WANT: A TARDIS Lunch Box!
Hmmmm, I wonder if it’s just like the tardis…or a bag of holding… bigger on the inside? [Available @ the Neatoshop]
Monthly Archives: November 2011
Visual Effects in Movies: The Green Screen
That’s kind of sad when you think of it… gone are the days when people had to film scenes directly on location. [Via Buzzfeed]
Game of Thrones Season 2 Production Trailer
The second season of Game Of Thrones will premiere in Spring 2012. [via HBO]
HILARIOUS: Chuck Norris WOW Commercial [Video]
There are 10 million people in the World of Warcraft… because Chuck Norris allows them to live! Previously on [GAS]: –I’m William Shatner and I’m a Shaman –I’m Mr T and I’m a Night Elf Mohawk [Youtube]
Steampunk Raygun
Roger Wood of Klockwerks made a killer little raygun. The rest of the stuff on his website is definitely worth checking out, too. via Boing Boing
How Do Mosquitoes Fly in the Rain?
Not very well, apparently: The mosquitoes’ low mass and speed – and thus low inertia – means that the raindrops are largely unaffected by the collisions. Thus, the drops don’t splash on the bugs. “The most probable impact is one that rotates the mosquito instead of pushing it vertically downward,” Hu says. Indeed, Hu and […]
The Birth of Black Holes
Armed with the new, precise distance measurement, scientists using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer, the Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics, and visible-light observations made over more than two decades, calculated that the black hole in Cygnus X-1 is nearly 15 times more massive than our Sun and is spinning more […]
Hilarious Commercial: Komplett.no – Trusted by geeks since 1996
According to some people on Youtube, Komplett.no is some kind of scandinavian version of Newegg. Translation: – One day, we will be the best in the nordic countries at this. – And then we could build? robots! – Both laughing *cuts to “robot” scene”* – and then they start laughing again! [Youtube]
Salvador Dali’s “Alice in Wonderland”
Ever wonder what it would look like if Dali animated “Alice in Wonderland”? Well, he did, sort of. He painted some of it, anyway. [Via io9]
Dance of the 8-Bit Sugar Plum Fairy
Not sure if it’s too early to put out geeky Christmas things but this 8-bit version of the classic tune by English electronic artist Superpowerless, who just released his new album called Monsters, is catchy nonetheless. What do you think GAS readers, is it to early for Christmas, or do you say bring on the […]