World Champion Anvil Shooter Gay Wilkinson has one passion in life: Shoot anvils up in the air. Yes, you read that right. After putting a generous amount of black powder between 2 anvils and, going against all common sense, light the whole thing up via a fuse, he then runs away to a respectable distance [...]
Don’t forget people, by not taking risks, you’ll never accomplish anything. Oh, like everyone, your projects will fail from time to time, but the key is to keep on trying, and trying, and trying, until you get everything right. [Via Reddit]
Sometimes you hear a rumor that has very little detail, but the very idea of it is momentous enough to take seriously. This could be one of those cases: Google may be getting into the music business. Very little is known at the moment, with most reports tracing back to a post on TechCrunch. That [...]
With the announcement that Barnes and Noble is attempting to grab some of Amazon’s e-reader market share with their “Nook,” a competitor to the Kindle, I thought I’d dig up some bookworms with Kindles in their natural environments. I don’t have one myself, but there is something rather appealing about having something so thin to [...]
In order to promote Microsoft’s revamped Windows Marketplace, the company just released a humorous video giving a quick peek inside their top secret apps lab. Check it out. [Via TechCrunch]
For those of you who have always wondered about Antarctica’s real size, NASA has released this informative picture via Twitter comparing the size of the continent (5.4 million sq mi, or roughly 14.0 million sq km) in relation with the size of the United States of America, less Alaska and Hawaii, of course.
Remember the auto-tuned song featuring Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking we posted last month? Well the song was so popular that its creator, John Boswell, decided to create another one, and this time, he included Richard Feynman, Neil deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye, to sing along with Sagan. Check it out.
When is selling 595,000 copies of a game in three weeks a disappointment? When it’s the Beatles edition of Rock Band. The sales make it the third best-selling game of September, beating out fellow debutante Guitar Hero 5, which just fell short of the 500,000. The Beatles game was up in second place for total [...]
What you’re about to see is absolutely mind blowing: Three robots working in tandem to execute one of the most amazing feats of robotic precision I’ve ever seen. Check it out.
Ladies and Gentlegeeks, behold! Here is what could possibly be the ultimate in geek fashion: The BSOD belt! Currently priced at $16.95 at Geek Gone Chic, you too can now sport your very own BSOD error message for all to see. The belt fabric is made out of a cotton/acrylic blend, and the clam style [...]
Playing sound effects both pleasant and awful, Julian Treasure shows how sound affects us in four significant ways. Listen carefully for a shocking fact about noisy open-plan offices.
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] Following a horrific murder in 2007, an Indiana man, Ian Clark, was convicted by a jury and sentenced to life without parole. But the case recently came up for appeal, and the sole issue? Whether the trial judge was right in allowing a MySpace post to be admitted as [...]
