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1. Items from Moon and Source Code are up for auction at eBay for charity. Relatedly, Moon director Duncan Jones is David Bowie's son.

2. Bioshock-themed posters. Via.

3. "The CIA organised a fake vaccination programme in the town where it believed Osama bin Laden was hiding in an elaborate attempt to obtain DNA from the fugitive al-Qaida leader's family."
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1. XKCD looks at The Magic School Bus.

2. Help Lev Grossman design a new crest for Brakebills (and if you haven't read it yet, go out and read The Magicians).

3. "U.S. Defense officials still cannot say what happened to $6.6 billion, sent by the planeload in cash and intended for Iraq's reconstruction after the start of the war." (William Gibson wrote a novel about it, actually.)

*Previously: My family crest.
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Illustration roundup


Star Wars in the style of Pixar's Cars by Andrew Chesworth. Via these sites.




Panel from a fun pulpy comic featuring Korak, the son of Tarzan, vs. Nazis. You can read the issue here.



Bin Laden by Tim Denee for this article.




Kill Screen #3 cover.





Thor video game concept art by Justin Yun.

*Buy Boba Fett toys at eBay.
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The Stoner Arms Dealers: How Two American Kids Became Big-Time Weapons Traders



This month's Rolling Stone includes an absolutely unbelievable story by Guy Lawson about two arms dealers in their 20's who won the contract to supply hundreds of millions of dollars worth of weapons to the Afghanistan army. Or as the headline reads: The Stoner Arms Dealers: How Two American Kids Became Big-Time Weapons Traders And how the Pentagon later turned on them.
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