The Longest Slide in the World
It may or may not be the longest slide in the world… I don’t really care. I just want to ride this thing… badly! [Via Gizmodo]
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Star Trek 2009 Full Theatrical Trailer
Yep folks, the full theatrical trailer for the new Star Trek movie has just been released. Enjoy! From director J.J. Abrams (“Mission: Impossible III,” “Lost” and “Alias”) and screenwriters Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman (“Transformers,” “MI: III”) comes a new vision of the greatest space adventure of all time, “Star Trek,” featuring a young, new [...]
Help needed: 2009 Blogger Appreciation Awards – Vote for us!
Well folks, I don’t really know what to say about this. It seems that one of you nominated me for the 2009 Blogger Appreciation Awards on Cellphones.org. I normally wouldn’t blog about this, but since the first prize is more than interesting (They’ll pay my phone bill for a year), and that my wife just [...]
Institution of Engineering and Technology: Don’t Feed the Monkeys!
A funny clip promoting the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Thanks Georgina!
World Builder: Star Trek’s Holodeck – Remixed
Created by filmmaker Bruce Branit, the award winning short “World Builder” paints the story of a strange man who builds a world using holographic tools for the woman he loves. The whole movie was shot in just a single day, but it took a whopping 2 years of post-production time to bring the production to [...]
Petaminx Dodecahedral Puzzle Will Drive You Insane
If you’re the kind of person who has trouble solving a Rubik’s Cute, then the following will probably turn you quite mad. The Petaminx is a face turning dodecahedral puzzle with 4 slices per face. It was completely custom-made by Jason Smith of PuzzleForge.com, who will be putting it for auction later this week on [...]
Likaholix: new recommendation engine enters private beta
Two former Google employees, Bindu Reddy and Arvind Sundararajan, have launched a private beta of a new recommendation site named likaholix. You can request a beta account from the site. It took 14 minutes for my invitation to hit my GMail account. The sign up process was quick and easy, and the site is pretty [...]
Why IT Pros Always Seem to be Doing Nothing
[eviljaymz.com | Via MUO]
HOW TO: Get back in Windows after losing your password
Hey there GAS readers! AskTheAdmin here guest posting on how to recover YOUR Windows password. This is not meant as a how-to hack your friend, girlfriend, dog or lover’s computer, but as a way to get you back into your Windows machine as a last resort. If you have another username and password on this [...]
New Awesome Terminator Salvation Trailer Hits the Web
With less than 3 months remaining until its release, Warner Bros. released a new full-length trailer for their upcoming blockbuster, Terminator Salvation. Enjoy! [Via Gizmodo]
The Other Side of Jean-Luc Picard
I’ve seen a ton of these Star Trek: TNG remixes in the past few days, but this one stood out from the rest in that it a) made sense, and 2) made me laugh. You can see a lot more of these at Jandrew Edits. [via Mental Floss]
Feature: The Boiler Bar – Like Thirsty Moths to a Flame
By Brian Boyko Contributing Writer, [GAS] They call it “oilpunk” – a sort of “post-Steampunk” aesthetic, championing the designs of the early modern era (around 1920s/1930s) rather than the Victorian attributes of the “steampunker.” And what better homage to the era of the speakeasy than a bar? Yes, the fireballs generated by the twin propane-fueled [...]
