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Monday, August 23, 2010

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Post-It note showing all of Chewbacca's dialogue from Star Wars
Petra cave paintings

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 04:40 AM PDT

I want to entertain an offhand theory that I've had ever since I became obsessed with indoor rock climbing two and a half years ago: It's great for geeks, and we should all be doing it.

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Post-It note showing all of Chewbacca's dialogue from Star Wars

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 01:55 PM PDT

This cartoon from Savage Chickens is freaking brilliant! Who knew Chewbacca was so versatile?

Petra cave paintings

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 05:50 AM PDT

From The Observer:

Spectacular 2,000-year-old Hellenistic-style wall paintings have been revealed at the world heritage site of Petra through the expertise of British conservation specialists. The paintings, in a cave complex, had been obscured by centuries of black soot, smoke and greasy substances, as well as graffiti. Experts from the Courtauld Institute in London have now removed the black grime, uncovering paintings whose "exceptional" artistic quality and sheer beauty are said to be superior even to some of the better Roman paintings at Herculaneum that were inspired by Hellenistic art.

Discovery of ancient cave paintings in Petra stuns art scholars [Observer]