Google +1 vs Facebook Like: Fight!
So people, Google +1 or Facebook Like? Fight! (Via the social media buttons below) Let us see who gets the more “Likes” or “+1!”
Category Archives: General
Arcee (Transformers) Cosplay [Pic]
The only transformers series I’ve followed is the original one from back in the 80’s, so it came as a surprise to see that subsequent series featured female autobots and decepticons, namely Arcee, a female Autobot warrior who turns into a pink convertible. [Via]
200,000 GPS devices under threat
A company planning to build a nationwide high-speed broadband network has admitted its plans would affect the performance of 200,000 GPS devices in the US. LightSquared’s idea is to put together a network of both cellphone towers and satellites to offer LTE nationwide. It wouldn’t deal directly with consumers but rather would sell access on […]
Cool Tee: This is Sppppaaaarrrtaaaaaa!!!
The world will know that free men stood against tyrants, that few stood against many, and before this battle was over, even the guy with the sword can bleed. Sparta!!! [Get it @ Splitreason.com | 10% off with promo code “geeksaresexy”]
Every Michael Bay Movie in Under a Minute [Video]
Yep, that looks about right to me! [Source: CH | Via Buzzfeed]
New Lifetime Goal: Buy this 20-Foot Animatronic Triceratops
Oh, Science, you still haven’t quite given me that pet Stegosaurus, but I’d be okay I guess if I had one of these instead–at least in the meantime. Of course, I’ll have to pick up a few more jobs and maybe sell a kidney or three (wait, what?) because this presumably lifelike hand-sculpted exterior over […]
Badass “Starry Knight” Tattoo [Pic]
I love tattoos, but don’t have one because I can’t ever think of anything I’d like to keep forever. I never considered a comics-plus-classical-art mashup though, so maybe my options have opened up a bit. Pan Rozmyty‘s ink is all the best elements of post-impressionism and pop culture in a design called “Starry Night over […]
What to Do When the Police Want to Search Your Digital Devices
Here’s a quick guide from the EFF on what to do when the police comes knocking asking to search your digital devices. [EFF]
A Rosetta Stone for the Indus script [Video]
Rajesh Rao is fascinated by “the mother of all crossword puzzles”: How to decipher the 4000 year old Indus script. At TED 2011 he tells how he is enlisting modern computational techniques to read the Indus language, the key piece to understanding this ancient civilization. [TED]
Lovotics: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?! [Videos]
When the future promised us robots, I don’t think this is exactly what it meant. And for my part, it’s not really the Laundry-Folding Bot™ I had in mind, either. A project at the National University of Singapore intends to equip robots with all the human capabilities for love, including a fully functional endocrine system that […]