A few weeks ago, Steve Jobs published a piece letting the world know about his thoughts on flash, and in response, Adobe started this ad campaign: After the ad was released, a clever blogger then imagined Apple’s response to the commercial: [Via Buzzfeed]
I’m a word geek. No way around that. I have spent literally days of my life trolling the Online Etymology Dictionary and, back when I had a university subscription, the Oxford English Dictionary. English, while being an absolute mish-mash of languages, has a delightfully wacky catalogue of words and phrases that aren’t just fun to […]
As you can see, this project involves papier-mâché. What do you do with it once you’ve gone through this step-by-step photo essay? You might laugh when you see! [via b3ta]
The inbox your inbox should look like: [Via Unrealitymag]
As a geek, you definitely know your ABCs, but do you know these? From A to Z, “away team” to “zork,” here is [GAS]’s take on the Geek Alphabet. Please note that all pictures featured below were licensed under a “CC” license. We’ve sourced them all at the bottom of this post. All images used […]
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Legendary skeptic James Randi takes a fatal dose of homeopathic sleeping pills onstage, kicking off a searing 18-minute indictment of irrational beliefs. He throws out a challenge to the world’s psychics: Prove what you do is real, and I’ll give you a million dollars. (No takers yet.)
How many time will I have to tell you, GET OUT OF THERE! :) [Via Neatorama]
Conan O’Brien may have been “legally prohibited from being funny on television,” but thanks to TBS he’ll be back on the air very soon. In the following video, Conan and Andy Richter stop by Google’s Mountain View, CA headquarters for a morning of hilarity. This event took place on May 5, 2010.
Fake Science is a funny, tongue in cheek approach to all topics and branches of science. [Fake Science | Via Neatorama]