For today’s edition of Deal of the Day, Amazon has Firefly (Blu-ray) for just $18.99. That’s 79% off the series’ regular retail price of $89.99. You can also get it on DVD for $14.99. As the 2005 theatrical release of Serenity made clear, Firefly was a science fiction concept that deserved a second chance. Devoted [...]
My Tusken Raider done by Famous Gabe of Hula Moon Tattoos in Pensacola, FL This is right after he finished and kind of a bad angle, but y’all get it. It was really awesome and fun getting it done because i went in wanting a cool StarWars piece and he wanted to do it and [...]
There are many things to worry about in 2012. The return of Quetzalcoatl, rampant earthquakes, flooding, other things that John Cusack is really good at running from. According to NASA, however, solar flares are not one of them: …[T]here simply isn’t enough energy in the sun to send a killer fireball 93 million miles to [...]
The new music video for ‘Against The Grain’ from emerging Melbourne indie-folk artist Hudson sees him collaborate with film maker/animator/VJ Dropbear (aka Jonathan Chong), producing a vibrant and colourful clip based around a mainstay from our humble artistic efforts throughout childhood – coloured pencils. [Via Neatorama]
Those of us from the West tend to associate smaller numbers with the left side of the brain and larger ones with the right, based on how we learn math. Now researchers from the University of Plymouth have taught a robot to respond the same way to numbers. The so-called SNARC (spatial-numerical association of response [...]
Coin-stacker Tai Star stacked 3,118 coins on a single dime. The impressive structure consisted of 600 quarters, 501 dimes, 313 nickels, 1699 pennies and five foreign coins. He starts with the single dime and places it near the edge of a table. Star explained: ‘It is on the very corner for a few reasons: to [...]
Etsy user woodguy32 has crafted some freakin’ awesome steampunk monitors and keyboards. These bad boys will only set you back $1,439.00, and they look AMAZING. [Via This Is Why I'm Broke]
I’ve never played World of Warcraft, because I thought that it was stupid and a total waste of time. Now that I see this, though, I realize that it just wasn’t the right kind of nerdy for me. This DC Universe thing, I can totally get behind. Though the increase hasn’t manifested without its share [...]
Gamma Squad has a fantastic article up explaining exactly why your brain hates and refuses to be wrong. Everybody hates being wrong. I turn red when I am. But I try so hard to admit it. But now I’m thinking, maybe I don’t! Maybe I am wrong about everything! Articles like this, that cause introspection, [...]
An Ice tray that makes ice cubes shaped like Han Solo in carbonite? Send me a dozen please. Be sure to check out this awesome R2-D2 version as well. [$9.95 @ The Neatoshop]
I try to be as careful an eater as I can be, but without fail, every time I get up from the table I have ketchup/coffee/beer spilled all over the front of my shirt. I will be buying this product ASAP. Though it did pain me to see them waste all that perfectly good chocolate [...]
Now that’s kind of really stupid when you think of it. How could Bethesda not foresee that people would do this? [Via]
