Make Your Own Paper Tardis

Need to spruce up the ol' cubicle desk or perhaps impress the niece/nephew but are on a limited budget? How about making your own Paper Tardis (or Dalek or Cyberman)? Just follow the link, print, fold and .. voila!

Eight Awesome SciFi Graphic Novels

Check out i09's list of eight SciFi graphic novels that (they believe) will get you hooked for life. Tintin in Tibet gets a mention as does Ronin.



http://io9.com/5625177/fantastic-scifi-graphic-novels-that-will-get-you-hooked-for-life

Paintbrush: Simple Paint Program for Mac OS X

Paintbrush is a simple paint program for Mac OS X, reminiscent of Microsoft Paint and Apple’s own now-defunct MacPaint. It provides users with a means to make simple images quickly, something which has been noticeably absent from the Mac for years. Paintbrush can open and save to most major image formats, including BMP, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, and GIF. Full support for transparency is available for image formats which support an alpha channel (currently PNGs and GIFs). Also does: Image resizing, canvas resizing, and cropping.

Superman Appears

Check out these scans of the original Action Comics No. 1 that featured the first ever appearance of Superman.

Mactracker provides detailed information on every Apple Macintosh computer ever made, including items such as processor speed, memory, optical drives, graphic cards, supported Mac OS versions, and expansion options. Also included is information on Apple mice, keyboards, displays, printers, scanners, digital cameras, iPod, Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, Wi-Fi Cards/Base Stations, Newton, and Mac OS versions.

Catweazle

Who remembers Catweazle, the lovable medieval wizard who was inexplicably transported forward in time to the 70's? "Come Touchwood we are called by the telling bone". I used to love watching this show.

Tom Grattan's War

Ah the memories come flooding back! Tom Grattan's War used to be a staple of afternoon TV back in the day. You can see a video of it here.

The Truth About Cats

With the aid of an old STASI animal translator (they used to use them to interrogate the pets of dissidents in the DDR) our intrepid elf sets off to determine what cats think. ...turns out it's: urm... ah napping and.. sardines.. sorta.

Another quality strip from the "Faraday the Blob" webcomic.