Over in the UK, artist Jamie Smart has been illustrating Where’s Waldo-style pictures for a new magazine called Doctor Who Monster Invasion. The drawings have proven so popular that a collection has been compiled into a book.
Each of the pictures features the Time Lord and his friends mixed into a crowd of hundreds of alien figures. The only problem is that the book might be tough to find in the states at the moment, and it is currently sold out on Amazon UK at £5.39 (or about $8.37)—though more stock is expected to arrive soon.
Check out some pics of the interior pages after the break (click to enlarge)
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The training of your young needling continues with Introductory Calculus For Infants.
Life is all arithmetic. We try to add to our incomes, subtract from our waistlines, divide our time, and for a while, we avoid multiplying. (Lest we not secure a career that adds to our income!) But a time comes when we want to be fruitful and multiply. We want to add to the legion of geeks.
Then we become the parent that says, “If I’ve told you n times, I’ve told you n + 1 times… clean your room or you won’t get to eat any of the first derivative of a cow tonight!”* This book is for the parents of future mathletes. It’s the storybook adventure of two friends as they discover the wonders of calculus. Who knows, you might even learn something yourself, parental unit!
Toss in How To Speak Wookiee, HTML For Babies, That’s Not Your Mommy Anymore: A Zombie Tale and the My Little Geek ABC book and your child’s education will be complete.
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Fueled by a fascination with the books appearing in Skyrim, the author of capane.us began to conduct late night break-ins of houses in the game just to read them. After being chided by the local guards and paying bounties, he decided to find a way to obtain the narratives for perusal outside of the virtual world.
After discovering that Skyrim stored the books in plain text, he pasted the stories text into separate documents, complete with headings, a table of contents and a cover, and offered them online for Kindle and Nook devices. Click here to visit the download page.
(via The Verge)
Doctors find the darnedest things in x-rays. They find so many weird objects that a few MDs recently released a book on the topic: Stuck Up: 100 Objects Inserted and Ingested in Places They Shouldn’t Be. One of the many examples in the book that will make you cringe is a Buzz Lightyear action figure that was stuffed up to infinity and beyond. Let’s hope the other toys weren’t sent in on a rescue mission. And no, I don’t want to know how it was extracted.
(via TMZ)
We first mentioned these Portal-themed bookends when they were just a one-off concept from some guy with a CNC machine, but ThinkGeek got a hold of ‘em and now they are ready for your bookshelf! Assuming you still read paper books!
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J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit was published nearly 75 years ago. It might not be a long time if you’re an Elf, but for humans, it’s significant. HarperCollins is releasing a special book, The Art of The Hobbit, to mark the occasion. While they were preparing materials for inclusion, they found 110 drawings in Tolkien’s papers—around two dozen of which had never been published. Yeah, that’s as big as it sounds. More of these drawings are available after the break for the internet to drool over. I’ll be over here in my puddle (of drool).
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I’m still annoyed that my school didn’t make learning a second language a priority when I was really young. If I had to do it all over again, I would have liked to learn Wookiee.
If you have young kids, it’s not too late! Get them started off right with this instructional book.
From the product page:
It’s not wise to upset a Wookiee, not if you enjoy having your arms firmly rooted in their sockets. So if you’re on an intergalactic voyage, you’d like to know that you’re saying, “Thank you for your hospitality, dinner was delicious” not “I want to Force choke your delicious children.” Luckily for us, Wu Kee Smith speaks Wookiee fluently and will show you the basics of the language so you can keep your life and limbs when exploring the galaxy.
This book is a primer on the Wookiee language and includes a sound board with recordings of real Wookiees, so you can learn from native speakers.
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Being a painter myself, I have a deep love for art—especially in the classical sense. I also have a huge library of art books, but the one that I’m going to leave on my coffee table is definitely Drew Struzan’s Oeuvre.
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I’m a huge Walking Dead fan—which is why I jumped at the chance to review The audiobook version of The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor from Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga. I figured that it would help tide me over until the second season premiere.
The question is, does the The Walking Dead storyline work as novel?
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