Human ancestors were tooled up

Recently-discovered bones in Ethiopia suggest that human beings (at least as we know ourselves) did not invent the first tools. The bones were found by Zeresenay Alemseged, a palaeoanthropologist from the California Academy of Science. He led a previous expedition in the same region that uncovered the remains of Selam, otherwise known as Lucy’s baby, [...]

Awesome Prints of Bad Robot Dudes

Adam Sidwell is a graphic artist who turned to the internet for inspiration. Instead of looking for subjects in the heroes we see so often, he has been doing illustrations of “bad dudes“. From Max Max, to Tyler Durden, Sidwell uses an awesome modernist style. So far though my favorite piece is this set of  [...]

Headlines We Saw Coming: iPad Sees Rise in Digital Comics

Well, duh. While the rest of the world may find such information, courtesy of CNN, to be rather surprising (or something?) the geeks  just nod their heads. Do we get points for being forward-thinking? Probably not. Either way, apparently—shock of shocks—the iPad has given comics a major boost. While everyone’s been busy talking about the [...]