here is screenshots from software publisher Valve's sneak campaign to promote the sequel to their successful game Portal. Valve included some audio transmissions in their latest Portal update which, when decoded, revealed themselves as security camera footage from the game, some of which included letters, numbers and formulas. These, again when properly decoded would yield a Bulletin Board Service (BBS) number from where the above screenshots were downloaded via modem.

Game makers should put puzzles as hard as this IN their games, not in their promo campaigns for the games. Remember some of the incredibly hard puzzle and adventures from the 1980ies? But all in all, an extremely geeky and elaborate move from Valve, and an impressive show of feat by all the countless geeks who decrypted this puzzle.

Valve's Portal Puzzle So Far: The Files Recovered From Aperture Science - Portal 2 - Kotaku

German WWI propaganda

What we have here is a popular piece of propaganda from WWI Germany, directed against the Allied countries fighting Germany. As you can see this exists in many forms, but the most well-known is the one including the "Triple entente" of Russia, Great Britain and France. Sometimes it's also expanded to include Japan, Serbia, Montenegro, Belgium and any other force out there to be hated.

Even though (or probably because) these propaganda slogans reach down to kindergarten rhymes, they are still in the knowledge of German speakers to this day. After all, it's really not hard to memorize "Jeder Schuss ein Russ, jeder Tritt ein Britt, jeder Stoss ein Franzos, jeder Klaps ein Japs" ("Every shot one of the Russians, every kick one of the Britons, every thrust one of the Frenchmen, every slap one of the Japanese")

Inbox zero

You can buy this over at Nerd Merit Badges, but do not wear unless you have a clean inbox for 71,4% of the time. Impossible!

Nerd Merit Badges - 02: Inbox Zero

Science on the march

An amazing illustration on the progress of science and technology created by Alexander Leydenfrost and published in the semi-centennial issue of Popular Mechanics from 1952. A great display of the past and projected future development of technologies, all depicted in glorious blocky 1950s design.

Paleo-Future - Paleo-Future Blog - Science on the March (1952)

Olympic pictograms

An educational video, unfortunately not embeddable, that traces the development Olympic pictograms since their first appearance at the 1936 Olympics. Pictured above still the most clean and iconic pictograms ever, the ones developed for the 1972 Munich Olympics.

Olympic Pictograms Through the Ages - Video Feature - NYTimes.com