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Hatoful Boyfriend Makes Way More Sense Now: Japanese Pigeon People Found on...
Google Maps pranks are great, particularly when they indulge in surreal and almost-creepy imagery for maximum weirdness. Like, yeah, mooning the camera on top of the Street View car is fun and all,...
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A New Challenger Enters the Ring! AOL Reader Wants to Be Your Google Reader...
The end of Google Reader is nigh, and everyone appears to be jumping into the fight over its abandoned users. The latest entrant is AOL who just launched the simply named AOL Reader. At first blush it...
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Quest for Giant Bomb E3 Set Porn Bears Fruit
The Electronic Entertainment Expo — E3 for short — is held in Los Angeles every year, typically in June, and it means that a lot of journalists descend upon the area in short order. This year was no...
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Reddit Bans Quickmeme After Investigation by r/AdviceAnimals Moderators
I don’t spend a whole lot of time on Reddit, but even I know that Quickmeme and Reddit seem to go hand in hand pretty recently — or at least, they used to, because now Quickmeme has been banned across...
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Stop What You’re Doing and Look at This Billion-Pixel Panorama of Mars
No, seriously, check it out. This is the first gigapixel image produced from almost 900 images snapped by the Curiosity Rover, and all billion-plus pixels of it are totally amazing. The clarity with...
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Study Suggests Plants Can Do Math, Vegetarians Left in Moral Quandary
Plants might be smarter than we thought, especially because we thought they were just dumb plants. New research shows that plants use arithmetic division to calculate the rate at which to use up...
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Paul Giamatti Cast as Maverick Playboy in Season Four of Downton Abbey
Downton Abbey doesn’t really need to get any better than it is now, but it’s going to anyway. Paul Giamatti is joining the PBS Masterpiece masterpiece for the finale of its fourth season. He’s...
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Geekolinks: 6/24
Examples of LGBT characters being accepted in comics (GeekSugar) There are 100+ babies in the U.S. named “Khaleesi” which is 100+ more than we’d guess (The Mary Sue) This exists: A coat made from...
View ArticleInterviews With Much Ado About Nothing Cast Go Horribly Awry [Video]
Did you go see Much Ado About Nothing yet? Yeah, I know, Shakespeare’s not everybody’s thing, but if you’re a fan of Joss Whedon then you’ll probably love seeing all your favorite actors hanging out...
View ArticleAsapSCIENCE Explores the Many Faces of 200 Calories [Video]
With summer entering full swing, I doubt I’m alone in working to shed a couple of pounds before my first trip to the beach this year. If you’re also aiming to drop some excess baggage from a winter...
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Nearby Star Hosts Three Super-Earths in Habitable Zone
An international team of researchers and astronomers have found what could be the motherlode of habitable exoplanets in a nearby star system. According to a new examination of the data, researchers...
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Barnes & Noble Gives Up on In-House Nooks, Looks for Partners for New Tablets
Hey, do you want to help Barnes & Noble make a color tablet that’s mostly an eReader, but also some other things? Because someone is going to have to. America’s biggest book retailer is looking...
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There’s Definitely No Way for Snapchat’s New “Snapkidz” Feature to Go Totally...
As we all likely know, Snapchat is a phone app that allows you to send self-destructing picture messages to your friends. Naturally this means that it’s literally full of naked pictures, so your...
View ArticleFace/Off Gets a Brilliant Civil War Reboot Because Travolta and Cage Are...
What happens when you cross John Woo’s Face/Off and Ken Burns’ documentary on the Civil War with those old photos of Nicolas Cage and John Travolta? You get the appropriately titled Civil War...
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Germany Home to Incredibly Prolific Road Rage Shooter Despite Having No Word...
We get that nobody likes being stuck in traffic, but a German truck driver has officially raised road rage to a violent, terrifying art form. A 57-year-old truck driver arrested over the weekend in...
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The Little System That Could: OUYA Now Available in Stores
If you weren’t one of the 63,416 people who contributed to the OUYA console’s mega-successful $8.6 million dollar Kickstarter campaign then you’ve had to wait for the little system that could to...
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Jim Carrey Decries Violence of Kick-Ass 2, Mark Millar Responds by Defending...
Jim Carrey, who is playing Colonel Stars and Stripes in the upcoming Kick-Ass 2, spoke out on Twitter saying that he isn’t happy about the level of violence in the film. The film, which, again, is...
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England Might Put Jane Austen on Their Money: When’s the U.S. Gonna Step Up...
The Bank of England hasn’t been afraid to mix it up with their national currency these past couple of decades; starting in 1970, they’ve been printing historical portraits on some of their money,...
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70% of Americans on Facebook Have at Least One Gay Friend
Why have issues like gay marriage moved into acceptance in the last few years? Well, lots of reasons, many of which are heartening signs of maturity and evolution in our society. One key contributor,...
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Scientists Use Kinect to Put Cyborg Roaches on Autopilot
Scientists at North Carolina State University have used an Xbox Kinect to automatically guide cockroaches along a set path. This isn’t the first time someone’s wired up a cockroach to get it to do...
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