The Most Heart-Warming Hunk of Junk in the Galaxy
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?Not that you didn’t think that the Make-a-Wish Foundation was awesome, but man, the Make-a-Wish Foundation is so, so awesome. Not long after they helped Electron Boy save Seattle, the Make-a-Wish Foundation — with help from Little Mountain Productions — helped a young Tulsa boy with his wish, which was to have the coolest Star Wars backyard fort in the whole of human existence. 5-year-old Christian Bentley has been battling leukemia for years, but now he can do it with a little help from the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs; the fort stands a massive 11×14 feet, and was presented to him by several Stormtroopers and an Imperial Guard. For more pics and details, which I highly, highly recommend, head over to Geekologie. Thanks to everyone who sent this in.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.