James Franco, the actor-artist-author-director-resident weirdo, has a brand new (and appropriately strange) collaborative project underway–MONA: the Museum of Non-Visible Art. That’s non-visible as in “invisible” as in “there’s nothing to see here.” According to the project’s Kickstarter page (which was fully funded and then some in a blink and a half): The Non-Visible Museum is an extravaganza […]
We still don’t have hoverboards or robot maids, but a collaborative effort between Samsung and the University of California San Diego may make sure we do still live at least partly in the future we imagined. Behold, geeks, I give you: Smell-o-Vision. Virtual smells have long eluded developers by being too difficult to control, impractical […]
In my latest visit to the world’s greatest place, Bookbarn (literally a warehouse full of books, currently at £1 — approximately US$1.60 — each), I picked up a book from 1983 that I distinctly remember reading as a child: The Beginner’s Computer Handbook. Looking back brings some amusement at the technology of the time, but […]
I may be a total noob for not knowing this (feel free to insult me in the comments, but please stay polite ;)), but did you guys know that in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, you can see hieroglyphs of R2-D2 and C-3PO cleverly hidden in the background of several scenes? […]
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You guys, it’s Neil Patrick Harris’s (@ActuallyNPH) birthday. Let’s take a moment to discuss his continued awesomeness. We all know NPH as Doogie Howser, M.D., the tweenage physician with wicked awesome hair, but before that, he was nominated for a Golden Globe for his role in Clara’s Heart with Whoopi Goldberg, and of course you […]
Acclaimed author Terry Pratchett has confirmed that he received consent forms recently from Dignitas, the Swiss assisted suicide clinic. The Discworld creator says he intends to sign them “imminently” but does not know for certain whether he will go through with euthanasia, stating he changes his mind “every two minutes.” If you’re a close follower […]
A brilliant mashup of Britney Spears’ “I Wanna Go” with Suzanne Collins’ awesome post-apocalyptic novel The Hunger Games. In a not-too-distant future, the United States of America has collapsed, weakened by drought, fire, famine, and war, to be replaced by Panem, a country divided into the Capitol and 12 districts. Each year, two young representatives […]
As usual, Neil deGrasse Tyson delivers a very concise and informative speech on why we need to train future generations in science and math, even though most of the people who are part of those generations will never become scientists.
Several times a year, a bunch of crazy looking people band up together and embark on an epic journey where they dress up in their favorite costumes and start competing against one another to win cash prizes and a golden gas pump. RCR isn’t technically a race. The team with the lowest odometer score and […]