Category: Quickhit

[According to animal rights activists in Germany](http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/kill-this-cub-you-must-be-knuts/2007/03/21/1174153106086.html), it *is* a violation of a polar cubs’ rights to painstakingly care for it and raise it by hand after being rejected by its mother, but it *is not* a violation of its rights to let it die.

[Wil Wheaton reviews some of the great graphic novels](http://www.suicidegirls.com/news/geek/20135). (I personally love Transmetropolitan dearly, 60 issues doesn’t seem anything like enough). (Warning: link is safe for work, but the overall website is decidedly not. Click at your own risk).

A [detailed explanation](http://www.morningstar.nildram.co.uk/A_New_Sith.html) filling in all the plot holes in Star Wars episodes I-III. ([Via](http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2007/01/monday_links.html))

[From TV Squad](http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/28/the-good-book-shatner-style/): > On a video interview on his Web site ShatnerVision, Shatner mentioned he was trying to sell a recording of himself narrating the Book of Exodus backed by a full symphony and three-hundred and fifty singers.

[Some thoughts from space historian Jim Olberg](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16830696/). ([Via](http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/01/28/apollo-1-redux-the-inevitablility-of-disaster/))

[A review by Manhattan’s self proclaimed expert](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/26/opinion/26trillin.html?ex=1327467600&en=cafa1e7e0885d38b&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss) (and publisher of *Beautiful Spot*, a magazine about parking). ([Via](http://www.kottke.org/remainder/07/01/12678.html))

[Make your own “Star Wars” opening sequence](http://alienryderflex.com/crawl/), including the Fox & Lucasfilm logos (which you can edit to be other things). ([Via](http://feeds.tuaw.com/~r/weblogsinc/tuaw/~3/80200907/))

[A rolodex for shoes](http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/80465024/shoe_rolodex.html).

[Make your own plane](http://www.currell.net/models/mod_free.htm), including [Concorde](http://www.currell.net/models/concorde.htm) and [Space Ship One](http://www.currell.net/models/ss1.htm). ([Via](http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/01/paper_craft_mod.html))

Ever find that alarm clocks don’t work for you? Well, if [Clocky](http://nandahome.com/products.clocky.html) doesn’t help, maybe [you need an alarm clock with random error built in](http://davidseah.com/archives/2007/01/17/a-chindogu-clock-for-procrastinators/). ([Via](http://crookedtimber.org/2007/01/24/probabilistic-alarm-clock/))