The Swedish House That Predator Built

There's a house for sale in Sweden with some interesting comps for their neighborhood.

Such as the heads of Predators and an Alien xenomorph as interior upgrades!

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When Patrick Stewart Met The Vulcan Child

From the Huffington Post:

Dawn Garrigus of Statesboro, Georgia, is an 11-year-old with mitochondrial disease, a progressive chronic illness that causes physical, mental and developmental disabilities. She is also a devoted Star Trek fan.

Through the Make-A-Wish foundation, Dawn requested to attend Dragon Con, a sci-fi and fantasy convention in Georgia, where the popular series would make an appearance. Word got around to Patrick Stewart, who was set to attend the convention, that a Make-A-Wish child (and huge Star Trek lover) would be attending, according to a representative from the organization. The actor, who played Captain Picard in the series, surprised the Trekkie with a personal meet and greet at the convention on Sept. 1.

"I was shy at first, not sure what to say or talk about, but he kept talking to me. I felt like I was on the Enterprise talking to the captain. And suddenly, I was OK," Dawn told The Huffington Post in an email.

Her parents, Danny and Kristy Garrigus, wrote in an email that it was "the happiest [they] had seen her in quite some time."

To Dawn we say, "Live long and prosper". And to Sir Patrick, you're truly the best!

Here are some photos from the meeting.

GMO OMG (2013) - Release Announced

MPI Media Group has announced the Blu-ray release of director Jeremy Seifert'sGMO OMG, a documentary about genetically modified organisms, the state of the world's seed supply and corporate-controlled foods. The film arrives on Blu-ray on July 22nd.

Official Synopsis: Filmmaker and concerned parent Jeremy Seifert (Dive!) goes in search of answers about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and how they affect children, the health of the planet and freedom of choice. Spurred to action by his 6-year-old son's questions about seeds, Seifert begins a one-man investigation into the state of the world's seed supply; an essential resource in a world of increasing populations and rising food shortages. Seifert's journey takes him to Haiti, Paris, Norway, and even the front door of agri-giant Monsanto, the largest provider of GMOs in the United States, as he seeks to reveal who controls the future of our food.

MPI Media has yet to detail tech specs or special features.

Boy Finds Mummified Remains In Abandoned House

A 12-year-old boy in Dayton, Ohio was exploring an abandoned house when he came across a mummified dead body hanging in the closet that the coroner says had been there for around five years. One neighbor who has lived across the street for forty years has called to get the city to mow the grass on the overgrown house, but no one ever thought to look inside, until the boy, whose mother describes as adventurous, found the body.

"My son came home and said he gone to an abandoned house and he found a body and I said what?" [Via WHIO/CNN]

A 12-year-old boy in Dayton, Ohio was exploring an abandoned house when he came across a mummified dead body hanging in the closet that the coroner says had been there for around five years.

One neighbor who has lived across the street for forty years has called to get the city to mow the grass on the overgrown house, but no one ever thought to look inside, until the boy, whose mother describes as adventurous, found the body.

The boy's mother is quoted as saying: "My son came home and said he gone to an abandoned house and he found a body and I said what? When he first came across it, he thought it was dummy or a mannequin."

The body is believed to be that of the owner of the house, who bought the property back in October 2009, and died shortly thereafter in an apparent suicide.

Neighbors say they thought the house was empty, and claim to have never seen the owner, or anyone coming or going from the property.

Some people reported that they remember smelling something rotten at one point, but assumed that it was an animal that had died on the premises, and didn't think to investigate further.

Urban Explorers Meet Owlman (Video)

They claim it's real, but as a skeptical person I have my doubts. Especially since it's to help promote a movie.

Thoughts?

Source: The Daily Mail

Kill Clown Scare Prank!

What would you do if a psycho clown kill someone right in front of you?

Godzilla (2014) - Hypothetical Defense Strategies

What would the military REALLY do in response to a REAL kaiju attack? Watch the following video and find out.

Abandoned Child (Prank)

People get a scary surprise when checking on this little girl.

Brian Michael Bendis Reminds A Reader What X-Men Is About

The reader wrote the following:

The Anonymous Reader

I understand trying to make comics female friendly, but aren't you guys worried that you're going to lose your core audience which is male? In the X-books you've had more focus on the likes on these females like jean and kitty while it should be Cyclops who has been the star of the X-Men comics for years. What warrants these characters more page time than him? Jean and kitty are secondary characters. You guys listen too much to women bitching. They cause so much freakin drama in comicdom.

To which Bendis replied:

Brian Michael Bendis

Wow. you are the first person who I am kind of glad asked your question anonymously because I don’t want to know you.

 as a reader of my work I want you to listen to me very carefully: you have major major issues. almost every line of your question reeks of complete misunderstanding of yourself as a man and of women in general.

 it’s okay to find yourself more interested in something than others, of course it is,  it’s okay to like Cyclops more than Jean Grey, but for you to draw the line at women characters not being interesting to you because you are a man or that you think I am being manipulated by some bitching women is really out there.

 and as a reader of the X-Men whose entire philosophy is about tolerance and understanding… you are missing the point.

Well said!

Source: Bendis on Tumblr

The Female Mexican Punisher

The Los Angeles Times brings us the story of what appears to be a female vigilante in Mexico.

Like a character from a graphic novel, she dresses in black, has unusually blond hair — and kills bus drivers who sexually assault women.

In a place like Ciudad Juarez, known for its years of brutal killings of women, the story has inexorable appeal. But how much of it is true?

Authorities are taking the reports seriously enough to investigate and have posted undercover cops on buses. Women’s advocates say they wouldn’t be surprised if someone finally had taken long-denied justice into her own hands.

Two bus drivers were slain in the last week, and over the weekend an electronic message claiming responsibility was sent to several news outlets.

“You think because we are women we are weak, and maybe we are,” the message says. “But only to a certain point.... We can no longer remain quiet over these acts that fill us with rage.

“And so, I am an instrument who will take vengeance.”

Signed: Diana, Huntress of Bus Drivers.

The message says women who work the night shifts in Juarez’s enormous maquiladora industry repeatedly fall prey to the bus drivers on whom they must rely to get home in the dark.

For now, at least, there is no way to verify the veracity of the message, whether it was written by the actual killer or killers of the bus drivers, whether Diana the Huntress really exists, or even whether she is a she.

What is clear is that for the last two decades, hundreds of women, many of them maquiladora workers, have been killed or have gone missing in Ciudad Juarez. Some disappeared after boarding buses, their raped and tortured bodies later found dumped in the desert. Few of the cases are ever resolved, and families have endlessly protested the lack of justice for their daughters, sisters and mothers.

“We cannot be sure that the email corresponds exactly to those who committed the killings” of the bus drivers, said Juarez human rights activist Gustavo de la Rosa, “but in the city’s imagination, that is definitely what’s happening.”

The bus drivers were slain on consecutive days last week, Wednesday and Thursday, at almost the same hour and on the same route. Witnesses told Ciudad Juarez’s El Diario newspaper that, in both cases, a woman dressed in black with blond hair, dyed or possibly a wig, stopped the bus and started to board, pulled out a pistol and shot the driver dead.

Two bullets to the head, in both cases.

Japanese Office Pranks: Dinosaurs Attack

Personally, I don't think any of it's real: I think those being pranked were in on the joke. But then I'm highly skeptical of all videos like this. But, you decide for yourself: they are still kind of funny.

Gail Simone: Real Life Super Hero

From her blog, where she writes about helping someone who needed it:

Last night, I was in Eugene, Oregon for some business things and some shopping I had to do to prepare for a trip to Wales and Norway next week.

My son is going to the University of Oregon there, and lives in an apartment that is a bit of a distance from his job, so I decided to hang around town for a while in the evening to drive him to his room to save him a walk, at 10:30. He was hungry, we grabbed a bite for him at Denny’s, and then I drove him home and dropped him off. He lives at an apartment complex for students close to U of O. It was about 11:30.

Because it’s Summer, the apartments aren’t nearly as full as usual. He’s normally got three roommates, but right now, he’s got the place to himself.  I was by myself in the car, no one else around except a couple talking to each other, I thought playfully, on the lawn in front of my parking spot. They looked like they’d been drinking a little.

I was gathering up my phone and stuff, about to send a message home to my hubby that I would be home in about an hour and fifteen minutes. I wasn’t looking forward to the drive, I’ve been working a lot at night and was pretty fatigued.

The girl and the guy started making some noise, but I didn’t immediately think anything was wrong, because I had thought they were play arguing.

It turns out they weren’t.

When I looked up, they had moved, and I couldn’t spot them immediately. There was no one else around, and as I say, it was very dark.

Pretty soon I heard the girl start screaming. She was yelling, get your hands off me, get off me. I rolled down my window, and it was clearly serious, something very bad was happening.
So I grabbed my keys and my phone to go see what I could do. By this time, she’s full on screaming and the guy is cursing and yelling, and at the very least, I can hear that he’s hitting her. I run towards the sound, and she comes running out of the dark area between two of the apartment buildings…she’s thrown her shoes off to be able to run.

And she’s screaming HELP ME.

And the guy comes out after her.

Now, it’s dark, and there’s nobody around. And when I worked at a crisis center, they used to warn us not to go into dark, enclosed areas like this when there’s a dangerous situation.
So the guy is chasing her, and I make it to her, and put myself between him and the girl. I have my keyring clenched in my fist with the keys sticking out, which does a lot of damage very quickly, if necessary. I am weirdly, completely calm, but it is also very clear that this guy is not going to be allowed to put his hands on the girl. What I don’t know is that my son, in his room on the third floor, has heard the shouting and is looking for the number for the complex’s security.

Rick Remenber Tells Us Why He Stays Up Late

When you love your job you work till 3 AM because you can't stop.
— Rick Remender (@Remender) August 9, 2013

TIE Fighter Lands In Hesse

Well, not really. But check out this 1/2 scale replicate built by fans of Darth Vader's TIE fighter.

Stormtrooper Michael Schramm builds with his friends the world's largest model of Darth Vader's Tie Fighter. It is difficult and almost 1.4 tonnes in its original size. 

(rough translation)

Check out the images below (source):

Man At Arms Creates Hit Girl's Sword

Every week our master swordsmith and renowned propmaster, Tony Swatton, forges iconic weapons using high-speed belt grinders, scorching furnaces, and pounding power hammers. Then he takes his weapon to the streets to bust up some stuff.

This week Tony is creating Hit Girl's detachable sword.

Kick Ass Stuntmen Prevent A Suicide

Terrifying moment stunt men in town for Comic-Con save woman in the seconds before she jumps from a balcony. It looked like a scene from a superhero movie.

Three professional stunt men put their skills to good use by stopping a drunk and heartbroken woman from jumping off the 14th-floor balcony of a Californian apartment complex on Thursday.

The 'Kick-Ass 2' stunt men, in San Diego for Comic-Con, were putting up scaffolding for a movie premiere party on Eighth Avenue when they saw the woman hanging from the edge of The Mark condominium building balcony opposite them.

As witnesses below yelled out to the woman not to jump, the experienced stunt men sprang into action.

Stunt 911's Gregg Sergeant, Scott Schecter and Amos Carver ran to the building, scaled a fence and alerted a security guard who took them upstairs, 23ABC News reported.

'[We] burst into the room and she was on the patio. She'd even closed the door so we couldn't get to her,' Sergeant, owner and stunt coordinator for Los Angeles-based Stunts 911 - Action Sequence Technologies, said.

Without her noticing, Sergeant crept up behind the unidentified woman and locked her in a bear hug.

Schecter and Carver, who was wearing scaffolding rigging, rushed in behind him.

'I hooked my arms underneath her leg and we pulled her back in and carried her into the room and laid her on the couch, and she was very upset,' Schecter told 23ABC News.

Carver threw the rigging around the woman and helped to hoist her over the ledge to safety.

Sergeant said he and his crew arrived just in time.

'I was just so thankful we got there when we got there,' he said.

'I think if we'd been there two seconds later, she would've been gone.'

The stunt man said he and his crew did not see themselves as heroes.

'It's what we do every day for stunts. It happened so fast and we just responded,' he
told U-T San Diego.

'When police came, we left. Everybody's OK - that's the important thing.'

San Diego police Lieutenant Kevin Mayer said the woman was devastated over the breakup of a relationship and had been drinking alone in the apartment.
He said officers found a shattered bottle of vodka on the ground beneath her balcony and she was taken to a hospital for a mental evaluation.

Mayer commended the stunt crew's quick thinking.

'They were the perfect guys to be there at that time,' he told U-T San Diego.

'It was very dangerous. I've seen attempted suicides when someone grabs them and is pulled over.'

The stunt team crew was rigging stunts for a private party for Universal Pictures, Playboy Enterprises and 'Kick-Ass 2' celebrities, including actor Jim Carrey.

See A Weapon Maker Forge REAL Wolverine Claws

Every week our master swordsmith and renowned propmaster, Tony Swatton, forges iconic weapons using high-speed belt grinders, scorching furnaces, and pounding power hammers. Then he takes his weapon to the streets to bust up some stuff.

This week Tony is creating Wolverine's claws.

If Superpowers Were Real: Invisibility

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What if invisibility wasn't just the stuff of epic comic book stories? Is it scientifically possible to be invisible? In this series, Joy Lin tackles six superpowers and reveals just how scientifically realistic they can be to us mere mortals.

Lesson by Joy Lin, animation by Cognitive Media.

Man Of Steel (2013) - Tornado Sequence In The Film

Zach Snyder spoke with The Huffington Post about the scene, in light of recent tornado incidents in real life:

In the upcoming film "Man of Steel," Superman faces off against ruthless outcasts from his home planet. The last son of Krypton also encounters a more realistic force of nature on earth: a deadly tornado.

"Man of Steel" director Zack Snyder said there was never any discussion about altering the pivotal scene involving a twister following recent deadly storms in Oklahoma.

"He's changed by those events," said Snyder during an interview to promote the movie. "If anything, we feel like our Superman has a connection – not to make light of it – to the kind of grief that happens during those kinds of natural disasters. Also, in a sad way, even Superman can't change that."

"Man Of Steel" opens on 14 June.

Battlestar: Galactica LARP On A Large Scale

The Verge brings us the following story about a once-in-a-lifetime LARP event in Sweden:

For three weekends in Sweden, Battlestar Galactica was real.

With dozens of staff, over a million Swedish kronor ($160,000), and a retired naval destroyer, a team of designers hosted a live action role-playing game — commonly known as a larp — that would put many historical reenactments to shame. The Monitor Celestra took the setting of Ronald D. Moore’s Battlestar Galactica reboot, but writers came up with 140 fresh characters and moved the action to the Celestra, a ship that was referenced but virtually never seen in the show itself. Over three-day periods in March, larpers played out a tense and sometimes deadly conflict between the Celestra’s civilian crew and a military boarding party, all while trying to unmask the Cylons in their midst. One of the game’s three weekend-long runs ended in a surrender to Cylon agents, another became mired in a bitter ethnic cleansing, and a third — while it had the lowest death count of any run — resulted in the fictional ship itself exploding.

Read the rest of the article for more.