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The prop was not custom-made in the Star Trek Art Department, but it is available from a company called Modern Props. The prop is described as “dual generators with rotating neon lights inside an acrylic tube; light-controlled panel with knobs and buttons.” It can be rented from the company, although we would expect the Art Department to finally build a similar prop of their own. The tubes appear in other science fiction series and movies as well, such as “V” (the 1983 miniseries), “Airplane II” (with William Shatner) or “The Last Starfighter”.

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fannybottoms:

Photos of me from when Emma visited me back in 2007. I think I’ve aged pretty well, don’t you?

My Game of Thrones DVD narrated by Tracy Morgan and JB Smoove arrived and it is wonderful. (at The Webbles)

analogcraftsman:

Synth Tech E350 Morphing Terrarium MU conversion.

I will never get tired of this song. 

“Consider, for instance, the burgeoning phenomenon of sports teams that employ their own beat reporters to cover them, often with a high degree of independence. Google News treats their work as news. But how different is that practice, really, from the growing number companies in other industries that employ writers to write generate content about their products and push that content out through their websites, social media channels and other publishing platforms? (The latter include BrandVoice, FORBES’s native advertising product.) If the Green Bay Packers can publish stories about their product and have them deemed Google News-worthy, why can’t Chrysler do the same?”

- Why Google Should Rethink Its Approach to Sponsored Content - The Bureau - NewsCred Blog

This is a pretty amazing Karaoke disc, right here. Also has Dead Can Dance Karaoke. And Skinny Puppy. And Neil Diamond.

“Some tropes are serially repackaged: Last April’s “10 Unbelievably Beautiful Places You’ve Probably Never Heard Of,” for BBC America, begat “10 Beautiful Places in the World That Actually Exist,” for Pepsi Next, which begat “10 Places That Are Almost Too Beautiful to Be Real,” for Campbell’s Soup. In late March, the dog caught its tail, as Dave Stopera published a new post: “28 Incredibly Beautiful Places You Won’t Believe Actually Exist.””

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Does Buzzfeed Know the Secret? — New York Magazine

Haha! All in all a pretty balanced article, though. 

“The 1961 Midtown Manhattan Study, for instance, indicated that nearly eighty-five per cent of New Yorkers had some degree of mental disorder, a number that beggars common sense, unless perhaps you’re a Woody Allen fan.”

- The D.S.M. and the Nature of Disease : The New Yorker

laughingsquid:

Vietnam Unveils Fire-Breathing Dragon Bridge

America has clearly fallen behind. 

I don’t believe in reincarnation because I few to come back as a bug, or as a rabbit. 

You know, you’re a real up person. 

slavin:

rickwebb:

One more song and it’s over. But I’m not gonna tell you about a girl. I’m not gonna tell you about a girl. 

I wanna tell you about a girl. 

Reblogging just to reblog this for your benefit:

http://slavin.tumblr.com/post/42586862817/i-dont-care-for-most-music-videos-and-this-new

Ha. Amazing. I think pre-internet that scene and that movie was its own little meme to a certain portion of the populace. 

springsteenjedi:

REBEL BASS

God I miss the unread count in tracked tags. 

brucesterling:

*American women dying in Red States.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/04/04/this-map-of-americas-health-is-pretty-terrifying/

Ooof. I don’t think I want to see this one. 

One more song and it’s over. But I’m not gonna tell you about a girl. I’m not gonna tell you about a girl. 

I wanna tell you about a girl. 

That time Gorbechev appeared in a Wim Winders film. 

““If you’re going to send a Jason Bourne character to Pakistan, he should have the skills of a Jason Bourne to get away,” Haqqani shot back, according to one person who attended the meeting.”

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How Raymond Davis Helped Turn Pakistan Against the United States - NYTimes.com

God, I knew there was more to this story. It’s painful how much we botched this. If I were Pakistani I’d be so angry with the US. via Colin Nagy. 

lizstless posted a photo:

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