Kid President Just Won Mother’s Day
Tomorrow is Mother’s Day here in the U.S. and our nation’s Kid President has some words on the subject. Specifically, he has ten things he thinks kids everywhere want their moms to know. As ever, this...
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Director Marc Webb Reveals First Look at Amazing Spider-Man 2′s Rhino
I don’t think it had really hit me yet that the person playing Aleksei Sytsevich, as in the Rhino, in Amazing Spider-Man 2 is Paul Giamatti. Like, I knew it was Giamatti, but I still couldn’t wrap my...
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Instagram Food Porn Leads to Capture of Identity Thieves
Food porn on Instagram is ridiculously ubiquitous. That is to say, pretty much everywhere you look someone’s posted a meal for one reason or another. It’s the perfect tool to show off how lovely your...
View ArticleWhat’s Worse Than a Facebook Update? A Facebook Update in Real Life [Video]
Updates to Facebook, as I’m sure we’ve all heard from our friends again and again, are just the worst. The constant overhaul of little to big features makes it difficult to count on anything at all...
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Geography of Hate Map Reveals Locations for Homophobic and Racist Tweets...
In case you needed a dose of depressing news today, here’s some for you: Research site Floating Sheep’s built a map of homophobia, racism, and ableism across the United States in the form of geotagged...
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Geekolinks: 5/12
The best spots for a geek wedding (GeekSugar) Artist fancies up Disney couples for prom (The Mary Sue) Why Time‘s millennials cover says more about Joel Stein than it does about millennials...
View ArticleRight in the Feels: Chris Hadfield Reflects on His Time Aboard the ISS [Video]
All good things must end, it’s said. As a perfect example of this, Chris Hadfield can’t stay in space forever. He’s set to return to the planet late tomorrow, May 13th, and it’s kind of a bittersweet...
View ArticleThe Final Countdown Begins: New Arrested Development Trailer is Here, Has...
I mean, not, like, a lot a lot of birds? But definitely more birds than I was expecting. Also, one of them is an ostrich, a bird so big that it clearly counts double, even though it can’t fly. Let’s...
View ArticleMorning of the Trailers: First Look at Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D
It’s pretty uncommon that we get this excited about TV shows first thing in the morning, and we’ll have some awesome stuff about robots and science for you to read in just a little while here, we...
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Texting and Driving’s the New Drinking and Driving, at Least Among Teens
At this point, it really shouldn’t take another study to show us that texting and driving is not safe. But another study showing that is exactly what we have this week, with a paper published today in...
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Bad News, Murderers! Geophysicists Are Using Science to Find Your Bodies
If you’re a murderer who’s banking on no one ever finding the bodies you’ve hidden, you might have cause for concern. A team of researchers are working to refine geophysical techniques used to find...
View ArticleHad Enough Venture Bros.? There’s No Such Thing, As Proven By These New...
I’m late to the party, but turning into a huge Venture Bros. fan, and thus owe an apology to the many, many people who have been trying to get me to watch this show for years, and apparently know my...
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Chris Hadfield And His Mustache Will Return to Earth Tonight, And You Can...
Chris Hadfield launched to the International Space Station on December 19, 2012. In March of this year he became the first Canadian commander of the ISS. While serving on the ISS, Hadfield has...
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North Carolina Moves Towards Banning Sale Of Tesla Cars, Because…Yeah, We...
If you live in North Carolina and want to buy an electric car from Tesla motors, here’s hoping you already did that, because doing so stands to get a lot more difficult in short order. A bill moving...
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Congratulations, Detroit, You’re Getting a Giant Robocop Statue, See It...
Kickstarter has given the world a lot of interesting things. Soon it will bring a larger-than-life statue of Robocop to Detroit. The project raised more than its $50,000 goal back in March of 2011,...
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Google Continues To Streamline, Combines Gmail, Google+, and Drive Storage Space
It’s silly to have multiple storage locations for your various Google products, and Google seems to have finally realized that. They’ve combined user storage between Gmail, Drive, and Google+ to give...
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Geekolinks: 5/13
Check out this Great Gatsby themed tech gear (GeekSugar) This Korean promo for Hannibal is completely bonkers (The Mary Sue) 10 Reasons why time travel is no good (UPROXX) CBS anchor scolds...
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Would You Like To Stream Some Daft Punk With Your Internet Today? Because You...
Daft Punk’s new album Random Access Memories drops next week, or you can just listen to it now. It’s leaked online, and you can even stream it through iTunes. A few short clips and fake files have...
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AT&T Rumored To Be Scrapping HTC First Because Nobody Wants A Facebook Home...
This is just a rumor at this point, but GigaOM is reporting that AT&T will be dropping the HTC First due to poor sales. The First was introduced in conjunction with Facebook Home — which I tried...
View ArticleWhat Do Sad Cats Write About In Their Diaries? Find Out In This Video
I have a dog, and it’s fun to imagine what he might be thinking because he’s generally pretty pumped about every single thing that happens. Cats, however, always seem pretty miserable, so imagining...
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