A dot-com speculator looks set to battle Google for the rights to operate an unusual website address domain: .lol Frank Schilling of Uniregistry and Google have both confirmed they’ve applied for the top level domain as part of a process that will eventually mean virtually infinite domains rather than the current system of country codes […]
Historical fiction nerd, science fiction author and self-professed swordfighting geek Neal Stephenson has decided it’s time to end the trigger-based foolery that we have come to accept in our sword games. His CLANG kickstarter seeks to use modern gaming technology to revolutionise the way we swing our virtual swords. Initially, his PC based game will […]
An aspiring pair of comics named Brian Kamerer and Travis Irvine once made a promotional video for Daniel Kosh, their town’s mayoral candidate. The video was a tongue-in-cheek video that pimps their buddy to be the new hope for their town. Well the video was featured one night on Jay Leno, poking fun at the […]
Superheroes in spandex – they were pretty much all a little ambiguously gay (Ambiguously Gay Duo anyone?). DC Comics, however, has promised that a superhero of the past will be reintroduced – and he will be openly gay. “One of the major iconic DC characters will reveal that he is gay in a storyline in […]
It seems that the powers that be over at AMC have decided that Kevin Smith’s podcast turned tv show, Comic Book Men is being renewed for another season. The thing I like most about this show is how it really revolves around Kevin Smith’s comic shop – Jay and Silent Bob’s Secret Stash – and […]
Anyone who’s participated in a Google vs. Apple debate (or cat fight) would be quite intimately aware of the open access vs. paid access arguments when it comes to technology. Well it seems Ivy League schools are coming across a similar tension in academic journals. Harvard University writes that they simply cannot continue subscriptions to […]
Want to become a skilled carpenter? Well this is likely not the way to do it. Ex software engineer and nature geek Joel Allen attempted to retire at the ripe age of 26 but woke up to the harsh reality that it wasn’t going to happen. Instead of returning to coding, he decided to try […]
With Avengers right around the corner we have a ton of promotional material being shoved up our noses. I almost wonder if with all the behind the scenes clips and set photos, trailers and sneak peeks, someone patch together most of the movie? But we have to remember that at the end of the day […]
[Photo Credit: zhrefch] All Facebook reports that one in four Facebook users are using the geotagging technology on Facebook to attach locations to a combined total of two billion posts each month! Those who use geotagging tag their location an average of ten times a month. I know I use geotagging quite frequently – it’s […]
I have to admit that I gave up World of Warcraft awhile back (mainly because I couldn’t justify the cost any longer). This flying panther thing had me interested though. I guess if you play the game you already know about the new expansion which is currently in beta testing – Mists of Pandaria. Now […]