Here are some links to help get you through the week, including: a Star Wars Asciimation, 50 most influential books, videos of martial arts throwing techniques, book 1 of The Secrets of Jujutsu, and one-word writing prompts.

Here are some cool links for Saturday, 17 September 2011:

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  Pick Punch: make guitar picks from old credit cards, plastic gift cards, photo IDs, etc.

• Which Book: service that suggests books for you to read based on your criteria, mood, and other preferences

• If I owned a castle, this is what I’d …

Colonizing a new land, whether on another planet or even just across an ocean, can be perilous work—obstacles are often insurmountable and constant danger close. We also dream of colonizing other planets in our fiction, but we actually just have to look to our past to witness how difficult this …