Sonic Meets With His Agent [Video]
Right after Mario meets with his agent, here comes Sonic to meet with his agent. Enjoy! [Source]
Monthly Archives: July 2011
First-Ever Google Science Fair Rocks the Girl Power
Science has long been a field dominated heavily by men, so seeing the first Google Science Fair award its highest honors to three young women with an interest in the workings of biology gave me a serious case of warm fuzzies. The top three awards, one in each age group, and an overall Grand Prize [...]
Google Cracks Down on Pseudonyms, Kills One Reason It Was Better than Facebook
You may have heard that Google+ started culling accounts – businesses first, which didn’t seem like such an awful thing since they’re promising special support for business accounts in the future. But now the crackdown has extended to pseudonyms as well – that’s right, now you have to use your real name on both Plus [...]
Fleet Commander: The Best Star Wars Game Ever [Video]
University of Illinois student Arthur Nishimoto designed what is perhaps the single most awesome Star Wars game of all time (including a substantial part of the near future). Fleet Commander is designed for a 52-inch multi-touch LCD tabletop TacTile display, which means we won’t be getting to play it at home anytime soon. But these [...]
Laptop Encryption: Can You Plead the Fifth?
A Colorado court case could set a precedent on whether the right to remain silent extends to encrypted files. The Justice Department wants a federal judge to rule that defendant Ramon Fricosu must decrypt a laptop that prosecutors believe has evidence showing her guilt in an alleged mortgage scam. Fricosu’s lawyers say doing so could [...]
To the (Legoland) Batcave! [Pics]
Alex Schranz (Orion Pax on Flickr) built this massive Batcave replica from his horde of Caped Crusader pieces. Somewhere between 800o and 9000 LEGO and a neon blacklight later, the construction houses a Batmobile, scaled-up Batman and Robin figurines, and an artistic interior worthy of Mr. Wayne’s approval. At 68 bricks tall on a 40×40 [...]
Embrace Your Geekness Day Plans? [Open-Thread]
Pretty much every day is Embrace Your Geekness Day here at Geeks Are Sexy, but July 13th is the official holiday set aside by the folks at wellcat.com, who have 80+ Wellcat Holidays to “celebrate life and its many quirky moments.” The suggested celebratory activities: Into dungeon games, comic books and doing vampire dress-up? Spend [...]
Steampunk Iron Man FTW [Pics]
Matt Silva of Penny Dreadful Productions might be my hero of the day. This steampunk Iron Man is a serious piece of handiwork. There are exactly zero details about this on the website (it’s under heavy maintenance), but all told I think it’s a remarkable steampunk/comics mashup. [via How to Be a Retronaut]
3500-Piece LEGO Porsche [Video]
Fernando of Sheepo’s Garage built this Porsche 911 (997) Turbo Cabriolet PDK The car maintains all proportions of the real 911 and comprises a pretty impressive set of materials: 3500 parts and more than 6 meters of wires, 3 PF controllers, 3 IR PF Receivers, 2 RC motors, 1 PF XL motor, 5 PF M motors, 3 PF lights, 2 Lithium batteries, 1 PF [...]
Robin Cook’s Super-Hot Game Girl Cosplay [Gallery]
From the mastermind behind our epic Star Wars photo shoot post, Robin Cook, we give you Joanna Dark, Kitana, Misty and Lara Croft. Great work, ladies! These pics are made of win. All images copyright Robin Cook Photography, 2011.
Amazon Deal of the Day: Robot Chicken: Star Wars III – $11.49 (DVD) – $13.99 (Blu-ray)
For today’s edition of Deal of the Day, Amazon has the newly released Robot Chicken: Star Wars III for just $13.99 on blu-ray and 11.49 on DVD. The Emmy Award-winning Robot Chicken returns to DVD with its third send-up of the Star Wars universe! In this all-new hour-long special, four very different characters — Emperor [...]
What REALLY Happened to Stonehenge [Pic]
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