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Geek Gift Guide 2012: It’s Splendor Galore at 20 Bucks and Under
It’s that most wonderful time of year again when we scheme, sleuth, rush and hustle our way through holiday gift shopping for all our favorite geeks. Boyfriends, girlfriends, moms, dads, sons, daughters, bosses… naughty and nice, everyone deserves a little sugar! To say that this is a daunting task is an understatement of the elves-are-height-challenged […]
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Designer Con 2012: Pasadena’s Dirty Little Secret Busts Loose
Navigating from the west side of Los Angeles to Pasadena in 17 minutes flat was the first sign of a great day in the making. OK, so it was painfully early on a Saturday morning, but its still such a rare occurrence that it was hard not to feel as though good things would follow. […]
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Happy Birthday Lego!
Still Building Awesome at 80To most people on the planet Legos are a fact of life. It’s been going on for generations now: kids begin sticking the insidious plastic blocks together before they’re potty trained and adults inadvertently step on their sharp edges at night only to discover the true meaning of pain. Few among them stop to think […]
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Space Shuttle Endeavour Flyovers for L.A. and S.F? Oh, Hell Yes
Next Monday morning the Space Shuttle Endeavour, the baby of NASA’s fleet, leaves Kennedy Space Center for the last time. Strapped to the back of the Millennium Falcon (oh, one can dream – actually it will be fastened snugly to a 747 jumbo jet), Endeavour will make it’s way over the course of four days […]