Category Archives: Culture



Everything you need to know about fast food

Did you know that one fast food hamburger may contain meat from hundreds of different cows or that McDonald’s fries are flavored with unspecified “animal products?” Hit the jump for some other facts you might not know about the fast food industry.

Nostalgic Acapella Versions of Cartoon Theme Songs

Destorm is an artist who has created us several episodes of Soul Toons, giving us awesome acapella versions of Tailspin, Ducktails, Gummy Bears, and other Cartoon theme songs!



Awesome Prints of Bad Robot Dudes

Adam Sidwell is a graphic artist who turned to the internet for inspiration. Instead of looking for subjects in the heroes we see so often, he has been doing illustrations of “bad dudes“. From Max Max, to Tyler Durden, Sidwell uses an awesome modernist style. So far though my favorite piece is this set of  […]

Headlines We Saw Coming: iPad Sees Rise in Digital Comics

Well, duh. While the rest of the world may find such information, courtesy of CNN, to be rather surprising (or something?) the geeks  just nod their heads. Do we get points for being forward-thinking? Probably not. Either way, apparently—shock of shocks—the iPad has given comics a major boost. While everyone’s been busy talking about the […]

Dalek Birthday Cake [PIC]

Ladies and gentlegeeks, behold: The ultimate cake for the Dr. Who fans among you. Yes, that Dalek birthday cake is HUGE! it stands at 22″ high and weighs almost 20kg (a little more than 44 pounds). Hit the link to see step-by-step pictures of how the cake was made. [Source: Stacked Cakes]

How to Roll High and Capture a Geek Girl’s Heart

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single geek in possession of a good dice bag, must be in want of a geek lady with whom to roll his dice. One of the themes I’ve noticed, when writing about geek girls in general, is that many of our readers feel a little out of […]

GAS Featured on Discovery’s Friday News Feedbag!

By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] Those crazy guys over at the Discovery News Friday Feedbag, a podcast that summarizes the most interesting science stories of the week, invited me to chat on the show once again.  If you missed my first appearance, they asked me to share three GAS stories to add a little […]