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At last, it’s done. The biggest spaceship size chart ever created is now complete and fully operational. 4,268 x 5,690 pixels of technological terror that includes everything from the smaller Star War ships to EVE. According to its author, Dirk Loechel, this is the last update. It’s epic.

The last update

For real this time: This is the final major content update, though if there are issues I’ll still fix them. I also haven’t forgotten I wanted to vectorize the writing. It’s still on the radar. But content-wise, I think that is about all I can put in.

Also, I added the ISS. For scale. It’s on top, with a yellow frame so it’s relatively easy to find.

Lots of errors fixed, lots of new ships too. Well, off for now, but I’ll be replying in the comments more or less regularly.

Also added a few more ships and switched the Eternal Crusader for the Legate Class battle barge, which is a class ship and not a unique ship.

Click on expand below and get lost in it, my friends. It’s awesome.

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The biggest comparison of sci-fi spaceships ever is complete at last

WeaponsMan, a must read blog for those interested in military small arms, blogs about an early long-range consumer test of the TrackingPoint rifle and optic system: Quick take-aways: Best packaged gun any of them had ever seen. In the gunsmith’s experience, that’s out of thousands of new guns. Favorably impressed with the quality of the […]

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 On Tuesday we launched our SiriusXM radio show, TechCrunch Radio, from Disrupt SF. Jordan Crook and John Biggs discussed the Apple Watch and did a startup pitch-off. Here are a few audio clips. Catch next week’s show on the Indie 103 channel, airing Tuesday September 16 at 6 p.m. ET. The show also replays Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET, Fridays at 6 p.m. and Sundays at 9 p.m. ET. Read More

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In an upcoming PBS interview with Charlie Rose, set to air Friday night, Apple CEO Tim Cook discusses the company’s current product lineup, Beats, Apple TV, Steve Jobs’ legacy and hints at new product categories that "no one knows about."
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I always thought the final scene of the original Star Wars was one of the most ridiculous things ever* but, without the music soundtrack and with added ambient sound, it turns into one of the most cringeworthy scenes in the history of cinema. It’s just ridiculous.

*By the way, can anyone explain why the hell Chewbacca doesn’t get a medal too? He did the same freaking things as Han Solo!

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Star Wars last scene without the music is impossibly hilarious

In the mid-1980s, a documentarian named David Blair Stiffler traveled to the most remote parts of the Philippines to capture a series of field recordings—a fairly straightforward task made considerably more complicated by kidnapping at gunpoint and subsequent captivity.

Stiffler kept recording—and in the process, captured a series of incredibly candid aural portraits of people "living lives of extreme isolation" in the remote mountain regions of the Philippines. Some of the tracks are clearly well-known, rehearsed pieces. Others are completely spontaneous, like this lullaby sung by a mother. It’s startling to consider the changes that have likely come to the places and people he documents in these tracks, recorded almost 30 years ago—as The Wire‘s Ian Nagoski writes, "with the rapid extinction of languages, spoken and musical, of ethnic groups around the world, documents of this kind are significant."

Held for 18 days amidst political turmoil in the region he was visiting, most of Stiffler’s recordings were reportedly confiscated, and when he returned home, the owner of the record label that had sent him there, Folkways, had passed away. The recordings that did survive were never published—until this month, when the Numero Group released them for the first time as a record called Music From the Mountain Provinces.

The advent of streaming and iPhones and the internet and technology in general mean that we’re far less likely to stumble upon music that’s not ground down to a slick, iridescent sheen. It’s nice to take a break from that. [Pitchfork; Spotify]

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Long-Lost Recordings From the Remote Parts of the World

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Sometimes, you just need a good laugh. There are plenty of ways to get your daily dose of humor – including YouTube comedy channels, 5 Second Films, and humorous Tumblr blogs – but what about web games? They’re useful for more than just killing time over coffee breaks. Some are downright hilarious. None of these games require anything more than a Flash-enabled browser and an open-minded sense of humor that isn’t afraid to laugh at the silly and the absurd. Take a deep breath and get your smiling muscles ready. Cat Mario This is one of the funniest games I’ve…

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