Created by remixer/virtuoso Nick Bertke, Expialidocious was composed using a sine wave bass, custom drum sequences, and sounds recorded from the classical Disney film Mary Poppins. The final result is, shall we say, quite hypnotic. Check it out! The MP3 of the song is available for download right here. [Via Neatorama]
There’s one thing we have to give Samsung credit for, they really mastered the art of making viral videos this year. Check out the latest one, where a Street Fighter wannabe wrecks a car with his hands alone. [via Newlaunches]
One thing I’ve found with respect to The Sims over the years is that it’s really, really hard to explain why the game is fun to someone who doesn’t get it. “Right, and then you make them shower! And you send them to work! And don’t forget that they have to clean the toilet!” So [...]
By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] According to an inside source who spoke to Collider, Comedy Central has decided to renew Futurama for another 13 million years episodes. The futuristic farce has long been a favorite among animated comedies, filling large time slots late at night in the US. Now, after Comedy Central has re-aired the [...]
We all know it; we are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have a decade to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of our planet’s climate. The stakes are high for us and our children. HOME is an ode to the planet’s beauty [...]
By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] One of the oddities of the television world is the “midseason series,” so called because it airs a little out of sync with most of the primetime eye candy. Such shows are a kind of wild card because they can fill in gaps and allow more eccentric shows a [...]
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] A Harvard Business School study on Twitter usage reveals some interesting patterns with respect to men and women. First of all, there are slightly more women than men on Twitter – 55% to 45%. However, men have 15% more followers than women. And moreover, men are twice as likely [...]
Look at this nifty little stop animation of a guy working furiously to get somewhere. It’s called “Sorry I’m Late” by Thomas Mankovsky. They used the floor of an auditorium (or maybe a church?) to make it appear that the hapless chap was walking across a wide range of obstacles. You can find the “making [...]
Voted as best short film at the New York Comedy Film Festival, The Astounding World of the Future takes a tongue-in-cheek look at some amazingly accurate mid-20th century predictions of the year 2000. [Via Neatorama]
If you thought Twitter was exclusively home to tech-savvy college kids, think again. Reports show the micro-blogging service has some unusual uses among churchgoers and the military, while the site’s growth may in fact be driven by older users. MSNBC reports on a church in San Antonio where the congregation are not only encouraged to [...]
First the good news. It’s the new Commodore 128PC. A computer breakthrough with all the power of its competition at half the price. The commodore 128PC has the same memory as the IBM PCJr or the Apple IIc. It has 80 column color capability. The IBM PCjr doesn’t. It’s expandable to 512K of memory. The [...]
By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] Did any of you tweeps notice a flurry of tweets about “#spymaster” the other day? Whether you did or didn’t, here’s the scoop on that phenomenon. An online Twitter game called Spymaster opened up to the public on Friday and it took the network by storm. Essentially, every follower [...]