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Tampa Bay deal of the day: 16 gauge steel Gauntlet of the Dark Lord

$40. Used, but like new. Available in Facebook Marketplace in the Feather Sound/Gandy area.

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A “Star Wars” take on the “Woman yelling at cat” meme

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This is my new favorite take on the “woman yelling at cat” meme.

Thanks to Steve Beaudry for the find!

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Tampa Bay deal of the day: Medical mannequins with possibly mismatched “privates”

Full photo of medical mannequin laid out on a table, with towel covering its genital area

If you can make your way to Lutz (a suburb directly north of Tampa), you can get your paws on two medical mannequins that have been “used by local school for nursing tech school training by med students.” The seller suggests that they might also make great Halloween decor.

Close-up of medical mannequin face, which shows its eyes shut and mouth half-open

My favorite part of the Facebook Marketplace ad in which they appear is the ending:

Some limbs or appendages may be detached or barely attached, privates may be mismatched according to gender. Fair condition.

They’re going for $75 each or $140 for the two of them. See the Facebook marketplace page for details.

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“OK Boromir”: A “Lord of the Rings” take on the millennial expression

Thanks to Jordan Running for the find!

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Tampa Bay deal of the day: A TIE fighter desk!

Glass-topped desk with metal frame shaped like a TIE fighter from Star Wars.

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If you’re a Star Wars collector who’s looking for something that‘s both rare and useful, you might want to scurry down to Wesley Chapel, Florida to buy this TIE fighter desk for $200. Here’s the link on Facebook Marketplace.

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Editorial cartoon of the day

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The Size of Space

Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.”

— from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Size of Space, a creation of Neal Agarwal, is the latest in the never-ending series of visualizations meant to show you how big space is. Starting at human scale with an astronaut, this site walks you through a set of increasingly large objects, from asteroids to moons to planets to stars (and reminds us of tiny the sun is compared to stars like Rigel, which in turn is dwarfed by Betelgeuse). It goes on to cover nebulae, supernova remnants, galaxies, galaxy clusters, and finally, the observable universe (about 93 billion light years across).

If you’re not in the mood for swiping left or right (or using the arrow keys) to see the size of space, there’s this video, which covers similar objects and even gives you their sizes:

And finally, there’s the granddaddy of videos of scale: Powers of Ten, produced by the legendary Charles and Ray Eames for IBM: