A New England state senate candidate has been “outed” as a World of Warcraft player. Opponents say her backstabbing tactics in the game “raise questions about [her] fitness for office. A press release by the Maine Republican party begins ” Colleen Lachowicz, the Democratic candidate for State Senate District 25 (Waterville), has been living a […]
If you’ve spent time at SXSW in the past, you might recognize Austin’s own Tolly Moseley, who runs the very sexy and sometimes geeky blog, Austin Eavesdropper. In her premiere episode of Hungry In Austin, Tolly eats her way through the quaint neighborhood of South Lamar. And if you missed Josh Ozersky talking about NYC’s […]
Remember that guy last year who used 2 iPads to create what seemed like a gaping hole in his torso for his Halloween costume? Well Mark is back once again this year with more awesome ideas to create the perfect funny/freaky holloween costume, and this time, no need for 2 tablets, any Apple or Android […]
Google has finally settled its legal dispute with publisher groups over its plans to digitize books and make them searchable. But the company is still engaged in legal dispute with authors. The settlement should end a lawsuit filed by five publishing houses in 2005. Previous courtroom deals between the two sides have fallen to legal […]
I love the Idea Channel and what they come up with but this…this makes me believe. I now wish to build a TARDIS shaped shrine, in which I will enter, meditate in order to believe that it is bigger on the inside, and slowly chant “wibbly wobbly timey wimey”. Let’s hope Whovianism gets recognised in […]
I love these guys. Directed by Emily Oberman | Pentagram NY. The band teamed up with Emily and international children’s charity organization The Global Fund For Children and it includes crowd sourced photos sent in from ALL AROUND THE WORLD! All proceeds from the Limited Edition ‘Alphabet of Nations’ t-shirts and posters will go to […]
A new episode of Cosplayer Chronicles by our pals @ Distractotron. If you missed the first episode featuring the lovely Honor Herrera, you can check it out right here. [Distractotron]
This 12-minute short film (which includes the credits) is quite a creative masterpiece. Created using Blender, an open source 3D content creation suite and crowdfunded from the Blender Institute in Amsterdam, it’s quite a feast for the eyes. Without giving too much away, the story is centred on a man who is trying to make […]
While celebrating my 10th wedding anniversary last week, my wife and I visited multiple art galleries in Baie-Saint-Paul and Quebec City to purchase our first “real” piece of art. So while admiring the work of various painters at the Beauchamp Art Galleries, we fell in love with a painting titled Reinventing my Life (pictured above […]
What does an astrophysicist do on a cloudy day? Create art. Alex Parker, who is a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, was bored when a cloudy day meant he couldn’t do work at the observatory. So he got the idea to make a mosaic-style version of the famous Van Gogh, “Starry Night”, […]