By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] Classic film fans, I bring good news! After 30 years, Hammer Films is making a comeback with its first horror movie! Its last horror flick was in 1976 with Christopher Lee, “To the Devil a Daughter“. Now once again, they are venturing back into scaring the crap out of […]
Each September, Montreal, Quebec closes Ste-Catherine street, one of the busiest streets in the city, to hold the “a day without my car” event. As the name implies, no motorized circulation is allowed on the street during this day, and a bunch of vendors present green-transport alternatives to cars. This year, “L’école Polytechnique de Montréal,” […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] Divorce is a messy stressful affair (from what I hear). First, there is the breakup which is obviously painful and upsetting for both the husband and the wife (it’s even worse if there’s children involved too). Then the lawyers get involved and the arguments then start over who gets […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] Remember Whitney Harper? She was that 16 year old who didn’t know that downloading MP3’s from Kazaa was illegal and she pleaded ignorance when the RIAA set their hound dogs on her. It actually worked because the judge ordered that she only had to pay $200 per song instead […]
You might think that planet Earth is pretty big, but the following video will show you that size is only a matter of perception, and that in fact, our planet is really tiny compared to other celestial objects.
Now that you’ve all seen the new “I’m a PC” ad from Microsoft, I’m sure that we can all agree that this commercial was much more efficient in driving its point across compared to the “Seinfeld and Gates” joke. Even though part of the ad was made using a Mac, it’s no secret that PCs […]
by Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] The British science journal Nature reported a study today that upends what we thought we knew about the evolution of fingers of toes. The previous theory was that air-breathing animals that had found their way to land were the first to develop primitive fingers, but this new study shows […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] Scientists at the University of Southampton in England have come up with a really genius way of proving once and for all whether “out of body” near death experiences actually occur or not. Is that REALLY a light at the end of a tunnel? Is that REALLY Nicolas Cage […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] OK, now I really have heard everything! The Israeli city of Petah Tikva is seemingly fed up with all the doggie poop lying around on their streets. So their solution is to set up a dog poop DNA database. To build this, all the dog owners of the city […]
by Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] This morning I received an email from Amazon informing me that there are now over 170,000 books, magazines, and newspapers available for the Kindle. Still, a quick search informed me that of the three books that I ordered from Amazon last week, not one was available in Kindle form. […]