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We've seen an AT-AT cat playhouse before, and now there's an AT-ST. I don't really have any more info, I just found the pics on The Bloggess's site in between posts about her weird taxidermy fetish. So it looks like it's up to us to make up our own backstory. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess it was built by a guy who loves his cats AND Star Wars. Remember: the simplest explanation is usually the right one. Or maybe the whole thing fell to earth like a f***ing asteroid, I don't know. "I bet he got it in a McDonald's Happy Meal." Now you're thinking. Thanks to me, for being in touch with my inner cat enough to admit MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW.

This is a deep fried tarantula served up by the The Bug Chef (aka David George Gordon), a man who travels around cooking bugs and speaking about the benefits of eating insects. Now, not to sound too progressive or anything, but I've actually eaten spiders before. IN MY SLEEP. They were all unintentional. Plus one time I woke up in the middle of the night and felt something weird in my boxers. You know what it was? "A spider?!" No, it was a bird feather, but I THOUGHT it was a spider. I was seriously *this close* to smacking my pecker with a shoe. Thanks to The Brett, who tried to tell me the deep-fried Oreos at the county fair are really the store brand versions. I feel robbed!

Back in 2007, astronomers detected an incredibly brief, incredibly strong radio wave burst in Australia. And now, on the opposite side of the world, astronomers have detected a second blast of similar proportions. Meaning that A) the first one wasn't a fluke, and B) we have absolutely no idea what's causing them.

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Water balloons are guaranteed fun, but filling them up can be extremely time consuming, leaving you with little energy left in the event of a water fight.

To solve this truly important problem, Josh Malone, the founder of Tinnus Enterprises, has created a hose attachment called Bunch O Balloons, which lets you fill up 37 balloons at a time.

Malone turned to Kickstarter to raise $10,000, and with 23 days to go, they are already at $582,478.

The ingenious hose attachment can fill up to 100 water balloons in under a minute, according to the Kickstarter video. All you do is connect the attachment to a hose and turn on the water. Then you simply turn off the water and shake the balloons a bit to automatically tie them.

The Bunch O Balloons attachments are expected to start shipping out before the end of the summer, and you can pre-order them on the Kickstarter page.

A $17 pledge will get you 1 package of Bunch O Balloons containing 100 water balloons, but due to the overwhelming response, these packages will only be shipped by September 2015. Earlier backers can expect to receive their order by the end of August.

You can watch the Kickstarter video below:

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It is very cold in space. So you can see why a Borg cube would make a great refrigerator. All of those Borg drones in their alcoves? They could be cold beers. And now they can be thanks to this amazing geektastic Borg Cube Fridge. They really have begun to assimilate our technology.

Great. Yet another thing that I MUST HAVE. Resistance is futile. This Borg cube glows green and it is a keeps your beverages nice and cool. It also glows green on the inside! What? I love this thing. At last I have a place that is fitting for my Klingon beers and Romulan ales.

From now on I am calling beer “Locutus”. Hey, can you grab me another Locutus from the fridge? This amazing geek box is $149.99(USD) from ThinkGeek.

General Motors may be going through a rough patch at the moment, but that's not stopping the company from setting its sights on the future. Today, the Detroit-based automaker revealed that it plans to put wireless charging pads inside a number of...

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Animator and director Mikey Please of Parabella Animation Studio just released his latest stop-motion animation project, Marilyn Miller. The film screened at numerous festivals like Sundance and SXSW over the last year, picking up plenty of accolades along the way, and is now available online for the first time. Marilyn Miller is a followup to Please’s BAFTA-winning animation The Eagleman Stag, and makes heavy use of tediously sculpted styrofoam models and complex long-exposure lighting to tell a story of creation and destruction. The film was photographed and animated by Mikey Please and Dan Ojari. And you can see a bit of behind-the-scenes footage here. (via Colossal Submissions)

Update: There’s a great writeup by Jason Sondhi about Marilyn Myller over Short of the Week.

Last fall Comcast began tinkering with a new bundle that offered HBO, basic cable, and 25 Mbps broadband. While Comcast offers the bundle initially under promotion for $40-$50 a month (depending on your market), though it doesn't include HD content and the price jumps to a less sexy $70=$80 a month after one year. Not to be outdone, last April AT&T aimed a similar HBO broadband bundle promotion at their own customers -- with similar caveats.

HBO now says they're planning on expanding these streamlined TV and broadband bundles at customers through additional, unnamed ISPs. The fear has long been that by offering HBO streaming only they'd cannibalize their existing traditional paying TV base, and insiders note those fears continue:

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We re just trying to figure out how to do this in a way that enhances rather than subtracts from our business, that supports the distribution infrastructure that we need, whether it s the TV one that goes to your house today, or whether it s the broadband one, Bewkes said at the May conference.

Plepler is trying to convince HBO s major pay-TV distributors that marketing the premium network in a more affordable way would benefit cable systems as well, said the people, who asked not to be named because they weren t authorized to speak publicly.

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While a standalone streaming HBO product is certain to arrive eventually, it's going to arrive at a glacial pace.
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If the fire-breathing dragon wasn't hint enough, one bite will prove this cake is packing heat. In her recently released cookbook, Sweet and Vicious: Baking with Attitude, Libbie Summers stirs hot pepper extract into a lightly spicy batter, and spikes the cream cheese frosting with spiced pecans. The fruitiness of the pepper works well with the carrot-heavy batter, further enhanced by traditional cinnamon, nutmeg, and ground cloves. Read More

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Night Dive Studios brought the likes of Putt-Putt, Freddi Fish, Pajama Sam, and Spy Fox to Steam earlier this year, and here they are again in this flash sale from Humble Bundle.

If you want to go on a nostalgia trip and come out relatively unscathed monetarily, you can name your price for Putt-Putt Joins the Parade and Freddi Fish and the Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds.

Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon, a personal favorite of mine, and Pajama Sam, Freddi Fish 2, and Spy Fox in "Dry Cereal" can also be yours if you beat the average price, around $13. Or, at $20, you can just get all 28 Humongous games. Offer's good until tomorrow morning.