Humongous Dork Stars in Nerd Rider [Video]
I love you real KITT! :) [Adult Swim]
Monthly Archives: January 2012
Indiana Jones Custom Engagement Ring!
A man known only as Homerliwag on Reddit revealed a very unique wedding ring and proposal to his Indiana Jones-obsessed fiance to be. Starting with an elaborate Indiana Jones themed proposal, Homerliwag gave his beloved…. a bag of sand. TheMarySue quotes the designer and fiance: It was about 2 or 3 days before November, 11, […]
One Shall Stand, One Shall Fall: Prime vs. Prime [Video]
Who’s your favorite Optimus Prime? The original or the new one? Make your choice! [Patrick Boivin]
Five ’90s Comic Book Movies Primed For a Reboot
This list over at Gamma Squad is pretty good. “The Rocketeer” was an amazing movie, and I’d love to see what could be done with the concept with a huge budget. Something I’d never considered before, though: Dick Tracy. Yes. Get some weird, dark-minded director, a Nicolas Winding Refn or some other David Lynch-type to […]
The Importance of Defending our Freedom to Share
What does a bill like PIPA/SOPA mean to our shareable world? At the TED offices, Clay Shirky delivers a proper manifesto — a call to defend our freedom to create, discuss, link and share, rather than passively consume. [TED]
AMAZING No-Budget Sci-Fi Short: Archetype by Aaron Sims
OMG THIS IS AMAZING. Watch it. Now. Seriously. RL7 is an eight-foot tall combat robot that goes on the run after malfunctioning with vivid memories of once being human. As its creators and the military close in, RL7 battles its way to uncovering the shocking truth behind its mysterious visions and past. Directed by Aaron […]
Community College For Gifted Mutants
Community is the funniest show on TV. Or was, maybe. I don’t know. Anyway, it also is the inspiration for some great fan art. But the coolest that I’ve seen, so far, is this rad “Xavier’s Community College For Gifted Mutants” piece by Aviv Or. Brilliant! via io9
SOMEBODY KILL IT WITH FIRE: Animatronic Robotic Baby will Creep You Out
Youtuber Kitanimboy, who has already made a few robotic children for various ad campaigns and TV shows, recently unveiled this creeptastic animatronic baby for an “anonymous Soap opera.” [Kitanimboy]
FUS RO DAH in Real Life [Video]
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What Happened Before the Big Bang?
There’s a great interview with philosopher of physics Tim Maudlin of NYU over at The Atlantic. Maudlin and his ilk are interested in proving Stephen Hawking’s notion that “philosophy is dead” wrong. (Dead wrong…get it? Play me off!) They are interested in using the philosophy of cosmology in order to theorize about the unprovable, for […]