Phoenix Comicon: DAY 3 [Picture Gallery]
Category Archives: Culture
Super Mario in Numbers [Video]
Did you know that the Super Mario film was released in 1993 and lost almost 30 million dollars. Stars Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo were drunk throughout as they knew the film would flop. Super Mario In Numbers! Find out amazing facts about everyone’s favorite plumber here! [Alltime Numbers]
Phoenix Comicon: DAY 2 (Gallery)
Ten Tid-bits as Tetris Turns Thirty
Tetris is 30 years old today. Here are ten things you might not know about the game: The game was completed on June 6th 1984 by Alexander Pajitnov, a programmer at the Moscow Academy of Sciences who worked on the game in his spare time. Pajitnov created the game on an Elektronika computer. The brand […]
Fake Geek Girls: Fiction or Reality? [Video]
A new episode of “Society: Why It’s Wrong” discussing the flawed logic behind the “fake geek girls” concept. Also, that shirt that the guy is wearing on the right? I have it, and it’s awesome. Get it @ The Neatoshop. [Cinevore]
Neil Patrick Harris’s Autobiography Has Ultra-Geeky Format
Neil Patrick Harris — who played Doogie Howser MD — has chosen an unusual format for his autobiography. It will be in the style of a Choose Your Own Adventure book. For those unlucky enough not to remember, the series of books allowed children to read the story over and over again thanks to branching […]
Things You Didn’t know Could Kill You [Video]
Yay! Let’s all ride sharks to work now! (Seriously, don’t do it, lol) [Buzzfeed]
Alien Creator HR Giger Dies
HR Giger, the man who designed both the monster and the sets in Alien, has died aged 74. He was known as a surrealist artist, but described his own work as “biomechanical.” The son of a chemist, Swiss-born Giger rejected his father’s advice that art would not be financially lucrative. He studied architecture and industrial […]
An Illustrated Size Chart to the Dragons in Fantasy [Pic]
1: Mushu (Mulan) – 1m 2: Spyro (Spyro the Dragon) – 1m 3: Charizard (Pokémon) – 1.7m 4: Dragonite (Pokémon) – 2.2m 5: Toothless (Hot to Train Your Dragon) – 8.5m 6: Elliot (Pete’s Dragon) – 10m 7: Hungarian Horntail (Harry Potter) – 15m 8: Toruk (Avatar) – 20m 9: Shenlong (Dragon Ball Z) – […]
Video Games Don’t Cause Violent Behavior
Everyone just knows that violence is on the rise, especially among kids. Everyone just knows that violent video games have something to do with it. Except violence isn’t on the rise, as we showed in our “Sky isn’t falling episode”. And there’s really no evidence that video games are the cause of violence anyway. Step […]