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Winter is in full swing in most of the country. While it was nearly 70-degrees in Texas yesterday, many Northern states are still swathed in deep snow and frigid temps. Not having snow in Texas, it’s always fun to see the winter shenanigans that people in colder climates get up to.

Not to be outdone by the Brits, a guy named Steve Marcote in Massachusetts has built his own 6-foot-tall Dalek snowman. It’s definitely cool and appears to use a plunger and a paint roller frame for arms. I wonder what he used to get all the rectangular indents done.

The Dalek snowman is impressively accurate looking for a snow creature. Now Steve needs to build a snow TARDIS to sit alongside it.

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If you’re on the East Coast you might be getting some snow today, but rest assured the globe is getting warmer by the year. A lot warmer. See for yourself.

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Kelly Sue DeConnick (comic writer of "Captain Marvel" and "Avengers Assemble") is one of 52 celebs featured in the Geek-A-Week trading card deck designed by Len Peralta.

(Credit: Len Peralta)

If sports stars get their own trading cards, why not the best and the brightest of the geek elite?

For a personal art project originally started in March 2010, artist Len Peralta challenged himself to see if he could contact 52 different geeks for 52 weeks, then interview them and draw them as trading cards he named Geek-A-Week. He succeeded. Now he’s on a Kickstarter quest to raise funds for a whole new 52-card Geek-A-Week set sporting a new design.

“I call Geek-A-Week a multimedia art project because you can enter it from a lot of different avenues,” Peralta told Crave. “You can just admire the project from an artistic standpoint and just enjoy the art. There are podcasts that go along with most of the cards, so you can listen in and then find the art. Or you can find the project just because you are a fan of someone I’ve drawn and then be pulled into the project that way.”

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You can run, and you can hide, but your phone is still going to die half way through the day. You can’t fight the urge to play games and see what’s going on in the world through social media either. Of course, being afraid of your phone dying is only fear of the inevitable, which will lead to anger, hate, and suffering over the fact that battery life on all phones is just terrible.

If you want to skip those steps, but still wouldn’t mind being on the dark side, then the Star Wars Darth Vader Lightsaber Portable Battery Charger might be of interest to you. Yes, it does have red LED inside that will light up, but no, it will not slice through most everything in the universe. It has a battery capacity of 2800mAh, which means it won’t leave you out in the cold should you be a bit too excessive with playing Candy Crush on any given day.

This works with with just about any iOS, Window mobile phone, or Android (of course) phone. It charges via microUSB, and has a USB port to charge up your gear. It will cost you around $50, which isn’t too bad considering the fact that it’s a collectible item. Not only that, but it’s something that won’t just sit on your shelf collecting dust.

Available for purchase on Brando, found via technabob
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