Yes, that is a Rod Serling action figure. Toy collector Michael Crawford, aka Captain Toy, bought an ultra-limited Serling head and commissioned an artist to hand-paint it. The body, clothing, and telltale cigarette once belonged to an infamous X-Files character. You can read the whole story of the Serling figure… in the Twilight Zone. Er, I mean at Crawford’s site. Review: Twilight Zone custom sixth scale Rod Serling
Why the arcade experience is broken (Sean Malstrom)
Alternate universe movie posters (Sean Harter) I really liked these!! – MAC
A guide to Internet memes (Online University)
Some guy says there’s a stigma to reading books alone, but not if you do it on an e-reader!? (The Grumbler)
Netflix finally comes to the iPhone (Wired)
How to harvest helium (io9)
5 ways the universe could wipe out mankind (Popular Mechanics)
(title image via Peter Drew via The High Definite)
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A few free fonts from iMovie ’09: “I was changing some preferences in iMovie ’09 when I noticed there’s a cool font in the last tab – Coolvetica.
I was sure I don’t have it installed on my system, so I dug in the application itself and there it was, together with some other nice fonts, like Duality or Strenuous, which I might use later for some titling in FCP – that’s what those fonts were used for.
Right-or control-click the iMovie icon in Applications folder, and select Show Package Contents. Then go to Contents/Resources/Fonts, and double-click and install those you like.
I searched Hints but only found a story about one font in Aperture. People in the comments there are discussing the legality of extracting fonts from Trial software, but iMovie is on every new Mac.
[crarko adds: If you have iLife ’09, I would think your conscien …
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(Via Mac OS X Hints.)