Apparently, the ad has recently been removed, but a little earlier this month, a billboard avertising Channel 5′s The Walking Dead was on display right beside a Co-op Funeral Home in Consett, County Durham. [Source]
For the second year running, Sweden and Singapore have been ranked as doing the best job of using technology to boost their economies. The list is dominated by Nordic countries: Sweden ranked highest, with Finland (third), Denmark (seventh) and Norway (ninth) who also ranked highly. The rest of the top ten includes Asian nations Singapore, [...]
I’m not exactly sure who these guys are or where they are from (their blog is in spanish, and it unfortunately doesn’t say much), but their street art looks geektastically awesome. [KTRL-V]
What do you get when you mash up your love of Star Wars and an unhealthy obsession over Angry Birds? This is what you get: [Product Page | Via Fashionably Geek]
Dear Richard Branson: choose me. The day has finally come for a select few of us to realize our lifelong dream of being an astronaut. More specifically, the dream of being a Pilot-Astronaut for Virgin Galactic’s commercial spaceflight program. The company has posted the listing for “Pilot-Astronauts” on their careers page, which makes it a [...]
The first episode of Warner Bros’ highly anticipated webseries, Mortal Kombat: Legacy, if finally here, folks, and it actually looks pretty good! Check it out: [Via The Escapist]
A new interactive system called Myndplay launches today, a development in media technology that allows the viewer to control key plot points in a film via brain wave activity. A headset equipped with electroencephalogram (EEG) sensors translates the brain’s electrical activity patterns into basic emotional responses, then uses these readings to control the options available [...]
For today’s edition of Deal of the Day, Amazon has PlayStation: The Official Magazine (2-year subscription) for just $30! That’s 79% off the magazine’s usual retail price of $143.76. PlayStation: the Official Magazine: Whether it’s PlayStation 3, PlayStation? Network, PSP? or PlayStation 2, the all-new, all-redesigned PlayStation; the Official Magazine will be your one-stop shop [...]
After Flickr use Vó Maria made these DIY low budget versions of Cyclops and Magneto, he came up this very minimalistic approach to representing Gambit. [Source]
I’m about to go to bed now, but I thought I’d leave this (click!) for you guys here just before shutting down my box. Enjoy! [Via Reddit]
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When you buy a printed book, you usually don’t expect to see advertisements, aside from those for other books. (Well, except in a famous episode of sitcom Hancock’s Half Hour.) But that’s exactly what you’ll find in the cheapest Kindle to date. Amazon’s latest twist on the e-Reader is the Kindle with Special Offers. It’s [...]
