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Monthly Archives: October 2011
Revisiting downtown Tokyo
I’m still not satisfied with my indoor, winter/rain/Seattle photo setup, so I’ve been playing around quite a bit with post-processing to make up for the less-than-optimal lighting in my recent LEGO photos. After I finally posted my completed micros… Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Lego, Microscale
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Official: AEV turns Wrangler into Brute Double Cab for SEMA
Filed under: Aftermarket, SEMA Show, Jeep, Off-Road
Jeep pickup trucks are griffins. Amalgamated kings of all automotive beasts that combine the friendly puppy vibe of a Wrangler with the utility of a cargo box. Ten years ago, American Expedition Vehi… Continue reading
Posted in aev, aev brute, american expedition vehicles, brute, Jeep, sema, sema 2011, wrangler, wrangler unlimited
Tagged Aftermarket, Jeep, Off-Road, SEMA Show
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Battlefield 3 Performance: 30+ Graphics Cards, Benchmarked
Are you wondering how your PC will handle Battlefield 3 before buying the game? We pulled a series of all-nighters to get almost every graphics card in our lab tested, in addition to a handful of processors, to answer your performance-oriented question… Continue reading
Posted in Graphics Cards
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The long shadow of Mt. Rainier
Here in Boulder we get magnificent sunsets, especially in the summer when the clouds interplay with the mountains to the west. But I have never seen anything like this: the shadow of Washington state’s Mt. Rainier cast along the clouds at sunrise:
Posted in clouds, Cool Stuff, Mt. Rainier, Pretty pictures, shadow
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This retro Metroid cosplay is without equal
It’s almost Halloween, and it’s likely you’re pretty much set on what you’re dressing up as this year. If you’re thinking Samus, think again: Dan Cattell’s sprite-based Samus and Chozo Statue costumes are without equal. In fact, they’re even feature… Continue reading
Posted in 3ds, cosplay, dan-cattell, ds, Metroid-Other-M, nintendo, samus, wii, wii-u
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The world’s most controversial Lego model
My friend and MAKE colleague John Baichtal co-wrote an upcoming book called The Cult of Lego. I liked it so much that I wrote the foreword to it. As you might guess, John knows a great deal of Lego lore, and I have invited him to share some of it with … Continue reading
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A PSA for F-22 pilots
It’s been another wild week for the Lockheed Martin F-22 fleet. For the first time in five days, about 30 F-22s at Langley AFB, Virginia, were cleared to fly today. That comes one day after Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson lifted a grounding order on 40… Continue reading
Posted in f22, lockheedmartin
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Traditional Japanese “Toolbox” to Die For: Keiji Ashizawa’s Hirosaki Knife Box
Hirosaki is a city in northern Japan responsible for the bulk of that country’s apple production, meaning they’ve got a lot of apple trees. In homage to the region, designer Keiji Ashizawa incorporated apple wood in his Hirosaki Knife Box, produced f… Continue reading
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