Pornography has been traded online since the 1980′s, even in the form of ascii art, and then, with the rise of the world wide web in the 1990s, adult websites began springing up everywhere. Here are the figures for the enormous world of Internet pornography industry.
NASA has an awesome section of their site called “Astronomy Picture of the Day” where they… well… post an astronomy picture every day (Duh!) A few days ago, they posted a shot of Thor’s helmet, an helmet-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages. Check it out: Heroically sized even for a Norse god, Thor’s Helmet is [...]
In the following video, American psychologist Philip Zimbardo explains how our individual perspectives of time can affect our work, health and well-being. If you’ve got 10 minutes of free time, I highly recommend that you watch this video, and if not, come back later to do so. This is probably one of the most enlightening [...]
Ladies and Gentlegeeks, let me present you with one of the most awesome and epic stein I’ve ever seen: The Smaug The Magnificent Stein. This +5 tankard of beer holding (not sure if this is actually possible, I haven’t played D&D in ages!) comes in two versions: The Epic Collection and the Legendary Collection editions, [...]
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Flyfire, a project initiated by the SENSEable City Laboratory in collaboration with ARES Lab (Aerospace Robotics and Embedded Systems Laboratory) aims to transform any ordinary space into a highly immersive and interactive display environment. To do so, they put a few hundred LED-equiped toy-like helicopters in the air, and use them to create some fantastic [...]
So here we are on the fifth and final day of our group rehab. If you still haven’t found something to ease the pain of the post-Lost/24 world, it’s time to take a completely different approach. Instead of looking for more examples of compelling action, crisp writing, finely-honed characters, and great special effects, let’s try [...]
Whitestone Motion Pictures presents Heartless: The Story of the Tin Man, a short movie based on the backstory of The Wizard of Oz. Featuring magnificent visuals and outstanding storytelling, Heartless is truly one the best short films I’ve ever seen online. If you’ve got a bit of free time today, make sure you watch every [...]
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In the following video, Minority Report science adviser and inventor John Underkoffler demos g-speak — the real-life version of the film’s eye-popping, tai chi-meets-cyberspace computer interface. Is this how tomorrow’s computers will be controlled?
Whatever your response to the ending of Lost, it probably centered on your approach to the flash-sideways sequences of season 6, both in the way everyone turned out to be connected in some manner, and the fact that it all took place in some form of subconsciousness and imagination. Those themes show up again in [...]
The awesome guys from EepyBird.com, whom we interviewed both in 2007 and 2008 (videos), have just released a brand new video showing their new creation at work: a Mentos and Diet Coke powered car. Check it out! The Coke Zero & Mentos Rocket Car uses a piston mechanism: a six-foot long rod sits inside a [...]
