by Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] So 22-year-old Peter Eastgate has become the youngest World Series of Poker champion ever. It was also the longest final table in the history of the series, 274 hands in 15 hours and 28 minutes. Though a $9.1 million payday isn’t bad for 15 hours of work. Like most […]
Yesterday, exactly 41 years ago, Saturn V, the largest launch vehicle that has ever been constructed by man, was sent into space. Here’s a slow motion video showing the impressive launch of the rocket. [Via Gizmodo]
by Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] Many of you have probably already seen this by now (over a million hits on YouTube in four days!), but if so, then you can probably stand to see it again. Just when I was starting to get bored with the Risky Business pastiche Guitar Hero World Tour ads, […]
by Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] Are you too shy to attempt to pick up women at bars? Too scared of rejection? Worried that if you buy a woman a drink she’ll throw it in your face? Or better yet–just can’t tear yourself away from your computer long enough to go to a bar? Well, […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] Like countless other people yesterday, I was watching the US elections on television and I was watching it on my preferred television channel, CNN. Suddenly Wolf “best political team on television” Blitzer pulls a R2-D2 on all of us and does this : Holy Smokes! Are you impressed? Holographic […]
by Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] According to Pi’s campaign manager, a good reason for this write-in: “What pi refers to as ‘endless change’ is its infinite series of digits, which never repeat, have no predicable pattern, and never resolve. Simply put, pi is history’s biggest flip-flopper.” In other words, if you already know you’re […]
by Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] You know what they say… when you’ve got lemons, turn them into lemonade. And when you’ve got rampant video piracy, find a way to milk some ad revenue out of it. The “fingerprint” technology that we’ve been hearing about from YouTube is making its way in some form to […]
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] It seems like a guaranteed recipe for success: (1) source material from a series of best-selling fantasy novels (Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth series), (2) the producers who brought us Hercules and Xena (Sam Raimi, who has since knocked our socks off with Spider-Man, and Rob Tapert, who is […]
By Jimmy Rogers Contributing Writer, [GAS] If you were on Twitter yesterday, you might have noticed a flood of tweets with a mysterious “#wotw2” code in them. Well that was a “hash tag” or “hash code” you were seeing there and those tweets were completely fictional. The fake tweets were all on account of War […]
This thing looks great, but I can’t imagine anyone passing from house to house on Halloween inside that mech costume! It would make picking up candies kind of inconvenient, don’t you think?