Check Out This Stunning Illustration Of The Millennium Falcon

Check Out This Stunning Illustration Of The Millennium Falcon

She’s the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy, and this illustration of the Millennium Falcon absolutely blows us away.

Drawn up by Paul Johnson, it’s part of a series of pictures that he’s drawn up of the Star Wars universe. The image of the Falcon has captivated me from the moment I saw it: the detail and quality of the illustration here is exquisite. I’m reminded more than a little of Mobius and his art style.

Here’s some other examples of his recent work:

Check Out This Stunning Illustration Of The Millennium Falcon

Check Out This Stunning Illustration Of The Millennium Falcon

Check Out This Stunning Illustration Of The Millennium Falcon

Check Out This Stunning Illustration Of The Millennium Falcon

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Check Out This Stunning Illustration Of The Millennium Falcon

WordPress Hacked? Keep Calm – This is What You Need to Do Now!

Shock! Your WordPress website was hacked. A new landing page saying “WordPress Hacked by XYZ” or nastier things shows up. You break a sweat and feel close to fainting. Your heart plays drums in your chest. You can’t think clearly and you don’t know what to do. Got it? Now calm down. It is not that difficult to clean up a hacked WordPress website and return to business as usual. We’ll show you how to do it in this article. First: Take a deep breath and don’t panic. It’s not the end of the world and you are not the only one with a hacked site. It happened to a lot of people, including me. That’s why I know how to deal with it 😉 And I will now share my knowledge and show you how to solve this problem. Certainly, the easiest way is to recover the website from an earlier backup. You did take care of a backup solution, right? If so, it’s not a problem at all. Just restore an older backup from a time where your website was not hacked. Change all passwords, use 2-factor authentification and your problem is history. If you don’t have a […]

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Google Is Giving Away 1 TB of Google Drive Storage For Free!

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Microsoft recently cut their OneDrive storage amounts so that Office 365 subscribers get 1 TB while free users only get 5 GB. Even their paid plan limit was brought down to 50 GB. In short, Microsoft boned users with this move. And to show who’s really the boss of user satisfaction, Google is now offering up to 1 TB of Drive storage for free users. There’s a catch, of course, but the stipulations are quite reasonable. After all, 1 TB is a lot to give away for free! Microsoft’s Onedrive is the worst online cloud storage service I have ever…

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Holy Crap, The First Captain America: Civil War Trailer Is Fantastic

The first trailer for Captain America: Civil War is here. It’s Iron Man vs. Captain America and holy crap this looks awesome.

Directed by the Russo Brothers, the film opens May 6. It’s some time after the events of Avengers: Age of Ultron and the world thinks superheroes need some kind of supervision. Iron Man agrees, Captain America does not, and that divides the heroes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe right down the middle.

While this first trailer is heavy on the Captain America stuff – Falcon, Widow, Bucky – there’s a whole other side to this movie too. There’s Iron Man, War Machine, the first appearance of Black Panther (who gets a few brief shots in the trailer), as well as Ant-Man, Vision and pretty much everyone minus the Guardians, Hulk and Thor.

And we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention your friendly neighborhood webslinger too, Spider-Man, who’ll appear in this movie played by Tom Holland.

I mean, this is basically Avengers 3 years before Avengers 3 is actually getting made and this trailer only tells a sliver of the story.

Oh, here’s the poster too.

And some awesome GIFS

Holy Crap, The First Captain America: Civil War Trailer Is Fantastic

That’s Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman) kicking Bucky/Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan)

Holy Crap, The First Captain America: Civil War Trailer Is Fantastic

Here’s Falcon (Anthony Mackie) with some nifty moves.

Holy Crap, The First Captain America: Civil War Trailer Is Fantastic

And here’s Bucky and Cap fighting Iron Man at the same time.

Tell us what you thought of this epic Captain America: Civil War trailer below.


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When A Gun Control Advocate Says ‘States with Lax Gun Laws Have More Firearms-Related Homicides,’ Show Them This Link

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People who seek to degrade Americans’ natural, civil and Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms love to play silly buggers with stats. They cherry pick data to make the argument that civilian ownership of firearms is a bad, … Read More

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Sonnet ships 16-port TB2 docking station for Mac, Windows

Sonnet has finally started shipping the Echo 15+ Thunderbolt 2 Dock, which if first announced more than two years ago. In part, the delay was due to the announcement of Thunderbolt 2 shortly after Sonnet began accepting pre-orders, pushing the breakout box into 2014. From there, production issues have keep the unit off shelves until now, and the now-shipping dock offers four USB 3.0 ports, two Thunderbolt 2 ports, a FireWire 800 port, two 6Gb/s eSATA ports, and more….


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Red Sludge From Brazilian Dam Collapse Reaches the Atlantic (21 photos)

Earlier this month, on November 5, two dams retaining tons of iron-mining waste near the Brazilian town of Bento Rodrigues burst, releasing a massive flood of thick, red toxic mud that flattened buildings and trees, smothered the small town, and left at least six dead. The wave of toxic sludge—tested and found to contain high levels of mercury and arsenic, according to a BBC report—then moved downstream, into the Rio Doce (Doce River), and spent two weeks making its way several hundred miles downstream, finally reaching the Atlantic Ocean. According to Reuters: “Scientists say the sediment, which may contain chemicals used by the mine to reduce iron ore impurities, could alter the course of streams as they harden, reduce oxygen levels in the water and diminish the fertility of riverbanks and farmland where floodwater passed.”



An aerial view of the Rio Doce (Doce River), which was flooded with mud after a dam owned by Vale SA and BHP Billiton Ltd burst, at an area where the river joins the sea on the coast of Espirito Santo in Regencia Village, Brazil, on November 23, 2015.
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Red Sludge From Brazilian Dam Collapse Reaches the Atlantic (21 photos)

Google’s Got a Fantastic New Star Wars Easter Egg 

Google's Got a Fantastic New Star Wars Easter Egg 

Hey, did you hear there’s a new Star Wars movie coming out? In case you’re unclear on the details, Google’s new Search Easter Egg will help remind you.

If you search for ‘a long time ago in a galaxy far far away’, Google will display the up-to-date, clickable search results in opening crawl style. And yes, there is music.

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What happens when an airplane hits a bird

What happens when an airplane hits a bird

Poor birdie. If you ever wondered what would happen if an airplane and a bird hit each other head on, here it is. It doesn’t end up exactly how you think it would. Well, it kind of does as in the bird loses but it is a little surprising in how high and straight the bird bounces in the air after hitting the nose of the jet. Poor birdie.


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