On Etsy, The Retro Inc sells a nice line of custom-sized cushion slips screened with polygon art renderings of Star Wars characters. They range from $34-$42 depending on size.

Archivist Rick Prelinger sez, "I'm bringing a new archival 'mixfilm' on Detroit's rich history to the beautifully restored, vintage-1927 Detroit Film Theatre this weekend. This is the fourth of my… Read the rest of the article: Historic "mixfilm" in Detroit this weekend

Dave Vancook buys thrift store paintings and adds Star Wars characters to them.

Lucius Shepard, one of science fiction's great writers, has died. He was 66 70. I had met Lucius on several occasions and found him to be just as you'd hope… Read the rest of the article: RIP, Lucius Shepard, gone too soon

The Humble Ebook Bundle is going great guns, with a collection of recent and classic books from both indie and major publishers, all DRM-free, on a name-your-price basis. Included in… Read the rest of the article: Homeland audiobook behind the scenes: Wil Wheaton explains his cameo to the director

JWZ's law states that "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail." A corollary is that every complex system expands until it becomes a bank. Yesterday, I wrote… Read the rest of the article: Gamestop as a fee-free, convenient banking institution

If you're a student interested in Internet and technology policy, you're eligible to apply for an EFF Policy Fellowship, a ten week placement with public interest orgs in Africa, Asia,… Read the rest of the article: EFF Policy Fellowship for students: 10 week summer program

Pat sez, "Alaska Robotics News is a political satire series covering the Alaska legislative session. We've had good luck at engaging law makers and have had several notable guests on… Read the rest of the article: Alaska senator on a comedy news video about NSA surveillance

Crypto 101 is a free online course on practical, applied cryptography: " everything you need to understand complete systems such as SSL/TLS: block ciphers, stream ciphers, hash functions, message authentication… Read the rest of the article: Self-directed Crypto 101 online course

Dave from the Electronic Frontier Foundation sez, "The government often makes itself more accessible to businesses than the general public. For Sunshine Week, we compiled this guide to using FedBizOpps… Read the rest of the article: Fedbizopps: the US government's searchable database of defense-contractor opportunities

Paul Bennun, who helped created the groundbreaking, video-less binaural sound videogame Papa Sangre sez, "We're making a 'video game without video' and we're turning to Kickstarter to fund it. Team… Read the rest of the article: Crowdfunding a binaural, video-less videogame

Afterlife with Archie is exactly what it sounds like: a series of comics in which Archie Andrews, Jughead, and the lovable gang are trapped in a horrific zombie apocalypse. It's… Read the rest of the article: Afterlife with Archie: Archie comics go zombie

Dark Dungeons is a notorious 1984 Jack Chick tract that warns the readers about the danger of being embroiled in soul-destroying Satanic cults through playing Dungeons and Dragons and other… Read the rest of the article: Trailer for a fan-supported film based on Jack Chick's "Dark Dungeons" tract

As mentioned yesterday, the DRM-free, independent audiobook of my novel Homeland is available from the Humble Bundle for the next two weeks, along with a collection of brilliant science fiction… Read the rest of the article: Wil Wheaton has a surreal moment reading the Homeland audiobook

The Knight News Foundation is running a challenge called How can we strengthen the Internet for free expression and innovation? Over 665 proposals are in current round, where you can… Read the rest of the article: Knight Foundation challenge: How can we strengthen the Internet for free expression and innovation?

Here's a good writeup of Loomio, a collective decision-making tool that is raising funds to add features, stability and polish to its free/open source codebase. Loomio grew out of the… Read the rest of the article: Loomio: democratic decision-making tool inspired by Occupy

One year ago today Heinlein on Kirtsaeng: "There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made… Read the rest of the article: This Day in Blogging History: Heinlein on Kirtsaeng; Bus tours of AIG execs' homes; Markdown launches

Last night, I was lucky enough to attend the announcement for The Arthur C Clarke Award shortlist for best novel of 2013. The six books on the list are Nexus… Read the rest of the article: Arthur C Clarke Award shortlist for best novel of 2013

I'm extremely pleased to present an exclusive excerpt from Hugh AD Spencer's debut novel Extreme Dentistry. I've known Hugh for more than 20 years now, and he's always been one… Read the rest of the article: Exclusive: Chapter 1 of Hugh AD Spencer's "Extreme Dentistry"

San Francisco's Walt Disney Family Museum is running an exhibition on the art of Mary Blair, one of the all-time greats of Disney history and modernist illustration and color. I've… Read the rest of the article: Mary Blair gallery show at Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco