Back in 1513, Francois I, the newly crowned King of France, was presented with this awesome mechanical lion designed by Leonardo Da Vinci. Unfortunately, the lion automaton does not exist anymore, but the plans still do, so someone reconstructed it in 2009. Here’s a video of the beast moving. [Reuters | Via Neatorama]
Mental Floss: A weekly show where knowledge junkies get their fix of trivia-tastic information. This week, John looks at 107 words specific to certain regions such as Indiana’s “pitch-in dinner”, England’s “loo”, and Ireland’s “to rabbit on.” [Metal Floss | Via LS]
The United Kingdom’s National Museum of Computing has unveiled a gallery marking the undersung achievements of women in computing. The gallery’s creation was a response to the fact that only one in ten students who visit the museum as part of its computer learning program are female. Although the gallery is currently a standalone display, […]
Some of you (like myself) may remember actress Erika Alexander from Living Single where she played Maxine Shaw. Back in December 2011, Dark Horse released her and Tony Puryear’s (Eraser) Concrete Park under its “Dark Horse Presents” series. Now, because of critical buzz, Dark Horse will give Concrete Park a 5-issue miniseries, starting in 2014! [via Bleeding Cool]
Back in early 2012, Anthony Rosner released a short documentary called IRL about how he put an end to his World of Warcraft addiction after losing 6 years of his life to the game. IRL 2.0 in moderation is the sequel to the first film. IRL 2.0 In Moderation is a short documentary about playing […]
It’s easy to see here why Ashton Kutcher was cast to play Steve Jobs. Way back in 1978, Steve was a young (hirsute!) guy just beginning to see the first hints of success. Though the actual interview Steve is prepping for here is no longer available, the timing suggests that he was invited to talk […]
From the unicorn stampede (with shark action) to a 1/3 scale wooden model of the Russian space station MIR, to people wearing red noses everywhere… this is Burning Man! Thanks Mark! [Mark Day Comedy]
Muppet Wikia Jim Henson’s Fraggle Rock first aired in 1983, introducing us to the show’s five main Fraggle characters — Red, Gobo, Mokey, Boober, and Wembley — and a large secondary cast that includes Doc, Uncle Traveling Matt, the Ancients, the Doozers, various Fraggle townspeople, the Cave Fraggles, the Gorgs, and Marjory the talking trash […]
We’re getting closer and closer to settling on it that it only seems right to learn a little more in 10 amazing facts about the planet Mars. [All Time 10s]
In case you still need to be convinced on how awesome a person and a scientist Bill Nye is, I strongly encourage you to watch this clip. Not only was this guy one of my role model back when I was a kid, but he still is today, alongside with Richard Feynman, Carl Sagan, and […]