The Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen (or GISHWHES) is the brainchild of Misha Collins, best known as the actor playing Castiel on the television show Supernatural. Or maybe you saw him on that SyFy original movie about Stonehenge. Or perhaps his tweets, which are definitely some of the more entertaining for [...]
Hmmmm, I wonder if it’s just like the tardis…or a bag of holding… bigger on the inside? [Available @ the Neatoshop]
That’s kind of sad when you think of it… gone are the days when people had to film scenes directly on location. [Via Buzzfeed]
Here are a few good deals we stumbled on today while digging through Amazon.com: -Mass Effect 2 [PC Download] – $19.99 $4.99 (75% Off) -The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy (The Fellowship of the Ring / The Two Towers / The Return of the King Extended Editions + Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] – [...]
Most online gamers are female, while women who play online have more sex than those who don’t. Or at least that’s what a new survey claims. Harris Interactive carried out a survey of 2,000 adults for GameHouse. (The survey was carried out online, though it’s not clear if the respondents were self selecting.) The headline [...]
The second season of Game Of Thrones will premiere in Spring 2012. [via HBO]
There are 10 million people in the World of Warcraft… because Chuck Norris allows them to live! Previously on [GAS]: -I’m William Shatner and I’m a Shaman -I’m Mr T and I’m a Night Elf Mohawk [Youtube]
-10 Most Incredible Volcanic Eruptions Seen from Space Dangerously hot ash spewing forth from a volcanic vent and lava traveling at great speed down a mountainside and incinerating everything in its path is not something most people would want to witness from close up. -Real Life Dragonborn Kid Earns Free Bethesda Games Forever Meet Dovahkiin [...]
Roger Wood of Klockwerks made a killer little raygun. The rest of the stuff on his website is definitely worth checking out, too. via Boing Boing
Not very well, apparently: The mosquitoes’ low mass and speed – and thus low inertia – means that the raindrops are largely unaffected by the collisions. Thus, the drops don’t splash on the bugs. “The most probable impact is one that rotates the mosquito instead of pushing it vertically downward,” Hu says. Indeed, Hu and [...]
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Armed with the new, precise distance measurement, scientists using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer, the Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics, and visible-light observations made over more than two decades, calculated that the black hole in Cygnus X-1 is nearly 15 times more massive than our Sun and is spinning more [...]
