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The end of an era, a sad reporting from The Guardian: Erik Bauersfeld, who turned three words from a minor acting role – “It’s a trap!” – into one of the most beloved lines of the Star Wars series, has died. His manager, Derek Maki, says the performer died Sunday at his home in Berkeley,…

Once again Randall Munroe is giving us a masterpiece in the form of the latest xkcd entry. Make sure to check out Hoverboard and remember: Looks to be small, however, when you realize that boundaries are made to be broken, A massive world opens up to be explored. Via Boing Boing.

The epic ending you never saw coming is here because you demanded it! The Dark Knight rises again to face the dawn of the master race! Frank Miller is back. You don’t need to know anything else. Insta-buy.

As shared by Federico Viticci: Fortunately, great things do happen in the third-party iOS ecosystem. Today’s update to Workflow (version 1.4.2) adds, among more actions, a brand new WordPress action to publish posts and pages to configured WordPress blogs (both wordpress.com and self-hosted ones) and which can be combined with any other existing action or…

Kids love crashing toy cars. Adults in the real thing, not so much. That’s the angle behind Mercedes’ latest ad, crafted to promote the company’s latest safety systems. The video clip humorously posits what would happen if Mercedes gave out sets of toy cars with strong magnets in them that would prevent kids from crashing…

Charlie Jane Anders was lucky enough to get a sneak peak at the next Pixar blockbuster, The Good Dinosaur. Even for a studio known for taking risks and breaking new ground, The Good Dinosaur is an odd duck. And the more you learn about it, the stranger it appears. We spent a day and a…

Asked during an interview if he could imagine making another James Bond movie, the actor told Time Out London: “ I’d rather break this glass and slash my wrists … I’m over it at the moment. We’re done. All I want to do is move on.”   He later clarified: “For at least a year…

When Pepsi managed to get its brand of sugar water in 1985’s classic Back to the Future II, it surely wasn’t anticipating being able to cash in on that product placement 30 years later. But that’s exactly what’s happening this month, as the company featured in Marty McFly’s fictional 2015 is releasing a real product…