According to the uploader, the web-slinging superhero jumped in to save his Mary Jane from 2 bullies with a massive teddy bear during the first -ever “Dance Walk” in Provo, Utah.
Spiedy gets the guys AND the girl!
[Source: YouTube]
Create Your Own Dark Knight Tumbler!
Ever wanted Batman to drive around in something…not black?
Ever wanted to do anything BUT work?
Now, you can design your own Tumbler, just in time for The Dark Knight Rises!
What does YOURS look like??
[Via Wired]
Iconic Characters as Pac-Man Ghosts [PIC]
Yesterday, Geeks Are Sexy posted about superheroes and supervillains as alphabet flashcards.
Today, how about our favorite superheroes, villains, and other iconic characters as adorable little Pac-Man ghosts, courtesy of Ryan Coleman?
[Via Geek Tyrant]
The Evolution of Movie Poster Colors [PIC]
Ever wonder how movie posters have changed over time?
Well, software engineer Vijay Pandurangan was curious as to how colors have been used, and he compiled 35,000 movie posters dating as far back as 1914 until present day. Each poster had its colored pixels counted and were then organized by hue and year.
View his process and a larger version of the chart on his blog.
[Source: Vijay Pandurangan / Via Gizmodo]
US Back Atop Supercomputer Rankings
The United States is once again home to the world’s fastest computer. It ends a 20 month American absence from the top spot while first a Chinese and then a Japanese machine was number one.
The honor is bestowed by the TOP500 project, which has been putting together a regularly-updated supercomputer list since 1993. It measures sustained rather than peak performance.
The new number one (pictured) is dubbed Sequoia, runs IBM BlueGene/Q system, and is housed at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. It’s designed to simulate nuclear weapon performance without the need for underground testing. The aim is to get a clearer idea of how long existing weapons can last, potentially giving enough confidence to delay having to pay for replacements.
It was a clear winner, with a performance of 16.32 petaflops, compared to the 10.51 petaflops of the former champion, the Fujitsu K of the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Kobe.
Crudely speaking, a petaflop is one quadrillion calculations per second. To put it in terms that are easier to picture, the BBC has a great analogy: Sequoia’s performance is equivalent to doing in one hour what it would take the combined efforts of everyone on earth using a pocket calculator 320 years to do.
While Sequoia is made up of more than 1.5 million processors, more than double that of Fujitsu, it’s actually more energy efficient than the Japanese machine, thanks partly to a water cooling system. That’s something of a comparative statement though: we’re talking 7.9 megawatts compared to 12.6 megawatts.
To show the progress of supercomputing, Sequoia can perform as many calculations in one second as the number one rated machine back in 1993 could do in three days.
Michael Papka of the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, home to the number three rated machine on the list, told Computerworld that the rapid increases were no longer largely driven by Moore’s Law. Instead he explained that most of the difference now is made by the way the processors are organized, particularly with the use of parallel processing.
Star Wars Meets John Hughes in “Hughes the Force” [VIDEO]
The internet is chock full of mashups. For every one that is spot-on, there are a hundred that fall short of the mark.
But “Hughes the Force” is a video from Kevin Smith’s YouTube channel that mashes the unlikely “forces” of John Hughes and Star Wars, in particular “Weird Science” and Slave Leia, to a surprisingly successful and heartwarming effect.
http://youtu.be/h2yWAH4a4N4
[Source: YouTube / Via Giant Freakin Robot]
Pokémon-Themed Cars Are Adorable [Pics]
Japanese toy company Takara Tomy has partnered with Toyota to give away toy cars, inspired by Pokémon.
Recently, however, “real sized” versions of the toy cars were made and shown off.
Can you catch ’em all??
[Via Kotaku]
Korean Artist Brings Game Characters to New Life [PICS]
I’m the first to admit that I do not know much about “gamer culture,” especially as it pertains to the overseas nations.
But this artwork by South Korean Sang-heun Nam is breathtakingly impressive and enchanting. It’s like the characters are actually coming to life off the page!
To view the rest of Nam’s art, click here. The site is in Korean, but art needs no translation.
[Via Kotaku]