Bits Blog: Today’s Scuttlebot: Planetary Destruction Survivors, and Rubber-Band Faces

Here are some of the more interesting items that the tech reporters and editors of The New York Times found on the Web recently. More Scuttlebot can be found here.

Distorted Portraits Using Rubber Bands
Wired.com |  Not very flattering portraits of people wrapped in rubber bands. Actually, these photos are rather disturbing. — Nick Bilton

Characters Who Survived Their Planets’ Destruction
Visualnews.com |  From “Star Wars” to “Doctor Who,” a fun graphic showing which science-fiction characters have survived earth’s destruction. — Nick Bilton

Redesigning Everything Apple-Style
wired.com | Here’s what Star Wars, Dark Side of the Moon would look like if they got the iOS 7 treatment from Jonathan Ive. —Nick Wingfield

Jony Ive Redesigns Things
jonyiveredesignsthings.tumblr.com | Great parodies of the Apple designer’s unique aesthetic. Love the ‘Star Wars’ poster. — Vindu Goel