A long time ago, I used to play Magic: The Gathering, circa Fourth Edition, before giving it up in favour of the the Star Wars CCG (I was one of the popular kids in high school). I haven’t followed the game in years, but the Big Furry Monster came through my Tumblr dashboard earlier today and made me grin. The makers of the game released a couple of fun expansions that weren’t tournament legal: Unglued and Unhinged. Shuffle & Cut has images of all the cards if you’re interested.
Today’s xkcd comic seemed oddly familiar. Now, I’m off to find some womp rats.
Continuing with the life imitating science fiction trend, hologram messaging is close to becoming reality. If you happen to have a Nature subscription, you can probably read more about it.
A University of Arizona team says it has devised a system that can make a holographic display appear in another place and update it in near real-time.
In other news, Princess Leia illustration used as infographic for serious article about scientific research.
H-57 has a created a few Star Wars posters illustrated with typography. The poster also details the typeface that each glyph came from.
Update: Boba Fett in type via @marchodges.
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