By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] Seems that this week’s science stories are all going to the physicists. Between 8:00PM and 11:00PM (EST) TONIGHT, a “Minotaur I” rocket should be visible to the entire Eastern seaboard of the United States. It is being launched from NASA’s Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia (the state where I [...]
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] So Google is getting in on the whole “going green” thing by foregoing the “noisy mowers that run on gasoline and pollute the air” in favor of renting a bunch of goats to chew on the lawn at the company headquarters in Mountain View. Two hundred of them hang [...]
Amazon is set to unveil a new Kindle reader with a much larger screen designed for newspapers and magazines. The new model may also be an attempt to capture the textbook market. The company has a press conference scheduled for a New York university tomorrow, but the news of the device has already broken. Pictures [...]
Hey, we all know it here, geeks are sexy, and as time passes, it seems more and more people agree with us. After all, hundreds of curious minds end up on here everyday searching Google for “geeks are sexy.” That must mean something, no? In honor of this relatively new phenomenon, Canadian singer (and hottie!) [...]
James T. Kirk is the new kid at Starfleet Academy and he’s got no friends… until… Thanks Kate!
Amazon.com is currently having a huge sale on all its Star Trek TV series box sets. Most of them are at around 50% off, so if you’re looking to build up your collection with complete series of the different shows, now is the time to do so. [The Star Trek TV Sale]
There are at least 35 ways to celebrate Star Wars Day. Here’s more Star Wars silliness: The First Time I Saw Star Wars. The Secret of Star Wars Fandom. Backstroke of the West. (NSFW) Grocery Store Wars. Silent Movies from A Galaxy Far Far Away. Muppet Wars.
The original version isn’t really entertaining, but now that I’ve seen this one, I have to get myself a Slap Chop right now!
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] As far as well-known authors embracing social networking go, Neil Gaiman has been right up there, a popular blogger since 2001 (and yes, I do rather love John Scalzi, who definitely beat him to the punch, but we’re talking pure star power here). Now he’s taking Twitter by storm, [...]
Tech site Endgadget is reporting that Microsoft plans to launch a gadget for the Xbox 360 which extends the Wii-style motion control to cover the entire body. According to the site’s source, which has the somewhat lightweight description of “someone who purports to be in the know”, the system would not involve controllers. Instead there [...]
-Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 impressions and expectations When you get RC1 in your hands, it’s not going to feel drastically different than the previous beta. There are UI tweaks and tucks, and some functionality added, but mostly it’s more of the same — which is to say a really cleaned up, streamlined, nicer looking [...]
If you could travel in time, wouldn’t you travel back to show yourself how to time-travel? This scenario is bound to turn out very different from anything you could imagine. Hirsute, an award-winning short film, is about as weird as any time-travel story should be. Wonderfully written and directed by A.J. Bond, produced and shot [...]
