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It is about hubris. I’ve made literally hundreds of pens over the years but there was something about this one that felt perfect. I’d gotten a perfect fit at the mating surfaces with the metal, the finish was top notch and I really liked the resin color and the copper color of the metal. I showed it off to my wife and the next morning I picked it up to show it to some friends at work——-and it wouldn’t turn to extend the pen or come apart! I must have gotten a little to anxious to put it together before a glob of super glue dried and the thing was frozen solid. I tried everything up to and including destroying the pen to get it to work but no go. I’m glad I’d taken a couple photos because that is all I have left to show for the effort. Pride goeth before the throwing away of the pen. The practical moral of this story, I guess, is wait a day or so to assemble your pen if you use super glue. Also, I learned that craftsmanship and common sense don’t always go hand in hand.Jon

The Nike Flyknit Chukka is a definite highlight of the first sneaker semester, and we're stoked to see it finally filling the shelves. Photos probably don't do this wolf grey and red hamster much justice, we'd love to see it on foot and feel the fabrics. The knit looks pretty damn classy and homespun and the red accents and Swoosh are blaring and attention grabbing, just as they should be. You can tame this wooly mammoth right now from Overkill.

Over at the Alphamax offices again the other day to take photos of this most cutesome puchi style figure of Hatsune Miku. The non-scale figure is called "Lamp Miku feat Nekozakana" and is due out later this year in October. Retail price will be 3,800 yen.The figure is based on the illustration by illustrator Nekozakana who can be found on Pixiv.Folks interested in Lamp Miku can pre-order on one of the following trusted retailers. http://1999.co.jp/eng/ http://amiami.com http://hlj.com http://jlist.com http://kidnemo.com http://toylet.net Amazon JapanUnfortunately the lamps dont light up but would be most awesome if they did ^o^And this is what Miku would look around the workspace. (C) Crypton Future Media. More figure photo reviews listed up below. Lamp Miku Dark Magician Girl Kaiyodo Office Tour Volks Mirai Suenaga Doll Asuka Shikinami Langley Kotobukiya Dollpa 29 Part 2 Dollpa 29 Yui Takamura Figure Cu-poche Madoka View more... Read more about Mirai Suenaga >>>

Jaden Smith and dad, Will Smith, attended a special presentation by a group of young adults in the Mayor’s Leadership Club with Mayor Boris Johnson at City Hall in London, England on May 24th. During the visit the 14-year-old star performed an impromptu rap for the crowd at the achievement celebration. The Hollywood duo visited London as part of their circuit across the globe to promote their new film, “After Earth.” In the film, Jaden’s character Kitai gets a chance to prove that he has what it takes to be a soldier after he and his father (Will Smith) crash land on earth after traveling from their home planet of Nova Prime. Jaden and Will also made a trip to BBC 1 Studio on their rotation in London. In between work Jaden made time for some fun. The teen actor/rapper hung out with actress/singer Selena Gomez at Hakkasan while in London. “After Earth” hits theaters nationwide on June 7th. Check out photos of Jaden while in London below.

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The infamous white Nexus 4 has finally posed for exclusive press photos, which leads us to believe that the speculation that it will arrive next month is in fact true. Android Police grabbed these exclusive photos, and there you have it, a pale backed Nexus 4. The 32 GB variant of the Nexus 4 should also arrive with this light-skinned N4, and I think people are more excited for that. That, and the fact that it should be arriving with some new tasty Android 4.3. The White N4 does have a sexiness to it, but some might want to wait for the next Nexus that should be unveiled to us later this year. Let us know if you are planning on grabbing yourself, or someone else, a white Nexus 4. Source: Android Police

The Bruins had another chance to close out the Rangers on Saturday night in Game 5. They seized it. Torey Krug continued his unlikely run as a playoff hero by scoring the tying goal in the second period, and Gregory Campbell followed up with the game-winner and an empty-net goal to boot. Despite a desperate effort by the Blueshirts, the grit of Boston’s fourth line was too much for Henrik Lundqvist to withstand, and the depth of the Bruins forwards won out over the goalie’s superior effort. Tuukka Rask fended off the Rangers attack from there on out with some help from his teammates, and the Bruins are moving on to face the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Eastern Conference finals. Click here to see the best photos from Game 5 >>

This box began as an urn to hold the remains of a family member who had passed away. But, as the box neared completion I began to wonder whether there might be a better way to remember her. Families have different ways of honoring loved ones who have died. For us, it seemed better to scatter the ashes and fill the box with important items from her life such as wedding rings, a diary, and other items. The box now reminds me of the important aspects of her life, which is what I really want to remember about her. I constructed the box from walnut (with a maple bottom) and used the same techniques that I used on a previous box (you can see some construction photos here). I finished it by rubbing on several coats of shellac and a coat of paste wax.

Well, that was a bit longer of a layoff between posts than I intended or anticipated, but I’m still here, folks. Let’s do Day Two!***********************************I have decided that Friday, April 26, spent bumping around from auditorium to auditorium and throughout the greater lobby area of the Chinese multiplex for the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival, was probably the single greatest day dedicated to watching movies that I’ve ever spent in my not-so-illustrious 53 years on this planet. Seven movies in a span of approximately 17 hours, with no breaks other than the time it took to get in and out of lines leading into the theaters and the restrooms. (I packed lunch and dinner.) The Swimmer, Voyage to Italy, Ruggles of Red Gap, I Am Suzanne!, It Always Rains on Sunday, Hondo and Plan Nine From Outer Space,all great in their own special ways. So what to do for an encore?Well, one thing was for certain—there would be nowhere near the amount of cinema consumed on Saturday as there had been the previous day. After I said my bleary-eyed post-Ed Wood good-byes to Richard and Ariel, I trudged through the front door of my humble Glendale manse at around 3:00 a.m., but I didn’t actually get to sleep until about 3:30. As I tumbled gracelessly down the rabbit hole toward some desperately need shuteye, I calculated my simple plan—I would set the alarm for around 9:00 a.m., thus skipping the festival of Bugs Bunny cartoons scheduled to celebrate the iconic character’s 75thbirthday which began around 9:30 a.m., and instead make my way back to the Chinese complex in time for the Deliverance screening which started around 11:45 a.m. I figured I could get by on somewhere in the neighborhood of six hours of sleep and still have enough in the tank to get me through the four movies I had on the docket for the day.But my dazed and confused body had other ideas. Without any electronic prompting from my clock, my eyes popped open promptly at 6:30 a.m., after two whole 90-minute sleep cycles. I was wide awake, exhausted but unable to keep my head from stirring about the movies of the past day and the ones yet to come. When it became clear, after a few minutes of tossing and turning, that I wasn’t going to get any more sleep, I decided to get up and start writing up what I’d seen of the festival so far. After logging part one of my post on Friday’s adventure, I hightailed it to the train station and hopped the one stop into Hollywood. This day would be slower, more measured, but still filled with the promise of transcending whatever physical reservations I had in favor of another brilliant experience.Once I arrived, with some considerable excitement I settled into my spot toward the front of the Chinese #1, the big centerpiece auditorium (477 seats) within the Chinese multiplex, in anticipation of seeing Deliverance on the big screen for the first time since 1973, when I was a 13-year-old high school freshman. I was already fairly movie savvy at that age, and I’d heard talk about the movie circulating since its release—by the time it made it to our hometown theater the Academy Awards for 1972 had already passed, so word of the grueling nightmares that awaited its four weekend adventurers (and those who bought tickets to see it) had trickled down even to the most isolated corners of Southern Oregon. But even if I knew (more or less) what to expect, my dad, who barely paid attention to the movies, wouldn’t have known Deliverancefrom Up the Creek. So when I cleverly appealed to his taste for the outdoors and casually suggested that maybe we could go see that new canoeing movie (I needed that accompanied adult to circumvent the “R” rating), he glanced at the tiny ad on the local movie calendar, which conveniently showed only the name of the movie, pictures of the actors looming over a silhouette of three men paddling their boat, and an ominous tag line (“Where does the camping trip end… and the nightmare begin?”), and agreed to take me to see it. Success

As we already know, the white Nexus 4 is very much real. Months after first showing up on the web, it re-appeared at Google I/O in all its glory, with June 10th tipped as a possible launch date by AndroidAndMe's co-founder Taylor Wimberly. Alongside it, according to Taylor, Android 4.3 would be unveiled as well. While I can't confirm the date (even if the information was correct at the time of I/O, plans can change for any reason), what I can show you today are some of the press photos of the white Nexus 4, model number E960W (the original Nexus 4 is E960). Done With This Post? You Might Also Like These:Android Gingerbread, Next Nexus, Information And Speculation Round-Up Android 2.2 Froyo On Its Way Soon Galaxy Note For T-Mobile Spotted In The Wild, Probably Not Difficult Since It's Visible From Space Samsung Hercules - T-Mobile's Galaxy S II Variant - Pictured, 4.5" Display Confirmed Exclusive: Press Photos Of The White Nexus 4 (LG E960W) Leak Out was written by the awesome team at Android Police.