Captain Alpha Male is a funny new web miniseries starring Jay L. Lutsky about a guy who works as a manager at a superhero agency. Here’s the first episode: For those interested, the second episode is supposed to go live on Thursday. [Captain Alpha Male | Via Neatorama]
By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] HIV/AIDS is a worldwide pandemic disease, but I would wager that few people (even among our esteemed readers) really understand it at all. You may be aware that Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (or AIDS) is a disease that results from an HIV infection. To most, HIV/AIDS is a frightening […]
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I don’t know about you guys, but tonight, this is what I plan on doing: Have a great weekend everyone!
Revenues from the video games industry in the US were down almost a third last month compared to the same time last year. It’s the biggest annual slump since September 2000. Even with the 31% drop, gaming remains a billion dollar industry. The figure is made up of $625.8 million on games (down 29%), $382.6 […]
Origami: In the Pursuit of Perfection is a short movie that uses computer animation as well as stopmotion techniques to bring the story of ASICS, the japanese sports brand, to life.
In the following video, Daniel Kraft demos the Marrow Miner — a new device that quickly harvests life-saving bone marrow with minimal pain to the donor. He emphasizes that the adult stem cells found in bone marrow can be used to treat many terminal conditions, from Parkinson’s to heart disease.
Well, it looks like we’re paying tribute to pork meat this week on [GaS]. Yesterday, we featured the Original Bacon Explosion, and lo and behold, today, we have the geekiest piece of porkchop ever: Darth Porkchop. [Via BuzzFeed]
This incredibly small 98.2kb file will allow you to automagically power off your display when you lock your computer. It also does a bunch of other things, including muting your master volume and setting your status on IM clients to “away.” The full list of features is as follows: Automatically turn off monitor Automatically pause […]