The Great Geek Manual

Art

• DeviantART user Orsobrusco has created an origami cobra from just one sheet of uncut, unglued paper.
• Georgia-based artist Gideon Slife decided to create a minimalist poster for every single episode of Lost , starting with the pilot. The posters feature a muted color palette and a pithy phrase summarizing the episode.
• Growing up Heroes is a great blog devoted to photos of kids dressed as superheroes. Check out: Batman, Doctor Doom, The Hulk, She Ra, and more.
• Mattijn has an awesome gallery of “Homegrown Fantasy Castles” on Flickr.

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1006
Supernova SN 1006, the brightest supernova in recorded history, occurs in the southern constellation Lupus, near the star Beta Lupi. Chinese and Arabic astronomers note the supernova, but the speed of the still-expanding shock wave won’t be measured for nearly a millennium. The event is also recorded by observers in Egypt, Iraq, Italy, Japan, and Switzerland. From the careful descriptions recorded by Chinese astronomers of how the light varies, the Supernova is apparently yellow in color and visible for over a year.
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There are three kinds of death in this world. There’s heart death, there’s brain death, and there’s being off the network.

- Guy T. Almes, 1979.

This is just amazing. Forget information and databases. The future is all about computation – what conclusions our computers can arrive at on their own.

Art

• The Build Blog offers A Critical Analysis of Couch Cushion Architecture (in two parts).
• Geeks are Sexxy has rounded up a gallery of Star Wars-themed Works of Art.
• Hit Girl commission by Otis Frampton.
• These Iron Man 2 posters by Tyler Stout and Mike Saputo are as good as the real thing.
• What if Disney had made Lord of the Rings?

Comics

• News: Warner Bros. Developing Starman Film
• Dave Ex Machina claims that February 1966 was the best month in comics ever.

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1879
Electric arc lamps are used for the first time in the United States, as street lights in Cleveland, Ohio.

1953
An episode of the science fiction series Space Patrol becomes the first experimental three-dimensional television broadcast in the U.S. when it is broadcast by ABC affiliate KECA-TV in Los Angeles, California.

1957
The first military nuclear power plant is dedicated at Fort Belvoir in Virginia.

1959
The UNIVAC picks four out of six winners at the Churchill Downs races in Louisville, Kentucky, setting a record for the correct choices in a horse race.
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The belief that one’s own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.

- Paul Watzlawick