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Recently on the Make: Video Podcast:

Instructions for Making a (water) Balloon Flinging Siege Weapon out of PVC.

This weekend, make a human powered siege weapon. Using a human as a counter-weight and PVC piping for the structure, this catapult can hurl water balloons 100 yards or more.

Awesome.

Pretty picture of the Sun from NASA.

About:

This colorized picture is a mosaic of ultraviolet images from the orbiting TRACE satellite sensitive to light emitted by highly charged iron atoms. Growing in number, the intricate structures visible are the Sun’s hot active regions with temperatures over a million degrees Fahrenheit and their associated magnetic loops.

Yes - I am very bad at getting out of bed. So far it hasn’t hurt my career or anything… I get out of bed “on time”. But it definitely doesn’t help me that I don’t get out of bed until the last possible minute. Doing that makes me feel bad all day, because I think about what I *could* have done, or how much better I would have felt if I would have gotten up and made breakfast, maybe did a little “Man-lates” (ask me later) or something.

Which brings me to the Flying Alarm Clock over at ThinkGeek. A very tempting purchase. Not tempting enough for the $34.99 price tag though.

I think this was on Digg awhile back, from Variety.com -He-Man returns to big screen.

Upon reading the whole article, I noticed that not only is He-Man looking to make a comeback, but also Speed Racer, Voltron, Street Fighter, and the DC Comics character the Green Arrow.

Most interesting was this line:

“Silver Pictures, which is turning the Japanese animated series ‘Speed Racer’ into a live-action film to be directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski…”

In case you aren’t fully aware, the Wachowski Brothers are known (probably most notably) for The Matrix.

I’ll have to look into these ‘new’ movies…

Found @ Kottke : sweet paper airplanes.

From Lifehacker: Family: Free movies this summer for kids of all ages.

From the write-up:

Did you know that most movie theaters/movie chains offer free family-oriented movies during the summer on weekday mornings? Parenting blog Raising4Boys.com has compiled a pretty comprehensive list of all the theaters in the U.S. that participate in this program.

As usual, other cool tips abound in the comments.