Here’s an interesting photo from the set of the next season of the series Falling Skies. Looks like Captain Weaver (Will Patton) is still around in the second season.
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Blue Vampire Star Caught Sucking Red Giant’s Gas
Astronomers have captured the best-ever image of a star sucking the gas away from its bloated, dying companion.
The mechanics of stellar vampirism, however, proved less dramatic than astronomers anticipated. They expected to see hot gas funneling from a cool red giant star into a hot, dense blue star. Instead they saw mostly nothing.
via Blue Vampire Star Caught Sucking Red Giant’s Gas | Wired Science | Wired.com.
Facebook Auditions Kid Hackers With All-Night Codefest
Facebook’s…not looking for elegant coders. Facebook doesn’t even look at the code when it declares a winner. A poster that reads “Done Is Better Than Perfect” in bold red letters towers over one team.
via Facebook Auditions Kid Hackers With All-Night Codefest | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com.
A Game of Thrones World Map
Christopher Nolan revisits his favorite scene in ‘Dark Knight’
The “Dark Knight” director gives a deep dissection of his single favorite scene in the movie — the gripping interrogation sequence, which (with no special effects and only bare-bones lighting) would become “the fulcrum on which the whole movie turns.”