So it was just announced that LEGO will develop breasts officially licensed Minecraft products after receiving 10,000 votes on the company’s ‘ make it a LEGO reality ‘ site LEGO CUUSOO. *starts petition for prehistoric dino playsets* We’re happy to announce that the Minecraft project on LEGO CUUSOO has passed the LEGO review and we are now developing a concept that celebrates the best aspects of building with the LEGO system and in Minecraft. We can’t wait to show it to you–but it isn’t ready just yet. These things take time, so we appreciate your patience. More details are to come. I mean that’s cool and all, I was just operating under the assumption that all LEGO sets were already Minecraft ones. I mean, look at the one some fan made above. WTF do you want — squarer blocks? There Will Be Official Minecraft Lego Sets [kotaku] Thanks to Kev, whose parents only let him play with DUPLO because he’s a piece eater. Ha, SAME.

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Computer gamers have scored a decisive victory in the fight against AIDS after successfully unraveling the structure of a protein that helps viruses like HIV multiply using a competition-based game called Foldit. The hope is that with the structure now known, scientists will be able to determine where to best target the protein for the insertion of virus-crippling drugs. SHOOT FOR THE THERMAL EXHAUST PORT! Pharmacologists need a 3-D picture that “unfolds” the molecule and rotates it in order to reveal potential targets for drugs. This is where Foldit comes in. Developed in 2008 by the University of Washington, it is a video game in which gamers, divided into competing groups, compete to unfold chains of amino acids - the building blocks of proteins - using a set of online tools. To the astonishment of the scientists, the gamers produced an accurate model of the enzyme in just three weeks. It is believed to be the first time gamers have resolved a long-standing scientific problem. High-five, gamers! I’m actually about to get the platinum trophy for Fallout 3 tonight, so I know what it feels like to…write something completely unrelated and sound like a bragging @$$hole. It feels good. YOU CAN’T KEEP ME DOWN! Online gamers crack enzyme riddle [abcnews] and U.S. Gamers Crack Puzzle in AIDS Research that Stumped Scientists for Years [foxnews] Thanks to Orcbutt, Adrian J, Amber, comfort eagle, FloorMatt, Bradley and Mitchell, who’ve all cured thousands of hours of boredom with video games.

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Damn — and a good lookin’ 30 if I do say so myself! Don’t worry, I’m not actually gonna cry, maybe just tear up a little. I’m trying to look at it as more of an accomplishment. The end of an era . That, despite all the terrible decisions made and stupid shit I did in my 20’s, I’ve SOMEHOW survived a whopping 10,950 days. Thirty years . Holy shi-shi. Thankfully, I’ll never mentally be a day over fourteen. Birthday aside, August is a very special month for me because it also marks my four year anniversary for writing Geekologie. In that time I’ve written the last 8,713 articles , at least eight of which were funny. “Six.” Agree on seven? “Only because it’s your birthday.” Thank you — that means the world to me. So yeah, I’m thirty today. Feel free to drop some love/hate/dead birds in the comments — I don’t f***ing care, now I’m depressed. To not dying, Your Geekologie Writer

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Nine-year-old Ming Li is just like any other little Chinese girl. Except she has to walk to school uphill both ways and still got run over and her hand cut off by a tractor . At the time, her arm was in such poor shape reattaching the hand was an impossibility. Thankfully, quick-thinking doctors were able to graft it to her foot while her arm healed, and successfully reattach it 3-months later. MODERN MEDICAL MAGIC! Dr Hou Jianxi, spokesman for the hospital in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, said the hand had now been transplanted back on to her arm. “When she came in, her left hand was completely severed from her body. It was very scary,” he told the Zhoukou Evening Post. “But Ming Li can now move her wrist again and her left hand is a healthy pink colour proving that the blood is circulating well.” Li will need two more operations over the next year. One to improve her hand functions and some plastic surgery to remove her scars. But Dr Hou said: “After surgery, and with plenty of physiotherapy, we are confident her left hand will be capable of doing most things. Amazing, I love a story with a happy ending. Huh? DAMMIT PERV — GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE GUTTER! Get well soon, Ming. And remember, tractors: not the toys Matchbox would lead you to believe. Girl’s hand grafted on to her leg [orange] via Severed Hand Reattached -Three Months Later [neatorama] Thanks to Hankzor411, who once taped a Nerf gun to his arm and pretended he was Mega Man. That’s, uh, pretty sad I’m not gonna lie.

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In case you haven’t seen it splattered all over the news because you don’t believe mainstream media ( and you shouldn’t ), here’s one of the rescue capsules that’s currently being used to pull the 33 trapped Chilean miners from the darkness almost 1/2 mile below. Did I mention it’s only 21.25 inches in diameter? Because it is. Now I know what you’re thinking, “OMG, they’d have to leave me down there!” I’m afraid so. This Is the Coffin That Will Save the Miners [gizmodo] Thanks to ACORNSTU, who would have dug his own tunnel to the surface because he was raised by mole-people. Oooh oooh — let’s burrow to China!

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Cramped: The Chilean Mine Rescue Capsule

This is a commercial for The League of S.T.E.A.M. (Supernatural and Troublesome Ectoplasmic Apparitional Management), a Victorian-looking ghost elimination company. I thought it was pretty cute. If you like what you see, they have a series of shorts on Youtube of them catching spirits or whatever the hell a bunch of steampunky ghostbusters do. And speaking of catching spirits — toss me an airplane bottle and LET’S GET THIS PARTY STARTED! Happy 4th of July weekend everybody! Hit it for the video.

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Well folks, for those of you that don’t keep track of things, it’s March (and you probably can’t find your car keys ). Like mid-March. I know, I thought it was still January too. But it isn’t. It’s March 14th, which — 3.14 — Pi Day! And in five years it’ll be 3.14.15. What a special one that’ll be! And for everybody out there that’s all, “it’s actually 14.3.10 today”, you know what — YOU CAN’T RAIN ON THIS PIE PARADE! YOU HEAR ME?! You couldn’t even hail on a cake walk! Pi Day’s Wikipedia Thanks to they’re real and they’re spectacular, Leslie, and whoever else reminded me that today was Pi Day and not just the day I try driving 800 miles without dying.

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