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Check out this amazing tentacled giant squid couch that lives in games company ‘Three Rings‘ office. Their entire San Francisco based work space is styled to look like The Nautilus from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

& they appear to have a well stocked bar. Amazing. Hands up if you’d like to work there?!

You can see more shots of the office on Wired, definitely worth a look!

Oh Hi again,

So much for a monthly astronomy post… These jodcasters do it better anyway.
Instead here is a geek post! How lovely for you!

So a short while ago Kim, Schicken and I commenced watching Star Trek: The Original Series from the start.  Awesome in and of itself I know, but to increase the entertainment factor I started keeping track of the number of deaths suffered by each uniform colour, i.e. command Gold (Yellow), security/engineering Red and Science Blue. I then proceeded to tweet the episode by episode score with the hash-tag #TOSscore.

The danger of wearing a red-shirt is well documented on these here intertubes, but is it really true? Here is the end of season one break down (with a few of my favourite tweets from the #TOSscore tag).

Series One Breakdown:

• Safest Colour: Blue – 3 deaths over 28 episodes
• Longest Safe Run: Blue – 0 deaths over 25 episodes
• Most Dangerous Colour: Red – 6 deaths over 28 episodes
• Most Dangerous Run: Yellow – 3 deaths over 3 episodes
• Highest death rate (single episode per colour): Yellow & Red – 2
• Most Deadly episode: “Where no Man has gone before” – 3 (2 Red, 1 Blue)

Who wants a graph?!?:

This is the episode by episode plot of the TOSscore.

As you can see, some episode were rather more dangerous than others! (Also there are 29 episodes in season one. The Menagerie parts I and II were counted together, ie after this all episode number out by 1).

Favourite Tweets:

• Episode 22: “Space Seed”
  #TOSscore red-shirts 5, blue-shirts 3, yellow-shirts 5 + KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN (Remember when he ruled 1/4 of Earth from 1992 to 1996?)
• Episode 14: “Balance of Terror”
  #TOSscore red-shirts 4, blue-shirts 3, yellow-shirts 2 + Wait isn’t that Spock’s Dad? (“Theres an awful lot of Plaster on that Romulan Ships” @TJx00)
• Episode 9: “Dagger of the Mind”
  #TOSscore red-shirts 4, blue-shirts 3, yellow-shirts 1 +What am I, a Dr or a moon shuttle conductor?(=! Boon Scuttling Dr. @finestimaginary)
• Episode 7: “What are little girls made of?”
  #TOSscore red-shirts 4, blue-shirts 3, yellow-shirts 1 + Kirk and a highly suspicious rock (see @finestimaginary’s latest tweet!)

Concluding remarks:
So far so bad for the reds, however things aren’t great if you are a yellow! Thank <insert deity of you choice> that I work in Science. It’s my recollection that the red-shirt danger increases in season two, plus we’ve yet to meet Mr. “Nuclear Wessels” himself Chekov meaning things can only get more entertaining. So until the end of season 2, keep your eye on #TOSscore and your red-shirt in the wardrobe.

SO we finalllllly went to see Avatar on Sunday, we were hanging on until we could get tickets for the iMax (Imax? is everything that starts with an i meant to be written in the apple standard?) 3D showing. I went in with no expectations, I’d previously thought it’d just been supremely hyped and wasn’t going to be that good. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I saw titanic at the cinema 5 times (yes. I know.), so I knew that Mr. Cameron was capable of some good cinematic shit, but my god the hype surrounding Avatar has been pretty immense.

Straight off the bat I’ll say that the story is weak sauce, not terrible, but not very original. If you’ve seen that Pocahontas story outline with the names changed floating around on the internet then you pretty much get the gist. Luckily the film isn’t really about the story, it’s a giant ‘Look how pretty!’ pissing contest entry that should hopefully pave the way into some beautifully rendered digital effects.

It is stunning, no bones about it. There are points in the film where your concept of digital effects and reality become so warped that you start wondering if they did actually find some random 6 legged dog and put it in mask. The massive fly over shots of Pandora were amazing, just as filler they probably cost more than a regular Hollywood film.

I came out with my expectations gladly beaten around the face.

This is a dog in a suit from TOS, the ones in Avatar were much better.

Oh hey, this is the chick that played Uhura in Trek 11, but blue.

Oh man, I do NOT know what was going through my mind when I didn’t rush to the checkout with this baby. I saw it on Sunday in Manchester and didn’t buy it. WHAT?! I hear you scream… honestly, I don’t know. Temporal insanity, must have been. Alas, I shall be buying it the next moment I see it. Fucking Pastasaurus. Amazing.

You guys know how I love to take photos of food before I tuck in, this new site is perfect! A collection of user submitted coffee art from around the world. CUTE! Shame that locally you’d lucky to get some froth on your coffee, let alone any kind of pattern :/

artinmycoffee.com