We’ve all done it; a project that we hold dear in our memory and that made us realize that darn, being a geek is pretty darn sexy after all. For me, it probably was when a few friends and I installed and customized our own Telegard BBS, which was running on an old 286, in […]
In the following video, Alain de Botton, author of the highly enjoyable The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, examines our ideas of success and failure — and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. Is success always earned? Is failure? He makes an eloquent, witty case to move beyond snobbery to find true pleasure in […]
I know that kids can sometimes be a real pain when you bring them shopping, but it’s not a reason to drag them along by a leash, especially if they’re on the floor when you’re doing so. […] She was charged with felony first-degree cruelty to children. Police say she was observed by customers and […]
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] So, speaking of e-books… you may have heard that in a twist of Orwellian irony, Amazon recently wirelessly deleted copies of 1984 and Animal Farm from customers’ Kindles. Apparently there was a copyright issue, in that the third party distributor who okayed the e-versions of the books did not […]
By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] When Star Trek: TNG ended and the franchise melted into less compelling series like Voyager and DS9 (let’s not even DISCUSS Enterprise), we “space action show” geeks felt a little lost. Nothing really stood out and said, “Here’s that great formula you know and love.” Then Stargate: SG1 […]
Now that San Diego Comic Con 2009 is over, there are of course a billion pictures on the web, most involving people in insane (and by insane, I mean “holy cow, you made that?!”) costumes. I spent some time trudging through the crowd on Flickr so you don’t have to, and here are some of […]
In most TV markets, it’s hard to imagine the largest network broadcasting a science show in a prime-time slot on its main channel. However, that’s just what the British Broadcasting Corporation is doing with Bang Goes The Theory. One reason is that the BBC is publicly funded and as such has a remit to educate […]
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Some are wondering if a contest that EA ran promoting their new game Dante’s Inferno during Comic Con went too far in supposedly encouraging attendees to “harass a booth babe” in order to win. The contest asked attendees to “commit acts of lust” and provide photographic evidence on Twitter. So was this just a way […]
A publisher is reprinting Norman Mailer’s articles on the Moon landings for LIFE magazine. The three-part feature was the longest nonfiction piece ever published in the magazine. But that’s not the best part. The articles are being reprinted in a collectible book along with excerpts from Mailer’s book “Of a Fire On The Moon” and […]