Listen to J.R.R. Tolkien as he reads “Namárië,” an elvish poem that was first published in The Fellowship of the Ring, Book 2. Namárië is a reduced form of á na márië, which means “be well”, a formula usually used for greetings and for farewells among the elvish people. [Silmarilllion]
I saw this image on Geek & Sundry and I really want it as like…a sticker. Or an iron-on/stitch-on patch. Or maybe a t-shirt? I don’t care I want it in merchandise damn it! I also remember seeing a meme that said “Let’s bring back books. If someone brings you back to their room and […]
Tumblr user Salainen recently proposed to her boyfriend with this amazing Super Mario-themed engagement ring box… and he said yes! [Source: Salainen | Via Buzzfeed]
Imagine a world where learning the language of computers was a fundamental subject in our education alongside mathematics, languages and sciences. If you think about it, that is actually the world we live in today: programming pervades almost every profession out there to some extent or another, and having a basic understanding of how software […]
We live in a ridiculously hyper fast pace life where information is exchanged so rapidly that it makes us feel inadequate and drains our attention span. This painting was executed at the GALORE festival in Copenhagen, Denmark. The painting is a time-lapse composed of over 9,000 photos and painted over a 5-day period. As irony […]
[GAS] friend Mark Day just sent me this interesting video he shot at Burning Man 2012 featuring a giant wooden human-powered hamster wheel that show the the workings on the Mayan Calendar. Useless? Maybe, but a lot of useless things passe as art, especially when it’s at Burning Man! [Mark Day]
The Hugo Awards are an annual awards ceremony honoring the very best in written science fiction and fantasy in different categories. The Hugo is named after Amazing Stories founder Hugo Gernsback The awards are presented each year by the World Science Fiction Society at the World Science Fiction Convention (WorldCon). In more recent years, the […]
Michael Anti (aka Jing Zhao,) a key figure in China’s new journalism, has been blogging from China for 12 years. Despite the control the central government has over the Internet — “All the servers are in Beijing” — he says that hundreds of millions of microbloggers are in fact creating the first national public sphere […]
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That’s right. A stunningly low proportion of only 16% Americans know what “the cloud” is, according to a national survey conducted by Wakefield Research, commissioned by Citrix. Other stunning statistics to come out of the survey are as follows: 29% of correspondents responded with a reference to an actual cloud, the sky or something related […]