Chill Penguin is Chill [Video]
The latest from Dorkly Bits: MegaMan really needs the shotgun ice, but it’s cool, brah. No worries, man.
Monthly Archives: August 2011
Deleted Video Game Scenes
Sometimes the premise of a game is so absurd you have to have missed something. That, or designers were all, “Plot? Plausibility? I’m not even worried about that stuff. Hey, do we need more or less zombies?” Cracked asked readers to submit deleted scenes from video games that might help explain just exactly what’s going on. […]
Twaggies Crowdsourced Webcomic
Here are some of the latest and greatest cartoons from our friends over at Twaggies.com. You tweet, they draw! Make sure you follow them on Twitter and Facebook to get your daily Twags!
The Spinning Stingray Illusion [Video]
You’ve likely seen the spinning dancer illusion, which tricks the brain into believing the dancer is spinning either way without actually changing rotation. Now, this new animation by psychophysiologist Marcel de Heer shows that a single moving image can appear to move in three different ways. It’s a little psychedelic, but strong visual contrast is […]
Freaked-Out Lampreys Are Freaky [Video]
How do you control an invasive species–especially a parasitic one–without having to physically remove every specimen from an area? It’s a good question, and a hard one to answer. The ramifications of controlling one animal almost always include serious decline in another, damage and contamination to a habitat and possible immunity in the case of […]
18 Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About Firefly
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Escape From City 17 – Part Two
It’s been two-and-a-half years since “Escape From City 17 – Part One” was released by David and Ian Purchase, but as promised in Feb 2009, when we said we’d let you know when part two came out, here is the sequel. A story about the connection that grows between two people during the battle for […]
Stupid Robots Are Stupid [Video]
Set aside your fears of SkyNet and Asimovian human enslavement; if they are anything like these, I for one welcome our robot overlords. Bucking the trend of super-smart robot developments, Bacarobo participants seek to build the stupidest, least useful automated machines ever. Bacarobo, the Stupid Robot Championship, is a showcase for just such robots. The […]
Bane-Obsessed Fan Preemptively Declares His Love in Ink
Too soon? It’s probably too soon, right? Apparently not, at least for this dude from Istanbul. Using only leaked pre-release set photos from The Dark Knight Rises for reference, he got Tom Hardy’s Bane tatted on his bicep. Now, ok: even if you’re already a fan of a certain character or story or what-have-you, isn’t it […]
Jedi Kittehs [Video]
FinalCutKing caught some kittens just playing around with their lightsabers like that’s ok. I say we demote them back to Padawans. (Does it work that way? Fill me in, Geeks.) [neatorama]