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Family Circus Movie is Happening, Please Join Us in Praying for Death
The Family Circus, a cartoon known mostly for loving Jesus a whole lot and making the antics of surprisingly large dog Marmaduke seem edgy for the last thousand years, is getting its own movie. Before...
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FTC Offers $50,000 for Solution to Robocalls, Not Using Phones Probably Out
The Federal Trade Commission, like most rational human beings, is not a fan of robocalls. Those unsolicited prerecorded telemarketer calls are just about the worst, and the FTC knows it....
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Math Journal Accepts Nonsense Paper Generated by Computer Program
Don’t worry if the above title looks like a bunch of gibberish to you. The terms are all related to advanced mathematics, so you can’t be blamed for not really understanding it. Oh, and also, it’s...
View ArticleWatch the Halo 4 Launch Trailer Even Though It’s Three Weeks Until Launch
The first true outing for developer 343 Industries is coming up. Hint: It’s a big one. Halo 4 is all set to release in the United States on November 6th, and Microsoft is pulling out all the stops....
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Logitech Hits the Mark With Their First Mechanical Gaming Keyboard, the G710+
If you’re a fan of PC gaming peripherals, you’re most likely aware of Razer and Logitech. At this point in time, both companies seem to be the Big Two in terms of PC gaming products, offering similar...
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Geekolinks: 10/19
Apps that make the Chromebook worth it (GeekSugar) 8 presidential families in costume (Mental Floss) Check out this gorgeous translucent speaker (Geek.com) Community cast knocks NBC’s scheduling...
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Lake Vostok Devoid Of Microbes, Bad News For Prospect Of Life Elsewhere In...
Earlier this year, a team of Russian-led engineers and researchers drilled a hole into the Earth, breaking into Lake Vostok, a liquid water lake sealed beneath the ice of Antarctica for nearly 15...
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Editors’ Picks 10/19: The League of Cheap Black Mirrors
This week in Editors’ Picks: James finds that cheap, crappy headphones can be extremely useful, Rollin likes a show about sports even though he doesn’t like sports himself, and Ian gets caught up in a...
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Mech on Wire: This Robot Walks A Tightrope Like It Ain’t No Thing
If you were planning on making your home safe from the coming robocalypse by ensuring it could only be reached by navigating a series of tightropes a la Prince of Persia, we have some bad news....
View ArticleThis Sheep, You Guys [Video]
It’s Friday, the weekend is upon us, and this sheep, you guys. This sheep. (thanks, Susana!) Relevant to your interests Early warning sheep The size of our devices was determined by the size of sheep...
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Prehistoric Nest Suggests Flamingos are Among the Planet’s Longest-Surviving...
The extremely exclusive list of prehistoric creatures that are still alive and kicking just got a little bigger. Based on creatures like the horseshoe crab and the crocodile, known for evolving to...
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A Man Named ‘Success’ Fails to Avoid Jail Time for Counterfeiting Nintendo Games
Authorities in the U.K. recently apprehended a 41 year-old man for creating and selling thousands of counterfeit Nintendo games. Justin Success Brooks — Yes, that is his actual middle name, not a...
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NoPhoto License Plate Frame Protects You From Traffic Cams
Hidden traffic cameras take all the fun out of driving. Even if it seems like there’s nobody around for miles, you never know when there’s going to be a camera on a traffic light or telephone pole...
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Andy Serkis is Mo-Capping a Family-Friendly Version of Animal Farm
Andy Serkis has spent enough time in a Mo-cap suit to know what it takes to tell a compelling story using digital characters created from real-world performances. The man who made Gollum is planning...
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Geekolinks: 10/20
The Apple/Samsung fanboy peace treaty (CNN) The story behind the fake Sony Nexus phone hoax (Gizmodo) Netflix caught stealing subtitles in Finland (TorrentFreak) “The saddest moment in Twitter...
View ArticleU.S. Navy Programs Robot to Dance Gangnam Style [Video]
When they aren’t figuring out how to protect the country from the Ukrainian attack dolphins, scientists developing technology for the U.S. navy likes to dance. Unfortunately, most of them don’t have...
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Mew-Genics May be Team Meat’s Strangest Game Yet
Indie game development duo Team Meat has become a poster-child for indie game development since Super Meat Boy started making us pull our hair out in 2010. Though they haven’t exactly stayed quiet –...
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Scientists Can Make Gas From Air, Water, and… That’s it!?
Finding an alternative to burning fossil fuels has to be one of the single largest issues facing our world’s scientists today. Cleaner, cheaper fuel may not be able to bring world peace, but it would...
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This Skyrim Class Makes Me Wish I Was Still in College
Attention college students: Do you like playing video games? More specifically, do you like a game called The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim? If so, then I suggest you hightail it on down to Rice University...
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You Must be 21 or Older to Use This Beer-Can Keyboard
No matter how well-designed they are, keyboards are, on the whole, pretty boring as far as gadgets go. There’s only so much you can do when the composition and arrangement of the keys are...
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