Adam Rabalais is a Baton Rouge based artist with a fondness for movie poster design. Here we’ve collected some of his best genre flick reworks–everything from “2001: A Space Odyssey” to “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.” There’s a lot to like here, but for more you can check out Rabalais’ shop, where the […]
At 10 years of age, Taylor Wilson built his first bomb. At 14, he made a nuclear reactor. Now, he’s 17 … Read more about the young fusioneer, who will probably one day build the world’s very first personal nuclear fusion reactor, over at mental_floss. [Source]
Many of you Geeks felt the rumbling around 2pm Eastern time yesterday, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake centered just outside of Mineral, VA. (The [GAS] staff didn’t feel a thing, until the Internets exploded with reports and our speakers started vibrating with incoming media notifications.) If you’re anywhere on the East Coast and you felt the […]
Portal: No Escape is a high-quality fanfilm that introduces Chell (Danielle Rayne) to the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device. Directed by Dan Trachtenberg, Visual Effects by Jon Chesson, Matte Painting by Maxx Burman. [superpunch via Laughing Squid]
MrJibaku’s son decided that he wanted to sleep till 9:30AM. When he asked him to get out of bed he told him ‘no.’ No one tells MrJibaku “no,” especially when they are four years old. So what did MrJibaku do? He woke the sleepy kid up … DOOM-style!
MIT student Christian Reed searched high and low on the Web, but couldn’t find any instruction to make a grappling hook launcher, so he did what any self-respecting geek would do: he designed his own. Behold, the ultimate grappling hook launcher! [Source | Via]
The word “distribution” scores 15 points in Scrabble. But in the court system it could score almost $2 million. That’s certainly the hope of the Recording Industry Association of America, which wants yet another round in its ongoing battle with Jammie Thomas-Rasset, and one that may have a genuine effect on the legal situation rather […]
Got a brutal exam coming up that has got you stressed out? At least youdon’t live in Exam Ville, Seoul, South Korea, where 20,000 people study around the clock for law school entrance tests, civil service exams and other hellish tests cooked up by man. Read this and instantly feel better: When he was 35, […]
This is some of the best cosplay we’ve seen in a long, long time. Akuriko’s Zelda is spot-on, and the location shots? Crazy. Akuriko has beautifully cosplayed as Zelda from the legendary Nintendo series of games. A hardcore cosplayer, Akuriko has even cosplayed as Saria and Rainbow Brite. [gameranx via fashionablygeek]
Yesterday we reported on the announcement of the Hugo Awards–the sci-fi Oscars, if you’ll forgive the sort of inaccurate comparison–and you may recall that the The Drink Tank‘s editor Chris J. Garcia won a Hugo for Best Fanzine. His acceptance speech is exactly what you’d expect from someone who won an award unexpectedly–surprise, gratitude, swearing. […]