Tom Simpson and the Raiders of the Lost Blog

Check out this site to see the scale of tons of nerdy items. They have incredibly detailed drawings of science fiction space ships and other vehicles all drawn to scale. Very cool stuff! See which is bigger, a ship from Babylon 5, the starship Enterprise or an Imperial Shuttle! See the other scales by using the toolbar on the top.

If you live in Australia, now’s your chance to be an extra in Star Wars. Just hit this casting page for information (it’s near the bottom of the page). The Chewbacca picture is in honor of Chewie’s return for Episode III. “RAAAAAR!!!!”

Now this is sweet… pieces of a Honda are used like dominoes in one long take. Really well thought-out! You’ll need Flash 6 to view this.

View the ad here.

Now the Parks department has hired falconers to strafe pigeons in Bryant Park. It’s a pretty cool park, since it’s covered by wireless internet transmitters. Now you can also entertain yourself while playing Quake wirelessly by watching pigeons get attacked by hawks!

Click here for the article.

Now this was weird. I was walking back from lunch and saw a parade of the Mitzvah tanks. They’re Winnebagos that drive around close to Passover here in the city. My friend Khoi sent me this link that explains them a bit. You can watch a movie clip or check out the picture below: