Did We Just Find Out Who’s Playing the 12th Doctor?
Fans of Doctor Who are anxiously awaiting the big announcement by the BBC tomorrow about who will replace Matt Smith as the next Doctor. It won’t be official until the BBC says it is, but one young...
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These awards have been 86′ed from the MTV VMAs (Guy Code Blog) A shark was found at a Nantucket pub’s door (The Jane Dough) 5 Reasons your old game consoles are still awesome (GeekSugar) Pippa...
View ArticleSoulPancake Put Up a Giant Camera to Capture Joy [Video]
Sometimes things are terrible. You could deal with those feelings with ice cream, letting yourself feel terrible, or with weird German ginger liquor. You could also choose to deal with them by...
View ArticleObama’s Office Killed Impending iPad/iPhone Sales Ban
As a result of the lawsuits between Apple and Samsung, Apple was facing a sales ban on some of its older products. The ban was overturned by the Executive Office of the President, so you won’t have to...
View ArticleJapan’s Talking Kirobo Robot Launched into Space, Headed for ISS
We’ve covered the story of Kirobo, the 13-inch talking robot designed to keep Japanese astronaut Kochi Wakata company on the International Space Station in the past, and we’re happy to report the...
View ArticleWatch the Pitch Trailer for a CGI Animated Legend of Zelda Movie [Video]
A Legend of Zelda movie is one of those rumors that keeps popping up every few years. One set of rumors from a while back apparently had some truth behind them because the test animation used to pitch...
View ArticleAnd the Next Doctor Who Is… [Updating]
It’s only been a few weeks since we learned that Matt Smith was stepping down from Doctor Who, and it’s been nothing but speculation about who’s replacing him ever since. The announcement came today...
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It’s official! Peter Capaldi is the next Doctor Who (Doctor Who on Twitter) There’s a Merlin on the way, but probably not the one you think (The Mary Sue) Check out this Breaking Bad: Alchemy eBook...
View ArticleWatch Your New Doctor Who Swear Something Fierce in This Thick of It Supercut
Real talk? I’m super pumped that Peter Capaldi is the next Doctor. If you’re not familiar with Capaldi’s work, he’s known for playing the foul-mouthed Malcolm Tucker on the show The Thick of It. For a...
View ArticleWeekend Roundup: 8/3 and 8/4
Welcome back from your weekend of doing… I don’t know. Weekend stuff? Are the kids still playing the Skyrim? Whatever you were doing, statistically speaking you’re probably back at work and looking...
View ArticleCheck Out Patton Oswalt’s Animated Parks and Rec Filibuster [Video]
What’s better than seeing Patton Oswalt’s stunning eight minute pitch for a Star Wars/Marvel Universe/Clash of the Titans film franchise crossover? Seeing it animated for the Nerdist Youtube channel...
View ArticleThe Old Reader Will Stay Open Thanks To Unidentified Benefactor
RSS users who switched from the deceased Google Reader to The Old Reader had reason to be worried. The Old Reader threatened to shut out newer users or close altogether. However, it’s just been...
View ArticleHere’s a Spot-On Working Wall-E Replica [Video]
Replicas aren’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion replicas. Working replicas. That’s why we love this Wall-E robot. It looks spot on, but it’s also a functioning robot. It doesn’t compress trash,...
View ArticleThe World’s First Lab-Grown Burger Got Eaten Today, Apparently Wasn’t That Bad
Remember that lab-grown stem cell burger we told you about last week? Well, a few food critics actually got the chance to taste the “burger” in central London today, and they said it’s actually pretty...
View ArticleThere’s Already a Doctor Who/Malcolm Tucker Mashup And It’s Breathtakingly...
Peter Capaldi was announced as 12th Doctor… what, less than 24 hours ago? Already the Internet is head over heels for him. So much so that one ingenious video editor, Pete Nottage, took it upon...
View ArticleABC Gives Us A New Hope For A Live-Action Star Wars TV Series
Good news, Star Wars fans, the live-action TV series might be back on! Or maybe bad news, since we’ve been both looking forward to and dreading every development since Disney acquired Star Wars from...
View ArticleMeet the OFF Pocket, a Privacy Accessory That Caters to Your Paranoia
Worried the guv’ment is spying on your phone? (They are!) Well now there’s the OFF Pocket — the cell phone equivalent of wearing an aluminum foil hat to keep people from reading your thoughts. It...
View ArticleThere’s Recycled Poop In Your Home! [Video]
When you were a kid, you probably learned about the water cycle, but what about the poop cycle? Seriously, that’s a real thing — your first grade teacher just didn’t know how to talk to you about it...
View ArticleInternet Officially Mad at Shark Week for Airing a Fake Megalodon Documentary
If you happened to tune in to the beginning of Discovery Channel’s Shark Week programming last night, you might have caught an unusual documentary about a group of scientists trying to catch a...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson takes on another Reddit AMA, is still awesome (GeekSugar) Here are 12 things the Internet did to the next Doctor Who (The Mary Sue) Here are some weird photos of kids trapped in...
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